Frank Proffitt
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 59 years ago |
Date of birth | June 1,1913 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Tennessee |
United States | |
Date of died | November 24,1965 |
Died | Vilas |
North Carolina | |
United States | |
Genres | Folk Music |
Albums | Frank Proffitt Memorial Album |
Frank Proffitt of Reese, Nc | |
Songs | Beaver Dam Road |
Going Across the Mountain | |
Bolamkin | |
Ninety and Nine | |
Dan Doo | |
Johnson Boys | |
George Collins | |
Baby-O | |
Old Abe | |
Julie Jenkins | |
Ground Hog | |
Trifling Woman | |
John Hardy | |
Poor Ellen Smith | |
Sourwood Mountain | |
Ruben Train | |
Morning Fair | |
Wild Bill Jones | |
Song of a Lost Hunter | |
Tom Dooley | |
I'm Going Back to North Carolina | |
Gyps of David | |
Bonnie James Campbell | |
I'll Never Get Drunk No More | |
Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down | |
Cluck Old Hen | |
Cindy | |
Lord Randall | |
Down in the Valley | |
Blackberry Wine | |
Handsome Molly | |
Got No Sugar Baby Now | |
Record labels | Folk Legacy Records |
Folkways Records | |
Nationality | American |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1329123 |
Frank Proffitt Life story
Frank Noah Proffitt was an Appalachian old time banjoist who preserved the song "Tom Dooley" in the form we know it today and was a key figure in inspiring musicians of the 1960s and 1970s to play the traditional five-string banjo.