Wesley Tuttle
Wesley LeRoy Tuttle ( born December 30, 1917 in Lamar, Colorado; † 29 September 2003 in Sylmar, California ) was an American country musician. Tuttle is one of the most influential people within the California country music scene, had despite high popularity in radio and television, but few chart hits. His style was leaning against the Western Swing.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Wesley Tuttle was born in 1917 in Colorado, but his family moved shortly before his fifth birthday to San Fernando, California. In Colorado he received through an old phonograph, which stood at a coffee shop, where his parents worked, first access to the music. In California, Tuttle began to play ukulele, but had to strike with the left hand, because he lost three fingers on his right hand after an accident in his father's butcher shop. Jimmie Rodgers influenced Tuttle sustained and the age of twelve he could play, sing and yodel guitar.
Career
His musical skills brought Tuttle soon his own radio show on KNX in Los Angeles. The country musician Stuart Hamblen gave Tuttle the beginning of the 1930s several opportunities, in his popular show The Family Album and act professionally from then on Tuttle pursued his career. He dropped out of high school and quickly found work in radio and TV. In the Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs " ), he got a brief cameo.
1939 Tuttle moved for a short time to Dayton, Ohio, where he married his first wife and Merle Travis met. About WLW from Cincinnati Tuttle was heard regularly, but moved to a dispute with the transmitter back on the West Coast.
Back in California came Tuttle quickly to radio appearances and was a member of the Jimmy Wakely Johnny Bond and accompanied Trio 1944 Tex Ritter on the session that produced the hit Jealous Heart. The success moved Capitol Records, the leading West Coast label, to Tuttle to gain a record contract. Even in 1944 the first session was held, brought for the Tuttle Merle Travis as a guitarist and background vocalist. Travis had just moved from Ohio to California and played for the next few years in Tuttle's band.
In addition to its high popularity in radio Tuttle had a number of country hits in the 1940s. In 1945 he managed to With Tears in My Eyes his only number-one hit. Also worth mentioning is Detour from 1946; Tuttle's admission was only one of many versions that were in the charts. Tuttle's career - stress strained his relationship with his wife and eventually the marriage ended in divorce. He married 1946 Marilyn Meyers, who became his duet partner.
In the 1950s, Tuttle contributed to the Town Hall Party, a successful radio and TV show from Compton. His last hit was in 1954 with his wife Marilyn Tuttle with Never. In 1956 he produced the short-lived Gold Coast Jamboree from Miami, retired in 1957 but from the country scene back. He gave up his radio and television appearances and terminated the contract with Capitol.
Until 1969 Tuttle continued to work as a gospel musician. There some albums were recorded with and without Marilyn, but his former success, he could not match. As a devout Christian, he also studied theology at a Christian college and became a minister.
1997 Tuttle was inducted into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame. He died in 2003 in Sylmar. Despite its popularity and success, especially in the 1940s, Tuttle is now considered to forget what is undoubtedly due to his untimely and sudden withdrawal from the country music.
Discography
Singles
Discography is not complete.