Oral history interview with Art Satherley; 1975 March 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1975 March 23.

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Oral history interview with Art Satherley; 1975 March 23; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1975 March 23.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232361982

Recording executive Art Satherley recalls various artists he has recorded. Discussion includes recording with Lew Childre; black gospel singers Dennis Crumpton and Robert Summers; signing a contract with the Norfolk Jubilee Quartet; meeting Tex Ritter at a golf tournament and his high regard for Tex's wife; visiting Gene Autry's home, Melody Ranch, and meeting Johnny Agee, Autry's horse trainer; his decision not to release Spade Cooley's recording of "Hara Kiri" after Japan was bombed in World War II; his attempts to get Red Foley into movies; Chubby Parker and the way he accompanied his banjo playing by whistling; getting stopped by Customs officials when he and Ted Daffan visited Mexico; Little Jimmy Dickens's quest for follow-up hits after recording the strong-selling "Take an Old Cold Tater and Wait"; meeting Fiddlin' Doc Roberts at his log cabin in the mountains of Kentucky; how Gobel Reeves rode the rails to recording sessions; making "It's No Secret" after Stuart Hamblen was influenced by evangelist Billy Graham; signing Lefty Frizzell after hearing Frizzell's version of "If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time."

2 sound cassettes (1 hour, 35 minutes)

Country Music Foundation, Library & Media Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7097818

Country Music Foundation, Library & Media Center

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Green, Douglas B.

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Country music performer. Born March 20, 1946. Best-known as Ranger Doug from Riders in the Sky, a cowboy revival act he co-founded in 1977. Performed as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys during the late 1960s. Recording credits include a solo album, Songs of the Sage, released on the Warner Western label in 1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Douglas B. Green; 1993 November 23; interview with John W. Rumble. 1993 Nov. 23. (Country Music Foundation, Libra...