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Past Inductees:
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2006 /
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2002
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2011 Hall
of Fame Induction Ceremony
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The
2011 Induction Class:
Governor's Award For Lifetime Achievement
Hugh X. Lewis
For
some while, Hugh X. Lewis carried on the dual carriers
of performer and working in the mines. Originally this
happened because his parents could not afford to pay his
way while he tried for success in music. He started out
be playing in weekends and days off and his first paying
engagement was at a club in Cumberland, Kentucky. During
the mid and late '50, Hugh became a regular member of a
weekly TV show in. Johnson City, Tennessee, and. On
Saturday nights he went to Knoxville to appear on
Tennessee Barn Dance. In 1959, he became foreman at the
U.S. Steel mine in Lynch, Kentucky. By the 1960s, Hugh
was getting a reputation with his fellow artists because
of his 1963 performances on WSAZs Saturday Night
Jamboree from Huntington and Ernest Tubb Show from
Nashville. he had already started writing and now he
quit his day job and over to Nashville. he did the
rounds and was picked up by publisher Jim Denny, who
died shortly after. Hugh got his first major cut in 1963
when Stonewall Jackson recorded B.J. The D.J. and took
it to No.1. Both Kitty Wells and Carl Smith later
recorded his song. By 1964, Lewis was signed to Kapp
Records. He stayed with the label until 1969, during
which time he chalked up 11 hits. He made his debut on
the Grand Old Opry in 1964.
Kentucky
Broadcasters Association Steven Foster Award
Al Snyder
Al
Snyder began his broadcast career in 1972 working at
WNVL 1250 Radio in Nicholasville, Kentucky. years later
be would own that station and out WCKU FM, 102.5 on the
air programming into Lexington. Because of his attention
to broadcast excellence, in 1982 Al was named the
Country Music Associations Broadcast Personality of the
Year. That same year he was presented with a special
merit award from the Kentucky
Broadcasters Association. Al was also a finalist for the
same CMA Broadcast Award in 1984. In 1986 Al was elected
by hi peers to serve on the Country Music Association
Board of Directors. During his term on the board he
traveled to London, England to help introduce the
Discover New Country campaign. For 1990 to 2000 Al
worked in Nashville with radio syndication companies and
programs in Nashville, New York and Branson, Missouri.
He has worked as producer and/or Director of Clearance
for syndicated radio programs featuring Garth Brooks,
Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, Toby Keith, Dolly Parton
and many other artists. In 2006 Al was honored with a
Lifetime Membership in the Country Music Association. In
addition to owning his own syndication services company;
Al Snyder and Associates, he also hosts the 3 PM to 7 PM
afternoon drive slot on WCYO FM, 100.7, The Coyote in
Richmond, Kentucky. In addition, Al hosts Classic
Request LIVE! every Friday night for 7 PM-Midnight. The
show is a five hour classic country request show, which
also features many of his exclusive interviews. Al and
his wife Sally reside in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Danny R. Ford Distinguished Service Award
Warren W. Rosenthal
Warren
W. Rosenthal is a native of Paducha, Kentucky, and
graduate of the University of Kentucky. He is the owner
of Patchen Wilkes Thoroughbred Horse Farm in Lexington,
Kentucky, and is currently developing a portion of the
farm in up-scale homes. Mr. Rosenthal's primary business
career spanned 41 years in the foodservice and
franchising industries. He joined Jerrico, Inc. in 1948,
when is consisted of two, five-cent hamburgers stands
called White Taverns and one, eight-stool Jerry's
sandwich shop. He became chief executive officer in 1952
and president of the company 1963. From three small
restaurants in 1948, he guided Jerrico, Inc. into
becoming a publicly-owned company in 1969, growing to
its 1989 status of over 1,500 Long John Sliver's Seafood
Shoppes (in 37 states and 2 foreign countries), over 60
Jerry's Restaurants, (full-service family coffee ship
restaurants) and 5 Fazoli's, (fast-food Italian
restaurants), all of which he originated. He retired as
a chairman of the board of Jerrico, Inc. in 1989 when
the company was the object of a takeover. Bored after 32
days of retirement, Mr. Rosenthal joined Ralph Gabbard
of Lexington and Glenn Pennington of Berea in the
ownership of Renfro
Valley
Entertainment Center, the home of the Renfro Valley Barn
Dance, a country music venue. As the surviving partner,
he ultimately donated Renfro Valley Entertainment Center
to the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum in July of
2000.
