Jack didn't play any wrong notes, but all he had to play was Ernest Tubb's notes, which is very simple. he helped to raise the level of Nashville's musical discourse. Patsy Cline. Pappy Daily, who produced George Jones for four labels over fifteen years, had no real musical background. Moore, however, kept his ownership stake a closely guarded secret. In 1946, the group performed in rural areas outside Nashville and on WGNS radio in Murfreesboro with singer Bob Jennings.

Moore, a charter member of Nashville's original studio A-Team and, with an estimated 17,000 sessions, its most recorded bassist, redefined the instrument's role in country much as Jimmy Blanton redefined jazz bass with Duke Ellington's Orchestra.

"Several things added to this," he explains. I like his writings and his delivery. It was an amazing event. By age 15 he was playing double bass on a tent show tour with a Grand Ole Opry musical group, and at 18, he accepted a position touring with Little Jimmy Dickens. Moore, who divorced in 1975, abruptly retired in 1980 after the death of his fiance.

A great piano player.

Ray Edenton, Hank Garland, Grady Martin, Buddy Harman, Floyd Cramer, Pig Robbins, Bud Isaacs, Jerry Byrd, Tommy Jackson, Owen Bradley and me. The first ‘professional’ session I was hired and paid to perform on was in Cincinnati 1948. Everyone was there. Sign in to YouTube. Drummer Buddy Harman, a former Carl Smith sideman, used to work with Moore at Nashville's Rainbow Room. The setup in the Quonset hut...there was nothin' between me and [Rich's] left hand except the flat beside me where my ashtray sits.

We loved creating our music together. For us rockabillies, it’s still mind boggling that he played bass on Johnny Burnette Rock’n’Roll Trio recordings such as “Rock Therapy”, “Rock Billy Boogie” and “Please Don’t Leave Me”. He’s a friend. Now that he is celebrating his 85 th birthday, it is only fitting that we take a moment to revisit some of his most remarkable works as a dedicated and gifted musician. After Bradley succeeded the position as head of Decca Records in the Nashville division, he took Moore with him and hired him as a session musician.

So is the modest local music business centered around the Opry and WSM where his career began, superceded first by the vibrant, growing industry established by hits he helped create, and then - for better or worse - by 21st-century Music Row, with streets officially named "Music Circle" and "Music Square." People like Billy Swan, Ricky Nelson, it was pretty amazing who turned up in Memphis, Tennessee that day.Bob: I called him and asked him if I could produce an album for him and he said yes.

I was something new; I was a player, not a comedian," he asserts.

Now that he is celebrating his 85Bob Moore is a native of Nashville, Tennessee. Grammer's hot "Gotta Travel On" was a strong start, but Roy Orbison's pop successes such as "Only The Lonely" and "Blue Bayou," with Moore and the A-Team creating the glossy accompaniment, truly established Monument. 4 I loved Anita Carter’s version of Ring of Fire but Johnny Cash’s version has a special place in my heart as it was recorded on the heels of my multi-million selling instrumental Mexico. It's hardly surprising that Bradley was his favorite producer. WSM became a classroom for Moore, who hung around for "Noontime Neighbors." People, their superstitions come out real quick, you know."

"I was on vacation and started hearin' it on the car radio," he says, "So I called back to our office and they said, 'We been tryin' to find you, because you gotta come back home and go on a promo tour.

When they recorded "A-Sleepin' At The Foot Of The Bed" at Castle Studio in October 1950 (Arrington and future A-Teamer Grady Martin played twin lead guitars), it became the first top-10 country hit to feature Bob Moore's bass.

I knew his wife, June and all the Carter Family from the time we were all teenagers.Bob: Ha. "I told him, I can't make a livin' on that big band," Moore recalls.

At Decca, Bradley and Paul Cohen occasionally used vocal ensembles, popular during the big-band years, behind Foley and Ernest Tubb in the late '40s - particularly the Anita Kerr Singers, who worked at WSM.

"I was sittin' right there. "I still can't tell the difference between country and rockabilly. Looking back, I’m sure those years were the happiest years of Elvis’ life. …

At the time he wasn’t on a label so it was produced as a speculative project. He got me watchin' the arithmetic of it. People also love these ideas. I love him very much.Peter Lewry is a freelance music journalist and photographer. But Jack had a way of pullin' a string that got a better sound out of a bass than anybody else down there. 6 2 tracks The title track went to #7 on Billboard pop music chart and remained in the Top 40 for ten weeks. I can tell you, he had a soul.

Some got to be A-Teamers later on.

Also, one of the awards I like most is the Pioneer Award I received from LSSCMA. That year, he and drummer Jerry Carrigan were the only Nashville players to back Chet Atkins on an album with Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops. All Rights Reserved. A 1959 session with singer Billy Grammer, signed to the new, Baltimore-based Monument label, provided Moore another opportunity when he heard label owner Fred Foster mention that one of his two partners wanted out. Find Bob Moore credit information on AllMusic. Mom Upchurch's boarding house on Boscobel Street, popular with struggling musicians, was home base.