[新聞] 鄉村歌手卡爾史密斯過世 享壽82歲
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Country Music Hitmaker Carl Smith Dies At 82
by Wade Jessen, Nashville | ?? 21, 2010 6:05 EST
Seminal '50s honky tonk stylist and Country Music Hall of Fame member Carl
Smith, 82, died Saturday (Jan. 16) at his home near Nashville in Franklin,
Tenn. The specific cause of death was not made public.
Smith was widely regarded as one of the most important and successful country
music hitmakers of the postwar era, first appearing on Billboard's Hot
Country Songs chart in 1951 with "Let's Live a Little." His successful career
spawned 31 top 10 hits during the 1950's, including five No. 1 songs
including "Let Old Mother Nature Have Her Way," "Loose Talk" and "Hey, Joe!"
Smith's success in country music played a large role in keeping country music
solvent in the wake of the rock and roll invasion that significantly eroded
the country music audience during those years, and he placed 99 songs on
Billboard's country charts between 1951-78
Born March 15, 1927, in the eastern Tennessee town of Maynardville (also the
birthplace of country icon Roy Acuff), Smith began his performing career in
1944 at station WROL Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the military during
World War II, and performed in bands in Asheville, N.C. and Augusta, Ga.,
working alongside other notable artists such as Molly O'Day and Archie
Campbell.
Smith sang on song demos that ended up on the desk of Peer-Southern executive
Troy Martin, who in turn took them to WSM Nashville executive Jack Stapp and
Columbia producer Don Law. Smith was signed to the label and hired to perform
an early morning show on WSM, and first appeared on the station's Grand Ole
Opry as the guest of Hank Williams in 1950. He remained on Columbia through
1973, and later recorded for Hickory. He was a regular on the Grand Ole Opry
through 1956.
Handsome and talented, Smith was also among the first generation of young
stars to bring country music to television. He appeared on Kate Smith's "Main
Street Music Hall," and syndicated shows such as "Stars Of Country Music." He
appeared in a string of B movies including "Buffalo Guns," and married June
Carter in 1952. The couple's daughter is country singer Carlene Carter, who
was born in 1955 before her parents divorced in 1956. Smith married singer
Goldie Hill in 1957, and she passed away of cancer in 2005. Smith and Hill
are the parents of three children, Lorri Lynn, Carl Jr. and Larry Dean. Smith
is survived by all four of his children.
Smith retired from recording and touring in the mid 1970's, and spent the
reminder of his years raising championship cutting horses on his Franklin,
Tennessee ranch. He became a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame in
2003. A memorial service was held Tuesday in suburban Nashville.
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美中不足的是，抬望眼，總看見園中西隅，
剩下的那兩棵義大利柏樹中間，露出一塊楞楞的空白來，
缺口當中，映著湛湛青空，悠悠白雲，
那是一道女媧煉石也無法彌補的天裂。
－－白先勇《樹猶如此》
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