• the Grand Ole Opry, had become a national platform for country artists. While with National Life, Denny worked side jobs with the Opry including selling...
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    had his only Opry performance. Although the audience reacted politely to his revolutionary brand of rockabilly music, Opry manager Jim Denny told Presley's...
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    Lefty Frizzell (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    things began to go downhill for Frizzell. He fired his manager and band, and joined the Grand Ole Opry; however, he quit very soon thereafter. Even though...
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  • country duo Curly Fox and Texas Ruby (mobile home fire). August 27 – Jim Denny, 52, music executive. There were no inductees in 1963. Best Country and...
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  • Fame, member of Grand Ole Opry, lived in San Antonio in the 1940s Justin Tubb, singer-songwriter, member of Grand Ole Opry, son of country music legend...
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    Crandall persuaded Grand Ole Opry manager Jim Denny to seek a recording contract for Holley. Stone sent a demo tape, which Denny forwarded to Paul Cohen,...
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  • Bob Roberts Uncle Jimmy Thompson – first person to appear on the Grand Ole Opry (d. 1931). March 23 – Fiddlin' John Carson, one of radio's first country...
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    West also toured with several other Grand Ole Opry performers and was now being managed by the Jim Denny Artist Bureau. In July 1962, moved to Atlantic...
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    appearance on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on October 2; after a polite audience response, Opry manager Jim Denny told Phillips that his singer was "not...
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