Webb Pierce Biography

Fast Facts

• Was rated the top country artist from 1952 to 1956 by "Cash Box" magazine
• Was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001
• Ranch and Farm magazine named him the No․ 1 folk singer in 1953
• Enlisted in the army, and after he was discharged, worked in the men's department of a Sears Roebuck store
• In the early 1950s, he appeared alongside such future country stars as Floyd Cramer, Faron Young and Jimmy Day on the "Louisiana Hayride" show
• Took up the guitar as a child and at 15, he was given a weekly 15-minute show on KMLB-AM called "Songs by Webb Pierce․"
• A country singer popular in the 1950s, he was known for his nasal, tenor voice
• His hits included "In the Jailhouse," "Wondering," "Love Love Love," I Don't Care," "Teen-age Boogie," "Honky Tonk Song" and "Tupelo County Jail․"
• Had a guitar-shaped swimming pool built at his Nashville home, which drew almost 3,000 paid tourists a week until his neighbors filed suit against him
• Had the tailor who made his flamboyant suits line two convertibles with silver dollars