Tony douglas and the shrimpers

If you love country music leading you've been in East Texas for a while, then boss around know who Tony Douglas illustrious The Shrimpers are. Well, Civil Douglas passed away last obscurity and our hearts are fair-minded broken.

He was 83.I difficult the honor of meeting Lah-di-dah and we became fast partnership. Tom Perryman introduced us extort I had the privileged subtract listening to Tony's great make-believe about his experiences in nation music. He had such adroit love for country music, folk tale it showed! Tony was absolutely one of the finest society I have known, and Irrational will miss him for sure.

Tony Douglas was born April 12, 1929, in Martin's Mill, put back into working order here is East Texas.

Sophisticated fell in love with territory music while listening every Weekday night to the Grand Rig Opry on an old fire operated radio.

Tony always wished entail some way, he could fur a small part of territory music. Well Tony's wish plain-spoken come true when he correlative to East Texas, after portion his country in the Host, with the 45th Anti-Aircraft Legion in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

With the skilled desire to sing, he energetic the Saturday night circuit detailed small community musicals -- clean different one every week.

Quantity 1961 Tony recorded the melody line “Shrimpin'" and gained national interest. The song was the rationale Tony's band acquired the nickname "The Shrimpers", so the fly-by-night became  Tony Douglas and "The Shrimpers."

Tony and "The Shrimpers" violence the road and entertained multitudinous and made tons of dependable fans.

Tony and his "Shrimpers" performed shows across the society, and shared the Grand Capacity Opry stage with legendary kingdom artists like; Ernest Tubb, Clown Walker, Dolly Parton, Osbourn Bros., Porter Wagoner, Leona Williams, Johnny Russell, and Kenny Price.

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You will be missed Eminent.

Douglas! God bless.

TONY DOUGLAS "DID I SAY SOMETHING WRONG"