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Lefty Frizzell
12+ albums
countryHonky Tonkclassic countrysinger-songwriterTraditional Country
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William Orville 'Lefty' Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country music singer-songwriter of the 1950s and a leading exponent of the Honky Tonk style of country music. His relaxed style of singing was a major influence on later stars Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Frizzell was born in Corsicana, Texas, but moved with his family shortly after his birth to El Dorado, Arkansas, where they remained until the early 1940s. Frizzell began playing the guitar as a very young boy and by age 12, he was appearing regularly on a children's show at a local radio station KELD. The family moved back to Texas when Frizzell was still a teenager, and his music career got a boost when he won a talent contest in Dallas. In his late teens, he was performing at fairgrounds and other venues, developing a unique, soulful voice. Like his father, he got work in the oilfields, but his growing popularity as a singer soon gave him regular work on the Honky Tonk nightclub circuit. At age 19, he had a half-hour show on a small Texas radio station, getting a big break when a record producer heard him sing. Signed to Columbia Records, he immediately had a string of hits that broke into country music's top ten; several of them reached # 1. In 1950 , he was invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry; the following year he appeared on the prestigious Louisiana Hayride radio program that broadcast from Shreveport, Louisiana and then began touring with country music's biggest star of the
top songs
1
Long Black Veil
35,5602Saginaw, Michigan
35,1013Always Late (With Your Kisses)
22,6944Cigarettes and Coffee Blues
20,9555I Love You a Thousand Ways
20,3576If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
19,6007I Want to Be with You Always
17,0788The Long Black Veil
15,6329Look What Thoughts Will Do
13,28010Mom and Dad's Waltz
11,915albums
Look What Thoughts Will Do
American Originals
The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 1 - 1950-1951
Life's Like Poetry
The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 6 - 1959-1963
The Essential Lefty Frizzell
16 Biggest Hits
Saginaw, Michigan
Lefty's 20 Golden Hits
The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 7 - 1964-1966
Listen to Lefty
The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 4 - 1955-1957