Sunday Morning Country Classic Spotlight To Feature Johnny Duncan

Join me on Sunday, November 2nd, as I feature Johnny Duncan on the Sunday Morning Country Classic Spotlight at 11 a.m.  The Country Classic Show kicks off at 9 a.m.

Johnny's was slow to build.  While trying to break into the country music business, he worked as a DJ at WAGG in Franklin, Tennessee and a series of other jobs.  Performing on WSM TV shows emceed by Ralph Emery, he gained attention of Columbia records and the rest is history.

In his career he released fourteen studio albums, which produced more than thirty chart singles.  My all time favorite is She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime, song written by Aaron Schroeder and Bob Halley.  It was released in February of 1978 from the album, The Best is Yet to Come.  It would be his final number one country chart single and it stayed in the top spot for one week, with a total of ten weeks on the country chart.

Other hits included Come a Little Bit Closer, a duet with Janie Fricke, Stranger, Sweet Country Woman and many more.

He has three daughters with his first wife, Betty Deisher and one son with wife Connie Duncan, who survives him. He is a cousin of Dan Seals, a country singer and Jim Seals from Seals and Crofts, a pop group from the 1970's.

Johnny died of a heart attack on August 14th, 2006 at the age of 67.

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