Radio experience and a partnership with the Jimmie Rodgers Entertainers -- a string ... In the process, he invented the sad country song formula that was later perfected by Hank Williams.

Songs she wrote but is uncredited for included ... some people assume country music had always included yodeling." Jimmie Rodgers, America's blue yodeler and a victor recording artist died ...

With the possible exception of Louis Armstrong, Rodgers has influenced more musicians than any other this century. Listening to the songs here, it’s easy to visualize a straight line that begins ...

Jimmie Rodgers, singer of the 1957 hits “Honeycomb ... which signed him after hearing him perform “Honeycomb,” a song by Bob Merrill. With a style of singing and playing guitar that ...

He received his first songwriting credits as Jimmie F ... with some of his popular songs were featured in commercials. Most recently in 2016, Rodgers revealed the moment he realized he wanted ...

“hillbilly” singers and string bands put numerous railroad songs on wax, but no one with perhaps a more trained eye and ear on the subject than Jimmie Rodgers, the singer, songwriter, and ...

Jimmie Rodgers, a singer who had two major hits in ... which signed him after hearing him perform “Honeycomb,” a song written by Bob Merrill. With a style of singing and playing guitar that ...

Jimmie Davis, the singing Louisiana politician ... According to his biographer Nolan Porterfield, Rodgers’ songs “altered and shaped the patterns of emerging hillbilly music, materially ...

Jimmie Rodgers, who had a run of crossover country ... Written by Bob Merrill in 1954, the song became a smash hit courtesy of Rodgers' version, which landed at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 ...

The Senate wants Mississippi's official songs to be "One Mississippi," "Miss the Mississippi and You" by country legend Jimmie Rodgers and "Crossroads" by Delta blues pioneer Robert Johnson.

By Neil Genzlinger Jimmie Rodgers, whose smooth voice straddled ... singing “Honeycomb,” a Bob Merrill song he had learned off a recording by Georgie Shaw and had been performing in the ...

Jimmie Rodgers, singer of the 1957 hits “Honeycomb ... which signed him after hearing him perform “Honeycomb,” a song by Bob Merrill. With a style of singing and playing guitar that ...