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	Roy Acuff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acuff had a brief affair with politics, losing a run for the office of Governor of Tennessee as a Republican in 1948.
		Acuff later campaigned in 1970 for his friend Tex Ritter in his campaign for GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Tennessee.
		Roy Acuff is distantly related to Amy Acuff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roy_Acuff (356 words)

	Roy Acuff Biography
		Roy Acuff may have become one of country music's most honored practitioners, but he had no idea of his future as a young man growing up in Tennessee.
		Acuff was born in 1903 in Maynardsville, Tennessee, the third of five children in a family that loved music.
		Acuff by the mid-to late 40's had become a major country music star and after passing a chance to run for governor of Tennessee in 1944 and 1946, became the Republican candidate in 1948.
	www.timelessmusic.com /Bios/bioroyacuff_538.htm (913 words)

	Roy Acuff: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Acuff [+] was called the King of Country Music, and for more than 60 years he lived up to that title.
		Acuff was the first country music superstar after the death of Jimmie Rodgers [+], pioneering an influential vocal style that complemented the spare, simple songs he was performing.
		Roy Acuff [+] became a national superstar during the '40s, scoring a long string of hit records, which included the classics "The Wreck on the Highway," "The Precious Jewel," and "Beneath That Lonely Mound of Clay," among many others.
	www.music.com /person/roy_acuff/1 (993 words)

	MTV.com - Roy Acuff
		Roy Acuff was called the King of Country Music, and for more than 60 years he lived up to that title.
		Acuff was the first country music superstar after the death of Jimmie Rodgers, pioneering an influential vocal style that complemented the spare, simple songs he was performing.
		Roy Acuff became a national superstar during the '40s, scoring a long string of hit records, which included the classics "The Wreck on the Highway," "The Precious Jewel," and "Beneath That Lonely Mound of Clay," among many others.
	www.mtv.com /bands/az/acuff_roy/bio.jhtml (923 words)

	Roy Acuff biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Roy Claxton Acuff (15 September 1903 - 23 November 1992) was an American country musician.
		Acuff became a regular on the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, forming a backing band called the Smoky Mountain Boys.
		Acuff had a brief affair with politics, losing a run for the office of Governor of Tennessee in 1948.
	roy-acuff.biography.ms (275 words)

	Roy Acuff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Acuff was born in Maynardsville, TN and was a minor league baseball player before an injury ended his career.
		Acuff and the other musicians drew crowds to the show, as it traveled through the South, so that the doctor could hawk his concoction.
		In 1938, Acuff and his band finally got the opportunity to perform on the Opry when they were asked to fill in for Fiddling Arthur Smith (who was dealing with a drinking problem).
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/RADIO/c_w/acuff.html (498 words)

	Roughstock's History of Country Music - Acuff & The Grand Ole Opry
		By 1933, Acuff formed a group, the Tennessee Crackerjacks, in which Clell Summey played dobro, thus providing the distinctive sound that came to be associated with Acuff (and later provided by Pete 'Bashful Brother Oswald' Kirby).
		Acuff married Mildred Douglas in 1936, that same year recording two sessions for ARC (a company controlling a host of labels, later merged with Columbia).
		Acuff's tremendous contribution to country music was recognized in November 1962, when he became the first living musician to be honored as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
	www.roughstock.com /history/acuff.html (563 words)

	Roy Acuff
		Roy's music lacks the timelessness of many of the country artists who followed him; still, when listening to these songs, collected here in three distinct collections, you know where it all started, and where it all came from.
		Roy Acuff was the fourth person named to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1962.
		Roy Acuff is probably too rough-hewn, too backwoods for even listeners of "O Brother." Roy's voice is completely unrefined, a shocker in today's world of ProTools and modulated vowels.
	www.takecountryback.com /reviews/ravintage.htm (723 words)

	Roy Acuff: The Great Roy Acuff / Songs of the Smokey Mountains / The Voice of Country Music - PopMatters Music Review
		To hell with Roy Acuff." Perhaps the mark of a real musician is to have enemy troops on the other side of the globe taking your name in vain as they raise their bayonets and charge into battle to slaughter and be slaughtered.
		Acuff, a natural athlete, excelled at sports and at one time was being courted by the New York Yankees.
		Acuff was the fourth person to be elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame and it's first living member.
	popmatters.com /music/reviews/a/acuffroy-songs.shtml (766 words)

