Bradley Kincaid

William Bradley Kincaid (July 13, 1895 – September 23, 1989) was an American folk singer and radio entertainer.[1]

He was born in Point Level, Garrard County, Kentucky but built a music career in the northern states. His first radio appearance came in 1926 when he performed on the National Barn Dance show on WLS-AM in Chicago, Illinois. A prolific composer of folk and country music tunes, the first edition of his 1928 songbook called My Favorite Mountain Ballads sold more than 100,000 copies;[1] later editions brought the total to 400,000. He recorded on Gennett Records.[2]

In 1935[3] he was working at WBZ-AM in Boston, Massachusetts where he performed with a band that included young singer and banjo player Marshall Jones. Kincaid teased the 22-year-old fellow Kentuckian for always being grumpy when he came to the studio to do the early morning broadcast, nicknaming him "Grandpa" Jones. The moniker became permanent for the future Grand Ole Opry star.[1]

Kincaid moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1945 where he too became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.[1][4]

In 1971, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.[1]

In 1988, the then-93-year-old Kincaid was involved in an automobile accident and sustained injuries from which he never fully recovered.[5] He died in 1989 at the age of 94 in Springfield, Ohio[1] and was interred there in the Ferncliff Cemetery.[6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Bradley Kincaid Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine., Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame. Accessed July 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ David Sanjek, "All the Memories Money Can Buy: Marketing Authenticity and Manufacturing Authorship", p. 155–172 in Eric Weisbard, ed., This is Pop, Harvard University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-674-01321-2 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01344-1 (paper). p. 157.
  3. ↑ "Flashback: The 'Opry' Gets A Grandpa", Country Weekly, March 2004. Quoted in part on FindArticles.com. Accessed online 25 August 2007.
  4. ↑ "Opry Timeline - 1940s". Grand Ole Opry. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
  5. ↑ Loyal Jones, "Radio's Kentucky Mountain Boy" (1988 Edition), Berea College Appalachian Center, Berea, KY.
  6. ↑ Bradley Kincaid on Find A Grave. Accessed 25 August 2007.

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