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David Stout Stogner (May 15, 1920 – May 17, 1989) was an American musician, who was one of the premier
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—Sponsored by Viola Stogner.
mdash;Corralitos California History.
mdash;KFSR FM 90.7. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stogner, Dave American bandleaders Country bandleaders Musicians from California Western swing performers Western swing fiddlers Four Star Records artists 1920 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American fiddlers
Western swing
Western swing, country jazz or smooth country is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, which att ...
musicians playing on the West Coast. Known as the "West Coast King of Western Swing", Stogner moved to California to pursue a musical career with the encouragement from fellow Texan, Milton Brown
Milton Brown (September 8, 1903 – April 18, 1936) was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American ...
.
Although famous for his long-time big band, The Western Rhythmaires, his first band was called The Arkansawyers. Dave Stogner and The Western Rhythmairs hosted a show at the Big Fresno Barn Dance for more than ten years.
At least one author described Stogner's sound as "hard driving hillbilly".
Throughout his long career, in addition to his many hit recordings, Stogner wrote, and co-wrote, several songs including "Hard Top Race" in 1953. Stogner was elected to the Western Swing Hall of Fame in Sacramento in 1988.
National and regional sponsors
During the 1950s, Dave Stogner and his band hosted TV shows in Fresno. His show on the ABC affiliate station was sponsored by Coca-Cola exclusively. During that time Coke sponsored Stogner's show on the west coast and '' The Eddie Fisher Show'' on the east coast. Regional sponsors included Stogner's own brand of western style boots, "The Official Dave Stogner Boot".Recordings
A compilation album of many of Stogner's recordings for Decca and 4Star are available online.
References
Bibliography
*Ginell, Gary; Roy Lee Brown. ''Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing''.University of Illinois Press
The University of Illinois Press (UIP) is an American university press and is part of the University of Illinois System. Founded in 1918, the press publishes some 120 new books each year, thirty-three scholarly journals, and several electroni ...
, 1994.
*Haslam, Gerald W.; Alexandra R. Haslam; Richard Chon. ''Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California''. University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty ...
, 1999.
External links
*—Kern County Museum.Dave Stogner
—Sponsored by Viola Stogner.
mdash;Corralitos California History.
mdash;KFSR FM 90.7. {{DEFAULTSORT:Stogner, Dave American bandleaders Country bandleaders Musicians from California Western swing performers Western swing fiddlers Four Star Records artists 1920 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American fiddlers