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		<title>Charles, Ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1930, in Albany, Ga.; moved to Greenville, Fla. (near Tallahassee) with his family while still an infant. Attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine; lived and performed in Jacksonville in 1945, where he lived at 732 Church Street. After leaving Florida for Seattle, he was signed to Los [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wise, Chubby</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born Robert White, in 1915, in Lake City; Chubby Wise moved to Jacksonville at 15 to pursue a career as a fiddler. Landed a touring gig with the Jubilee Hillbillies, went on to tour with Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys; later worked with The York Brothers, Flatt &#38; Scruggs, Hank Snow, Red Allen, and the Stanley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitman, Slim</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born Otis Dewey Whitman in Tampa, yodeling Slim Whitman was already a top-rated country performer with 30 top-50 country singles and 19 gold albums when he bought a spread near Middleburg (southwest of Jacksonville, in Clay County) in 1957. Unbelievably huge in England, at one point he even surpassed the Beatles on the British charts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterford, Charles &#8220;Crown Prince&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 1917 in Jonesboro, Ark., Waterford started a career as a blues singer in Oklahoma City in 1936. He soon lit for Chicago, where he became a fixture on the Windy City blues scene.  Moved to Los Angeles in 1945, where he briefly worked alongside singer Jimmy Witherspoon in Jay McShann’s band, then returned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taylor, Bob</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drummer, born 1928 in Calif., Bob Taylor became a key figure in the Western-swing scene with Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, and Merle Haggard. Worked with guitarist Duane Eddy (“Rebel Rouser”) in 1960s; later led own band, The Rogues, for many years. Taylor came to Jacksonville in 1994, worked locally with Larry Mangum’s Cowboy Orchestra. Died [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shay, Dorothy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Singer/comedienne/character actress, Dorothy Shay was born Dorothy Sims, 1923, Jacksonville. Moved to NYC, where she launched a career as the “Park Avenue Hillbilly.” A regular on Spike Jones’ radio show in 1947; also had a No. 4 hit on Columbia with “Feudin’, Fussin’ and Fightin,’” from the 1947 musical, Laffing Room Only. Sold over three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rouse, Ervin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally from Miami, Ervin Rouse worked in Jacksonville in mid 1930s as a musician and cabdriver, where he met fiddler and fellow cabbie Chubby Wise, from Lake City. Rouse and Wise co-wrote the bluegrass standard “Orange Blossom Special,” reportedly in the parking lot of Jacksonville’s Union Terminal, while waiting for
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		<title>Masters, Owen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Owen Masters was born in Jacksonville, 1935, the singing son of Johnnie and Lucille Masters, he joined the Masters Family revue in 1947 at age 12. Later spun off as countrified teen idol — basically the model from which Ricky Nelson was patterned a few years later. Died in 1997.
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		<title>Masters, Johnnie</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in Jacksonville in 1913, Masters was the leader and patriarch of the Masters Family gospel group. Masters wrote several gospel standards, including “Cry From the Cross,” popularized by the Stanley Brothers, “Gloryland March,” and “That Little Old Country Church House.” He also wrote hit tunes for country artists like Hank Snow (“Honeymoon on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masters Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Country-gospel act, started out in Jacksonville as the Dixie Sweethearts, a husband-and-wife duo, featuring Johnnie and Lucille Masters. Appearing regularly on local radio in 1946, their show was picked up by the Mutual Radio Network and broadcast nationwide. Recorded for Rich-R-Tone, Mercury, Columbia and Decca.
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