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  Porter Wagoner Bio
Porter Wayne Wagoner was born August 12, 1927 of Irish-German heritage in the Ozarks of Missouri near the Arkansas border.
Porter is not one to brag, but he is widely acknowledged by new country performers as the epitome of showmanship.
Wagoner was born in an Ozark Mountains region of Missouri steeped in ancient English balladry.
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  Porter Wagoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in Howell County, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer.
Wagoner's big break came in 1951 when he was hired as a performer by station KWTO in Springfield, Missouri.
Wagoner was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2002.
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 Gospel Music, Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn, Gospel, Southern Gospel
Porter Wagoner & Pam Gadd - 22 Country & Gospel Duets 2 CDs
Porter Wagoner - CD Single Frog For The Water & He Will Set Your Fields On Fire
Featuring gospel music from Porter Wagoner, Loretta Lynn, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, The Louvin Brothers, The Lewis Family, The Stanley Brothers, Various Gospel, Maddox Brothers & Rose, Reno & Smiley, Billy Walker, Kitty Wells, Ferlin Husky, Jean Shepard & Tommy Overstreet, Cowboy Copas, Pop Stoneman and more.
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 Wagoner County, Oklahoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wagoner County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
About 6.70% of families and 8.90% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.50% of those under age 18 and 9.20% of those age 65 or over.
Wagoner - Washington - Washita - Woods - Woodward
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 VH1.com : Porter Wagoner : Biography
Porter Wagoner, the Thin Man from West Plains, Missouri, is a case of an artist often ahead of his time who has always appeared hopelessly behind the times.
Porter continued to have solo hits during the late '60s and early '70s, though none of them were as big as his songs with Parton.
After Parton and Wagoner separated in 1975, Porter continued to film his TV show and to chart singles, but all of his hits were minor.
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 Our Brown County: Porter Wagoner
In a music industry that is often ruled by trends and a constant state of change, Porter Wagoner, one of the Grand Ole Opry's most popular stars, has successfully maintained a 46-year career with his signature brand of classic country entertainment.
Wagoner is scheduled to share his broad smile, flashy costume, and memorable songs with The Little Nashville Opry audience on Saturday, April 28 at 6 p.m.
Wagoner, who is almost as well known for his keen sense of fashion as he is for his extensive music portfolio, has a wardrobe of performance outfits designed by Nudie Cohen and Manuel Cuevas.
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 Artist Biography - Porter Wagoner
Wagoner is referring to "The Best I've Ever Been," his Shell Point Records debut which is also his first album of all-new material in 20 years.
Wagoner was one of the first country singers to produce his own records, as well as his duets with Dolly Parton and much of Parton's work on RCA.
Wagoner admits that he was skeptical about hearing the songs, noting, "I've had people tell me, 'I wrote this song especially for you.
www.countrypolitan.com /bio-porter-wagoner.php   (561 words)

  
 Grand Ole Opry: Members
Porter brought them, and country music, to a massive and often new audience, through the most modern means then available—syndicated television.
The Porter Wagoner Show ran for an amazing 21 years, beginning in 1961, and reached more than 100 TV markets; it was one of the most influential programs in country music history.
Porter was hardly new to broadcasting when his own show took to the air; he’d been singing on local Missouri radio at 15, and learned the TV ropes from Red Foley as an early regular on the Springfield, Missouri-based Ozark Jubilee show during the ‘50s.
www.opry.com /MeetTheOpry/Members.aspx?id=111   (451 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Essential Porter Wagoner: Music: Porter Wagoner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wagoner was arguably the 1960s' biggest country star, hosting a weekly syndicated TV show, nurturing Dolly Parton as a songwriter and live performer, and becoming one of the host pillars of the Grand Old Opry.
Porter was a successful country singer of the fifties and sixties but unlike (say) Jim Reeves or Don Gibson, he made no attempt to soften his music in any way to please pop audiences.
Wagoner was the last of the unreformable hicks, gloriously corny, yet country to the bone.
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 CNN.com - Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Porter Wagoner - July 31, 2000
Wagoner decided to do the new album after receiving a tape cassette with 22 songs from Missouri farmer Damon Black.
Wagoner didn't listen to the cassette for a few days, then put it on one evening.
Wagoner isn't counting on airplay on mainstream country music radio stations, which have become increasingly youth-oriented.
archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Music/07/31/porter.wagoner.ap   (897 words)

