Porter Wagoner

...Records, earning several country chart toppers. A soldier of the Grand Ole Opry since 1957, Wagoner also made a name for himself on television by the '60s as host of The Porter Wagoner Show. The show became a 21-year outpost for rising...

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Just Between You and Me was Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton's first duet album, released in late 1967, shortly after Parton joined Wagoner's band and became a regular on his weekly television show (and signed with RCA Records). The...

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...performers as Tennessee Ernie Ford, George Morgan , Smiley Burnette and Bill Ring. Siman discovered Chet Atkins and Porter Wagoner in the early 1950s. He was Wagoner's first manager; produced his first hit, "A Satisfied Mind," in...

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...older performers, his star had faded in recent years. But his death from lung cancer Sunday, at 80, came only after a remarkable late-career revival that won him a new generation of fans. The Missouri-born Wagoner signed with RCA Records in...

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..."the greatest place in the world to have a career in country music," he said in 1997. His showmanship, suits and pompadoured hair made him famous. He had his own syndicated TV show, "The Porter Wagoner Show," for 21 years, beginning in...

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...the time, who was newly married and semi-retiring. Initially, Wagoner's audience was reluctant to warm to Parton and chanted for Norma Jean, but with Wagoner's assistance, she was accepted. Wagoner convinced his label, RCA Victor, to also...

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