When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images In the autumn of 1927, Victor Records and their talent ...
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We the People: The Father of Country Music
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - It’s hard to understand how someone could become an international sensation before cell phones and televisions, but Jimmie Rodgers did it. “He came at exactly the right time.
Bob Dylan, who organized this entertaining tribute to “The Singing Brakeman,” calls Rodgers “the man who started it all.” By “all,” one assumes Dylan means a distinctly American form of popular music ...
Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did. In ...
This week in 1957: 22 nations backed a U.S. proposal to limit outer space to peaceful purposes only; U.S. failed in three attempts to fire a rocket 4,000 miles into space for altitude mark; Britain's ...
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