Spoiler : Happy Birthday, loved your tv show you had on years ago. You always had my favorite singer on, Tommy Sands

Spoiler : Ford, Tennessee Ernie (birth name was Ernest Jennings Ford) Born in Bristol, Tennessee 2/13/1919; died 10/17/1991 of a liver disease in Reston, Virginia. Married to Betty Jean Heminger (?-?). Attended Cincinnati Conservatory Of Music. Radio announcer on WOPL-Bristol, Tennessee (1939-1941). Served in the U.S. Army Air Corp (1942-1945). Following WWII, was a radio announcer-hillbillie disk jockey on San Bernardino and Pasadena, California stations. Capital Records recording star for many records including "16 Tons." Catch-phrase was "God Bless Your Pea-Pickin' Hearts."

Spoiler : Host of The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show on ABC-Radio (1952-1953), CBS-Radio (1954-1955, again in 1958); syndicated program of 260 seven-minute programs beginning in 1958.

Spoiler : Guest star on television programs including I Love Lucy for CBS (1953-1955); syndicated television series, Dolly in 1976; Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters for NBC (1980- 1982). Regular performer (billed as Tennessee Ernie) on The Old American Barn Dance for DuMont- TV (1953). Host of The College Of Musical Knowledge (a new version of Kay Kyser's Kollege Of Musical Knowledge) on NBC-TV (1954). Host of The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show for NBC-TV (1955- 1961); ABC-TV (1962-1965).