Flowers for mama red sovine biography
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Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine (July 7, 1916 – April 4, 1980) was an American country music singer and songwriter associated with truck driving songs, particularly those recited as narratives but set to music. The most famous examples are his 1965 number #1 hit Giddyup Go and his 1976 number one hit "Teddy Bear".
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Red Sovine was born as Wooodrow Wilson Sovine in 1916 in Charleston, West Virginia, Sovine (whose last name was pronounced So VINE) was taught to play guitar bygd his mother. His first venture into music was with his childhood friend Johnnie Bailes, with whom he performed as "Smiley and Red, the Singing Sailors" in the country music revue Jim Pike's Carolina Tar Heels on WWVA-AM in Wheeling, West Virginia.[1][2] Faced with limited success, Bailes left to perform as part of The Bailes Brothers. Sovine got married, and continued to sing on Charleston radio, while holding down aJOB
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Roses for Mama (song)
1977 single by C.W. McCall
"Roses for Mama" is a song recorded by country music artist C. W. McCall and covered by Red Sovine, and was a top 5 hit for McCall in 1977. The song was also covered, in German, by Austrian singer Jonny Hill in 1979.[1][2]
One of McCall's numerous recitations released during the 1970s, "Roses for Mama" differed from his usual novelty-style tales. Instead, this song focuses on a traveller's kind-hearted actions toward a motherless boy.
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[edit]The narrator is travelling to Florida to vacation with an old friend when he makes a stop in a small town in Georgia. During the stop, he calls his mother in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, to wish her a happy birthday and plans to wire her some roses. At the flower shop, he runs into a teary-eyed 5-year-old boy. The boy is upset because he cannot afford to purchase roses for his mother, whom he says he has not seen in almost a year.
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