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Ronnie Dawson (musician)

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Ronald Monroe "Ronnie" Dawson (11 August 1939 – 30 September 2003) was an American rockabilly singer, guitarist and drummer, nicknamed The Blond Bomber. [1]

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American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer.

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Back Beat Records

Back Beat Records was an American record label launched in 1957 as the Houston-based soul sub-label of Duke Records, when it was run by Don Robey.

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Big D Jamboree

Big D Jamboree was a radio program broadcast by KRLD-AM in Dallas, Texas.

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Bruce Channel

Bruce Channel (born Bruce McMeans, November 28, 1940) is an American singer-songwriter best known for his 1962 million-selling number-one hit record, "Hey! Baby".

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Country rock

Country rock is a subgenre of popular music, formed from the fusion of rock and country.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Delbert McClinton

Delbert McClinton (born November 4, 1940) is an American blues rock and electric blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, harmonica player, and pianist.

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Dick Clark

Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting American Bandstand from 1957 to 1987.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Esophageal cancer

Esophageal cancer is cancer arising from the esophagus—the food pipe that runs between the throat and the stomach.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Gene Vincent

Vincent Eugene Craddock (February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971), known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Harmonica

The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.

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Hey Paula (song)

"Hey Paula" is an American pop standard love song recorded by the singing duo Paul & Paula.

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Hey! Baby

"Hey! Baby" is a song written by Margaret Cobb and Bruce Channel, and recorded by Channel in 1961, first released on LeCam Records, a local Fort Worth, Texas label.

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Jack Rhodes

Andrew Jackson Rhodes (1908–1968) was an American country music producer and songwriter, with songwriting credits on over 100 released records.

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Jingle

A jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising, podcasts and for other commercial uses.

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Johnny Dollar (musician)

Johnny Dollar (March 8, 1933, Kilgore, Texas - April 13, 1986) was an American country and rockabilly musician.

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Light Crust Doughboys

The Light Crust Doughboys is an American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.

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LP record

The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.

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Major Bill Smith

William Arthur Smith (January 21, 1922 – September 12, 1994),.

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National FFA Organization

National FFA Organization is an American 501(c)(3) youth organization, specifically a career and technical student organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education.

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Paul & Paula

Paul & Paula (Ray Hildebrand, born December 21, 1940, and Jill Jackson, born May 20, 1942) were an American pop singing duo, best known for their 1963 million selling No.

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Payola

Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on commercial radio in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast, without announcing this prior to broadcast.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Radio advertisement

In the United States, commercial radio stations make most of their revenue by selling airtime to be used for running radio advertisements.

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Richie Unterberger

Richie Unterberger (born 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Rockabilly Hall of Fame

The Rockabilly Hall of Fame is an organization and website launched on March 21, 1997 to present early rock and roll history and information relating to the artists and personalities involved in rockabilly.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Swan Records

Swan Records was a mid-20th century United States-based record label, founded in 1957, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Talent show

A talent show is an event where participants perform talents of singing, dancing, lip-syncing, acting, drumming, martial arts, playing an instrument, or other activities to showcase skills.

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Teen idol

A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan-base.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Cramps

The Cramps were an American punk rock band formed in 1976 and active until 2009.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Waxahachie, Texas

Waxahachie is the county seat of Ellis County, Texas, United States, and lies just beyond the southern suburbs of Dallas.

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Western swing

Western swing music is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Dawson_(musician)

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