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His best known recording is "Honky Tonk", a rhythm and blues hit of 1956 which sold four million copies (reaching No. 1 R&B and No. 2 Pop), and which he co-wrote with Billy Butler.
Darrell McCall (born April 30, 1940) is a country music performer, known for his honky tonk and traditional country musical style at the height of his career in the 1960s, and his return to popularity during the Outlaw country era in the late 1970s.
December 21 - Freddie Hart, honky-tonk styled singer best known for his string of early to mid-1970s hits, including "Easy Loving."
The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound.
Blood On The Honky Tonk Floor is greatest hits album released by New Zealand band, HLAH in 2000.
Produced by Chips Moman, it was a departure from his standard honky-tonk fare, as it features Southern rockers Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Mike Lawler, Bonnie Bramlett (from Delaney, Bonnie & Friends), and Randy Scruggs.
Also taking the stage are singer-songwriter extraordinaire Billy Joe Shaver, who wrote most of the songs on Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes album; Grammy winning powerhouse Shelby Lynne; David Allan Coe, another original Outlaw, who wrote Johnny PayCheck's No. 1 country hit "Take This Job and Shove It"; and Jack Ingram, a Texas favorite who has built his reputation on uncompromising live performances.
Pasadena is Houston's most populous suburb and the former location of "Gilley's", the honky-tonk bar that inspired the hit 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, which was filmed in Pasadena.
Lewis recorded the latter many times from 1927 into the 1950s, and the song was covered by many other musicians, including Oscar Peterson.
As Chris Smith and Charles McCarron noted in their 1916 hit song "Down in Honky Tonk Town", "It's underneath the ground, where all the fun is found."
In 1999, Lynette Morgan & Her Tennessee Rhythm Riders covered the song as "Honky Tonk Angels" on their Little Red Wagon album.
Fowler also collaborated with country rap artist Colt Ford on the song "Hip Hop in a Honky Tonk", on Ford's 2010 album Chicken & Biscuits, in which he sings vocals on the song's chorus.
Louis "Lou" Smith (March 9, 1928 - October 21, 2007) was a country and western singer who recorded for Top Talent Records at one time, and reportedly had gotten his start into music when the nephew of Tex Ritter, Ken Ritter, heard him perform at a local honky tonk.
In New York, Marc appeared as Clyde Barrow in the musical Bonnie and Clyde, as well as two other workshop productions starring Sally Mayes (Honky Tonk Angels) and Sam Harris (The Jazz Singer).
Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.
A number of other songs were attempted and discarded during the course of the sessions including "Honky Tonk Women", "Walking the Floor Over You" and the traditional "Lord Bateman".