Carl Smith
Carl Smith was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, United States on March 15th, 1927 and is the Country Singer. At the age of 82, Carl Smith biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Early career
Smith was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, in 1927 (the same town in which fellow country legend Roy Acuff was born), and he began to dream about a musical career after hearing the Grand Ole Opry on the radio. As a youth, he converted seed to pay for guitar lessons. He began playing in Kitty Dibble and Her Dude Ranch Ranglers, a youth group from the age of 15. He had learned to play the string bass by age 17 and spent his summer holidays at WROL-AM in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he appeared on Cas Walker's radio show.
He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1947 after graduating from high school. He returned to WROL and performed string bass for country singers Molly O'Day and Skeets Williamson, as well as his singing debut. Smith was sent by a colleague at the station to WSM-AM and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, and WSM-AM and the Grand Ole Opry, and WSM-AM and the Grand Ole Opry shortly signed him. Smith was signed by Columbia Records producer Don Law in 1950.
"Let's Live a Little," his 1951 hit song, debuted at number two on the Billboard country charts, was a big success. He had three other hits during 1951, including "If the Teardrops Were Pennies" and his first number-one hit, "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way." Smith's music has made him a household name in country music. Johnny Silbert, a steel guitarist who added an element of Western swing, was featured in his band, the Tunesmiths.
Smith married June Carter, the niece of Carter Family Maybelle Carter. Both of them were married for the first time. Rebecca Carlene Smith, the couple's daughter, later became known as Carlene Carter, a country singer in her own right, appeared in 1955. The couple sang of "Time's a Wastin" and "Love Oh Crazy Love." Smith made regular appearances on Billboard's country charts, with some of them in the top ten, including 30 in the top ten. "Loose Talk" and "Hey Joe" are among his most popular songs. "You Are the One" and "You Are the One" in the story. He had five number one hits in his career; "Loose Talk" was his last, in 1955. Smith left the Grand Ole Opry in 1956. He appeared on the Phillip Morris Country Music Show and spent more than a year in the United States, often in direct competition with touring Opry shows. He appeared on ABC-TV's Jubilee USA on ABC-TV and was also a fill-in host for Red Foley.
Smith and June Carter divorced in 1956. He appeared in the films The Badge of Marshal Brennan and Buffalo Gun, and Goldie Hill, a number-one hit "I Let the Stars Get In My Eyes" in 1957. Goldie resigned from the music industry. Smith's popularity began to dwindle on the country charts in the late 1950s, and his string of top-ten hits began to dwindle.
Smith's fame as a country singer in the 1960s began to wane. In 1962, his top-ten hits included "Air Mail To Heaven" and "Take My Ring Off Your Finger" and "Take My Ring Off Your Finger" in 1964. "Deep Water," his first top ten hit of the decade, debuted at number ten in 1967, his first top ten appearance in eight years (and his first top-ten appearance). He appeared on NBC television show Five Star Jubilee in 1961. Carl Smith's Country Music Hall in Canada was also a series syndicated in the United States. Smith appeared on The Jimmy Dean Show on April 9, 1964.
Smith turned more Western swing into much of his recorded music in the 1960s and 1970s. He was with Columbia Records for almost 25 years, before moving to Hickory Records in 1975. His singles were barely making the charts by this time. He appeared in the Hawaii Five-O episode "Man on Fire," the first time the program aired on October 21, 1976.
He resigned from the music industry in the late 1970s to concentrate on his second passion, raising horses, but for the Gusto brand in 1983. In 2003, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Smith lived on a 500-acre (2.0 km2) horse farm in Franklin, Tennessee, which is just south of Nashville) where he died on January 16, 2010, at the age of 82. Goldie's wife had died five years earlier. Carl Jr. and Larry Dean, as well as two children, Carlene and Lori Lynn, were able to raise him.