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  1. 19 hours ago · Goldie, left, and Carl Smith, right, get a hug from country music journalist Hazel Smith during the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Medallion Ceremony to celebrate new inductions at the downtown ...

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  3. Jan 16, 2010 · Maintained by: Find a Grave. Originally Created by: C.S. Added: Jan 17, 2010. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 46784122. Source citation. Country Musician. He was raised listening to music of the Grand Ole Opry, influenced by Roy Acuff (also a native of Maynardville, Tennessee) and Bill Monroe.

  4. Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country singer. [1] [2] [3] Known as "Mister Country", he was one of the genre's most successful male artists during the 1950s, scoring 30 top-10 Billboard hits (21 of which were consecutive). Smith's success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single ...

  5. Jan 17, 2010 · Country Music Hall of Fame member Carl Smith, one of the genre's most successful singers and entertainers during the 1950's, died Saturday (Jan. 16) at his home in Franklin, Tenn. He was 82.

  6. By Bill Friskics-Warren. Jan. 19, 2010. NASHVILLE Carl Smith, the dapper singer who ranked among the most popular country hitmakers of the 1950s, died on Saturday at his home in Franklin, Tenn ...

  7. Jan 16, 2010 · A second famous son of Maynardville, Tennessee—Roy Acuff being the first—Carl M. Smith was one of country music’s most popular hitmakers of the 1950s and 1960s. Smith grew up listening to the Grand Ole Opry and to daily country broadcasts on Knoxville stations. In 1944 Cas Walker gave him his first radio work, on Knoxville’s WROL.

  8. Carl Smith. Country Musician. He was raised listening to music of the Grand Ole Opry, influenced by Roy Acuff (also a native of Maynardville, Tennessee) and Bill Monroe. While a teenager, he gained recognition as a guitarist, bass player and singer at WROL Radio in Knoxville before graduation from high school. Following a stint in the United ...