Nan Castle

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Nancy Louise Castleberry was her real name when she was born to Paul and Georgia Mae Castleberry in Greenville, Texas in 1941. Her father was a musician, playing guitar, mandolin, banjo and even bass fiddle with various bands in northeast Texas. Early on, she began to sing to her dad's accompaniment. A feature story in "The Paris News" in October 1956 told us that she began singing when she was just four years old. She won many a title in talent contests throughout the Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana areas. She began to appear wherever they asked her to in Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Louisiana. She even appeared in Mexico once. She also won numerous talent shows that got her spots on larger shows, too. She appeared regularly on KFTV and KPLT in Paris, Texas. She had her own radio show on KSST in Sulphur Springs, Texas that had been on at least three years in 1957, called simply, the "Nan Castle Show" (the newspaper article said it was the "Nancy Castleberry Show"). She got noticed when she was appearing over KRLD-TV in Dallas with the Belew Twins, Bobby and Benny by John Harper and Ed Watt, who then signed her to appear regularly on the Big D Jamboree. She appeared in front of nationwide audiences on the CBS show, "Saturday Night Country Style". Nan also appeared a couple of times on the "Video Varieties" show over KCMC-TV out of Texarkana, Texas with Haskell Jones. Then, Nancy made her first trip to Nashville with her dad. They did this without any contacts in Nas

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