Lonnie Mel Tillis

(1932- ) lived in Lincoln. Musician, singer, songwriter, businessman, became renowned country western performer and songwriter who produced 56 albums; in the 1970s alone he had 33 country hits of which 24 were Top 10 records, and five ranked number one; composed over 600 songs, many for recordings by major country western performers, has appeared in films and television shows, owns and manages several music publishing concerns and his theater in Branson, Missouri; won Country Music Association Entertainer of Year Award and was elected to Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1976. Consult Encyclopedia of Folk, Country & Western Music (St. Martin's Press, 1983) 740-742 and Mel Tillis, Stutterin' Boy, The Autobiography of Mel Tillis (Rawson, 1984) and Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd ed, Vol 7 (MUZE UK Ltd, 1998) 5436-5437 and Who's Who in Entertainment, 3rd ed (1998-99) 735.

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