Osborne Brothers, the Glossary
The Osborne Brothers, Sonny (October 29, 1937 – October 24, 2021) and Bobby (December 7, 1931 – June 27, 2023), were an influential and popular bluegrass act during the 1960s and 1970s and until Sonny retired in 2005.[1]
Table of Contents
45 relations: Bill Monroe, Blue Heartache, Bluegrass music, Bobby Osborne, Buddy Spicher, CMH Records, Colin Larkin, Daryl Mosley, Dayton, Ohio, Decca Records, Detroit, Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, Gene Wooten, Grady Martin, Grand Ole Opry, Guinness World Records, Hot Country Songs, Hyden, Kentucky, International Bluegrass Music Association, Jimmy Martin, Knoxville, Tennessee, Korean War, List of U.S. state songs, Mac Wiseman, MCA Records, MGM Records, Michigan, NAMM Oral History Program, Pinecastle Records, RCA Records, Red Allen (bluegrass), Roark, Kentucky, Rocky Top, Shawn Camp (singer), Sonny Osborne, Tennessee, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Grascals, The Strangers (American band), Tommy Jackson (musician), Top Country Albums, United States Marine Corps, Wheeling Jamboree, Wheeling, West Virginia, WJR.
- 1953 establishments in Kentucky
- 2005 disestablishments in Kentucky
- Bluegrass musicians from Kentucky
- Country music groups from Kentucky
- Musical groups established in 1953
- Musical groups from Appalachia
Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, and created the bluegrass music genre. Osborne Brothers and Bill Monroe are bluegrass musicians from Kentucky and Grand Ole Opry members.
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Blue Heartache
"Blue Heartache" is a song written by Paul Craft.
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Bluegrass music
Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Bobby Osborne
Bobby Van Osborne (December 7, 1931 – June 27, 2023) was an American bluegrass musician. Osborne Brothers and Bobby Osborne are bluegrass musicians from Kentucky.
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Buddy Spicher
Buddy Spicher (born Norman Keith Spicher; July 28, 1938 in DuBois, Pennsylvania; pronounced “Spiker”) is an American country music fiddle player.
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CMH Records
CMH Records is a Los Angeles-based, independent country and bluegrass label with several subsidiary labels, including Vitamin Records, Crosscheck, Dwell, and Rockabye Baby!.
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Colin Larkin
Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.
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Daryl Mosley
Daryl Mosley (born September 21, 1964) is an American singer, musician, and songwriter.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton is a city in Montgomery and Greene counties and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, United States.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Felice and Boudleaux Bryant
Felice Bryant (born Matilda Genevieve Scaduto; August 7, 1925 – April 22, 2003) and Diadorius Boudleaux Bryant (February 13, 1920 – June 25, 1987) were an American husband-and-wife country music and pop songwriting team.
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Gene Wooten
Gene Wooten (June 5, 1953 in Franklinton, North Carolina – November 7, 2001 in Nashville, Tennessee) was an American dobro player and multi-instrumentalist.
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Grady Martin
Thomas Grady Martin (January 17, 1929 – December 3, 2001) was an American session guitarist in country music and rockabilly.
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Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is a regular live country-music radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the time of year.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine in the United States.
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Hyden, Kentucky
Hyden is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Leslie County, Kentucky, United States.
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International Bluegrass Music Association
The International Bluegrass Music Association, or IBMA, is a trade association to promote bluegrass music.
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Jimmy Martin
James Henry Martin (August 10, 1927 – May 14, 2005) was an American bluegrass singer and musician, known as the "King of Bluegrass". Osborne Brothers and Jimmy Martin are RCA Victor artists.
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Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee, United States.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
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List of U.S. state songs
Forty-eight of the fifty states in the United States have one or more state songs, a type of regional anthem, which are selected by each state legislature as a symbol (or emblem) of that particular state.
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Mac Wiseman
Malcolm Bell Wiseman (May 23, 1925 – February 24, 2019) was an American bluegrass and country singer.
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MCA Records
MCA Records was an American record label owned by MCA Inc. established in 1972, though MCA had released recordings under that name in the UK from the 1960s.
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MGM Records
MGM Records was a record label founded by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack recordings (later LP albums) of their musical films.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.
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NAMM Oral History Program
The NAMM Oral History Program is an oral history project and archive of recordings of interviews with people from all aspects of the music products industry, including music instrument retailers, musical instrument and product creators, suppliers and sales representatives, music educators and advocates, publishers, live sound and recording pioneers, innovators, founders, and musicians.
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Pinecastle Records
Pinecastle Records is a record label based in Piedmont, South Carolina specializing in supporting and developing bluegrass music artists.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Red Allen (bluegrass)
Harley Allen (February 12, 1930April 3, 1993), better known as Red Allen, was an American bluegrass singer and guitarist known for his powerful tenor voice. Osborne Brothers and Red Allen (bluegrass) are bluegrass musicians from Kentucky.
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Roark, Kentucky
Roark is an unincorporated community located in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States.
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Rocky Top
"Rocky Top" is an American country and bluegrass song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant in 1967 and first recorded by the Osborne Brothers later that same year.
