- Johnny Duncan (country music artist)
Infobox musical artist
Name = Johnny Duncan
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Background = solo_singer
Birth_name = Johnny Richard Duncan
Born =October 5 ,1938
Died = death date and age|2006|08|14|1938|10|5
Origin =Dublin, Texas
Instrument =Vocals ,Guitar
Genre =Country
Occupation =Singer
Years_active = 1970–2006
Label =Columbia Records
Associated_acts = [http://www.johnnyduncanmusic.com Johnny Duncan Music]Johnny Richard Duncan (
October 5 ,1938 –August 14 ,2006 ) was an American country singer.Biography
Duncan was born in
Dublin, Texas . Before he went to Nashville,Tennessee , Duncan attended TCU (Texas Christian University ) in Fort Worth,Texas . He then spent a few years in Clovis,New Mexico . He was a cousin ofDan Seals , who was also a major country performer.Early life and influences
Duncan’s early life was steeped in West Texas music. He picked this up naturally as a boy listening to his mother play rhythm guitar in his uncle’s country band. Later, he began sharpening his vocal skills, influenced by his early idols
Eddy Arnold ,Perry Como ,Jim Reeves , andFrank Sinatra . Johnny was born into a musical family. He is very proud of his talented and famous cousins, includingEddie Seals ,Jimmy Seals ofSeals & Croft , and country singerDan Seals . "He knew when he was 12 years old that playing music and singing songs was going to be his life," said his wife, Connie Duncan, 54. [cite news |first=Associated |last= Press |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/081606glduncanobit.24cdeed.html |title= Country singer Johnny Duncan dies |work=The Dallas Morning News |date=August 15, 2006]"He grew up here in a small country town and loved music," Jim Harrell said. "His mother played herself and a lot of his cousins played with him." (Jim Harrell, owner and funeral director of Harrell Funeral Home in Dublin, which is handling arrangements for his services)His cousins became famous as well – Jimmy Seals of Seals & Crofts and country singer Dan Seals. [cite news |first=Associated |last= Press |url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/081606glduncanobit.24cdeed.html |title= Country singer Johnny Duncan dies |work=The Dallas Morning News |date=August 15, 2006]
After playing and singing with his musically-gifted family for a few years, he decided to move where the bigger action was—Nashville, Tennessee.
Duncan wrote many songs recorded by artists such as,
Charley Pride ,Marty Robbins ,Chet Atkins ,Conway Twitty andJim Ed Brown .Career
In
Franklin, Tennessee , Duncan worked as aDJ and performed on local morningTV shows. He began to record forColumbia Records in the late 1960s.Between 1967 and 1973, Duncan's recordings never reached the top 20 until "Sweet Country Woman" entered at number six.
Duncan performed duets with
Janie Fricke in the 1970s, many of which were highly successful. Their songs "Stranger" and "Thinking of a Rendevous " (both 1976); "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better" (1977); and "Come A Little Bit Closer" (1978, a remake of the song first made popular by Jay and the Americans) were the most successful. In fact, "Thinking of a Rendevous" and "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better" both went No. 1 on the "Billboard magazine " Hot Country Singles chart, as did Duncan's solo 1978 single "She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime."Duncan's string of Top 10 hits continued into 1979 - most notably a cover of
Johnny Rivers ' "Swayin' to the Music" (released by Duncan as "Slow Dancing") and "The Lady in the Blue Mercedes" - and he even enjoyed another Top 20 hit with Fricke in 1980 with "She's Out of My Life." His star power faded in the early 1980s with changing musical tastes, although his biggest songs were popular country radio recurrents through the late 1980s and early 1990s.Death
Duncan died of a heart attack on
August 14 ,2006 , at the age of 67.Family
Duncan has three daughters with his first wife, Betty Deisher [ [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:gifoxql5ldae~T1 Johnny Duncan] at
Allmusic ] and one son with wife Connie Duncan, who survives him.Discography
References
External links
* [http://www.johnnyduncanmusic.com Johnny Duncan Music]
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