Phillip G. Collins Collection on Ruey "Curley" Collins, circa 1920s-2009

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Phillip G. Collins Collection on Ruey "Curley" Collins, circa 1920s-2009

circa 1920s-2009

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The collection is composed of Phillip G. Collins' research files on his father Ruey "Curley" Collins (1915-1986), a white banjo, guitar, and fiddle player and a country music performer chiefly on radio programs from the 1930s through the mid-1950s. Research files contain photocopies of publicity photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, biographical information including a transcript of an interview with the elder Collins, chronologies of his music career, and lists of radio shows, television shows, movies, recordings, and honors. Also included is an audio cassette tape with a selection of Curley Collins' vocal and instrumental performances in the early 1980s and a 1983 interview with him. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.

0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 200 items)

eng, Latn

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 11655783

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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Collins, Phillip G.

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Ruel Culbertson (Curley) Collins (1915-1986) played the fiddle, guitar, and banjo in country and western bands of the 1930s-1980s. Born near the Boyd County seat town of Catlettsburg in northeastern Kentucky, Curley Collins grew up hearing the music of his father, Neal, on banjo and his mother, Maggie, on the pump organ at church. He also was listening to country music on records, nearby radio stations, and major network programs such as the National Barn Dance and the Grand Ole Opry. He began p...

Collins, Curley

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Ruel Culbertson (Curley) Collins (1915-1986) played the fiddle, guitar, and banjo in country and western bands of the 1930s-1980s. Born near Catlettsburg in eastern Kentucky, Curley Collins began playing music professionally at age 14. In 1936, he joined popular Kentucky band Pop Eckler and His Young'uns. WSB Radio in Atlanta invited Eckler's band to join its "Cross Roads Follies" broadcasts. The band performed variety shows throughout the Southeast, in which Collins, who won a national fiddling...