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CLYDE MOODY
Clyde Moody (September 19, 1915 – April 7, 1989), also known as the "Hillbilly Waltz King" and sometimes as "The Genial Gentleman of Country Music" was one of the great founders of American Bluegrass music.
Born in Cherokee, North Carolina, Moody got his start in the late 1938 in the string band J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers. In September 1940 he joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys on the Grand Ole Opry. He appeared on Monroe's first solo recording session for RCA Victor's Bluebird label on October 7 of that year, playing guitar and singing lead vocals and bass on the Blue Grass Quartet's first recording ("Cryin' Holy Unto My Lord"). He was featured on that session singing "Six White Horses", a blues-based original. He also has the rare distinction of having played mandolin on a Blue Grass Boys session, as he provided the rhythm chops on "Mule Skinner Blues" and "Dog House Blues", while Monroe played guitar - the only instance where a Blue Grass Boy other than Monroe played mandolin at a Bill Monroe recording session. Upon his departure from the Blue Grass Boys in 1944, he remained at WSM and the Opry for several years as a solo artist. In 1952, he recorded as a member of the Brown's Ferry Four with The Delmore Brothers on King Records. He later played at the first Bluegrass Festival at Fincastle, Virginia, in 1965.
His career highlights include appearing in the White House 3 times and writing and recording the million-seller Shenandoah Waltz. He sang with a young Elvis Presley in 1955 when Tom Parker paired them for a six-week tour. It is rumored that he was considered for the role of The Lone Ranger but lost the part to Clayton Moore.
He died in Nashville, Tennessee.
His nephew, Bruce Moody was also a popular bluegrass musician and toured with him from 1962–1969.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_MoodyClyde Moody - The Blues Come Pouring Down ( Country Rockabilly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13jyTvzUi3wClyde Moody - Six White Horses & Ivy King...78 RPM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VT89rkWqxU Clyde Moody - There's A Big Rock In The Road
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV9eXxpgt1w Clyde Moody - Piney Flat Pickin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hikR_Vd3NSM Clyde Moody - Shenandoah Waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlKcDZuP0Kc Clyde Moody - Grand Ole Opry Live 1987
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIUj4GOk4Q0 Clyde Moody - I'm So Lonesome 1946
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvT-R_s38o Clyde Moody - The Unclouded Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqDd3UZ_Taw Clyde Moody - Where There Smoke (There's Bound To Be Fire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3RkCSAc9SY Clyde Moody - One Step More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytUnwbF5FmA Clyde Moody - Forgive Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWFcjHU9so Clyde Moody - You're A Real Sweetheart To Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIIUFOZMC8 Clyde Moody - I Talk To Myself About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBA7ySZGezc Clyde Moody - Beautiful Lady
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNfrNNQcKgg Clyde Moody - I'm Sorry If That The Way You Feel King 1947
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc6HTPGGIOM Clyde Moody - That Little Log Cabin of Mine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqf4Z8BrAc0 Clyde Moody - Conversation With Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tcLlWq7gyM Clyde Moody & Jerry Byrd - If You Only Knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVU4l1UMJt8 Clyde Moody & Jerry Byrd - The Angels Must Have Cried Last Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AI6HBK4O-k Clyde Moody - North Carolina Music Hall of Fame 2011 Inductee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkdK5h9wPL4