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Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018) was an American singer and musician. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.
During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life in Spite of Myself, in 1994.[1]
During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist, banjo player, and fiddler. He was skilled in the traditions of many genres, including classical guitar, country music, Latin music, bluegrass, and pop. He had hit songs as a pop vocalist (e.g., "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), and his instrumental skill had an enormous effect on generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. He published his autobiography, My Life in Spite of Myself, in 1994.[1]
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The best Song Roy Clark On Hee Haw, Roy Clark - Overdue Blues Roy Clark - Alabama Jubilee Roy Clark - White Lightnin Roy Clark - Folsom Prison Blues Roy Clar...
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for making us aware that April 15 is the anniversary of the birth of American singer and musician Roy Linwood Clark who is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997.
Rest in peace Roy Linwood Clark!
Roy Clark Hee Haw(14 tracks)
"The best Song Roy Clark On Hee Haw,
Roy Clark - Overdue Blues
Roy Clark - Alabama Jubilee
Roy Clark - White Lightnin
Roy Clark - Folsom Prison Blues
Roy Clark - Yesterday
Roy Clark - Cold, Cold Heart
Roy Clark - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Roy Clark - In the Mood
Roy Clark (12 string guitar instrumental)
Roy Clark - I Never Picked Cotton
Roy Clark - San Antonio Rose
Also Folsom Prison Blues and Alabama Jubilee on roy clark Jimmy Dean Show
plus Roy Clark Malaguena"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4XFHotjtA
1. Background on his life from oldies.com/artist-biography/Roy-Clark.html
"Roy Linwood Clark, 15 April 1933, Meherrin, Virginia, USA. When he was 11, the family moved to Washington DC after his father, a competent musician who played guitar, banjo and fiddle, progressed from being a cotton picker to become a computer programmer, and augmented his pay for the government job by playing at local dances (his mother also played piano). Clark played banjo and mandolin at an early age and was playing guitar at dances with his father by the time he was 14. He won the National Banjo Championship at the ages of 16 and 17, the latter occasion resulting in an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. He considered a baseball career in his late teens but at 18 became a professional boxer. Fighting as a light-heavyweight, he won 15 fights in a row before the next fight convinced him he should look elsewhere for a living. He found work in clubs and appeared on local radio and television in such shows as theOzark Jubilee andTown And Country Time. In 1955, he joined Jimmy Dean on his Washington television show Country Style, and when Dean left for New York, Clark was given the show. He played instruments, joked and sang and gradually built himself a reputation, but in the early 60s, he decided to seek fame further afield and became lead guitarist and frontman for Wanda Jackson. He stayed with her for about a year and played lead guitar on her hit recording of ‘Let’s Have A Party’. When she gave up her band, Jim Halsey took on the role of Clark’s manager and soon found him a spot on one of the most popular network television shows, The Beverly Hillbillies. Here he appeared in the dual role of Cousin Roy and (dressed as a woman) his mother Big Mama Halsey. He also signed for Capitol Records and released his first album, which contained both songs and instrumentals. In 1963, he was given the chance to play on theTonight Show on television, owing to the fact that Jimmy Dean was hosting the programme. This led to further invitations to appear on other top television shows and his popularity rapidly grew. In later years he hosted many of the shows personally. He achieved his first chart success in 1963, when his version of Bill Anderson’s ‘The Tips Of My Fingers’ made both the US country and pop charts. He left Capitol Records, joining Dot Records in 1967. During the 60s, somewhat ironically, he had country hits with pop songs, when further double chart successes included Charles Aznavour’s ‘Yesterday When I Was Young’ and ‘September Song’. During the mid-60s, he fronted theSwingin’ Country television series and in 1969, CBS invited him to co-host their new country comedy show Hee Haw with Buck Owens. This programme became one of the most popular on television, so much so that when CBS dropped it in 1971 because they felt it did not create the right impression for the company, it was immediately syndicated by the show’s producers and even grew in popularity. During the 70s, Clark had a great number of country chart hits, including the very humorous ‘Thank God And Greyhound’, ‘Riders In The Sky’, ‘Somewhere Between Love And Tomorrow’ and ‘Come Live With Me’, his only number 1 US country hit. He also made several popular television commercials. Clark progressed to become one of country music’s biggest stars and to enable himself to keep