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A handsome crooner with a solid, flexible tenor voice which was well-suited to pop or country tunes, Ronnie Dove was created in Herndon, Virginia, where he first developed a love for singing simply because an associate of his high school’s glee club, however the pubs of Baltimore were his performance …

Australian singer/songwriter/yodeler Frank Ifield was one of the most unique country artists to result from abroad. He was created in Britain, and relocated to Australia in 1948. His dad was an inventor and engineer famed for creating the Ifield pump, a tool used in gas systems for aircraft plane. While …

Originally referred to as “the Hillbilly Heartthrob” and “the Singing Sheriff,” Faron Young had among the longest-running & most popular careers in country music history. Rising in the first ’50s, Youthful was one of the most well-known honky tonkers to surface in the wake of Hank Williams’ loss of life, …

b. Patricia Susan Mary McCann, 26 Feb 1949, Carrickasticken, Forkhill, Region Armagh, North Ireland. Among a family group of eight kids, McCann 1st sang at regional venues at age eight so when an adolescent, she was the vocalist with an area ceilidh music group. She met husband to be Dennis …

Sonny Wayne, the Southern Gentleman, utilized the favorite Nashville sound from the ’60s to countrify pop strikes of days gone by right into a form accessible to numerous, broadening nation music’s appeal over the nation. Wayne even moved to the pop graphs for a while in the past due ’50s …