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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Denny (1829–1887), American lawyer, judge, and politician in Indiana Jim Denny (footballer) (born 1950), Scottish footballer Jim Denny (Opry manager)...
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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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Dottie West (category Grand Ole Opry members)
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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