The Duke of Paducah

There have been two great Whitey Fords through the 20th century. One was a left-handed pitcher for the brand new York Yankees, inducted in to the Football Hall of Popularity in 1974, as well as the various other, Benjamin “Whitey” Ford, referred to as the Duke of Paducah, was among country music’s initial hillbilly comedians. A longtime person in the Grand Ole Opry, the Duke of Paducah’s catalog of jokes provides continuing to amuse viewers since being bought by nation music tv program, Hee Haw. The Duke of Paducah started his profession in the first ’20s being a banjo participant and vocalist for the McGinty Cowboys. When command of the music group was bought out by Otto Grey, who acquired previously led a string music group comprised of true cowboys, it had been renamed Otto Grey & His Oklahoma Cowboys. Dressed up in western clothes, and white ten-gallon hats, the music group became perhaps one of the most effective country & traditional western acts from the ’20s and ’30s, presenting such now-classic music as “She’ll End up being Comin’ Across the Hill,” “Who Broke the Lock over the Henhouse Door,” and “The Cowboy’s Lament.” Noticed on a lot more than 140 r / c, and in two twelve film pants, the group toured the Northeastern RKO and Orpheum circuits from 1928 until 1932. The Duke of Paducah, who more and more focused on humor following the disbanding of Otto Grey & His Oklahoma Cowboys in 1936, continued to be a preferred of Grand Ole Opry listeners through the entire ’40s, ’50s and early ’60s. He was inducted in to the Nation Music hall of Popularity in 1986