About
Winner of four Country Music Association Awards, including Male Vocalist of the Year, Single of the Year, Song of the Year, and Album of the Year. His song "There Goes My Everything" was a hit in 1966.
Before Fame
He learned how to play guitar when he was ten years old and worked as a disc jockey at a radio station when he was a teenager, before being a regular on the television show Tennessee Barn Dance when he was eighteen.
Trivia
He was once a part of Ernest Tubb's backing band, The Texas Troubadours, in 1962.
Family Life
He was born in Maryville, Tennessee.
Associated With
His final album, Precious Memories, Treasured Friends, was released in 2010 and contained a series of duets, including one with Lorrie Morgan.
