1/11/2024 0 Comments Big daddy weave my story baritone![]() ![]() ![]() Also on boards of Nashville Symphony, Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, TPAC, Nashville Tourism Commission, Cheekwood, Country Music Foundation. Clients included Third National Bank (later SunTrust), Martha White Foods, Kentucky Fried Chicken, State of Tennessee, National Life & Accident Insurance Company with its Opryland USA theme park. At ad agency Eric Ericson & Associates since 1969. Began career 1964 at Showbiz, marketing syndicated TV series Porter Wagoner Show, Gospel Jubilee, The Beat!!! and more. Worked in television, advertising, marketing. Also contributed to Bluegrass Unlimited, Washington Star and Blueprint. Guitarist & banjo player with 1977 solo LP fusing jazz, pop & bluegrass, plus album with Gary Ferguson Band (1992). Raccoon.īluegrass banjo player who recorded with Del McCoury, Cliff Waldron & New Shades of Grass, Bluestone, others. Wrote children’s book series The Adventures of Dr. Began managing own publishing companies 1990s- cuts by McGraw, Strait, Martina. Produced Jimmy Dean’s nationally syndicated TV series 1973-75. Also produced Glen Campbell, Jody Miller, Chris LeDoux, Anne Murray, Ringo, Sammy Kershaw, Shenandoah, Bogguss, Dan Seals, Cleve Francis, Brenda, Delbert, Jason Ringenberg, Mandrell, Buck, plus gospel’s Hemphills, Doug Oldham, Cynthia Clawson, Terry Bradshaw. Produced hits for Barbara Fairchild (“The Teddy Bear Song,” 1973), Dave Loggins (“Please Come to Boston,” 1974), Greenwood (“God Bless the U.S.A.,” 1984), Gatlin (“Sure Feels Like Love,” 1982), Byrd (“The Keeper of the Stars,” 1995) and Tanya (more than 20 top-10 hits 1986-94). Hired by Decca/MCA publishing 1962 & nurtured writers Don Schlitz, Dave Loggins, Russell Smith, Gary Burr, Rob Crosby, Mark Nesler. Backup vocalist for Hank Snow, Webb Pierce, Roger Miller, Jerry Reed, Bill Anderson, Hawkshaw Hawkins, etc. ![]() Hits included Bare’s “Find Out What’s Happening,” Wanda’s “Fancy Satin Pillows,” Dottie’s “Every Word I Write,” Pride’s “Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger.” Also placed songs with r&b stars Irma Thomas, Slim Harpo, Dee Dee Warwick, Arthur Alexander & pop stars Ricky, Elvis, Brenda (“My Whole World Is Falling Down”), Nick Lowe. Songs recorded by George Jones, Tubb, Hank Jr., Porter, Faron, Tammy, Connie, Eddy Arnold, Roy Rogers, Hank Thompson, etc. Member of RCA pop group Country Gentlemen, later dubbed The Escorts. Wrote hit songs, sang backup for many stars. Headed Capitol Records’ Nashville office. Ran MCA Publishing (now Universal) for 25 years. Gospel productions nominated for Dove Awards. Produced hits for Tanya, Greenwood, Tracy Byrd, more. Record producer, songwriter, label executive, vocalist, music publisher. Father-in-law of ASCAP’s Even Mustoe Johnston. Father of Cadillac Three frontman Jaren Johnston. with 10 singles in the 1980s, including top-20 hits “The Killin’ Kind” (1982) and “Outside Lookin’ In” (1983). COVID pandemic victim.ĭrummer for the country group Bandana, who charted on Warner Bros. Brother of Big Daddy Weave frontman Mike Weaver. 1, won Song of the Year at first annual K-LOVE Fan Awards and earned Dove and Billboard award nominations. 1 singles, including “I Know,” “Alive,” “Love Come To Life,” “The Only Name (Yours Will Be),” “Overwhelmed,” “My Story.” Platinum-certified “Redeemed” spent 11 weeks at No. We remember you all in our hearts.īassist of hit Curb Records Christian rock group Big Daddy Weave. So were Musicians Hall of Fame member Ray Edenton and that organization’s founder Joe Chambers, TV moguls Jim Owens and Jane Dowden, conductor Bill Walker, Country Radio Hall of Fame member Charlie Monk, studio arranger/vocalist Anita Kerr and music journalist/singer-songwriter Peter Cooper. Allison, Bluegrass Music Hall of Famer Roland White and Fisk Jubilee Singers leader Dr. Jazz great Beegie Adair, soul-gospel mainstay Deborah McCrary, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member J.I. Record producers Jerry Crutchfield, Bill VornDick and Blake Mevis also left us. The Nashville songwriting community was hit particularly hard, pained by the passing of Chick Rains, Kerry Chater, Bruce Burch, Hal Bynum, Jimbeau Hinson, Mike Dekle, Charles Quillen and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Dallas Frazier. McCall, Ronnie Hawkins and Patrick Haggerty also passed this year. Notable recording artists Mickey Gilley, Jody Miller, Jim Seals, Olivia Newton-John, Warner Mack, Tom Bresh, Jeff Carson, C.W. The Country Music Hall of Fame dimmed its lights for Loretta Lynn, Jeff Cook, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ralph Emery, Pig Robbins and Naomi Judd. As we close out the year, we pause to recall the members of our music community we lost in 2022. ![]()
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