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Zeke
Clements
Birth
Name: Zeke Clements
Induction
Year: 1971
Date
of Birth: 9/6/1911
Date
of Death: 6/4/1994
Place
of Birth: Empire, AL
Former
Occupations:
coal
miner |
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Career Milestones:
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late
1920s--first performed on Chicago's National Barn Dance |
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1931--left
the Oklahoma Cowboys (which he joined soon after he joined the
National Barn Dance) and got a daily morning show on WSM in Nashville |
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1933--first
appeared on the Grand Ole Opry as a regular with The Bronco Busters |
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1937--discovered
by Walt Disney during an appearance in Hollywood, CA, and signed on
to do the voice for "Bashful" in the animated feature
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" |
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1937-1938--started
seriously writing songs |
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1939--brought
his songs to Nashville to show songwriter\publisher Fred Rose |
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early
1940s--toured Army camps doing USO shows during W.W.II and wrote his
first hit song "Smoke on the Water" |
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1944--"Smoke
on the Water" became the top country song of the year, recorded
by Red Foley |
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1945--founded
Liberty Records in Los Angeles to distribute the records of
Nashville artists such as The John Daniel Quartet, Paul Howard and
himself (sold the label 2 years later) |
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1947--joined
the cast of The Louisiana Hayride on KWKH in Shreveport |
Catalog
Highlights
Smoke
on the Water
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Co-writer:
E. Nunn
- Artists:
Red Foley, Bob Wills, Boyd Heath
Brown's
Ferry Boogie
Live
and Learn
I
Dreamed I Spent Christmas in Heaven
Just
a Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long, Long Way)
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Co-writer:
Eddy Arnold
- Artists:
Eddy Arnold, Eddie Fisher, Ray Charles, Jim Nabors, Bob Crosby,
Billy Byrd
Shades
of Summer
Back
Off
There's
Poison in Your Heart
Why
Should I Cry?
Anytime
Somebody's
Been Beating My Time
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