Webb Pierce

Birth Name:

Webb Michael Pierce

Birth Place:

West Monroe, Louisiana, United States

Profession

Soundtrack, Actor

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

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