![]() On Grammy winning CD Songs From the Neighborhood: The Songs of Mister Rogers (2005). Performed & recorded with John England & The Western Swingers. Nashville accordionist/keyboard player with experience as director of cruise-ship shows, arranger, composer, music educator, Broadway, Opryland, etc. Own TV show, recording studio, record label in Chattanooga. Cult favorite 1963’s “I Got a Rocket in My Pocket.” Sound engineer for Emmylou, Righteous Brothers, Carl Perkins, Ray Charles, etc. Former solo career as “Jacqueline Hyde” & “Maryann Mail.” (real name: Mary Donahue Blanchard). Later formed jazz trio with her on piano, Blanchard on bass & a hired drummer. Recorded for Mercury/Wayside, Mega, Chalice, Epic, United Artists, Playback, Stardust, Omni and own Velvet Saw label. She and Jack co-produced everything, making her a trailblazing female record producer in Music City. Two charted LPs, Birds of a Feather (1971), Two Sides of Jack & Misty (1972). Fifteen charted singles & seven top-40 successes, including “Somewhere In Virginia in the Rain” (1972), “There Must Be More to Life (Than Growing Old)” (1971), “You’ve Got Your Troubles (I’ve Got Mine)” (1970) and “Just One More Song” (1974). Follow-up “Humphrey the Camel” (1970) also a top-10 hit. 1 with Grammy-nominated “Tennessee Bird Walk” 1970. Half of 1970s country hit making duo Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. We miss all of them as we offer our annual “hail and farewell” list. And we smile at our memories of such great personalities and contributors as Connie Bradley, Bob Moore, Bill Owens, Ron Cornelius and Ken Kragen. Thomas, Jamie O’Hara, Misty Morgan and Ed Bruce sang for us. We give thanks for hits that Stonewall Jackson, B.J. ![]() The span of our losses is illustrated by the farewells we said to the Station Inn’s JT Gray, country-outlaw producer/drummer Richie Albright, Nashville pop/rock visionary Robb Earls, Americana honoree Nanci Griffith, Mexican ranchera music superstar Vincent Fernandez and country-rock pioneer plus video trail blazer Michael Nesmith.Īs was the case last year (John Prine, Joe Diffie, Bill Pursell, Charley Pride, Bill Mack, etc.), the COVID pandemic claimed the lives of a number of our colleagues in 2021 - Larry Willoughby, Gene Kennedy, Ed Pearl, Jim Hall, Jeff Lisenby, Kenny Malone and more. Both of them are members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, which was also hit by obituaries for Jim Weatherly, Charlie Black and DeWayne Blackwell.Īmong those departing are Bluegrass Hall of Fame members Sonny Osborne and Bill Emerson. The Country Music Hall of Fame lost Tom T. “Go rest high on that mountain” we sing in Vince Gill’s enduring funeral anthem, and that’s the sentiment for those we lost in 2021. ![]()
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