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The
2008 Induction Class:
1)
Les McCann
2)
Crystal Gayle
3)
Florence Henderson
4)
Norro Wilson
5)
Dwight Yoakam
2008 Dany Ford Service Award
Governor Paul
Patton-Born at home in Fallsburg, Kentucky,
on May 26, 1937, Paul Patton was one of three
children of Ward and Irene Patton. Both parents
worked to support the family and save for the
children's education. Paul graduated from Louisa
High School in Lawrence County in 1955, and went
onto the University of Kentucky where he worked in
the campus cafeteria. After graduation, literally
working from ground up, Paul Patton spent the next
20 years building a successful coal business. He
then turned his attention to public service and
began a new career as Deputy State Transportation
Secretary in the administration of Governor John Y.
Brown, Jr. in 1979. In 1982, Patton ran for public
office and was elected Pike County Judge-Executive.
He won reelection,
but in 1991, Patton returned to Frankfort as Lt.
Governor-the forst to serve as an appointed cabinet
secretary heading up the Economic Development
Cabinet. Patton made history by writing a jobs
program that put tens of thousands of Kentuckians to
work by allowing the state to attract new industries
and help existing companies to expand. He is
credited with rescuing nine thousand jobs at
Louisville's General Electric Appliance Park through
his jobs program.
Kentucky's Broadcasters Association
Steven Foster Award
Wallace "Pete"
Stamper- The Kentucky Broadcasters
Association presents awards to those individuals who
have made oustanding contributions and who have
earned fame or acclaim in their field of endeavor,
in recognition of the value of those achievements to
the state.
Pete Stamper has
been the single most identifiable voice at WRVK 1460
Radio in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. he began his
professional entertainment career in Renfro Valley
in 1952. Two years later, Red Foley offered Pete the
feature comedy spot on his Ozark Jubilee, America's
first Country Music Neetwork (ABC) television show.
He appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and in 1975, Dolly
Parton asked him to travel with her as comedian and
road manager.
Pete is a
songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Red
Foley, Porter Wagoner, Susan Tomes Laws, Dale Ann
Bradley, Bill Anderson and others. he also helped
produce the second oldest continuous radio broadcast
in the nation, the "Sunday, Renfro Valley Gatherin"
for 39 years. Pete's book, It All Happened In Renfro
Valley, was written and released in 1999. Pete and
his wife, Minnie Lee, reside in Renfro Valley,
Kentucky.
Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement
Homer Ledford-Homer
Ledford was born and raised in the Tennessee
Mountains, a part of the Appalachian chain. At an
early age, he began making musical instruments, his
first being a "match stick" fiddle. At the age of
eighteen, he was given a rehabilitation scholarship
to attend the John C. Campbell Folk School, in
Brasstown, North Carolina. There, while recuperating
from rheumatioc fever, he made his first dulcimer.
Mr. Ledford
attended Berea College in 1949 and transferred to
Eastern Kentucky University where he received a B.S.
degree in 1954. Teaching industrial arts for ten
years, he resigned in 1963 to become a full time
instrument maker. Mr. Ledford's craft is represented
in the Smithsonian Institute and registered in the
U.S. Patent Office.
Mr. Ledford was a
fine Bluegrass musician who played 13 different
instruments and organized the Homer Ledford and the
Cabin Crekk Band in 1976. Homer was honored by his
hometown of Winchester, Kentucky in 1986 when they
named a Bluegrass Festival after him.
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The
2006 Induction Class:
1)
John Conlee
2)
Sam Bush
3)
Wynonna & Noami Judd
4)
John Jacob Niles
5)
Todd Duncan
6)
Mary Travers
7)
Dottie Rambo
8)
Lionel Hampton
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The
2004 Induction Class:
1)
The
Coon Creek Girls
2)
Billy
Vaughn
3)
J.D.
Crowe
4)
Vestal
and Howard Goodman
5)
Jerry
Chesnut
6)
Boots
Randolph
7)
Ricky
Skaggs
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The 2002 Induction Class:
1)
Rosemary
Clooney (
Open / Variety )
2)
Everly
Brothers ( Open / Rock-n-Roll )
3)
Red
Foley
(
Country )*
4)
Tom
T. Hall (
Country / Bluegrass )
5)
Grandpa
Jones (
Open / Comedy )*
6)
Bradley
Kincaid (
Country / Bluegrass )
7)
John
Lair
(
Country / Bluegrass & Open Non-Performer )
8)
Loretta
Lynn (
Country )*
9)
Bill
Monroe (
Bluegrass )*
10)
The
Osborne Brothers
( Bluegrass )
11)
Jean
Ritchie ( Folk )
12)
Merle
Travis ( Country )*
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