Dewey Ritter
|
Slim Idaho
|
"Just give me something to remember you by...
A scribbled note; a bit of verse; a faded flow'r...
Some little keepsake of a friendship true, that I
May cherish up against some lonely hour."
| |
From Opening quotation of Renfro Valley Keepsake
souvenir program / book; published by Renfro Valley
Enterprises, Inc. 1940. |
|
|
| Recent News Items: |
|
Apr 26, 2013 |
George Jones, Country Music Legend Dead At 81
|
|
Apr 6, 2013 |
Hardrock Gunter obituary
|
|
Mar 31, 2013 |
Gordon Stoker, leader of Elvis Presley’s Jordanaires, dies, bringing legendary group to end
|
|
Mar 19, 2013 |
Sammy Masters, 50s Country and Western, Rockabilly Star for Five Decades
|
|
Mar 15, 2013 |
Jack Greene, Grand Ole Opry star and first CMA male vocalist, dies at age 83
|
|
Jan 1, 2013 |
Hillbilly-Music.com Ends 2012 Reaching 25,000,000 Web Page Views Milestone
|
|
Jan 1, 2013 |
Hillbilly-Music.com - Top Pages Viewed Summary - 2010, 2011, 2012
|
|
Sep 8, 2002 |
Hillbilly-Music.com In the Spotlight in Country Music Magazine's 30th Anniversary Issue
|
New Feature at
Hillbilly-Music.com
|
We've added a new section to the web site. We have more than a few photos
in the archives of Hillbilly-Music.com that we cannot readily identify.
On a regular basis we will post photos of folks we hope the fans will tell us
who they are. We will post the answers along with the names of the folks that
told us as a small way of saying 'thanks'.
Click your way to our newest feature:
Who is That?
|
|
This summer we added a BLOG to add news and other tidbits of interest. |
|
|
Got an RSS News Agregator? Pick up our BLOG postings at your leisure with this link. |
|
Read More About The History
|
Yes, Hillbilly Music.
You may perhaps wonder why. You may even snicker.
But trust us, soon your feet will start tappin' and before you
know it, you'll be comin' back for more...Hillbilly Music.
Hillbilly-music.com ...
It's about the people, the music,
the history.
|
Copyright © 2000—2012 Hillbilly-Music.com
Content is copyright
by Hillbilly-Music.com except where noted. Articles and photos attributed
to others are used by this site with the owner's permission and require
you to obtain permission to re-use or reprint. Except where noted, all
information is from the collection and archives of Hillbilly-Music.com.
Hillbilly-Music.com
P.O. Box 576245
Modesto, CA 95357-6245
|
What's New at
Hillbilly-Music.com
|
Just because it's history, doesn't mean
we don't find or hear about something new.
Our recent updates include:
Dusty Owens -
Dusty
tells us about his career in his own words.
—Early Michigan & Iowa years
—WHO Iowa Barn Dance Frolic
Country Music
The way you remember it!
Randy Blake -
Over the years we've done this web site, one of the early disc jockeys has always
seemed to generate a fair amount of emails from fans that remember listening to him
over the radio. His real name was Harold Winston but you knew him as Randy Blake,
the longtime host of WJJD's Suppertime Frolics show. DJs such as Mr. Blake helped
promote hillbilly music and continued its growth in popularity as it transifitioned
from live radio shows to spinning records. We hope
his fans will enjoy our attempt to document his career.
Dolph Hewitt -
Early on he was known as "The Boy From the Hills of Pennsylvania". Growing up, he
learned to play the fiddle to occupy his idle time from the family farm chores.
He turned to music as a career when as the eldest of nine siblings, he had
to help support the family. He became one of the headliners on the famed
WLS National Barn Dance in Chicago. He married one of the Johnson sisters, Ruth.
When WLS was sold and was turning to a new music format, Dolph took over the reigns
of the show and moved it to WGN where it was heard on the radio as well as a television show.
Leodie Jackson -
While we have not been able to document his career as much as we would have liked,
we are partial to the steel guitar players who have long played a role in the distinctive
sounds in many country music recordings. Leodie was one of those early steel guitar pioneers.
Born in Oklahoma, he found his way out west and we discovered him in a collection of old
photos. He was on the Los Angeles / Hollywood country music scene for a time.
Embert Mishler -
Embert had his own 15-minute radio show when he was just fifteen years old over KFJB
in Marshalltown, Iowa. He later become one of the stars of the WHO Iowa Barn Dance
Frolic out of Des Moines. His later career took him to Denver where he had his
own TV show called the T Bar V Ranch Show over KFEL-TV. By the 1960s, he was
entertaining audiences in Las Vegas.
Cliff Warren -
The Yodeling Cowboy from Waterbury, Connecticut's musical journey took him to places
far and wide. He appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts show. He appeared in the
movie 'Swing Your Partner'. He found work on radio stations KOAI and KTSA in San Antonio,
Texas in the late 1940s. He met up with Gordon Jenkins while visiting family and friends
back in his hometown who got him a Coral Records recording contract.
Keep clicking around - there's always something new
spopping up on Hillbilly-Music.com.
 |
Today: On the Air & Over The Web |
The country music you like to hear is always just a click away every day. Just
click on one of the show titles to visit their site. Give a listen. Kick
back and enjoy the music. And send them a note of 'thanks' too while you're at it!
|
Request Line
|
| CIHS-FM (93.5 FM) |
10am - 12pm (MST) |
| Tony Greengrass |
Wetaskiwin, AB Canada |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Good 'N Country
|
| KFAI-FM (90.3 FM) |
3pm - 5pm (CST) |
| Ken Hippler |
Minneapolis, MN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grand Ole Opry
|
| WSM (650 AM) |
7pm - 12am (CST) |
| Grand Ole Opry |
Nashville, TN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
