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CONNIE B. GAY

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After lol tn, Gay attend the State Universy and graduated 1935. Listener reactn soon saw the show creased to three hours and renamedGay Time. In 1947, after promotg two major sell-out untry shows starrg Eddy Arnold, Gay moved more towards promotnal work.

His iendship wh Jim Denny, a fellow promoter but also the manager of the Grand Ole Opry, led to Gay promotgOpry acts and quickly tablishg himself as a major promoter. Gay died of ncer, at his home McLean, 1989. Gay, 75, a retired Washgton-based mic promoter who was an fluential figure the transformatn of untry mic to a morn entertament dtry, died of ncer Dec.

COUNTRY MUSIC PROMOTER CONNIE B. GAY DIES AT 75

Gay began his reer here 1946 when he persuad the program manager at the newly opened WARL Arlgton to let him do a half-hour noontime untry mic rerd show, lled "Town and Country Time. Gay once told a Washgton Post reporter. Gay surprised skeptics by stagg a sold-out untry mic show starrg Eddy Arnold at Constutn Hall.

Gay's show and he began to manage Patsy Cle, Bill Grammer and Dub Howgton. He also began buyg rad statns, cludg lol statns WQMR and WGAY. "Most of the people around here now thk {WGAY} was named after me, " Gay once related an terview.

Gay helped anize the Country Mic Associatn, and he served as s first print. His marriage to Hazel Gay end divorce. Survivors clu his wife of 28 years, Kathere Gay of McLean; two children by his first marriage, William Jan Gay of Alexandria and Judy Berkely of St.

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; two children by his send marriage, Cecelia Ashley of Manassas and Carole Gay of McLean; and four grandchildren.

Connie Barrt Gay was one of untry’s leadg entreprenrs of the 1950s, playg a semal role transformg what was still lled “hillbilly” mic to a morn entertament dtry jt one om his base the Washgton, D. Gay was one of the first to the term “untry mic, ” place of the ls flatterg “hillbilly mic. Gay got his start rad broadstg on the Farm Secury Admistratn’s Natnal Farm and Home Hour.

Later, at WARL, Gay helped popularize untry mic Washgton, D. Gay took over the management of Dean, whom he veloped to a TV star and host of the regnally popular Town & Country Time show and the short-lived CBS effort, The Jimmy Dean Show (1957–1959), until Dean and Gay spl 1959. In his heyday Gay’s steady roster of talent clud, bis Dean, Patsy Cle (who ma her TV but on Gay’s Town & Country shows), Roy Clark, and Gee Haton IV.

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In 1958 Gay beme the foundg print of the Country Mic Associatn (CMA), and several years later he helped lnch the Country Mic Foundatn (CMF). Gay Bgraphy, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Fay. Gay (Connie Barrt Gay) was born on 22 Augt, 1914 Lizard Lick, North Carola, is an artist.

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In March 1958, Connie Gay was named "C&W Man of the Year" The Billboard, exceedg the top nner-up, Jim Denny. Gay was ducted to the Country Mic Hall of Fame 1980. In 1986, Gay was regnized by the Washgton Area Mic Associatn wh a Special Achievement Award.

Connie Gay was ducted to the Wt Virgia Broadstg Hall of Fame on September 16, 2006.

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In 2002, The Washgton Post published a story about Connie Gay, sayg that he "may be the greatt untry mic visnary no one's ever heard of". Gay was the first person to ll the genre "untry mic", distancg himself om the growg pejorative associatns of the "hillbilly" moniker and the geographic limatns of a wtern inty, implied by "untry and wtern". Gay retired 1972, sellg his bs assets and termatg his executive enavors untry mic.

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Gay's reer total gross earngs are timated to be $50 ln. Connie Gay died om ncer on December 3, 1989, at the age of 75.

Gay's ndid reflectn of his shared succs wh untry mic when he stated: "I didn't have an ia that untry mic would reach the gigantic proportns has reached both here and ternatnally, on the other hand, you n dream, n't you? Gay was an entreprenr who leveraged his mil sight to a profable empire that extend his legacy to the morn era. In 1958, Connie Gay helped found the Country Mic Associatn and served as s first print.