Shorty Fincher

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Shorty Fincher (born November 9, 1899 in Iuka , Mississippi , † March 24, 1958 in York, Pennsylvania ) was an American country musician .

Life

Childhood and youth

Shorty Fincher was born in Mississippi in 1899, but his parents moved him to Anniston , Alabama when he was one year old. Fincher's first banjo was built by his father and he later learned to play the drums , bazooka and jaw harp . The first piece Fincher learned on the banjo was Boil Dem Cabbage Down .

Career

Fincher started his professional career in 1932 with his brother Hamilton Fincher on the radio. They formed the band The Cotton Pickers , made up of Fincher, his brother Hamilton (who appeared as comedian "Rawhide"), Alexandra "Lonesome Valley Sally" Kaspura, Florence "Yodeling Flo" Morosco, Dolph Hewitt and Ted Buchanan ( guitar , bass , Steel Guitar ). With the Cotton Pickers, Fincher and his brother moved to Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , where they performed regularly on KQV.

In Pittsburgh, Hamilton Fincher was hired as a comedian by Doc Williams for his band, the Border Riders . Williams and the Border Riders went to Wheeling , West Virginia with Hamilton . Shorty Fincher followed them shortly thereafter with the Cotton Pickers and joined the WWVA Jamboree which was broadcast Saturday night via WWVA from Wheeling. For a long time Fincher hosted his own show, the Shorty & Sally Fincher Jamboree Show, together with Lonesome Valley Sally via WWVA .

After Fincher's brother Hamilton had recovered from an accident he suffered in 1937, Shorty and Hamilton Fincher moved to the Lancaster and York area , where they appeared on the WORK broadcaster as the Prairie Pals . In 1949 they opened an amusement park at Dreamers Beach in Delaware .

literature

  • Loyal Jones: Country Music Humorists and Comedians (2008), 159; University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252033698

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Family Tradition Since 1909. Inners Shows, accessed April 17, 2012 (English). (opened the amusement park together with Fincher in 1949)
personal data
SURNAME Fincher, Shorty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Iuka , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1958
Place of death York, Pennsylvania