Porter “Mr. Grand Ole Opry” Wagoner certainly couldn’t be considered a one-hit wonder by any stretch of the imagination, but he certainly helped inspire some. For one 1960s artist, that inspiration ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Porter Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday. He was 80. Wagoner, who had ...
Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-encrusted personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country-music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton, ...
Like many older performers, his star had faded in recent years. But his death from lung cancer Sunday, at 80, came only after a remarkable late-career revival that won him a new generation of fans.
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