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2 unusual facts about Charlie Monroe


Charlie Monroe

Charlie signed with RCA Victor in 1946 and with Decca Records in 1950; he wrote and recorded a large body of material and continued to tour relentlessly until he announced his retirement in 1957.

Ira Louvin

Ira played mandolin with Charlie Monroe, guitar player of the Monroe Brothers in the early 1940s.


Angel Clare

"Down in the Willow Garden," the second track, was a country classic popularised by singer-songwriter Charlie Monroe, about a young man who kills his lover in the town's willow garden, and the events that follow, from his attempts to hide the body to his father's hypocritical advice and, finally, his own demise.


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