Buck Owens
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Date of Birth: August 12, 1929
Date of Death: March 25, 2006
Biography: Country
singer, Owens was born in Sherman,
Texas with the name Alvis Edgar
Jr. With twenty-one number one hits on the Billboard Magazine country music
charts, Buck had performed solo and led his band. His music could be
characterized as crisp and clean, and is said to be much more smooth then honky
tonk music. Named buck after a mule on the family farm, Bucks family migrated
to Mesa, Arizona
during the dust bowl and great depression. He started his career off on a radio
station with a show called “Buck and Britt” and continued there to build his
own success. Buck often was called to Hollywood
to do recordings for bands he sang back up for, and soon enough he used those connections
to make his own music. After many tours and many jobs singing and performing
Buck had finally made a name for himself. His first number one hit “Act
Naturally” became known all over when The Beatles did a straight cover of it in
1965. Performing and recording in Japan, Buck came back and did a
show at the white house for president Johnson. Buck died in 2006 in his sleep
from an apparent heart attack merely hours after his performance in the Crystal
Palace Restaurant.
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