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	<title>North Florida Music Hall of Fame &#187; 1950s</title>
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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>Boone, Pat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Eugene &#8220;Pat&#8221; Boone is descended from Daniel Boone. His father, Archie Boone, studied architecture at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he met Jacksonville native Margaret Pritchard. The couple settled in Jacksonville, where Pat Boone was born in 1934. The Boones had been hoping for a girl, whom they intended to name Patricia; [...]]]></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>Watts, Noble &#8220;Thin Man&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Native of DeLand, grad of Florida A&#38;M University, Noble Watts was in the FAMU marching band with both Cannonball and Nat Adderly.  In the 1940s through the 1950s, he played tenor sax with Charles Brantley &#38; the Honeydippers; pianist Ray Charles was also a member. Watts went on to work with such notables as Dinah [...]]]></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>Velvet, Jimmy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born James Tennant in Jacksonville, Jimmy Velvet was a Paxon High student of Mae Axton’s; she arranged his appearances on Toby Dowdy’s McDuff Hayride TV show alongside fellow Axton protégé, Johnny Tillotson. Through Axton, Velvet became a friend of Elvis Presley’s and a collector of Presley memorabilia; he later founded the Elvis Museum. As a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tillotson, Johnny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jacksonville country-pop teen idol discovered and developed by Mae Axton in the late 1950s (or so she claims in her autobiography, Country Singers as I Know ‘Em).  Johnny Tillotson, a semi-regular on Toby Dowdy’s McDuff Hayride TV show, won a Nashville talent contest that led to a deal with New York-based Cadence Records in 1958. [...]]]></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>Stanley Brothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Famed bluegrass duo from Bristol, Va.; Ralph and Carter Stanley were already legends by the late 1950s, when they moved to Live Oak and built the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. After brother Carter died in 1966, Ralph headed for Nashville and continues to perform. Also see Masters, Johnnie.]]></description>
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