	Gibsons featured in new Roy Acuff/Minnie Pearl museum at Opryland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Known to generations of country fans as Bashful Brother Oswald, Kirby was a fixture in Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys for over 50 years and a prime force in the Dobro's transition from Hawaiian to country music in the '30s and '40s.
		Acuff's collection also includes some 1930s Dobros, a rare Epiphone Recording guitar from the late 1920s, and some Vivi-Tone solidbody electric instruments (body-less would be a more accurate term), the latter designed by the legendary Lloyd Loar in his post-Gibson years.
		Acuff began his career in the mid 1930s, joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938 and was still performing on the Opry right up to his death in 1992.
	www.gibson.com /whatsnew/pressrelease/1997/acuff.html (381 words)

	Copyright
		Roy had suffered a sunstroke that would require two years of recuperation, dashing his dream of playing for the New York Yankees and forcing him to become a self-taught musician "with a little help from his friend," John I. Copeland.
		Roy’s first car was a flamboyant red roadster with a rumble seat and 60 horses under the hood, a hot rod with a confident young man at the wheel.
		Roy returned for "Honor Fountain City Day" in May 1986 and was awarded Fountain City Man of the Year at a ceremony in Fountain City Park, which he knew so well in his youth.
	www.fountaincitytnhistory.info /People1-Acuff.htm (2658 words)

	Rockzilla.net Roy Acuff "The Good News According to Mr. Roy Acuff" by William Michael Smith
		It all happened so long ago few people who aren't country music buffs or historians are aware that Roy Acuff, for decades the upright poster boy symbol of country music, Nashville, and the Grand Ole Opry, had a wild streak in his younger days.
		Roy Acuff is the first release to specifically segregate Acuff's gospel work from his secular tracks.
		Acuff was never a fan of ornate productions and the only flourishes included here are the occasional backing vocals by a "choir" most likely made up of Nashville/Opry regulars (I swear I can hear Grandpa Jones's voice in there!).
	www.rockzilla.net /smith121.html (585 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Roy Acuff
		And each year, from the 1930s to the 1980s, hundreds of thousands traveled to Tennessee from all corners of the nation to hear Roy Acuff sing the stories of their lives.
		Acuff's first ambition in life was to be a professional baseball player, but that dream came to an end when a severe case of sunstroke left him physically debilitated.
		One of the biggest nights in Acuff's long and distinguished career took place on March 1, 1982, when the enduring star was honored in a two-hour television special.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3686&source_type=A (369 words)

	New stamp will honor Roy Acuff
		Roy Acuff, acknowledged as the "King of Country Music," and as the man who made Nashville, Tenn., the country music capital of America, now receives further acclaim.
		In addition, Acuff's style, both as a musician and as a performer, influenced countless future artists, laying the groundwork for the prototypical country star, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
		Acuff was born in Maynardsville, Tenn., in 1903.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/08/01/tem_0801stamp.html (290 words)

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		As a youth, Acuff soaked in music of all sorts: folk ballads and fiddle tunes learned from neighbors and kin, hymns learned from itinerant school instructors, recordings of early country artists, and even some of the classical vocal training pursued by his sister Sue after the family moved to Fountain City, a Knoxville suburb.
		Early in the 1940s, Acuff zoomed to the top of his field with help from WSM’s 50,000-watt transmitter, Opry promotion, and his status as headliner of the Prince Albert Show, the Opry’s NBC network segment begun in October 1939.
		The Roy Acuff Theater at Opryland, the Roy Acuff Museum (housing his collection of instruments and other memorabilia), and his long-held role as the Opry’s senior statesman gave him a status that no Opry star has surpassed.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/roy_acuff.html (1156 words)

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		Acuff helped turn the Grand Ole Opry into the nation’s foremost country music institution, and his role in the music publishing business helped make Nashville the country music capital of America.
		Roy Claxton Acuff was born in Maynardville, Tenn., on Sept. 15, 1903.
		As a young man, Acuff was a natural athlete who aspired to be a professional baseball player, but a severe case of sunstroke in 1929 ended his athletic career.
	www.usps.com /communications/news/stamps/2003/sr03_044.txt (720 words)

	Acuff, Roy Claxton -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The French-Canadian novelist Gabrielle Roy was praised for her skill in depicting the hopes and frustrations of the poor.
		The Canadian critic and literary historian Camille Roy was noted as an authority on the development of French-Canadian literature.
		A painter who was a pioneer in the so-called pop art movement, Roy Lichtenstein took his subject matter from the phenomena of mass culture.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9309679?tocId=9309679 (621 words)

