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• CONNIE B. GAY
• COUNTRY MUSIC PROMOTER CONNIE B. GAY DIES AT 75
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CONNIE B. GAY

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Connie Barrt Gay, 22 Augt 1914, Lizard Lick, North Carola, USA, d. After lol tn, Gay attend the State Universy and graduated 1935.

COUNTRY MUSIC PROMOTER CONNIE B. GAY DIES AT 75

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.

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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. 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.

CONNIE B. GAY

Gay helped anize the Country Mic Associatn, and he served as s first print.

CONNIE B. GAY

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. ; 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.

CONNIE B. GAY

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.

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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