  
 Country Standard Time: Porter Wagoner, July 2000
Wagoner is one of the few country artists to ever embrace the "concept" album.
Wagoner says that no one is really the leader, but "I'm one of the people who's been here a long time.
Wagoner was far from an overnight sensation, and he admits that it took a while to find what worked for him.
www.countrystandardtime.com /porterwagonerFEATURE.html   (1956 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Essential Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton: Music: Porter Wagoner,Dolly Parton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Parton & Porter Wagoner, Dolly, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner
With Wagoner's steady baritone anchoring Parton's gossamer soprano, the two breathed such emotional life into their songs of heated love and marital strife that many of their fans thought the pompadoured Porter and the cantilevered Dolly were husband and wife.
Porter Wagoner, from West Plains, MO and Dolly Parton, from Sevierville, TN had 20 Billboard duet hits from 1967 to 1980.
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Wagoner and Carlisle's son, Bill Carlisle Jr., were each presented a medallion to mark the Hall of Fame achievement.
Wagoner said he especially wished that a friend he grew up with in Missouri were there.
Wagoner took country radio to task for its refusal to play traditional performers who are still making good music and good money in their live shows.
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 Porter Wagoner: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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 WSM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Joining Wagoner on "Unplugged" is one of his longtime friends, Willie Nelson, and Nelson's harmonica player, Mickey Raphael.
Wagoner and Nelson didn't determine which songs they would record until the moment Nelson's bus pulled up outside the studio.
Don Warden, a member of Wagoner's band during the '50s and '60s provides background vocals on "Unplugged." Warden, a talented steel guitarist, has worked for years as a member of Dolly Parton's management team.
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 PORTER WAGONER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The tv series saw Porter closely with a couple of female partners, Norma Jean and her replacement, Dolly Parton.
Her career was kick-start on the show as was Porter's.
The Essential Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton - (BMG) - 20 trackls from their intial hits (1967's The Last Thing On My Mind) to Makin' Plans a dozen years later.
www.rockabilly.nl /references/messages/porter_wagoner.htm   (765 words)

  
 KingRecords.com Title Detail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Porter Wagoner, along with the Blackwood Brothers, received the Best Gospel Performance Grammy award for their “In Gospel Country” LP.
Porter can remember hearing some of the songs he recorded for this collection when his father sang them in church.
Porter heard those songs again as he and his father worked in the fields on their farm.
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 Porter Wagoner : Y'All Come - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Porter Wagoner's 1963 recording of "Y'all Come" is an oddity in that producer Chet Atkins chose to give Wagoner, a hard country singer, an outright hillbilly song and then overlay it with a female vocal chorus that sounds like it's moonlighting from The Lawrence Welk Show.
The album is full of that sort of schizophrenic production, with Wagoner's straight country sounds coated with a thick pop gloss in an apparent attempt to replicate the sound of Claude King's "Wolverton Mountain" on every track.
A remake of Wagoner's early hit "Company's Comin'" with hyperactive electric guitar is pure filler, and "Come on In" is practically a reprise of "Y'all Come," but the album has a number of decent cuts even though purists won't appreciate Atkins' aggressively commercial production style.
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 Country Standard Time: Porter Wagoner, October 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Wagoner's new album "Unplugged" tackles new terrain for a man who's tackled plenty of terrain.
Wagoner also chose another golden oldie in "Girl in the Blue Velvet Band." Credited to the pens of Cliff Carlisle and Mel Foree, no one knows for certain who wrote the song.
Given the stage of life that the 75-year-old Wagoner is now in, such lines as "we have almost reached the end, I can hear the final warning," appears as if he's measuring his final days.
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 Porter Wagoner MP3 Downloads - Porter Wagoner Music Downloads - Porter Wagoner Music Videos
Wagoner's most striking attribute was the sheer joy evident in his singing and playing, whether he was doing a deeply religious number ("What Would You Do") or a loving tribute to Bill Monroe ("Uncle Pen").
Disc three shows Wagoner working in a smoother, more sentimental and commercial country-pop-oriented vein, but as late as 1959, he was still doing wonderfully exuberant numbers.
Disc four covers the early '60s, the period during which Wagoner continued to merge the stripped-down country of his roots and the smooth Nashville sound.
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 Porter Wagoner Discography: Slipcue E-Zine
Porter's career rode high in the '50s, '60s and early '70s, but faltered under the disco-era onslaught of countrypolitan crooning.
Along with Porter Wagoner, Skeeter Davis had to be one of the biggest unreconstructed hicks running loose in Nashville at the time, so you'd think hearing the two of them together would be a thing of wonder.
Porter's getting on in years, but still has a great voice, not nearly as creaky or fragile as any number of his contemporaries.
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 Porter Wagoner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
A fixture of the Grand Ole Opry, singer and songwriter Porter Wagoner has one of the most distinguished careers in country music, from his early Top 10 hits in the '50s through his late-'60s and early-'70s duet sides with Dolly Parton.
Their smooth, crossover accessibility cheats Wagoner of much of his power.
But if you listen to Wagoner's originals, leaving yourself fully open to the craggy vocals and braying guitar lines of a Southern soul in torment, you realize this guy sings the way he must live, refusing to be pushed aside by hardship.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/98/02/05/OTR/PORTER_WAGONER.html   (153 words)

