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Walter Ralph Emery (born

March 10, 1933) is a country music disc jockey

and television host from Nashville, Tennessee. He gained national

fame hosting the syndicated television music series, Pop! Goes the Country, from 1974 to

1980 and the nightly Nashville Network television program, Nashville Now,

from 1983 to 1993.[1] Emery can currently be seen hosting the weekly program, Ralph Emery

Live, on RFD-TV,

a satellite and cable television channel devoted to rural American culture. Emery first earned fame as the

late-night disc jockey on Nashville's WSM.

Due to the clear-channel broadcasting range of the station at night, Emery's

country music show could be heard over most of the Eastern and Central U.S.--

and by many overnight long-haul truck drivers,

who were often fans of country music. The all-night show was a mecca for

country music stars of all kinds, many of whom were personal friends of Emery.

One in particular was singer and movie star, and Nashville resident, Tex Ritter.

Ritter actually co-hosted the show with Emery for a while. Many well-known

stars, most notably Marty Robbins, would often drop in unannounced.

Emery also gave national exposure to many up-and-coming and previously unknown

country music singers, for which these singers often owed their careers. Emery

later wrote several best-selling books chronicling his memories of the many

Nashville singers and musicians that appeared on his various radio and TV

shows. The second of Emery's three wives was Opry star Skeeter Davis.

Emery is credited for developing the gab of NASCAR

driver (and Middle Tennessean) Darrell

Waltrip, who was a frequent guest on his late-night radio show

during his early days racing in Nashville. That eventually led to substitute

gigs on WSM and Nashville Now. Emery attained his greatest popularity on

Nashville Now, with his rich voice and easy affability with guests making

the show a national phenomenon. He would converse with a wide range of country

music stars from all eras, and also used a Muppet-like

'co-host,' "Shotgun Red," during several seasons. From

the mid-1960s until the early 1990s (except for several years in the 1960s when

hosted by country singer Bobby Lord and a two-year period between 1970

and 1972), Emery also hosted a weekday morning show, "Opry Almanac,"

on WSM television (now WSMV), which, until the early 1980s, was a sister property of

WSM radio. The program, which featured an in-studio band of local session

musicians and aspiring singers (among them a teenaged Lorrie Morgan,

daughter of Emery's longtime friend, Grand Ole

Opry star George Morgan) along with news and weather

updates and in-studio live commercials, became the highest-rated local morning

television program in the U.S. for some years in the 1970s and 1980s. His eye

and ear for talent was inclusive in breaking color barriers and started the

careers of younger African-American singers such as J.P.Netters; she was

included as a part of his studio band in the early 1980s. Emery also hosted a

late-afternoon program on WSM-TV in the late 1960s, Sixteenth Avenue South (named

for one of the streets on Nashville's famed Music Row

of recording studios), with the same format. Because of the morning show's

popularity and demands on his time, Emery ended his long run on the overnight

shift on WSM radio in 1972; Hairl Hensley replaced him

and went on to a thirty-year career with the station. Beginning in 1971, Emery

hosted The Ralph Emery Show on radio. It was a weekly, syndicated

show that aired daily on country stations in five parts Mondays through

Fridays. Each week Emery would profile a guest star, while playing the hot

country hits of the week. It was distributed by "Show Biz Inc." and

lasted until sometime in the 1980s. The song Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man details a

moderately unpleasant on-air exchange between Emery and Roger McGuinn,

the lead singer of the 1960s rock group The Byrds,

concerning their 1968 appearance at The Grand Ole Opry. In that performance, the

Byrds attempted unsuccessfully to convince traditional country music fans that

their developing country rock sound was a legitimate part of the

tradition. They were met with jeers and catcalls, in what may be interpreted as

a sign of the increasing animosity at the time between rural or working-class

(mostly Southern) whites (represented by Opry attendees and Emery's listeners)

and young devotees of the counterculture (represented by the Byrds, with

their long hair and "hippie" attire).

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