Remembering truck driver song specialist, Dick Curless on his birthday. He was born March 17, 1932 in Fort Fairfield, Maine. Nicknamed the Baron of Country Music, he drove into the Top 10 in 1965 with his trucker classic "A Tombstone Every Mile" | GatorRock
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In 1952, twenty-two-year-old Dick Curless was drafted into the Army and sent to Korea. Though the war was winding down, Curless had no way of knowing how long he would be gone as he said goodbye to his pregnant wife, Pauline, to report for duty. Curless had already been performing for five years by the time he was drafted, and soon, he had his own radio program over the Armed Forces Korea Network, performing and playing records as the Rice Paddy Ranger. The show became so popular that soon it wa
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On March 17, 1932, Dick Curless was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine. Nicknamed the "Baron of Country Music", he is perhaps best known for his 1965 trucker classic "A Tombstone Every Mile". In all, the baritone-voiced Curless placed more than twenty hit recordings on Billboard country charts during his career. Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame is now celebrating his life in a new exhibit: "Dick Curless: Hard Traveling Man from Maine". | GatorRock
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Dick Curless was one of the most versatile and expressive country vocalists of his generation—a singer with a deep, rich baritone, especially well known for his trucking songs, such as the 1965 classic “A Tombstone Every Mile.” On this day in 1952 (July 3), Curless married Pauline Green, whose wedding dress is pictured here. Shortly after the pair married, Curless was drafted into the army. Legally blind in one eye and with Pauline pregnant, he was sent to Korea where he got his own radio progra
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Remembering "The Baron", Dick Curless, who was born on this date in 1932. | GatorRock
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