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West Monroe, Louisiana, USA
Michael Webb Pierce was an American honky tonk vocalist, songwriter and guitarist of the 1950s, one of the most popular of the genre, charting more number one hits than any other country artist during the decade. His biggest hit was "In the Jailhouse Now," which charted for 37 weeks in 1955, 21 of them at number one. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
- Opry Video Classics: Honky-Tonk Heroes — Self (archive footage)2007
- Country Music Classics: Webb Pierce and Chet Atkins — Self (archive footage)1991
- Music City U.S.A.1966
- Road to Nashville — Self1966
- Tennessee Jamboree — Self1964
- Kraft Suspense Theatre — Prescott1963
- Buffalo Gun — Webb Pierce1961
- The Dick Clark Show — Self1958
- American Bandstand — Self1957
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- West Monroe
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- country music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Decca
- Image
- Webb Pierce.jpg
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- date of death
- 1991-02-24
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1921-08-08
- Commons category
- Webb Pierce
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1952-00-00
- birth name
- Michael Webb Pierce
- name in native language
- Webb Pierce
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
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