{"id":49710,"date":"2015-09-06T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T23:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=49710"},"modified":"2026-09-15T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:54:45","slug":"country-legend-hal-willis-mr-lumberjack-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/06\/country-legend-hal-willis-mr-lumberjack-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Legend Hal Willis ‘Mr Lumberjack” Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HalWillis001\"Country Legend Hal Willis “Mr Lumberjack” Dies at 82<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\"20070623_381088\"Hal Willis (born July 15, 1933) is a Canadian country singer, living in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was born Leonald Francis Gauthier in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. He is the youngest son of Alfred and Evelina Gauthier His famous country single was “The Lumberjack,” an international hit that sold over 1.5 million copies. In 1965, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard country charts in the USA. This success was such a phenomenon that he has been since called Mr. Lumberjack.<\/p>\n

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Mr Lumberjack Sold over 1.5 million singles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His popularity started rising in 1956 when he and his wife, Ginger Willis, were hired by Colonel Tom Parker to tour with the music phenomenon of the hour, Elvis Presley. At this time, Hal and Ginger were also rock and roll singers recording songs like “My Pink Cadillac” and “Bop a Dee Bop a Doo.” Hal and Ginger, along with Hank Snow, were the only Canadian performers to tour with Elvis Presley. He also performed and toured through his career with many American Country Music Hall of Fame singers such as Patsy Cline, Webb Pierce, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n

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Ginger and Hal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hal and Ginger Willis were inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010.\u00a0On May 27, 2012, Hal Willis was also inducted to the Quebec Museum of Rock & Roll through a ceremony held in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada at the international Festival des guitares du monde de l’Abitibi-T\u00e9miscamingue:www.fgmat.com.<\/p>\n

“When Bob and I had RhonBob Promotions, Hal Willis was one of the top\u00a0artists we promoted.\u00a0 A power house Artist and Songwriter.\u00a0 Hearing from friend DJ Wallmsley\u00a0Bev (Canada )\u00a0 a few minutes ago that\u00a0he died on Friday is hard to believe.\u00a0 He will be missed by many.\u00a0 It was a privilege to have him in Bob’s and my life” –\u00a0Rhonnie Scheuerman<\/strong><\/p>\n

In March 2013, at the age of 79 years, Hal Willis come out with a new single hit: “Working in the Goldmine”.<\/p>\n

\u00a0– Story sent in by Rhonnie Scheuerman 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Country Legend Hal Willis “Mr Lumberjack” Dies at 82 . Hal Willis (born July 15, 1933) is a Canadian country singer, living in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was born Leonald Francis Gauthier in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. He is the youngest son of Alfred and Evelina Gauthier His famous country single was “The Lumberjack,” an international hit that sold over 1.5 million copies. In 1965, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard country charts in the USA. This success was such a phenomenon that he has been since called Mr. Lumberjack.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[421,419,420,422,423],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76173,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49710\/revisions\/76173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}