Updates

• Added info on Jimmy Ford, thanks to Volker Houghton. • Extended and corrected the post on Happy Harold Thaxton (long overdue), thanks to everyone who sent in memories and information! • Added information to the Jim Murray post, provided by Mike Doyle, Dennis Rogers, and Marty Scarbrough. • Expanded the information on Charlie Dial found in the Little Shoe post.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Doc Williams dies

Country music singer and star of the WWVA Jamboree Doc Williams died on January 31, 2011, at his home in Wheeling, West Virginia. Williams, who was born in 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, started out as a singer in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he led the Border Riders together with his wife Chickie. The couple soon became Wheeling's country top stars, appearing on WWVA and the station's Original Jamboree. Williams was 96 years old.

Read more at hillbilly-music.com.

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