up a punishing schedule of concert appearances, he learned to fly and piloted himself around the States. He was one of the first country artists to star in his own show on Las Vegas strip, where he still appears regularly, usually backed by an orchestra. Clark also became the first star to take his show to the Soviet Union, when in January 1976, he played to packed houses during a 21-day tour of Riga, Moscow and Leningrad. The same year, Clark also played concerts with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1977, he appeared at Carnegie Hall, New York, and in 1979, he recorded an album with blues artist Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown. Between 1979 and 1981, he recorded for MCA but during the late 80s, he was with several labels. Although he had no major hits, a version of ‘Night Life’ registered country hit number 50 for him in 1986. In later years, he become involved in cattle ranching, publishing, advertising and property. During his career, he has won many CMA awards including Comedian Of The Year 1970, Entertainer Of The Year 1973, Instrumental Group Of The Year (with Buck Trent) in 1975 and 1976 and was nominated as Instrumentalist Of The Year every year from 1967 to 1980, winning in 1977, 1978 and 1980. He guested on theOpry many times over the years but did not become a member until 1987. He has appeared in several films and in 1986, he co-starred with Mel Tillis in a comedy western calledUphill All The Way, which they both also produced. Clark is a talented multi-instrumentalist and all-round entertainer, who is equally at home with various types of music."
2. Background on his music from allmusic.com/artist/roy-clark-mn [login to see] /biography
In the '70s, Roy Clark symbolized country music in the U.S. and abroad. Between guest-hosting for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and performing to packed houses in the Soviet Union on a tour that sold out all 18 concerts, he used his musical talent and his entertaining personality to bring country music into homes across the world. As one of the hosts of TV's Hee Haw (Buck Owens was the other) for more than 20 years, Clark picked and sang and offered country corn to 30 million people weekly. He was first and foremost an entertainer, drawing crowds at venues as different as Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the Opry. His middle-of-the-road approach filled a national void, with Clark offering country that was harder-edged than Kenny Rogers but softer and more accessible than Waylon Jennings. Among his numerous vocal hits were "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound." Instrumentally he won awards for both guitar and banjo. Clark also co-starred on the silver screen with Mel Tillis in the comedy Uphill All the Way.
The son of two amateur musicians, Roy Clark began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin at an early age. By the time he was 14, he was playing guitar behind his father at local dances. Within a few years, he had won two National Banjo Championships, with his second win earning him an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite his success as a musician, Clark decided to pursue an athletic career, rejecting baseball for boxing. At the age of 17, he won 15 fights in a row before deciding that he would rather be a musician than a fighter.
Clark found work at local clubs, radio stations, and television shows. By 1955, he was a regular on Jimmy Dean's D.C.-based television show, Country Style. Once Dean left Washington for New York, Clark took over the show, and over the next few years he earned a reputation as an excellent musician and entertainer. In 1960, he decided to leave the East Coast to pursue his fame and fortune out West. That year, he became the leader of Wanda Jackson's band, playing on her hit singles like "Let's Have a Party," as well as touring with the singer and playing concerts with her in Las Vegas. Once Jackson decided to break up her band, Clark continued to play regularly at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas and through his new manager, Jackson's ex-manager Jim Halsey, he landed spots on The Tonight Show and the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, where he played both Cousin Roy and Big Mama Halsey.
In 1963, Clark signed to Capitol Records, and his first single for the label, "Tips of My Fingers," became a Top Ten hit. Over the next two years, he had a handful of minor hits for Capitol before he switched labels, signing with Dot in 1968. At Dot, his career took off again, through covers of pop songs like Charles Aznavour's "Yesterday, When I Was Young" (number nine, 1969). However, what really turned Clark's career around was not records, but rather a television show called Hee Haw. Conceived as a country version of Laugh-In, Hee Haw began its run in 1969 on CBS. Roy Clark and Bakersfield country pioneer Buck Owens were picked as co-hosts. Over the next two years, it was one of the most popular shows on television. In 1971, CBS dropped the show because its corny country humor didn't fit the network's new, urban image, but Hee Haw quickly moved into syndication, where it continued to thrive throughout the decade.
