Merl Lindsay

Merl Lindsay ( born December 12, 1915 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Merle Lindsay Salathiel as; † October 12, 1965 ) was an American country musician. Lindsay was in Oklahoma and California, a well-known representative of the Western Swings and led his own band, the Oklahoma Night Riders.

Life

Childhood and youth

Merl Lindsay was born in 1915 in Oklahoma City as one of eight children. Lindsay grew up in a musical family; his parents played instruments and several of his siblings were later also professional musicians. His father, C.E. Salathiel, had a dance hall in Oklahoma City, Lindsay played from 1936 with his father.

Career

Two years later, Lindsay formed his own band, the Barnyard Boys, with whom he moved to California in 1941. There he changed his name from Merle Salathiel to Merl Lindsay and named his band in the Oklahoma Night Riders. On the west coast he could greatly increase its popularity and quickly became a fixture in the local country scene. In Compton, California, he regularly performed his own dance hall and was heard over KMTR (Los Angeles ) and KXLA ( Pasadena ). In addition, Lindsay worked in some Western musician and actor Jimmy Wakely with. In February 1946 Lindsay and the Oklahoma Night Riders played their first records for 4 Star Records in Hollywood. In June 1946, an additional session was followed for 4 star. While Lindsay worked in California, were musicians like Jimmy Pruett (piano) or Terry Fell ( bass) members of his band.

1947 Lindsay moved his base back to Oklahoma City, where he sang with the Oklahoma Night Riders on WKY and first appeared in the dance hall of his father. As this still burned in the same year, he starred in several other buildings in the area, before he opened his own Lindsay Ballroom. Shortly after his arrival in Oklahoma City Lindsay made ​​with the Oklahoma Night Riders further recordings for Bullet Records. In addition to radio appearances, he also got his own TV show. 1957, committed to the show Ozark Jubilee as house band Lindsay and his band of Red Foley, whereupon Lindsay unnamed band in Ozark Jubilee Boys. Also, plates were again recorded - 1957 on Hu -Se -Co Records and 1961 Records D Lindsay and his band also tried on rock'n'roll. The singles for D belong to Lindsay's last recordings.

Merl Lindsay died in 1965 of cancer in his hometown of Oklahoma City. He was at Sunny Lane Cemetery in Del City, Oklahoma, buried. He was inducted posthumously into the Western Swing Society Hall of Fame in 1992. The Oklahoma Night Riders had between 1941 and the end many quite talented musicians. , As members, for example, also for Bob Wills, Johnnie Lee Wills, Leon McAuliffe or Hank Thompson Wanda Jackson and Norma Jean, for example, began their careers as singers of the Oklahoma Night Riders. Lindsay himself played fiddle in the band and sang from time to time.

Discography

  • DJ's Hop
  • Water Baby Ride
  • Turnpike Cruise
  • Mean Time
  • Spanish polka
  • Water Baby Blues
  • Steel Guitar Rag
  • Sentimental Journey
  • Lonesome Hearted Blues
  • One Sweet Letter from You
  • Lindsay Waltz
  • Your Heart is Breaking Too
  • Orange Colored Sky
  • Meanwhile
  • I'm Tired of Writing Letters
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