Lefty Frizzell is tagged as: country, classic country, honky tonk, singer-songwriter, traditional country William Orville ‘Lefty’ Frizzell (March 31, 1928 – July 19, 1975) was an American country music singer-songwriter of the 1950s and a leading exponent of the honky tonk style of country music. His relaxed style of singing was a major influence on later stars Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Frizzell was born in Corsicana, Texas, but moved with his family shortly after his birth to El Dorado, Arkansas, where they remained until the early 1940s. Frizzell began playing the guitar as a very young boy and by age 12, he was appearing regularly on a children’s show at a local radio station KELD.|The family moved back to Texas when Frizzell was still a teenager, and his music career got a boost when he won a talent contest in Dallas. In his late teens, he was performing at fairgrounds and other venues, developing a unique, soulful voice. Like his father, he got work in the oilfields, but his growing popularity as a singer soon gave him regular work on the honky tonk nightclub circuit. At age 19, he had a half-hour show on a small Texas radio station, getting a big break when a record producer heard him sing. Signed to Columbia Records, he immediately had a string of hits that broke into country music’s top ten; several of them reached # 1. In 1950 , he was ... Read More About Lefty Frizzell Biography...  Send Lefty Frizzell ringtones to your cell
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