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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917-07-17
- Active to
- 1980-04-04
countrytruck driving country
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Woodrow Wilson "Red" Sovine (July 17, 1918 — April 4, 1980) was a country music singer. He was associated with truck driving songs, particularly those recited as narratives, but set to music. The most famous example of this is his 1976 number one hit "Teddy Bear". Born in 1918 in Charleston, West Virginia, he was taught how to play guitar by his mother. His first venture into music was with his childhood friend Johnnie Bailes, with whom he performed as "Smiley and Red <a href="https://www.last.
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- www.redsovine.com
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- 1917-07-07
- date of death
- 1980-04-04
- birth name
- Woodrow Wilson Sovine
- start of work period
- 1935-00-00
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