Classic Country Music Blasts From The Past For Week Ending October 11, 2014

BLASTS:

Blasts From The Past is all about little tidbits of Classic Country Music history the Society of Old Farts and Jackasses find enlightening and entertaining. So sit back, relax, kick your shoes off, put your feet up, and enjoy them as much as we do.

RALPH PEER:

Country Music Hall of Fame member Ralph Peer pioneered field recording of music when he took remote recording equipment to Atlanta, Georgia and recorded regional music in ballrooms, hotel rooms, and empty warehouses in June of 1923.

GRADY MARTIN:

Grady Martin accidentally created the now famous electric guitar fuzz effect when he played his six-string bass through a faulty channel in a mixing console on Marty Robbins Billboard Country Music Number 1 Hit “Don’t Worry” in 1961.

DOTTIE WEST:

Dottie West had a week of the CBS Television Game Show known as Family Feud, played by Grand Ole Opry Stars, played in her memory.

KENNY PRICE:

Known as the Round Mound of Sound Kenny Price was the featured Bass Singer for the fabled Hee Haw Gospel Quartet, and along with Lulu Roman, appeared on Hee Haw Honeys, the television Spin-Off of the famous Hee Haw variety show. Buck Owens, Roy Clark, and Grandpa Jones were the other members of the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet.

ROGER MILLER:

With six awards won Roger Miller is the only Country Music Performer to be honored that many times on the same night by the Grammy Awards.

ERNEST TUBB:

Written by Ernest Tubb “Walking The Floor Over You” is frequently credited as being the song that created the Honky Tonk style of Country Music.

MARGARET WHITING:

Performed by the Duo of Jimmy Wakely and Margaret Whiting the historic “Slipping Around,” that was written by Floyd Tillman, was the first Number 1 Country Music song with a female Country Music Singer’s name on it. “Slipping Around” reached the top of the Retail Folk (Country) Best Sellers Chart where it remained for seventeen weeks from October 8, 1940 to January 14, 1950.

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This Feature was written by Staff Writer Steven M. Davis who can be contacted on Facebook@Classic Country Music Gold Nashville. Steven M. Davis always welcomes comments from the many fans and readers of our website.