While Hee Haw was at the height of its popularity, Clark had a string of country hits that ranged from Top Ten singles like "I Never Picked Cotton" (1970), "Thank God and Greyhound" (1970), "The Lawrence Welk -- Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka" (1972), "Come Live with Me" (1973), "Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow" (1973), "Honeymoon Feelin'" (1974), and "If I Had It to Do All Over Again" (1976) to a multitude of minor hits. Though he didn't consistently top the country charts, Clark became one of the most recognizable faces in country music, appearing on television commercials, Hee Haw, and touring not only the United States but a number of other countries, including a groundbreaking sojourn to the Soviet Union in 1976. Frequently, he played concerts and recorded albums with a wide variety of musicians from other genres, including the Boston Pops Orchestra and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
In 1979, the momentum of his career began to slow down, as he left his longtime label ABC/Dot for MCA. Over the next two years, he had a number of minor hits before leaving the label. He recorded one inspirational album for Songbird in 1981 before signing to Churchill in 1982. Hee Haw's audience was beginning to decline in the early '80s, but Clark diversified his interests by investing in property, minor-league baseball teams, cattle, publishing, and advertising. None of Clark's recordings for Churchill were big hits, and his brief stays at Silver Dollar in 1986 and Hallmark in 1989 also resulted in no hits. Nevertheless, Clark had become a country icon by the mid-'80s, so his lack of sales didn't matter -- he continued to sell out concerts and win awards; he even made the comedy Western Uphill All the Way in 1986 with Mel Tillis. In 1987, he was belatedly made a member of the Grand Ole Opry. During the '90s, Clark concentrated on performing at his theater in Branson, Missouri, sporadically releasing re-recordings of his big hits on a variety of small labels, though 2000's Live at Billy Bob's Texas marked his first live release in nearly a decade. Christmas Memories followed that same year. The year 2005 saw the release of two albums, Hymns from the Old Country Church on Wonder Disc and Bluegrass: It's About Time, It's About Me, a collection of his bluegrass-oriented tracks, on Varese. Roy Clark died in November 2018 at the age of 85."
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Rest in peace Roy Linwood Clark!
Roy Clark Hee Haw(14 tracks)
"The best Song Roy Clark On Hee Haw,
Roy Clark - Overdue Blues
Roy Clark - Alabama Jubilee
Roy Clark - White Lightnin
Roy Clark - Folsom Prison Blues
Roy Clark - Yesterday
Roy Clark - Cold, Cold Heart
Roy Clark - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Roy Clark - In the Mood
Roy Clark (12 string guitar instrumental)
Roy Clark - I Never Picked Cotton
Roy Clark - San Antonio Rose
Also Folsom Prison Blues and Alabama Jubilee on roy clark Jimmy Dean Show
plus Roy Clark Malaguena"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT4XFHotjtA
1. Background on his life from oldies.com/artist-biography/Roy-Clark.html
"Roy Linwood Clark, 15 April 1933, Meherrin, Virginia, USA. When he was 11, the family moved to Washington DC after his father, a competent musician who played guitar, banjo and fiddle, progressed from being a cotton picker to become a computer programmer, and augmented his pay for the government job by playing at local dances (his mother also played piano). Clark played banjo and mandolin at an early age and was playing guitar at dances with his father by the time he was 14. He won the National Banjo Championship at the ages of 16 and 17, the latter occasion resulting in an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. He considered a baseball career in his late teens but at 18 became a professional boxer. Fighting as a light-heavyweight, he won 15 fights in a row before the next fight convinced him he should look elsewhere for a living. He found work in clubs and appeared on local radio and television in such shows as theOzark Jubilee andTown And Country Time. In 1955, he joined Jimmy Dean on his Washington television show Country Style, and when Dean left for New York, Clark was given the show. He played instruments, joked and sang and gradually built himself a reputation, but in the early 60s, he decided to seek fame further afield and became lead guitarist and frontman for Wanda Jackson. He stayed with her for about a year and played lead guitar on her hit recording of ‘Let’s Have A Party’. When she gave up her band, Jim Halsey took on the role of