The Life and Work of Jimmie Osborne: Automobile Baby
The Life and Work of Jimmie Osborne Jimmie Osborne (4/8/1923 ~ 12/26/1957): Country singer Jimmie Osborne wrote and recorded the 1949 song The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus. Osborne wrote the song while working on radio station WLEX in Lexington. The single sold over one million copies and Osborne donated half the proceeds to the Fiscus family. A native of Winchester in the bluegrass country of Kentucky, Osborne came from a farm background. When he received a guitar as a gift, the youngster became determined to carve out a musical career. In 1939 he began to appear on WLAP radio in nearby Lexington. During the war, Jimmie worked in defense plants but still played music on weekends. Around 1945, he went back to WLAP and later sang at stations in Asheville and Texarkana. In I946 Jimmie got his first big break when he moved to KWKH (Shreveport, Louisiana), home of the Louisiana Hayride. He worked there with the Bailes Brothers and traveled the region making personal appearances throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana. Jimmie became quite popular and signed with King Records. His initial release, titled My Heart Echoes (1947), made the top-10 and helped him land a position back in his home state as performer and deejay at WLEX Lexington. Jimmie wrote most of his own songs for the Lois Music Publishing Company and he recorded exclusively for King Records. In April 1949, Jimmie wrote and recorded The Death of Little Kathy Fiscus (King 788) about the tragic accidental …
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