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Chanteuse Country US née Sarah Ophelia Colley, le 25
Octobre 1912 à Centerville (Tennessee). Minnie Pearl est décédée le 4 Mars 1996. Elle a été
élue au "Country Music Hall Of Fame" en 1975.
Minnie
Pearl, a member of the Grand Ole Opry cast from 1940 until her death in 1996,
was country music's preeminent comedian and one of the most widely recognized
comic performers American culture has ever produced. With her straw hat and its
dangling $1.98 price tag, her representation of herself as a man-chasing
spinster in the small town of Grinder's Switch, TN, and her great-hearted holler
of "How-DEE! I'm just so proud to be here" as she took to the Opry stage, Pearl
became an icon of rural America even as she lovingly satirized its ways.
Cousin Minnie Pearl grew up among people quite different from the Uncle Nabob,
Brother, and boyfriend Hezzie who populated her comic routines. Born Sarah
Ophelia Colley, she was the daughter of a prosperous lumberman in Centerville,
TN, and she attended tony Ward-Belmont College in Nashville as a theater major.
As a young woman she favored classical music, not country. In college she
focused especially on her dance classes, which would serve her well as she
developed her top-notch stage presence, and after college she taught dance for
several years. Then she took a job as a dramatic coach with a touring theater
company based in Atlanta. As the group barnstormed through the Depression-era
south, she would try to promote the group's shows by making brief appearances at
local Lions' clubs and the like. She hit on a routine in which she delivered an
impression of a small-town girl, Minnie Pearl, and then began to amplify the
impression with traits she observed in people she met along the way. By 1939,
the Minnie Pearl character was well developed, but Colley had to return to
Centerville that year to help care for her ill mother.
In 1940 Colley appeared at a banking convention in Centerville at which some of
the executives of the Opry's host station, WSM, happened to be in attendance.
One suggested that she audition for the Opry, and despite the misgivings of Opry
managers that she might be seen as ridiculing country people, she was accepted
for a late-evening slot. Several hundred cards and letters addressed to Minnie
Pearl arrived at the station over the following weeks, and her place in the cast
was assured. "I don't think people think of her so much as a show business act
as a friend," Colley would later observe.
During World War II, Pearl toured with the Camel Caravan, and she married
Nashville pilot Henry Cannon in 1947. She authored a cookbook and became a
prominent figure in Nashville social circles under the name of Sarah Cannon. But
her greatest fame came from her Opry performances, some of which were broadcast
nationally when the show hit prime time in the 1940s. In the late '40s and early
'50s, Pearl often worked as part of a duo with comedian Rod Brasfield, and by
1957 she was famous enough to be featured on NBC television's This Is Your Life
program.
Pearl went on to make many more television appearances in the '60s and '70s,
eventually joining the cast of the hillbilly-themed variety show Hee Haw. That
show made varied use of her comedic talents, featuring her in such segments as "Driving
Miss Minnie" in addition to her usual Grinder's Switch settings. She was
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1975. Pearl was still a
television fixture in the 1980s, when she appeared on TNN's Nashville Now. She
also toured the country for much of her career and made a number of recordings.
One of them, the recitation "Giddyup Go Answer," a rejoinder to
Red Sovine's sentimental trucker number, became a Top Ten hit. Performing
into the 1990s, Pearl suffered a stroke in 1991 and died five years later.
https://countrymusichalloffame.org/artist/minnie-pearl/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pearl
Talents : Comedy, Vocals, Piano
Style musical : Traditional Country, Country Comedy
In
The Shadow Of The Pine (1947)
HOW TO
CATCH A MAN (1954)
HUNTIN'
SEASON (1954)
GIDDY UP GO
ANSWER (1966)
NOBODY'S BUSINESS
(1966)
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Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
78 t. & Singles
| 1946 | 78 t. BULLET 613 (US) | Minnie PEARL with Frankie "Pee Wee" King & The Golden West Cowboys - I'm Lookin' For A Feller / Jealous Hearted Me |
| 01/1947 | 78 t. KING 590 (US) |
Minnie PEARL with Pee Wee
King & The GOLDEN WEST
COWBOYS -
In The Shadow Of The Pine
/ On Top Of Old Smokey |
| 12/1950 | 78 t. Decca 46278 (US) | Texas Vs Kentucky (Red Foley & Ernest Tubb) / The Lovebug Itch (Ernest Tubb – Red Foley & Minnie Pearl) |
| 12/1950 | SP Decca 9-46278 (US) | Texas Vs Kentucky (Red Foley & Ernest Tubb) / The Lovebug Itch (Ernest Tubb – Red Foley & Minnie Pearl) |
| 07/1951 | 78 t. KING 978 (US) |
Minnie PEARL with Pee Wee
King & The GOLDEN WEST
COWBOYS -
In The Shadow Of The Pine
/ On Top Of Old Smokey |
| 07/1951 | SP KING 45-978 (US) |
Minnie PEARL with
Pee Wee King & The GOLDEN
WEST COWBOYS -
In The Shadow Of The Pine
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| 01/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5605 (US) |
Man (Uh-Huh) / I Wish They Would! |
| 01/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5605 (US) | Man (Uh-Huh) / I Wish They Would! |
| 02/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5650 (US) |
Jealous Hearted Me (Minnie PEARL) / Georgia's Camp Meeting (Chet Atkins) |
| 02/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5650 (US) | Jealous Hearted Me (Minnie PEARL) / Georgia's Camp Meeting (Chet Atkins) |
| 04/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5699 (US) |
And That's Good Enough For Me /
How To Catch A Man
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| 04/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5699 (US) |
