Bob Atcher

Bob Atcher (* May 11, 1914, † 30 October 1993 ) was an American country music singer, who has seen his success in the 1930s with the WLS National Barn Dance radio show.

• 2.1 Singles
• 2.2 albums

Life

Childhood and youth

Bob Atcher grew up in Kentucky. His father played the fiddle and Atcher also learned fiddle and guitar. The age of 14 he attended the Kentucky State University and also appeared as a guitarist and yodeler.

Career

Beginning of the 1930s, he made ​​his debut on radio station WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky, and moved in the following years through the southern United States, where he appeared in various small transmitters. In Louisville he had Loretta Applegate met, which acted as " Bonnie Blue Eyes" and both were married 1935. 1937 was Atcher in Chicago, where he was heard from 1939 on the Columbia Broadcasting System has a show on WGBM across the country.

In the same year Atcher signed with Columbia Records a record deal and on 15 May of the same year, he starred in his first singles a Chicago, including duets with his Bonnie Blue Eyes. It was followed by numerous other recordings for Columbia and its sublabel Vocalion Records, OKeh Records and Conqueror Records. In most recording sessions, his wife and his brother Randy Atcher, were also present country singer. Around 1942 he became director of two radio stations in Chicago.

In the second half of World War II Atcher served in the U.S. Army, took his career as a musician but again and again signed with Columbia, where he worked with Why Do not You Haul Off and Love Me and I Must Have Been Wrong in 1948 in the new country charts boarding. In the same year he joined the National Barn Dance in Chicago and quickly became Atcher there in the weekly broadcast Saturday night show one of the most popular singers. The Barn Dance was in these years, still one of the most successful country shows and Atcher remained faithful to the show to show.

1950 moved Atcher of Columbia to Capitol Records and then to Kapp Records, returned in the 1960s, but back to Columbia. There he played some of his old songs for albums again. From this point on, concentrated Atcher be. , But more and more on business and political activities He went into the banking system and had a high office in Schaumberg State Bank held. Between 1959 to 1979 he also served as mayor of Schaumberg, Illinois.

Bob Atcher died on 30 October 1993 at the age of 79 years.

Discography

Singles

Discography is not complete.

Albums