Ronnie McDowell
Ronnie McDowell was born in Fountain Head, TN on March 25th, 1950 and is the Country Singer. At the age of 74, Ronnie McDowell 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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Ronald Dean McDowell (born March 25, 1950) is an American country music artist and songwriter.
He is best known for his 1977 song "The King Is Gone", a tribute to Elvis Presley, who had recently died.
From that single onward, McDowell charted more than thirty Top 40 hits on the Billboard country music charts, though he never experienced further pop success after "The King is Gone." Two of his singles – "Older Women" and "You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation" — reached Number One on the country charts, while eleven more reached Top Ten.
He has also released more than twenty studio albums, and has been signed to Curb Records since 1986.
Personal life
Ronnie McDowell resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee. He has five children. His son, Tyler Dean McDowell, was also signed to Curb Records. Another son, Ronnie Jr. and a nephew, Chris, recorded in a band called Six Shooter on Curb in 1991.
Career
McDowell, a lifelong Presley fan, released a song titled "The King Is Gone," which he released on the independent Scorpion record label, in 1977. The record took off rapidly, with country and pop radio stations around the world gaining airplay.
It reached number thirteen on Billboard's Hot 100 singles and became a gold record. McDowell performed the song on NBC's special, Nashville Remembers Elvis on His Birthday, in which he appeared alongside a number of Presley's contemporaries in January 1978. More than five million copies have been sold to date.
McDowell was hired to cover a number of Presley's songs for the 1979 Made-for-TV Presley biography film Elvis, in which Kurt Russell, portraying Presley, lip-synched McDowell's vocals. He did make 36 songs, but not all of them were used in the film. McDowell also performed the Presley vocals for Elvis and the Beauty Queen, 1981 television series Elvis and Me, and the 1988 television miniseries Elvis and Me.
McDowell performed all of Presley's vocals on the 1990 television series Elvis. McDowell appeared on Elvis Meets Nixon, a 1997 showtime special. Before being signed by CBS Records Epic in 1979, he scored his second hit for the Scorpion brand "I Love You, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You" ("I Love You, I Love You, I Love You."
Between 1979 and 1986, McDowell charted a number of hit singles and albums for Epic between 1979 and 1986. Every single one of the top ten hits, except one, including "Older Women" and "You're Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation," became a Top ten hit. "Watching Girls Go By," "You Made A Wanted Man Of Me," "All Tied Up," and "In a New York Minute," were among his hits during his epic years.
McDowell hit "It's Only Make Believe" in 1986, a duet with Conway Twitty on what had been Twitty's first rock and roll hit in 1958, which took place in Curb Records. Initially, a back-up band member would substitute for Twitty during live performances. McDowell has performed the song live on Twitty's pre-recorded voice, as well as a solo from a back-up band.
In 1988, he teamed with Jerry Lee Lewis for a duet that McDowell wrote titled "You're Never Too Old To Rock N' Roll." With his cover version of the pop standard "Unchained Melody," he scored another Top ten hit, which also became a No. ten. 1 country music video. He began appearing in bigger venues and touring before lining his own shows.
McDowell produced two albums for Curb Records in 2002, one of which featured beach music by Bill Pinkney of Rock & Roll's Original Drifters Ronnie McDowell and Bill Pinkney's Original Drifters. Ronnie McDowell Country, a series of six new McDowell penned songs and a few country standards, is the second project, a country album.
Duet "Love Tattoo," McDowell and Richard Lynch collaborated in January 2017 on a military honor duet.
He unveiled "The Magic Moment," his original drawing of Presley buying his first guitar at the Tupelo Hardware Store in Tupelo, on January 17, 2018, kicking off the pilot for his forthcoming TV show, Ronnie McDowell Painting America.
McDowell was inducted into the Mississippi Music Project Hall of Fame in Biloxi, Mississippi, on January 22, 2019, and he was lauded with the MMP Music Prize for his lifetime service to the music industry.