Bob Moore

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Name = Bob Moore


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Birth_name = Bob Loyce Moore
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Born = November 30, 1932
Nashville, Tennessee
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Instrument = Double bass
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Occupation = Bassist, session musician, orchestra leader
Years_active = 1946 - ?
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Associated_acts = Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, many others
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"For the football player of the same name see Bob Moore (American football)."

Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist.

Moore developed his musical skills as a boy, and by age 15 he was playing double bass on a tent show tour with a Grand Ole Opry musical group. At age eighteen he acepted a position touring with Little Jimmy Dickens. At age twenty, his abilities brought an offer to play on the famed Red Foley TV show, the "Ozark Jubilee". Working with Foley's band in Springfield, Missouri while traveling to Nashville on weekends proved to be exhausting. After two years, he returned to his native Nashville.

Moore was 12 years old when he first met Owen Bradley. At that time, Bradley was playing trombone in Nashville radio station WSM's staff band. In 1950, Bradley hired Moore to perform on a direct-to-disk transcription which was uploaded via cable from the stage of the Ryman Theatre. Soon thereafter, Bradley became the head of Nashville's division of Decca Records, and brought Moore in as a session musician. Moore went on to perform on more than 17,000 thousand recording sessions.Fact|date=March 2008 Moore was a member of "The Nashville A-Team".

In 1958, he played on his first of many Elvis Presley sessions. The following year he teamed up with Fred Foster to establish Monument Records where he would become part of the musical success of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, Roy Orbison. In 1960, he formed the Bob Moore Orchestra and recorded an album which included the song "Mexico", that as a 45rpm single in 1961 went to number seven on the "Billboard" pop music chart, remaining in the Top 40 for ten weeks. This song also topped the "Easy Listening" chart for one week in 1961.

In his long career, Moore has worked in a variety of music scenes, including a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival and recording with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. He had strong roots in country music, and in 1994 Life magazine named him the number one "Country Bassist" of all time. He performed with such diverse artists as Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Connie Francis, Wayne Newton, Quincy Jones, Burl Ives, and French singer Johnny Halliday.

Family

Bob Moore's son R. Stevie Moore is a rock singer and songwriter, known for his many independent home recordings. Moore's daughter Linda Faye Moore was a Miss Tennessee and a Top 10 finisher in the Miss America pageant; she was a member of the 1980s country-pop female band Calamity Jane, which had minor hits with 1981's "Send Me Somebody To Love" and a 1982 cover of The Beatles' "I've Just Seen A Face." Moore's two other sons, Gary and Harry, are not involved in the music business.

References

* [http://www.nashvillesound.net/ Bob Moore's home page]
*Whitburn, Joel (1996). "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits", 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)

External links

* [http://www.angelfire.com/tn2/bobloyce/ R. Stevie's Bob Moore site]
* [http://www.moregendel.com Llynda More]