Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb ( born February 9, 1914 in Crisp, Texas, † September 6, 1984 in Nashville ) was an American country singer and pioneer of Honky Tonk Music. Together with his Texas Troubadors, which also Jerry Byrd was a member, he recorded over 300 plates.
Career
Childhood and youth
As the youngest son of a large family of Ernest grew in rural Texas. Influenced by the music of Jimmie Rodgers, he began playing the guitar at a young age. In the based in San Antonio station KONO he succeeded in 1934, the entry into an almost daily broadcast radio show. He married, and a year later his son Justin was born.
Getting Started
Ernest Tubb was still fascinated by the 1933 who died of tuberculosis Jimmie Rodgers. One day he found the legend in the phonebook the number of the widow of his idol. Without hesitation he called her. It developed a friendship that would last for decades. Carrie Rodgers mentored the young musicians to forces. For a photo session she asked him the guitar her husband's available. They also gave him a record deal with RCA. The first two singles, in which Tubb Jimmie Rodgers tried to imitate, were a failure, and Tubb lost his contract. With smaller gigs and radio sessions, he kept his head above water. The "gold chain Troubadour " Tubb graduated advertisements for a trading company.
Career
In 1940 he was commissioned by Decca Records. In the same year he made with Blue Eyed Elaine a first minor hit. His breakthrough came in 1941 with the original composition Walking The Floor Over You. From this single more than a million copies were sold - a remarkable success in difficult economic times. Walking The Floor Over You shall at the same time as the first important Honky Tonk Song. A new style of country music thus began.
1943 moved to Nashville Tubb. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and also made history: He sat the first country musician an electric guitar. 1944 succeeded Ernest Tubb his first number 1 hit Soldier's Last Letter. It was followed by an almost uninterrupted series of chart success, which lasted until the 1960s. As one of the few veterans he survived Rockabilly, Rock'n'Roll and the Nashville Sound. With its warm, deep and simultaneously transmitting voice, he remained true to the honky tonk.
1947 opened Tubb in Nashville on Broadway the first and still existing Ernest Tubb Record Shop, famous soon; it was a successful chain. A little later he initiated the Midnight Jamboree, a week after the Grand Ole Opry radio show broadcast. His son Justin Tubb also started in 1953 with Decca as a musician and was also able to assert itself as a successful country artist. Another highlight Tubbs career was a concert at New York's Carnegie Hall, the first appearance of a major country musician in the "Big Apple". In addition, numerous TV appearances and minor roles came in movies. Musically Ernest Tubb also worked with the Andrews Sisters and Loretta Lynn. Early sixties again succeeded with Thanks A Lot a top 3 hit. In 1965 he was admitted as a sixth person in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Illness and death
1966 at Tubb a serious lung disease was diagnosed, but he still undertook grueling tours. In the seventies, the sales figures were after. 1975 Decca ended after 35 years of the contract. Tubb signed then on a small label. His health deteriorated rapidly; In 1982, he had to end his musical career. Two years later, on September 6, 1984, he died in Nashville from emphysema. He was buried at the Nashville Hermitage Memorial Gardens.