	Country Standard Time: Roy Acuff
		Acuff tackled "The Great Roy Acuff" for Capitol Records from 1953 and 1955.
		Culled from Roy Acuff's late '50s through early '70s tenure with Hickory, this 18-song compilation celebrates the best of the Grand Ole Opry legend's latter-day country-gospel recordings.
		Acuff's message here is heartfelt and simple: pay more attention to the Holy Bible ("Dust On the Bible," "A Hundred and Forty Four Thousand"); look for earthly signs of Jesus ("Radio Station S-A-V-E-D," "I Saw the Light") and be thankful for His blessings ("Thank God").
	www.countrystandardtime.com /CDroyacuff.html (690 words)

	Roy Acuff
		When Roy Claxton Acuff was born in that little three room house in Maynarsdville, Tennessee, no one had any idea what would become of him.
		In 1936, Roy Acuff made his first recording, "The Great Speckled Bird." By now the band’s name had changed to The Tennessee Crackerjacks and already included the distinctive sound of the Dobro guitar.
		Roy’s (and the now Smoky Mountain Boys’) records were doing extremely well during the 40's too.
	www.themusicbarn.com /html/roy_acuff.html (1271 words)

	Mark Brine Music: Country Music Roots: Roy Acuff
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		Acuff released several singles in the 1940s including "The Wreck on the Highway," "Beneath That Lonely Mound of Clay" and "The Precious Jewel." He later formed a music publishing venture with Chicago songwriter Fred Rose.
		Hank Williams, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison were among those who initially signed with Acuff-Rose Music.
	www.markbrine.com /country_music_roots/roy_acuff.htm (632 words)

	The Old Age Pension Check (Roy Acuff)
		Roy Acuff ran for governor of Tennessee in 1948, but his music has been decidedly apolitical.
		Old folks may claim a pension merely by sending a dime to Washington, Roy concludes sardonically -- and prophetically, in view of the troubles the Social Security system began to experience 40 years later.
		Roy Acuff, Interview, Nashville, TN, 8 Sep 1973; reprinted in Dorothy Horstman, Sing Your Heart Out, Country Boy, New York, NY, 1976, p.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/2/oldage.html (471 words)

	Acuff, Roy -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Roy Claxton Acuff American vocalist, songwriter, and fiddle player, called the “King of Country Music,”; who in the mid-1930s reasserted the mournful musical traditions of Southeastern rural whites and became a national radio star on the Grand Ole Opry”; broadcasts.
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		Roy Orbison's sequence of nine Top Ten hits for Monument Records—from “Only the Lonely” in 1960 to “Oh, Pretty Woman” in 1964—placed him among the best-selling artists of his era.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9003625?tocId=9003625 (725 words)

	Country - Roy Acuff -> Hoyt Axton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a fabulous collection of 20 early recordings by this country music pioneer who was the first inductee in the Country Music Hall Of Fame.
		Acuff's group was one that helped popularise the sound of the dobro and these sides feature two of the best - Clell Sumney and Pete "Oswald" Kirby.
		If you're going to buy one Acuff album, this is certainly the one to get since these are really his most important recordings.
	www.rootsandrhythm.com /roots/COUNTRY/country_a.htm (3045 words)

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		Potter, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer for the United States Postal Service, will also be on hand for a First Day of Issue Stamp Dedication of a new Roy Acuff first-class commemorative stamp.
		Acuff, a 54-year member of the Grand Ole Opry, died in 1992.
		Acuff’s publishing company, Acuff-Rose, was formed in the early 1940’s with then Chicago-based pianist and songwriter Fred Rose (“Blue Eyes Cryin’ In The Rain,” “Faded Love”).
	www.gaylordentertainment.com /PC/press/Acuff08-12-03.htm (351 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Styles: C: Country: Bands and Artists: A: Acuff, Roy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Grave of Roy Acuff - Find A Grave listing includes pictures of him and his tombstone; includes other interments in his cemetery.
		Roy Acuff and WSM Radio's Grand Ole Opry - From Roughstock.com- History on Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry.
		Roy Acuff at Rollingstone.com - Includes biography, photo gallery, news, discography, album reviews, and a message board.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Styles/C/Country/Bands_and_Artists/A/Acuff,_Roy (152 words)

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