Buddy Starcher
Buddy Starcher ( born March 16, 1906 in Kentucky, West Virginia, as Obey Edgar Starcher; † 2 November 2001 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) was an American country musician. Starcher History Repeats Itself biggest hit was.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Buddy Starcher was born in a small town near Ripley, West Virginia. Later the family moved to Craigsville in Nicholas County, where Starcher accompanied his father to Barn Dances. From his father he learned to play guitar. Already in 1928 he had his first radio appearance at WFBR in Baltimore.
Career
In the next few years Starcher passed through the land, and was heard in Washington, DC, North Carolina, Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. While Starcher around 1934 in Charleston, West Virginia, worked at WCHS, he organized the Old Farm Hour, a live country show with another later nationally known country musicians. As Starcher WCHS left, took over presenter Frank Welling its position.
In the 1940s he joined the ensemble of the Sagebrush Roundup from West Virginia. In the next few years he continued to be engaged in many different radio stations. He began to write his own songs, played his first title - despite its already high popularity on the radio - but not until 1946 for Four Star Records a. In 1949 he had his first hit at Four Star with I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand reached, the eighth place on the Billboard country charts. However, further hits were initially denied him.
Beginning of the 1950s rose to Starcher of radio to television appearances. He had engagements in Miami and Harrisonburg and in 1949 and 1950 recorded several singles for Columbia Records, although not went into the charts. In 1954, he played a single for DeLuxe Records and stood from 1959 for Starday under contract. From 1960, he had on WCHS - TV his own successful TV show.
In 1966 came his big hit. He had moved to Boone Records and had the self- written song History Repeats Itself was added, which tells the stories of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and its parallels. The single went to number two on the country charts and also successfully entered the top 100 at No. 39 Despite the success Starcher not managed to establish itself as a permanent Hitsänger.
Then it was quiet around Starcher. 1966 ended his television show and in 1967 he recorded his last single. In 1987, his biography. Buddy Starcher died in 2001 at the age of 95 in Harrisonburg. Well-known country artists such as Red Sovine, Mac Wiseman, Lee Moore, Sleepy Jeffers and Smiley Sutter claimed to have been influenced by Starcher. In 1984 and 1985, published Cattle Records in Germany Starcher recordings again.
Discography
Singles
- Boy from Down Home
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- Original Wildwood Flower
- Cumberland Gap Medley
- Pale Wildwood Flower
- I'll Still Write Your Name in the Sand
- Battle of New Orleans