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Best 1992 Nashville TENNESSEE headline display newspaper COUNTRY MUSIC singer ROY ACUFF DEAD-inv #7A-305
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theNashville Banner (TN) dated Nov 23, 1992.This newspaper contains a banner headline, photo, and great LOCAL coverage of the DEATH of country music legend ROY ACUFF !!
Roy Claxton Acuff (September 15, 1903 – November 23, 1992) was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the \"King of Country Music,\" Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and \"hoedown\" format to the singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful. In 1952 Hank Williams told Ralph Gleason, \"He\'s the biggest singer this music ever knew. You booked him and you didn\'t worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.\"
Acuff began his music career in the 1930s and gained regional fame as the singer and fiddler for his group, the Smoky Mountain Boys. He joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1938, and although his popularity as a musician waned in the late 1940s, he remained one of the Opry\'s key figures and promoters for nearly four decades. In 1942, Acuff and Fred Rose founded Acuff-Rose Music, the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company, which signed such artists as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and the Everly Brothers. In 1962, Acuff became the first living inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In the early 1980s, after the death of his wife, Mildred, Acuff, then in his 80s, moved into a small house on the Opryland grounds and continued performing daily on stage. He arrived early most days at the Opry before the shows and performed odd jobs, such as stocking soda in backstage refrigerators. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts, and given a lifetime achievement award by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the first Country music act to receive the esteemed honor. Roy Acuff died in Nashville on November 23, 1992 of congestive heart failure at the age of 89.
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