Wyatt merle kilgore biography
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pub. 8 February 2005
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Wyatt Merle Kilgore
???? ~ Feb 2005 | Age 70
Wyatt Merle Kilgore, 70; Co-Wrote "Ring of Fire," Managed Hank Williams Jr.
Merle Kilgore, a musician and businessman who began his long, varied career in country music as a teenage gofer for Hank Williams and ended as the manager of Hank Williams Jr., died Sunday in Mexico of congestive heart failure related to treatment for cancer. He was 70.
Kilgore was also a singer, songwriter, radio host and actor, but his most famous contribution to country music is Johnny Cash's 1963 hit "Ring of Fire," which he co-wrote with June Carter, who later married Cash.
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Merle Kilgore's career was bookended by his relationships with two legendary Hanks. When he was 14, he was hanging around the Louisiana Hayride radio show and wrangled his way into the inner circle of Hank Williams, as a gofer and a guitar roadie. The back half of Kilgore's professional life was devoted to managing Hank's son, Hank Williams Jr. In between, Kilgore found success as a singer, a songwriter, an actor and a publisher.
Being so close to Hank Sr., it was inevitable that Kilgore would try his hand at songwriting. And one of his first songs, "More and More," recorded by Webb Pierce in 1954, was a #1 country hit for 10 weeks. While he held down a job as a disc jockey at various stations in Louisiana, he slipad his songwriting on the side. After he placed more hits with such artists as Johnny Horton and Carl Smith, Kilgore stepped into the spotlight han själv . Though his performing career would be intermittent over the next two decades, he did have a few Top 10 singles, inc
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Chanteur Country US né Wyatt Merle Kilgore, le 9 Août 1934 à Chickasha (Oklahoma). Merle Kilgore a débuté en 1951 et enregistre chez Imperial Records de 1954 à 1958. au début des années soixante , Merle Kilgore travaille dans une radio de Springfield (Missouri). Auteur, compositeur, interprète et performer, Merle, également acteur de Western, est devenu une personnalité estimée dans la Country Music. Il fut un chanteur régulier au Louisiana Hayride (KWKH, Shreveport, Louisiane). Merle Kilgore est décédé le 6 Février 2005 à Mexico (Mexique).
Merle Kilgore had a multi-tiered career in country music as a singer, songwriter, deejay and as the manager of Hank Williams Jr. Born in Chickasha, OK (full name Wyatt Merle Kilgore), and raised in Shreveport, LA, he learned to play guitar at a young age and was working as a disc jockey and musician in his mid-teens. His outgoing personality and musical ability served Kilgore well, and he worked at several stations