Ralph Emery
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Walter Ralph Emery (born March 10, 1933) is an American country music disc jockey and television host from Nashville, Tennessee.
Pop! became a national hit on television show hosting. Goes the Country, from 1974 to 1980, and Nashville Now, a nationally broadcast television network, from 1983 to 1993.
Emery hosted Ralph Emery Live, a satellite and cable television network dedicated to rural American culture from 2007 to 2015.
Life and career
Walter Ralph Emery spent time as a student in a downtown Nashville movie house and as a Kroger stock boy, saving money to attend the Tennessee School of Broadcasting under the direction of Nashville radio legend John Richbourg. He first gained fame on Nashville's late-night disc jockey. Emery's country music show could be heard over the majority of the Eastern and Central United States – as well as several overnight long-haul truck drivers who were avids of country music, due to the station's clear-channel broadcasting range at night. Country music stars of all sorts appeared on the all-night show, many of whom were personal friends of Emery. One in particular, was singer and film actor Tex Ritter, a Nashville resident who co-hosted the show with Emery for a long time. Well-known actors, most notably Marty Robbins, would often drop in unannounced. Emery later wrote several best-selling books based on his experiences with the numerous Nashville singers and artists who appeared on his various radio and TV shows. Skeeter Davis, the second of Emery's three wives, was the second of her two wives.
On WSM-TV in the late 1960s, Sixteenth Avenue South (named for one of Nashville's famed Music Row recording studios) had the same layout. Emery came to an end after the morning show's success and demands on his hours; Hairl Hensley replaced him and began a thirty-year association with the station. Emery began hosting his eponymous radio show, a weekly syndicated program that aired on country radios in five separate parts from Monday to Friday in 1971; it didn't run until the 1980s. Emery produced an in-studio band of local session musicians and young artists (including The Judds and Lorrie Morgan), as well as news and weather forecasts and in-studio live broadcasts from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s (except for several years in the 1960s, when hosted by country singer Bobby Lord and a two-year period between 1970 and 1972). In the 1970s and 1980s, it became the most popular local morning television show in the United States for many years. His eye and ear for talent helped to crack color barriers and jump start to younger African-American singers such as J.P.Netters, who were a member of his studio band in the early 1980s, as well as younger African-American singers such as J.P.Netters.
Emery, Roger McGuinn, and Gram Parsons of the 1960s rock band The Byrds' unpleasant on-air exchange regarding their 1968 appearance at The Grand Ole Opry is included in the song "Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man." The Byrds tried unsuccessfully to persuade traditional country music enthusiasts that their music was a legitimate part of the country rock tradition, but were met with jeers and catcalls. Years later, there was some restoration and even convergence of the opposing styles in the "Outlaw" movement, which was popularized by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.
Emery attempted a television comeback on Nashville Fox affiliate WZTV in 2001, but only spent seven days on the air before being sidelined first by continuing coverage of the September 11 attacks and then an illness. With replacement host Charlie Chase, the show's name was changed to Tennessee Mornings. Emery began The Nashville Show, a free weekly webcast with Shotgun Red as co-host. He returned to television on RFD-TV in mid-2007, doing live interviews on the program Ralph Emery Live. At 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday evening, the program aired live every Monday evening. The show lasted for eight years, with Ralph Emery's Memories changing its name at some point, before it renamed it to Ralph Emery's Memories in October 2015.