Bill Lister

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"Big Bill" Lister (January 5, 1923 – December 1, 2009) was an American

honky tonk country music singer. Born Weldon E. Lister, he was nicknamed "Radio's Tallest Singing Cowboy," standing over 6-foot-7 without his cowboy boots and hat.[1][2]

Life and career

During most of 1951, he traveled with

Grammy Award and a Country Music Association Award.[1] The record also served as the sound track of a music video by the same title, which garnered six major awards, including the CMA Vocal Collaboration of the Year, Vocal Event of the Year, and Music Video of the year, the ACM Music Video of the Year, the TNN/MCN Music Video of the Year, and the Country Music Video of the Year. The video utilizes a television kinescope (movie) that captures the elder Williams singing a different song (Hey Good Lookin'
) that he wrote and recorded with the same time signature but with a faster tempo and, of course, different words. After the video's producer solved both of those problems, he made it appear that the senior Williams was actually performing the song that would appear on the video. After the elder Williams technologically sings the first half of the song as presented in the video, the younger Williams seemingly appears to walk into the picture next to his father, where he joins him in completing the performance.

After leaving professional music in the early '60s, Lister became one of the best firearms engravers of his generation. Other Lister recordings included "RC Cola and a Moon Pie,"[3] recorded for Capitol Records in 1951.[2]

Big Bill Lister's return to commercial recording came in 1983 with the album "Sho' 'Nuff Country Stuff! (The Second Time Around)," produced for Slim Richey's Tex-Grass label by D. Lee Thomas and Michael H. Price, with accompaniment by the Salt Lick Foundation, a Texas string band that includes Lister's nephew, Harris Kirby. Lister performed extensively during 1983 in Dallas and Fort Worth with the Salt Lick Foundation and with Michael H. Price and Slim Richey's jazz ensemble, Diddy Wah Diddy.

Discography

Year Album Label
1983 Sho' 'Nuff Country Stuff! (The Second Time Around) Tex-Grass Records
1999 There's a Tear in My Beer
Bear Family
2004 Remembering Hank Williams Heart of Texas

References

  1. ^ a b [1], Bill Lister, ‘Tallest Singing Cowboy,’ The New York Times, December 5, 2009
  2. ^ a b "Big Bill Lister - History of a Country Music Pioneer". Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. Retrieved 2008-06-21., Big Bill Lister Website
  3. YouTube

External links

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