  
 Gaylord Opryland : Press Releases : Porter Wagoner to Switch on Opryland Hotel's Holiday Lights November 21   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., (Oct. 10, 2000)-- Grand Ole Opry star Porter Wagoner will mark the start of "A Country Christmas" on Nov. 21 (Tuesday) when he flips a single switch to illuminate 2 million holiday lights on the outside of Opryland Hotel.
Wagoner has made the lighting ceremony for "A Country Christmas" part of his holiday tradition ever since the festival began in 1984.
Wagoner, famous for his glittering rhinestone stage costumes, has joked that he doesn’t mind being upstaged when it takes 2 million lights to do it.
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 Norma Jean Discography: Slipcue E-Zine
She joined Porter Wagoner's troupe early in the decade, but was displaced in 1967 when she ended their long-running romantic affair and Porter glommed onto Dolly Parton as his new touring partner.
Porter does 'em better, but she does 'em pretty good, too, playing up the cornball delivery, but keeping things a little more on the straight and narrow than Wagoner does.
Like Porter Wagoner (or the Louvin Brothers) Norma Jean was unpretentious and sincere enough to take this material at face value, and put her heart into her performances.
www.slipcue.com /music/country/countryartists/normajean.html   (2707 words)

  
 Porter Wagoner CD's
Porter Wagoner - CD SINGLE - The Dream (A True Story) & Workin' On A Building
Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton - 20 All Time Greatest Hits
Porter Wagoner - The RCA Sessions:1952-1962: The Thin Man From West Plains (4 Cd Box Set w/36 page color book)
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 JR.com: Porter Wagoner - The Essential Porter Wagoner in Music: Nashville Sound:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Even in the '70s, Wagoner was mixing downhome sentiments with baleful moodiness, as on the disc-closer "I Haven't Learned a Thing," which brings things full circle.
One of country's most enduring stars, Porter Wagoner is nearly as well-known for his flashy clothes as for his music.
With his Hank Williams-inspired brand of honky-tonk, Wagoner was a mainstay of the country charts from the early '50s all the way through to the early 80's, and has remained a constant presence at the Grand Old Opry.
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 The Velvet Rope Forums: Porter Wagoner in Gap jeans
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 "The Rubber Room" by Porter Wagoner
Indeed Porter has had some weird mental stuff bubbling his whole career.
Look at the picture of Porter as the titular character from his album Skid Row Joe/Down in the Alley.
However much this effect in these records reflects Porter Wagoner's real internal states versus being an artistic construct, it's all good.
www.morethings.com /music/porter_wagoner/the_rubber_room.htm   (462 words)

  
 Porter Wagoner - AOL Music
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