Wednesday 6 January 2021

Bobby Lord born 6 January 1934

Robert Lester Lord (January 6, 1934 – February 16, 2008), better known as Bobby Lord, was an American country music artist popular in the 1950s and 1960s. 

Lord was born January 6, 1934 in Sanford, Florida, but grew up in Tampa. As a teenager, he entered talent contests, wowing crowds with his edgy rockabilly style. He was popular with Tampa's young crowd, playing concerts at dance halls. At Plant High School, he met his wife, Mozelle, whom he married when he was 20. 

After graduating from Plant, he was offered the chance to host his own television show while a freshman at the University of Tampa. The Bobby Lord Homefolks Show was an hour-long program on Saturday nights on WSUN-TV in St. Petersburg and featured Lord singing with a backing band. In 1952, he won a nationwide talent competition sponsored by TV Guide which led to an appearance on Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club on ABC-TV from Philadelphia. 


                              

Soon after, songwriter Boudleaux Bryant heard one of Lord's demo tapes and passed it on to Columbia Records, which signed him in 1953. At age 19, he was the label's youngest recording star. He began releasing country and rockabilly hits for Columbia, and in 1955 joined Ozark Jubilee, an ABC-TV program based in Springfield, Missouri. 

In 1960, the Jubilee was cancelled and Lord moved to Nashville, where he was immediately offered a spot on the Grand Ole Opry. One of his Opry highlights was during a  1962 televised performance, the host complimented Lord on his “fine singing” and suggested that since both he and Cline were such great musicians that they saddle on up to the microphones and sing a little ditty together! Patsy Cline sauntered on out with a beaming smile on her face and joined Lord and they sung the timeless country ballad “(Remember Me) I’m The One Who Loves You.” 

He continued appearing on the Opry well into the 1970s. He recorded for Hickory Records starting in 1961 and Decca Records from 1967. During this time he also hosted a daily afternoon show on WSM-TV in Nashville, which was the counterpart to Ralph Emery's morning show on that station, "Opry Almanac". Under the auspices of WSM-TV, he also hosted a weekly syndicated half-hour program featuring popular country artists. Lord's backing band on the syndicated show included Jerry Byrd on steel guitar, Jerry Whitehurst on piano and Spider Wilson on guitar. 

Bobby wrote a book entitled Hit The Glory Road, published in 1969 by Broadman Press about he grassroots gospel behind country music. Also that year Lord left Nashville and went into semi-retirement from the music industry and became vice president of a start-up company based out of Nashville called Outdoor Resorts of America. He was in charge of overseeing the development and sales of several large condominium campgrounds, including one on the southeast coast of Florida, where he moved his family. 

Bobby was well known as an avid outdoorsman, camper, fisherman, hunter, etc. and had a reputation as an excellent interviewer from his TV shows. Because he left at the top of his game, Lord was still sought after by those in the entertainment industry. In the early 1980s, The Nashville Network asked him to host one of its original shows, Country Sportsman, which was later renamed Celebrity Outdoors.  The show had a very long and successful run and Bobby got paid to travel the world, fish, and visit with old friends. 

After several years, he retired from the show in 1989 because he was about to have two new grandchildren within a month of each other, and he wanted to be home to enjoy them. The show continued on for another season with another host, but the ratings were not what they once were when Bobby hosted the show and was subsequently cancelled. 

Bobby Lord died after a long illness on February 16, 2008 at a hospital in Stuart, Florida, at the age of 74. 

(Edited from Wikipedia & Orlando Sentinel)

 

2 comments:

boppinbob said...

For”Bobby Lord ‎– Everybody's Rockin' But Me” go here:

https://www.upload.ee/files/12730444/Bobby_Lord_-_EBRBM.rar.html

01 So Doggone Lonesome
02 No More, No More, No More
03 Hawk-Eye
04 I Can't Do Without You Anymore
05 Beautiful Baby
06 Run, Honey Run
07 You Robber You
08 Everybody's Rockin' But Me
09 Pie Peachie Pie Pie
10 The Fire Of Love (1)
11 Ain't Cha Ever Gonna?
12 Sittin' Home Prayin' For Rain
13 What A Thrill
14 Swamp Fox
15 Too Many Miles (Down The Road)
16 I'd Rather Be Blue
17 Why Should I Cry
18 High Voltage
19 Just Wonderful
20 Am I A Fool
21 I Know It Was You
22 Party Pooper
23 Sack
24 The Fire Of Love (2)

The first ever CD of Bobby Lord's vintage recordings is way overdue! Now Bear Family has carefully selected his finest proto-rockabilly, upbeat country and pop recordings for Columbia from 1954-1960.
The collection also features three previously unissued numbers from 1956 and '60, plus the complete January, 1956 session (two days after Elvis recorded Heartbreak Hotel) that produced Beautiful Baby and Bobby Lord's blazing cover of Johnny Cash's hit So Doggone Lonesome. Elvis's bassist and drummer stayed around to work the session. Also featured is the original recording of Boudleaux Bryant's Hawk-Eye, later a chart single for Frankie Laine! The star sidemen include Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, Harold Bradley, Grady Martin, and two of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys. (Bear Family notes)

A big thank you to Rockinbavarian for the loan of this album.

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For “Bobby Lord - The Hickory And Decca Years (1961-1971)” go here:

https://workupload.com/file/LPAQeNjtWwR

01 - I'll Go On Alone
02 - My Heart Tells Me So
03 - Precious Jewel
04 - Trail Of Tears
05 - Don't Shed Any Tears For Me
06 - Out Behind The Barn
07 - Cry Cry Darling
08 - Shopping Center
09 - Life Can Have Meaning
10 - Pickin' White Gold
11 - A Man Needs A Woman
12 - Take The Bucket To The Well
13 - I'm Going Home Next Summer
14 - The Room In The Corner Of The House
15 - Look What You're Doing
16 - Live Your Life Out Loud
17 - True And Lasting Kind
18 - Yesterday's Letters
19 - Do You Ever Think Of Me
20 - Rainbow Girl
21 - Something Real
22 - You And Me Against The World
23 - Wake Me Up Early In The Morning
24 - Do It To Someone You Love
25 - When A Man Loves A Woman
26 - Mississippi
27 - Don't Keep Me Hanging On
28 - Freedom
29 - Remember Me (w Patsy Cline)
30 - Someday (w Patsy Cline)

Thanks to Elaine4 @ tj’s country forum for original post.

Aussie said...

thank you my friend 4 Bobby Lord like this Aussie