During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Webb Pierce started his 17 ... sound that had never been heard before." Pierce scored two other chart-topping hits in 1954, "There Stands the Glass" and "More ...

Webb Pierce, 69, a country music singer who was ... The Louisiana-born Pierce recorded 97 hits, mostly in the 1950s and early 1960s. His 1954 song, “Slowly,” was the first country hit to ...

Seminal honky-tonk singer Webb Pierce had 34 consecutive Top 10 country hits, 10 of them reaching No. 1, from 1952 to 1957. Pierce had more hits than contemporaries Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb and ...

While the Country Music Hall of Fame member enjoyed his own run of hits as a singer and performer ... From his early work with honky-tonk hero Webb Pierce to later recordings by George Strait ...

Big record sales don’t guarantee a glowing legacy. Just look at the career of Webb Pierce. He was once dueling Hank Williams and Elvis Presley at the top of the country charts, yet he’s ...

At 16, Pierce landed his own local radio show, "Songs By Webb Pierce." January: Winnsboro's Fred Carter Jr. to be first act honored on new Northeast Louisiana Music Trail Following a three-year ...

During the week of Feb. 20, 1954, Pierce started his 17-week reign atop the 'Billboard' Best Sellers in Stores country chart with "Slowly." Typecasting country artists as flipping between sounding ...

"I kept cutting Webb Pierce songs after that, but they would never make my albums," she said. "I'd always be told, `No, that's too country.' So I always had it in the back of my mind that ...

When Webb Pierce’s 1953 hit “There Stands the Glass ... “The genre is quickly moving into a streaming age where we just need awesome songs, engaging content, and artists willing to ...

On one hand, he introduced modern listeners to Webb Pierce‘s “There Stands the ... a huge part of what we grew up on was harmony. It was story songs. It was that kind of ’90s country.

Like Webb Pierce, that’s where I heard that stuff ... His work seeks to pull back the curtain on how hit songs and emerging artists are discovered, made and marketed. He previously worked ...