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Nudie Cohn
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Randall Franks
Randall Franks is an award winning bluegrass singer and musician who plays mandolin, guitar and mountain dulcimer. He was inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004 and has been designated the "Appalachian Ambassador of the Fiddle."
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Redd Stewart
Henry Ellis Stewart (May 27, 1923 – August 2, 2003), better known as Redd Stewart, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist who co-wrote "The Tennessee Waltz" with Pee Wee King in 1948.
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- Accordion
- Alan Autry
- Bill Monroe
- Billboard Hot 100
- Bimbo (song)
- bluegrass music
- Chilton Price
- Country music
- Cowboy music
- Elvis Presley
- fiddle
- Gene Autry
- Grand Ole Opry
- Hot Country Songs
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Nudie Cohn
- pedal steel guitar
- polka
- Randall Franks
- Redd Stewart
- Singer-songwriter
- Slow Poke
- Tennessee Waltz
- The Tennessee Waltz
- United States
- waltz
King, Pee Wee Filmography
- An Evening of Country Greats: A Hall of Fame Celebration (1996) (actor, plays Honoree)
- 13th Annual Music City News Awards (1979) (actor, plays Himself)
- Kitty Wells/Faron Young (1975) (actor, plays Himself)
- Old American Barn Dance (1953) (actor, plays Regular performer)
- The Rough, Tough West (1952) (actor, plays Band leader, Accordion player Pee Wee)
- Ridin' the Outlaw Trail (1951) (actor, plays Himself)
- Flame of the West (1945) (actor, plays Band Leader Pee Wee)
- Boss of Hangtown Mesa (1942) (actor, plays Leader - Pals of the Golden West)
- Stage to Chino (1940) (actor, plays Musician - Pals of the Golden West)
- Rancho Grande (1940) (actor, plays Bandleader of The Pals of the Golden West)
- Gold Mine in the Sky (1938) (actor, plays Bandleader of J.L. Frank's 'Golden West Cowboys')
Pee Wee King
Releases by album:
Album releases
Pee-Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys
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Going Back to A.L.A.
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You Call Everybody Darlin'
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
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Black Eyed Susie
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When They Played That Old Missouri Waltz
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Blame It All on Nashville
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The Kissing Dance
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Rag Mop
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What, Where and When
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Birmingham Bounce
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We're Gonna Go Fishin' (Next Saturday Night)
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Cincinnati Dancing Pig
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River Road Two Step
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Mop Rag Boogie
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No One But You
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Within My Heart (La Golondrina)
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Helegged Hilegged
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You Drifted
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The Strange Little Girl
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Chew Tobacco Rag
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Slow Poke
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You Won't Need My Love Anymore
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Two Roads
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Railroad Boogie
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Makin' Like a Train
Pee-Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys
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The Crying Steel Guitar Waltz
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Ragtime Annie Lee
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Slow Bloke
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Slow Coach
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Silver and Gold
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If and When
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Busybody
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I Don't Mind
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Two-Faced Clock
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A Mighty Pretty Waltz
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Tennessee Tango
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The Crazy Waltz
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Varsoviana
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San Antonio Rose
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My Adobe Hacienda
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The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)
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Under the Double Eagle
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Spanish Two Step
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Over the Waves
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Steel Guitar Rag
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Screwball
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Last Night on the Back Porch
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Till I Waltz Again With You
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Gone
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I'll Go on Alone
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That's Me Without You
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Your Kisses Aren't Kisses Anymore
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Here Lies My Heart
Born: 1914-02-18
Died: 2000-02-29
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- Duration: 6:41
- Published: 14 Feb 2009
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- Duration: 3:08
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- Duration: 2:49
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- Duration: 2:01
- Published: 21 Jun 2008
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- Duration: 2:32
- Published: 02 Nov 2009
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- Duration: 9:26
- Published: 17 Oct 2009
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- Duration: 4:51
- Published: 09 Jan 2009
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- Duration: 3:11
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- Duration: 2:57
- Published: 29 Nov 2008
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- Duration: 5:33
- Published: 06 Jul 2010
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 24 Jan 2009
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- Duration: 5:01
- Published: 14 Feb 2009
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- Duration: 7:50
- Published: 14 Feb 2009
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- Duration: 3:03
- Published: 04 Feb 2010
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- Abrams, Wisconsin
- Accordion
- Alan Autry
- Bill Monroe
- Billboard Hot 100
- Bimbo (song)
- bluegrass music
- Chilton Price
- Country music
- Cowboy music
- Elvis Presley
- fiddle
- Gene Autry
- Grand Ole Opry
- Hot Country Songs
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Nudie Cohn
- pedal steel guitar
- polka
- Randall Franks
- Redd Stewart
- Singer-songwriter
- Slow Poke
- Tennessee Waltz
- The Tennessee Waltz
- United States
- waltz
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name | Pee Wee King |
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background | solo_singer |
birth name | Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski |
birth date | February 18, 1914 |
origin | Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
death date | March 07, 2000 |
instrument | Accordion, fiddle |
genre | Country |
occupation | Singer-songwriter |
years active | 1948–1954}} |
Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski (February 18, 1914 – March 7, 2000), known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "The Tennessee Waltz".
He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to a Polish American family and lived in Abrams during his youth. He learned to play the fiddle from his father, who was a professional polka musician. In the 1930s, he toured and made cowboy movies with Gene Autry. King joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1937.
In 1946, while the bandleader of the Golden West Cowboys, King, together with the band's vocalist, Redd Stewart, composed "The Tennessee Waltz", inspired by "The Kentucky Waltz" by bluegrass musician Bill Monroe. King and Stewart first recorded "The Tennessee Waltz" in 1948, and it went on to become a country music standard. He also stole a song from fellow friend and songwriter, Homer Cole of Louisville Ky.
King's other songs included "Slow Poke" and "You Belong to Me", both co-authored with Chilton Price and Redd Stewart. His songs introduced waltzes, polkas, and cowboy songs to country music.
King was not permitted to use the drummer and trumpeter he featured on his stage shows when the band played at the Grand Ole Opry. King refused to change his band's sound at the Grand Ole Opry, over the years being among the first to introduce or popularize drums (along with Bob Wills, who defied the Opry ban in 1945), horns, the accordion, and electric instruments including the pedal steel guitar to the Opry's brand of country music. His band also introduced on-stage dancing and Nudie Cohn's customized 'rhinestone cowboy' outfits to the Opry which later became popular with Nashville and country musicians, including Elvis Presley.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974.
He joined producers Randall Franks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CD Christmas Time’s A Comin’ performing "Jingle Bells" with the cast released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popular Christmas releases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.
He died of a heart attack in Louisville, Kentucky, at age 85.
Discography
Albums
Singles
Year | Single | Chart Positions | |
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1948 | "Tennessee Waltz" | ||
"Tennessee Tears" | |||
"Tennessee Polka" | |||
1950 | |||
"Tennessee Waltz" (re-release) | |||
"Slow Poke" | |||
"Silver and Gold" | |||
"Busybody" | |||
"Changing Partners" | |||
"Backward, Turn Backward" |
Notes
References
External links
Category:American fiddlers Category:American musicians of Polish descent Category:American country musicians Category:American country singers Category:American country singer-songwriters Category:Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Category:Musicians from Wisconsin Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin Category:Grand Ole Opry members Category:Starday Records artists Category:Apex Records artists Category:RCA Victor artists Category:Top Rank Records artists Category:1914 births Category:2000 deaths
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