{"id":749,"date":"2012-01-09T09:40:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T09:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.wordpress.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-01-09T09:40:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T09:40:12","slug":"happy-birthday-little-jimmy-dickens-with-a-big-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/09\/happy-birthday-little-jimmy-dickens-with-a-big-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Little Jimmy Dickens With A Big 91"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Never too late to wish a \u00a0Country Music Hall of Famer<\/a> a happy Birthday, Jimmy Dickens<\/a>\u00a0the Grand Ole Opry<\/a>\u2019s oldest living member, turned 91 years old on Dec. 19.<\/div>\n
Dickens is a walking country music history book, and a link to long-gone country heroes such as Roy Acuff<\/a> (who brought Dickens to the Opry in 1948, 10 years before contemporary country star Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2019s mother was born) and Hank Williams<\/a> (who gave Dickens his nickname, \u201cTater\u201d).<\/div>\n
In the 1960s, he became the first country performer to \u201ccircle the globe\u201d on a world tour that included stops in Tokyo, Okinawa, Taipei, Bangkok, Saigon, Turkey, Denmark, Germany and Montreal. And he remains among the Opry\u2019s most popular and amiable attractions, greeting the audience in dazzling outfits that the diminutive Dickens jokes make him look like \u201cMighty Mouse in his pajamas.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSometimes I can\u2019t believe that I\u2019m thought of as someone who\u2019s contributed to this industry,\u201d Dickens told The Tennessean<\/em> in 1995, when Swift was 5. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for me to explain how I feel about it. Because country music is my life. I\u2019ve lived it.\u201d<\/div>\n
Since then, he\u2019s kept on living it, starring in Brad Paisley<\/a> videos, appearing on the CMA Awards<\/a> and, most of all, serving as the Grand Ole Opry\u2019s sparkling, joke-telling ambassador.<\/div>\n
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News article sent in by Keith bradfrord kmarecords@aol.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Never too late to wish a \u00a0Country Music Hall of Famer a happy Birthday, Jimmy Dickens\u00a0the Grand Ole Opry\u2019s oldest living member, turned 91 years old on Dec. 19. Dickens is a walking country music history book, and a link to long-gone country heroes such as Roy Acuff (who brought Dickens to the Opry in 1948, 10 years before contemporary country star Taylor Swift\u2019s mother was born) and Hank Williams (who gave Dickens his nickname, \u201cTater\u201d). In the 1960s, he became the first country performer to \u201ccircle the globe\u201d on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}