And That's Good Enough For Me /
How To Catch A Man
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| 08/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5812 (US) | I Wonder Where That Man Of Mine Has Went / Never Been Kissed |
| 08/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5812 (US) | I Wonder Where That Man Of Mine Has Went / Never Been Kissed |
| 10/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5891 (US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - Papa Loves Mambo / Gotta Marry Off Daughter |
| 10/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5891 (US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - Papa Loves Mambo / Gotta Marry Off Daughter |
| 12/1954 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-5982 (US) |
Huntin' Season
/ Me |
| 12/1954 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-5982 (US) |
Huntin' Season
/ Me |
| 04/1955 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-6088 (US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - Matrimony Ridge / Spring Fever |
| 04/1955 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-6088 (US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - Matrimony Ridge / Spring Fever |
| 03/1956 | 78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-6474(US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - The Kissin' Game / I'm Gettin' Grey Hair Over You |
| 03/1956 | SP RCA VICTOR 47-6474 (US) | Grandpa JONES & Minnie Pearl - The Kissin' Game / I'm Gettin' Grey Hair Over You |
| 1960 | EP no label NDA-1799 (US) |
A Visit With Minnie Pearl : Comedy Skit / Pretty Little Pink / Comedy Skit / Lulu Walls |
| 02/1966 | SP STARDAY 754 (US) |
Giddy Up Go Answer
/ Road Runner (Minnie Pearl's
Giddyup Go Boys) |
| 05/1966 | SP STARDAY 764 (US) | What Is An American? / Live Some While You're Here |
| 1966 | SP STARDAY 774 (US) |
Red SOVINE & Minnie PEARL
-
Nobody's Business
/
Alabam |
| 10/1974 | SP RCA VICTOR PB-10077 (US) | Archie CAMPBELL & Minnie PEARL - As Soon As I Hang Up The Phone / Nobody's Business |
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Albums
| 02/1960 | LP 12" EVEREST LPBR 5073 (US) |
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MINNIE PEARL - (Comedy routine) | |||
| 1963 | LP 12" STARDAY SLP-224 (US) |
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HOWDEE (COUSIN GAL FROM GRINDER'S SWITCH AT THE PARTY) - A LIVE-ON-THE-SPOT HILARIOUS PERFORMANCE - (Comedy routine) | |||
| 1964 | LP 12" HILLTOP JM-6014 (mono) / JS-6014 (stereo) (US) |
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LAUGH-A-LONG WITH MINNIE PEARL - (Country Comedy And Humorous Songs) | |||
| 1966 | LP 12" STARDAY SLP-380 (mono) / S-SLP-380 (stereo) (US) |
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AMERICA'S BELOVED MINNIE PEARL - GIDDYUP GO ANSWER - Y'all Come / Try To Live Some / Nobody's Business (with Red SOVINE) / Careless Love / What Is An American / Alabam (with Red SOVINE) / Giddy Up Go Answer / Are All The Children In / Know Thyself / Mother's Old Steel Thimble / What Would You Do / History Repeats Itself | |||
| 1967 | LP 12" STARDAY SLP-397 (US) |
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The Country Music Story - (Comedy routine) |
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| 1967 | LP 12" NASHVILLE NLP-2043 (US) |
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LOOKIN' FER A FELLER - How To Catch A Man (song) / The Handsome Man From Nashville / Uncle Nabob / The Astronauts Of Grinder's Switch / Hawaii With Elvis / The Old Maid Of Grinder's Switch / Gossip From Grinder's Switch / The Tunnel Of Love / The Party Kissing Game / The Wedding / California Girls / My Feller (song) | |||
| 1967 | LP 12" SUNSET SUM-1148 (mono) / SUS-5148 (stereo) (US) |
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HOWDY ! - Howdy / I'm Jest So Proud / My Hometown / I Went Toa Weddin' / Big Party / Sumpin' Happened / Comin Into Town | |||
| 11/1974 | 2 LP 12" RCA CAMDEN ADL2-0701 (US) |
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GRAND OLE OPRY STARS - Grandpa JONES & Minnie PEARL
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| 07/1994 | CD LEGACY 377 (US) |
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QUEEN OF THE GRAND OLE OPRY - Looking At Fellers / My Hometown / I Went To A Wedding / The Big Party / Scared To Death / A Little Trouble In Town | |||
| 03/1998 | 3 CD STARDAY 3509 (US) |
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STARDAY YEARS :
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| 05/1998 | CD KING 1480 (US) |
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LOOKIN' FER A FELLER - How To Catch A Man (Song) / The Handsome Man From Nashville / Gossip From Grinder's Switch / The Astronauts Of Grinder's Switch / Hawaii with Elvis / The Old Maid Of Grinder's Switch / Uncle Nabob / The Tunnel Of Love / The Party Kissing Game / The Wedding / California Girls / Me Feller (Song) | |||
| 03/1999 | CD KING KSCD-3808 (US) |
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COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME 1975 - First Grand Ole Opry Appearance / Giddy-Go-Go Answer (song) / California Girls / Y'all Come (song) / Gossip From Grinder's Switch / Alabam (song) / Tunnel Of Love / How To Catch A Man / Colombus Stockade Blues / Old Maid From Grinder's Switch / Nobody's Business (song) / Uncle Nabob / History Repeats Itself / On Top Of Old Smokey (song) | |||
| 03/2008 | CD Gusto 0918 (US) |
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Live from Grinder's Switch - First Grand Ole Opry Appearance / Giddy-Up-Go Answer / California Girls / Y'all Come / Gossip From Grinder's Switch / Alabam / Tunnel Of Love / Columbus Stockade Blues / Old Maid From Grinder's Switch / Nobody's Business / Uncle Nabob / On Top Of Old Smokey |
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