Clark’s manager and soon found him a spot on one of the most popular network television shows, The Beverly Hillbillies. Here he appeared in the dual role of Cousin Roy and (dressed as a woman) his mother Big Mama Halsey. He also signed for Capitol Records and released his first album, which contained both songs and instrumentals. In 1963, he was given the chance to play on theTonight Show on television, owing to the fact that Jimmy Dean was hosting the programme. This led to further invitations to appear on other top television shows and his popularity rapidly grew. In later years he hosted many of the shows personally. He achieved his first chart success in 1963, when his version of Bill Anderson’s ‘The Tips Of My Fingers’ made both the US country and pop charts. He left Capitol Records, joining Dot Records in 1967. During the 60s, somewhat ironically, he had country hits with pop songs, when further double chart successes included Charles Aznavour’s ‘Yesterday When I Was Young’ and ‘September Song’. During the mid-60s, he fronted theSwingin’ Country television series and in 1969, CBS invited him to co-host their new country comedy show Hee Haw with Buck Owens. This programme became one of the most popular on television, so much so that when CBS dropped it in 1971 because they felt it did not create the right impression for the company, it was immediately syndicated by the show’s producers and even grew in popularity. During the 70s, Clark had a great number of country chart hits, including the very humorous ‘Thank God And Greyhound’, ‘Riders In The Sky’, ‘Somewhere Between Love And Tomorrow’ and ‘Come Live With Me’, his only number 1 US country hit. He also made several popular television commercials. Clark progressed to become one of country music’s biggest stars and to enable himself to keep up a punishing schedule of concert appearances, he learned to fly and piloted himself around the States. He was one of the first country artists to star in his own show on Las Vegas strip, where he still appears regularly, usually backed by an orchestra. Clark also became the first star to take his show to the Soviet Union, when in January 1976, he played to packed houses during a 21-day tour of Riga, Moscow and Leningrad. The same year, Clark also played concerts with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. In 1977, he appeared at Carnegie Hall, New York, and in 1979, he recorded an album with blues artist Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown. Between 1979 and 1981, he recorded for MCA but during the late 80s, he was with several labels. Although he had no major hits, a version of ‘Night Life’ registered country hit number 50 for him in 1986. In later years, he become involved in cattle ranching, publishing, advertising and property. During his career, he has won many CMA awards including Comedian Of The Year 1970, Entertainer Of The Year 1973, Instrumental Group Of The Year (with Buck Trent) in 1975 and 1976 and was nominated as Instrumentalist Of The Year every year from 1967 to 1980, winning in 1977, 1978 and 1980. He guested on theOpry many times over the years but did not become a member until 1987. He has appeared in several films and in 1986, he co-starred with Mel Tillis in a comedy western calledUphill All The Way, which they both also produced. Clark is a talented multi-instrumentalist and all-round entertainer, who is equally at home with various types of music."
2. Background on his music from allmusic.com/artist/roy-clark-mn [login to see] /biography
In the '70s, Roy Clark symbolized country music in the U.S. and abroad. Between guest-hosting for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and performing to packed houses in the Soviet Union on a tour that sold out all 18 concerts, he used his musical talent and his entertaining personality to bring country music into homes across the world. As one of the hosts of TV's Hee Haw (Buck Owens was the other) for more than 20 years, Clark picked and sang and offered country corn to 30 million people weekly. He was first and foremost an entertainer, drawing crowds at venues as different as Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and the Opry. His middle-of-the-road approach filled a national void, with Clark offering country that was harder-edged than Kenny Rogers but softer and more accessible than Waylon Jennings. Among his numerous vocal hits were "Yesterday, When I Was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound." Instrumentally he won awards for both guitar and banjo. Clark also co-starred on the silver screen with Mel Tillis in the comedy Uphill All the Way.
