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unusual facts about country and western



Circle 8 Ranch

From 1955 until 1978, Circle 8 Ranch was a popular weekly country and western television program broadcast each Tuesday night on Wingham, Ontario's CKNX, Channel 8.

Ed Cassidy

He worked in show bands, Dixieland, country and western bands, and on film soundtracks, as well as having a brief stint with the San Francisco Opera.

Eddie Noack

Eddie Noack (April 29, 1930 – February 5, 1978), was an American country and western singer, songwriter and music industry executive best known for his 1968 cover of Leon Payne's serial killer song Psycho, was born De Armand A. Noack, Jr. in Houston, Texas.

Sonny and his Wild Cows

This band played (and is still playing) almost all kinds of American music of the 1940s and 50's, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rock-a-billy, swing, country and western.

Wong shadow

Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.


see also

Abrams, Wisconsin

Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry; wrote "Tennessee Waltz" and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Allen Case

On December 3, 1959, Case appeared on NBC's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford, a variety program with a Country and Western theme.

Bostic

Jenn Bostic, American Country and Western singer and songwriter

Brown podzolic

Thus they are common in Ireland, Scotland, Wales (where they occupy about 20% of the country) and western England, especially Devon, Cornwall and the Lake District.

Bull Moose Jackson

In 1949, he covered "Why Don't You Haul Off and Love Me" a song that been successful for Wayne Raney as well as several country and western performers.

Curly Chalker

Chalker also appeared on work that was outside the country and Western and swing genres, including appearances on Simon and Garfunkel's 1969 hit "The Boxer" and Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses".

Loggers Leap

The ride is themed around logging in the Canadian countryside and, as with others in the Canada Creek area, had a soundtrack of country and western music including 5,6,7,8 by Steps, Cotton-Eyed Joe by Rednex and 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton which plays outside the ride, in the outside queueing area and in the ride station itself.

Lou Smith

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.

Rubber Rodeo

However, the group also recorded takes on country and western classics such as Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and the Patsy Cline standard "Walkin' After Midnight".

Takeshi Terauchi

Terauchi started his career playing rhythm guitar for a country and Western act "Jimmy Tokita and The Mountain Playboys", which had bassist Chosuke Ikariya.

The Ballad of Boot Hill

"The Ballad of Boot Hill" was recorded in 1984 by country and western singer Johnny Western which appeared on his 1989 album Gunfight at the O.K. Corral on Bear Family Records.

Visco Grgich

Visco continued to live in the Oakdale, California area until he was moved to Dale Commons assisted-living facility in Modesto, California shortly prior to his wife Grace, the country and western singer known as "Sioux City Sue," died in 2001.