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Career Highlights in Country Music ( 1949 - 1973 ) 1949 - First of a long list of books published on Country Music. All publications are in the archives of the Country Music Foundation. 1953 - On board of Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Day Celebration, Meridian, Mississippi, with Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, and Governor Jimmie Davis. 1954 - Bought Verona Lake Ranch, 80 acre Country Music park. Featured live shows on Sundays and holidays starring major artists from the Grand Ole Opry and West Coast. Thurston's late wife, Georgianna (1927-2002) MC'd all the shows. 1957 - The film, Albert Schweitzer, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary that year, was shown at the park. There on a beautiful evening in a country music park in Kentucky, Thurston Moore came under the spell of Albert Schweitzer. 1959 - Conceived and proposed the idea for a Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Published first edition of The Country Music Who's Who. This acclaimed book was called the "Bible" of the industry and was the first major book of its kind published, credited by many for changing the image of "hillbilly music" in Hollywood and on Madison Avenue. 1964 - Conceived three huge murals for the lobby of the Andrew Jackson Hotel, Nashville, for many years the headquarters of the annual Grand Ole Opry Birthday Celebrations. Each of the finished murals was twenty feet across. 1969 - Conceived the first Country Music Wax Museum in Nashville. 1972 - Was presented the Jim Reeves Award from the Academy of Country Music at the John Wayne Theatre, Knott's Berry Farm. Introduction and presentation was made by Frances Preston, BMI Executive. Other "special" awards give that evening were to Lawrence Welk and Gene Autry. Thurston Moore will be 80 in 2006 and lives in Madison, Tennessee |
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