Wednesday, February 09, 2005
ccordionist Sonny Day, who played with Acuff, dead at 80
From WVLT - Channel 8 - Nashville, TN
Accordionist Sonny Day, an original member of Roy Acuff's (AYE'kuhf) "Smokey Mountain Boys" and a regular on the Grand Ole Opry, has died after a bout with bone cancer. He was 80.
Day died yesterday at a hospice center in Nashville.
Day's accordion playing was credited with helping to create the Roy Acuff sound in the 1940s. He's featured on original recordings of Acuff's signature hit, "The Wabash Cannonball," and appeared with Acuff in the film "Night Train to Memphis."
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WVLT
Accordionist Sonny Day, an original member of Roy Acuff's (AYE'kuhf) "Smokey Mountain Boys" and a regular on the Grand Ole Opry, has died after a bout with bone cancer. He was 80.
Day died yesterday at a hospice center in Nashville.
Day's accordion playing was credited with helping to create the Roy Acuff sound in the 1940s. He's featured on original recordings of Acuff's signature hit, "The Wabash Cannonball," and appeared with Acuff in the film "Night Train to Memphis."
Read the article
WVLT
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