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He was a country music singer-songwriter born in Maynardville,
Tennessee who was a semi-pro baseball
player until a nervous breakdown ended his playing hopes. It is said that the Japanese troops
in WWII would enter battle yelling "To hell with Roy Acuff". He popularised the song "The
Wabash Cannonball" in 1936, was inducted into the Country Hall of
Fame in 1962, has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and there is a Roy
Acuff Museum in Nashville. He
is distantly related to Amy Acuff the Olympian high-jumper.
Roy Acuff Recordings
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Old Age Pension Check (Roy Acuff)
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Acuff
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