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Mar 26, 2006 · LOS ANGELES, March 25 - Buck Owens, the maverick honky-tonk singer who scored a string of country hits that included "Act Naturally" and "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line" before steering country...
Mar 25, 2006 · Country singer Buck Owens, a mainstay on the TV show Hee Haw, died Saturday at the age of 76. Family spokesman Jim Shaw said Owens passed away at his home in Bakersfield, Ca. but did not...
A decade before, Buck Owens had been the top country singer in the nation. Now, with his record sales dragging, Hee Haw was his major outlet. And people began to forget the dynamic honky-tonk singer Buck Owens had been. They saw him as an over all-clad comic holding a red, white and blue guitar, standing in a fake cornfield singing "Phfft!
Mar 21, 2024 · Buck Owens (born August 12, 1929, Sherman, Texas, U.S.—died March 25, 2006, Bakersfield, California, U.S.) American singer-songwriter-guitarist who helped popularize the “Bakersfield sound,” which reinvigorated the hard-edged honky-tonk tradition in country and western music in the 1960s at a time when country music ’s establishment in ...
August 12, 1929. Died. March 25, 2006. Birthplace. Sherman, Texas. Though he would later become a fixture on television through the success of Hee Haw, Owens is best remembered by fans and the younger stars he has influenced with timeless hits like “Act Naturally” (#1, 1963) and “My Heart Skips a Beat” (#1, 1964).
Mar 25, 2006 · Buck Owens, who popularized country music's "Bakersfield Sound," has died at 76. He didn't want to make the kind of music that was coming out of Nashville in the 1950s. As host of TV's Hee-Haw,...
Mar 25, 2006 · Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like “Act Naturally” and brought the genre to TV on the long-running “Hee Haw,” died Saturday. He...
