Country Music's Lloyd Cowboy Copas Jul 15, 2008
Vocalist for Pee Wee King. In 1943, Cowboy Copas became a vocalist for Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys, replacing the great Eddy Arnold. (Suite101.com)
Singer Eddy Arnold never let stardom go to his head May 15, 2008
The show starred Pee Wee King and The Golden West Cowboys featuring "Smilin' Eddie Arnold" and several other acts. His first name was misspelled many times over the years. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Eddy Arnold, at 89; crooner widened appeal of country music May 9, 2008
He landed a regular role on a radio show at WTJS in Memphis and in 1940 was hired as a singer for Pee Wee King and His Golden West Cowboys, which had a reputation for a more debonair brand of country dance music and was featured frequently on the Grand Ole Opry broadcasts. Mr. Arnold was hired by the Opry as a solo performer in 1943. (Boston Globe)
Robert Vernon "Bob" Dunnavant Sr. Apr 11, 2008
The stations later became WVNN and WZYP. In a broadcasting career that lasted nearly a half century, from the great depression to the space age, Dunnavant built WJOF into one of the first successful FM Stations in Alabama; founded Alabama's first state news network, through which he covered many of the important news events across the Heart of Dixie for decades; syndicated several national radio shows, including the "Earnest Tubb Jamboree", "Fifty Fabulous Years: A History of Radio", and "Last... (Madison County Record, AL)
More of this story Nov 15, 2007
Hank, like Bob Wills, Spade Cooley, and Pee Wee King used the steel guitar as the lead instrument, along with twin fiddles, guitars, stand up bass fiddle, horns and piano ... The Willis Brothers, "Oklahoma Hills Where I was Born," were fixtures at the Opry along with Pee Wee King, "Slow Poke," and his band ... "Your records were always included on my disc jockey shows back in the 50s when I was working my way through college at our local radio station. Your great band fit the same mold as Bob... (Atmore Advance, AL)
Singing new life into old songs Feb 5, 2007
(An interesting anecdotal gloss to the song, as Maggart explained, is that the words and music were written by a woman, Chilton Price, although two better-known and better-connected men, Redd Stewart and Pee Wee King, were listed as co-writers. . (Globe and Mail)
