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Headline: Doc Robinson Sings
BIOGRAPHY
of "Doc" Robinson Doc was born in the upper Adirondac Mountain Range in the Berkshire Hills of North Central Massachusetts on a hog farm. Born on a very Hot Monday afternoon about 1:25 PM. He came into this world weighing approximately 9 pounds. His mother Hazel named him Jimmy. He grew up on hillbilly music which we now refe to as Bluegrass music. The Carter Family, Bill Monroe, "Carson" J. Robinson, Hank Williams, Hankk Snow, Marty Robbins, Ernest Tubb and many more, of course, were his heroes. He especially liked the mountain balads and the Hank Williams numbers. As he got into playing the guitar and singing himself around the age of 14, he really took to artist like Web Pierce, Montana Slim, Yodeling Slim Clark, Patsy Montana. and others he heard yodeling. He began to learn to yodel by imitating the artist he heard and soon was yodeling away every where he went. In 1952 at the Wagon Wheel Ranch on Winchendon, Massachusetts he won the New Englad Yodeling Championships and that started his career. Later in Radio with live broadcast on such stations as WCAT AM in Athol/Orange Massachusetts and then off to New York State on WWHG FM in Hornell New York. In Elmira, New York he had his own 15 minute broadcast every Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons for about a year, live, on Channel 24. That was before they started taping shows. During that time Ken Curtis had a country western band called Ken Curtis and the Rockets and worked out of New York City. He hired Doc to sing Baritone in the four part harmony numbers like the Sons Of The Pioneers had done in the years before. He also sang rock- a billy as thay called it back in the late 50's and early 60's. While he was with Ken Curtis he used the name Jimmy Steel. Jim stayed with Ken until about 1964 when Ken broke up the band, giving doc a recomendation to Western Diversifide Agency in Los Angeles. In 1966 Doc came on board under the name of "The "Doc" Robinson Show doing the circuit in the great North West. Doc travelled the cuircut until 1989 when he sort of retired from the travelling band all the time. He moved to Central Illinois until 1997when he moved to Southern Illinois where he now lioves with his wife Deborah. He is still yodeling and singing his favorite Country and blue-grass songs at rodeos and show concerts and having a lot of fun just jamming. When asked what he found most rewarding about his career? He stated "Of course all the good people who came to hear me. But most of all having had the priviledge to meet and sing with some of America's great musicians like Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline, Willy Nelson, Freddy Heart, Faron Young, and many many more. When asked what his greatestr wish was he also stated, " I hope I will be singing and pickin' and a yodeling on some stage somewhere when The Good Lord Decides to take me home."
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