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Roy Clark: Jimmy Dean
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Roy Clark has come a long way from his childhood in Virginia. As a young man he played with Jimmy Dean and soon became a star in his own right. He married young, and adopted his first wife's daughter. The couple later had a son, Roy Linwood Clark, Jr. The marriage was troubled from the beginning and ended in divorce. Later, Roy married his second wife, Barbara.
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Clark found work at local clubs, radio stations, and television shows. By 1955, he was a regular on Jimmy Dean's D.C.-based television show, Country Style. Once Dean left Washington for New York, Clark took over the show, and over the next few years he earned a reputation as an excellent musician and entertainer. In 1960, he decided to leave the East Coast to pursue his fame and fortune out West. That year, he became the leader of Wanda Jackson's band, playing on her hit singles like "Let's Have a Party," as well as touring with the singer and playing concerts with her in Las Vegas. Once Jackson decided to break up her band, Clark continued to play regularly at the Frontier Hotel in Vegas and through his new manager, Jackson's ex-manager Jim Halsey, he landed spots on The Tonight Show and the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, where he played both Cousin Roy and Big Mama Halsey.
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After winning a national banjo contest in 1950, Clark was invited to perform at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. The guitar wizard went on to tour with some of country music’s greatest legends, such as Hank Williams, Grandpa Jones, Red Foley, Ernest Tubb and Jimmy Dean.
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When suburban houses bristled with television antennas -- before cable and Country Music Television -- a District TV studio broadcast Jimmy Dean and local guest stars like Patsy Cline, the Stoneman Family and Roy Clark in black-and-white. Costume sequins reflected the bright lights into the camera and the sound of pedal steel guitar and fiddle filled the airwaves.
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