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Country music legend, Mel Tillis, started performing in the early ‘50’s with a group called The Westerners while serving as a baker in the United States Air Force, stationed in Okinawa. In 1956, Webb Pierce recorded a song written by Mel entitled “I’m Tired”, and it launched Mel’s musical career.
• Born :August 8, 1932 in Tampa, Florida, USA
• Died: November 19, 2017, Munroe Regional Medical Center,
Ocala, Florida, United States
• Birth Name : Lonnie Melvin Tillis
• ORIGIN: Pahokee, Florida, United States
• Years active 1958–2017
• Height 6' (1.83 m)
• Genres : Country, Outlaw country
• • Spouse : Doris Tillis (January 1957 - 1977) (divorced) (5 children)
• • Tillis has six children: songwriter Mel "Sonny" Tillis, Jr., singer-songwriter Pam Tillis, Carrie April Tillis, Connie Tillis, Cindy Tillis, and Hannah Tillis. Mel has one brother, Richard, and two sisters, Linda and Imogene.
• Trade Mark : Stuttering, which disappears when he sings.
• Occupation(s): Singer-songwriter. Instruments : Vocals, guitar.
• Songwriting: Mel has written well over 1,000 songs, and
approximately 600 have been recorded by major artists.
• • • The following is a list of a few of those songs and artists:
"Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town" Kenny Rogers
"Detroit City" - Bobby Bare, "Emotions" - Brenda Lee,
"I Ain’t Never" - Webb Pierce, "Burning Memories" - Ray Price,
"Thoughts of a Fool" - George Strait, "Honey (Open That Door)" - Ricky Skaggs,
• In June 2001, Mel received a Special Citation of Achievement from BMI for 3 Million broadcast performances of “Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town”. Songs which have reached this coveted status are in a very select group of world-wide favorites.
• Labels:
Columbia Records, Decca Records, Kapp Records, MGM Records, MCA Records, Elektra Records, Radio Records.
• • Trivia:
1) Father of Country singer Pam Tillis.
2) Prolific country singer/songwriter and actor, who has scored nearly six dozen hits on Billboard magazine's country singles charts between 1958 and 1988.
3) His biggest country hit, 1972's "I Ain't Never," had been a major hit for Webb Pierce in 1959. Pierce's version stayed at No. 2 for nine weeks late that summer.
4) The Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year for 1976.
5) He was awarded the 2011 American National Medal of the Arts for his services to music on February 13, 2012.
6)He wrote the song "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town", a hit for Kenny Rogers in 1968. The song was based on a couple who lived near his family home in Florida, who were having marital troubles. Tillis left out of the song the real-life ending: the husband murdered his wife and then killed himself.
• Mel’s Hobbies:
Gardening, cooking, fishing, painting, and watching University of Florida ball games.
One of Mel’s hobbies – painting – has turned into a charitable event. 1000 limited edition signed and numbered prints of his painting “Masonic America” are being sold with all profits going to the Scottish Rite Foundation which benefits speech and hearing clinics all over this great nation.
• • Other Information• •
• Mel was the 1998 spokesman and honorary chairman for the Stuttering Foundation of America.
• Mel was raised to a 33° Mason at the House of the Temple in Washington, D.C., in 1998. On October 11, 1999, Mel was honored with the Grand Cross.
• Website http://www.meltillis.com/•
Personal Quotes (1)
[on the pre- rock'n'roll era] Back then there wasn't many albums. You sold singles.
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