The son of two amateur musicians, Roy Clark began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin at an early age. By the time he was 14, he was playing guitar behind his father at local dances. Within a few years, he had won two National Banjo Championships, with his second win earning him an appearance at the Grand Ole Opry. Despite his success as a musician, Clark decided to pursue an athletic career, rejecting baseball for boxing. At the age of 17, he won 15 fights in a row before deciding that he would rather be a musician than a fighter.
Clark found work at local clubs, radio stations, and television shows. By 1955, he was a regular on Jimmy Dean's D.C.-based television show, Country Style. Once Dean left Washington for New York, Clark took over the show, and over the next few years he earned a reputation as an excellent musician and entertainer. In 1960, he decided to leave the East Coast to pursue his fame and fortune out West. That year, he became the leader of Wanda Jackson's band, playing on her hit singles like "Let's Have a Party," as well as touring with the singer and playing concerts with her in Las Vegas. Once Jackson decided to break up her band, Clark continued to play regularly at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas and through his new manager, Jackson's ex-manager Jim Halsey, he landed spots on The Tonight Show and the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, where he played both Cousin Roy and Big Mama Halsey.
In 1963, Clark signed to Capitol Records, and his first single for the label, "Tips of My Fingers," became a Top Ten hit. Over the next two years, he had a handful of minor hits for Capitol before he switched labels, signing with Dot in 1968. At Dot, his career took off again, through covers of pop songs like Charles Aznavour's "Yesterday, When I Was Young" (number nine, 1969). However, what really turned Clark's career around was not records, but rather a television show called Hee Haw. Conceived as a country version of Laugh-In, Hee Haw began its run in 1969 on CBS. Roy Clark and Bakersfield country pioneer Buck Owens were picked as co-hosts. Over the next two years, it was one of the most popular shows on television. In 1971, CBS dropped the show because its corny country humor didn't fit the network's new, urban image, but Hee Haw quickly moved into syndication, where it continued to thrive throughout the decade.
While Hee Haw was at the height of its popularity, Clark had a string of country hits that ranged from Top Ten singles like "I Never Picked Cotton" (1970), "Thank God and Greyhound" (1970), "The Lawrence Welk -- Hee Haw Counter-Revolution Polka" (1972), "Come Live with Me" (1973), "Somewhere Between Love and Tomorrow" (1973), "Honeymoon Feelin'" (1974), and "If I Had It to Do All Over Again" (1976) to a multitude of minor hits. Though he didn't consistently top the country charts, Clark became one of the most recognizable faces in country music, appearing on television commercials, Hee Haw, and touring not only the United States but a number of other countries, including a groundbreaking sojourn to the Soviet Union in 1976. Frequently, he played concerts and recorded albums with a wide variety of musicians from other genres, including the Boston Pops Orchestra and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown.
In 1979, the momentum of his career began to slow down, as he left his longtime label ABC/Dot for MCA. Over the next two years, he had a number of minor hits before leaving the label. He recorded one inspirational album for Songbird in 1981 before signing to Churchill in 1982. Hee Haw's audience was beginning to decline in the early '80s, but Clark diversified his interests by investing in property, minor-league baseball teams, cattle, publishing, and advertising. None of Clark's recordings for Churchill were big hits, and his brief stays at Silver Dollar in 1986 and Hallmark in 1989 also resulted in no hits. Nevertheless, Clark had become a country icon by the mid-'80s, so his lack of sales didn't matter -- he continued to sell out concerts and win awards; he even made the comedy Western Uphill All the Way in 1986 with Mel Tillis. In 1987, he was belatedly made a member of the Grand Ole Opry. During the '90s, Clark concentrated on performing at his theater in Branson, Missouri, sporadically releasing re-recordings of his big hits on a variety of small labels, though 2000's Live at Billy Bob's Texas marked his first live release in nearly a decade. Christmas Memories followed that same year. The year 2005 saw the release of two albums, Hymns from the Old Country Church on Wonder Disc and Bluegrass: It's About Time, It's About Me, a collection of his bluegrass-oriented tracks, on Varese. Roy Clark died in November 2018 at the age of 85."
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