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ries Are Made of This; Poison Love; Born to Be with You; El Rancho Grande; La Paloma; Grandfather's Clock; The Lover's Farewell; etc. Writer of: The Lone­some Blue Yodel, 1936; The Prisoned Cowboy, 1936; The Drunkard's Son; The Answer to the Galveston Rose; Just a Faded Petal from a Beautiful Bouquet; Little Buddy; My Two Timin' Woman; My Filipino Rose; etc. Business enterprises: Hank Snow Music Center, Nashville, Term.; Radio Stations, Whitesboro, Ky. and Harriman, Tenn.; Hank Snow Music Stores, Nashville, etc. Awards and honors: Country Music Hall of Fame: Favorite Folk Singer, Folk Music, 1951; and Most Popular Male in Country Music, Cash Box, 1959. Address: WSM Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee.
Sons of the Pioneers, org. 1934, replacing the International Cowboys, 1926-34. Past and present members: Roy Rogers; Hugh Farr; Karl Farr; Tim Spencer; Bob Nolan; Lloyd Perryman; Pat Brady; Ken Carson; Doye O'Dell; Dale Warren; Deuce Spriggens; Tommy Doss; Ken Cur­tis; etc. RCA, Vocalion, and Decca Records. Albums: Cool Water; Wagons West; Room Full of Roses; One Man's Songs; How Great Thou Art; Favorite Cowboy Songs; etc. Songs recorded: Tumbling Tumble weeds; Press Along to the Big Corral; Wind; Bunkhouse Bugle Boy; Home on the Range; La Borachita; Timber Trail; Happy Cowboy; Cowboy Lament; So Long to the Red River Valley; Come and Get It; Cool Water; Curley Joe from Idaho; Cowboy's Dream; Along the Sante Fe Trail; The Last Roundup; Red River Valley; Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie; Sweet Betsy From Pike; Slow Moving Cattle; Yellow Rose of Texas; The Everlasting Hills of Okla.; Ballad of Davy Crockett; For the Love of You; Timmy's Time; Grave Yard Filler of the West; Hasta la Vista; One More Ride; Old Betsy; A Whale of a Tale; Searchers; Song of the Prodigal; etc. Address: Hollywood, California.
Sosebee, Tommy; w. Eddie Cox. Schools attended: Gram­mar and High Schls., Greenville, S. C; Furman Univ., Greenville. Entertainment experience: WFBC, Green­ville, S. C; WBT, Charlotte, N. C; KXL, Lexington, Ky.; WCON, Atlanta, Ga.; WRDV, Augusta, Ga.; Ren-
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