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Shawn Camp (singer)
Darrell DeShawn Camp (born August 29, 1966) is an American musician who performs country and Americana music.
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Sonny Osborne
Sonny Osborne (October 29, 1937October 24, 2021) was an American bluegrass musician and founding member of the Osborne Brothers. Osborne Brothers and Sonny Osborne are bluegrass musicians from Kentucky and Grand Ole Opry members.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The Grascals
The Grascals are a six-piece American bluegrass band from Nashville, Tennessee.
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The Strangers (American band)
The Strangers were an American country band that formed in 1966 in Bakersfield, California.
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Tommy Jackson (musician)
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Jackson Jr. (March 31, 1926 – December 9, 1979) was an American fiddle player, regarded as "one of the finest commercial fiddle players of all time".
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Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.
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United States Marine Corps
The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting expeditionary and amphibious operations through combined arms, implementing its own infantry, artillery, aerial, and special operations forces.
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Wheeling Jamboree
The Wheeling Jamboree is the second oldest country music radio broadcast in the United States after the Grand Ole Opry.
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Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
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WJR
WJR (760 AM) is a commercial radio station in Detroit, Michigan, owned by Cumulus Media, with a news/talk radio format.
See also
1953 establishments in Kentucky
- Ashland Regional Airport
- Big Sandy Superstore
- Fairmeade, St. Matthews, Kentucky
- Highview Baptist Church (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Lincolnshire, Kentucky
- Louisville Shooting Stars
- Oldham County High School
- Osborne Brothers
- Seal of Louisville, Kentucky
- Shawnee Fossil Plant
- St. Regis Park, Kentucky
- Trinity High School (Louisville)
- University of Louisville College of Business
- WEHT
- WKLO-TV
- WLBN
- WRUS
- WTCW
- WWGY (FM)
2005 disestablishments in Kentucky
- Decker College
- Jefferson County EMS
- Lexington Mall
- Osborne Brothers
- Snitch Newsweekly
Bluegrass musicians from Kentucky
- Arthur B. Hancock III
- Bill Monroe
- Birch Monroe
- Bobby Osborne
- Charlie Monroe
- Chris Stapleton
- Courtney Johnson (musician)
- Dale Ann Bradley
- Elmo Shropshire
- Eric Uglum
- Ezra Cline
- Grandpa Jones
- Homer Ledford
- Hoot Hester
- Hylo Brown
- J. D. Crowe
- James Reams
- Jason Carter (fiddler)
- Jessie Baker
- Jimmie Skinner
- Kennedy Jones (musician)
- Kenny Baker (fiddler)
- Lee Sexton
- Mark Evitts
- Mike Lilly (musician)
- New Grass Revival
- Osborne Brothers
- Ramsey Carpenter-Bearse
- Red Allen (bluegrass)
- Ricky Skaggs
- Roscoe Holcomb
- Rusty York
- Sam Bush
- Sid Griffin
- Sonny Osborne
Country music groups from Kentucky
- Brother Phelps
- Exile (American band)
- Fifth on the Floor
- Freakwater
- Halfway to Hazard
- JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers
- Kentucky Blue Collar Band
- Legendary Shack Shakers
- Montgomery Gentry
- New Grass Revival
- Nine Pound Hammer
- Osborne Brothers
- Phipps Family
- Sundy Best
- The Davis Sisters (country duo)
- The Everly Brothers
- The Judds
- The Kentucky Headhunters
- The York Brothers
Musical groups established in 1953
- Allegri Quartet
- Amboina Serenaders
- Avsenik Brothers Ensemble
- Band of the Royal Canadian Engineers
- Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra
- Central Military Commission Political Work Department Song and Dance Troupe
- China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra
- Concentus Musicus Wien
- Cookie and his Cupcakes
- Four Tops
- Kingston Symphony
- Le Grand Kallé et l'African Jazz
- Los Fronterizos
- Meninos Cantores da Academia
- Navy Band Northwest
- Niš Symphony Orchestra
- Osborne Brothers
- Roanoke Symphony Orchestra
- Royal Military College of Canada Bands
- San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
- Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra
- Southern California Mormon Choir
- Sudbury Symphony Orchestra
- Symphony of Southeast Texas
- The Australian Jazz Quartet
- The Capris (Philadelphia group)
- The Confederates
- The Coronets
- The Dells
- The Drifters
- The Famous Flames
- The Flamingos
- The Four Fellows
- The Harptones
- The Hi-Lo's
- The Kim Sisters
- The Moonglows
- The Penguins
- The Travellers (Canadian band)
- The Upsetters (American band)
- Tops In Blue
- Ukrainian Dnipro Ensemble of Edmonton
- Virginia Gentlemen
- Yale Russian Chorus
- Zagreb Soloists
Musical groups from Appalachia
- Carter Family
- Lost in the Trees
- Osborne Brothers
- Rising Appalachia
- The Judds
- The Rarely Herd
- The Stanley Brothers
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Brothers
Also known as Osbourne Brothers, The Osborne Brothers.