Blue Seal Pals
| Blue Seal Pals | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Country music |
| founding | 1943 |
| resolution | 1948 |
| Founding members | |
| Edgar Clayton | |
Guitar, vocals |
Quinton Claunch |
| Dexter Johnson | |
| Bill Cantrell | |
| Buddy Bain | |
The Blue Seal Pals were an American country group led by musicians Quinton Claunch and Bill Cantrell. Claunch and Cantrell became major musicians on the Memphis , Tennessee country scene in the 1950s .
history
The Blue Seal Pals were founded in 1943 by Edgar Clayton and Quinton Claunch in Muscle Shoals , Alabama , where they had their own radio show on WLAY. Claunch was also active in the group as a comedian under the name "Washboard". In 1944 Bill Cantrell and Dexter Johnson joined the group, which from 1946 was regularly heard on WJOI in Florence , Alabama, and together with its sponsor, the Columbia Mill and Elevator Company (which produced, among other things, the Blue Seal flour), the Blue Seal Network , which comprised a total of twelve radio broadcasts in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia .
The Blue Seal Pals were then discovered by the presenter and initiator of the Grand Ole Opry , George D. Hay , and so came to a slot on the widely audible WSM station in Nashville . Every Saturday morning they could now be heard with their Sun Up Serenade . In addition to the radio appearances, her tours led through the southern states and along the entire east coast of the USA. They toured with stars like Cowboy Copas and Minnie Pearl , among others .
In the late 1940s, the Blue Seal Pals broke up. Claunch and Cantrell then moved to Memphis, where they worked with Charlie Feathers , among others , and acted as studio musicians and songwriters.