Zeke Clements

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Zeke Clements in a 1944 advertisement

Zeke Clements (September 6, 1911 – June 4, 1994) was an American country musician often dressed in a Western outfit. He was known as "The Dixie Yodeler."

Biography

Clements was born near

B-Westerns.[4] During this time, he also provided the voice of Bashful, the yodeling dwarf, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film).[1]

Clements formed the Western Swing Gang

Dixieland band as banjo player. He died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1994.[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c Carlin 2003, p. 68.
  2. ^ a b Plantenga 2004, p. 205.
  3. ^ "Opry Timeline - 1930s". Archived from the original on March 7, 2016. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  4. ^ Noles 2002, p. 106.
  5. ^ a b Carlin 2003, p. 69.
  6. ^ Kavanaugh 2000, p. 40.
  7. ^ Haslam, Russell, Chon 2005, p. 96.

References

  • Carlin, Richard (2003) Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary, Taylor & Francis
  • Haslam, Gerald W., Alexandra Haslam Russell, Richard Chon (2005) Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California, Heyday Books
  • Kavanaugh, Barbara (2000) Devotions from the World of Music, David C. Cook
  • Noles, Randy (2002) Orange Blossom Boys: The Untold Story of Ervin T. Rouse, Chubby Wise..., Hal Leonard Corp.
  • Plantenga, Bart (2004) Yodel-ay-ee-oooo: The Secret History of Yodeling Around the World, Routledge
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