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Roy Clark

American singer, musician, and TV host (1933–2018)

For other people named Roy Clark, see Roy Clark (disambiguation).

Roy Clark

Clark on the set of A Conversation with Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2014

Birth nameRoy Linwood Clark
Born(1933-04-15)April 15, 1933
Meherrin, Virginia, U.S.
DiedNovember 15, 2018(2018-11-15) (aged 85)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • banjo
  • fiddle
  • harmonica
Years active1947–2018
Formerly ofHee Haw

Musical artist

Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018) was an American singer, musician, and television presenter. He is best known for having hosted Hee Haw, a nationally televised country variety show, from 1969 to 1997. Clark was an important and influential figure in country music, both as a performer and in helping to popularize the genre.

During the 1970s, Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30-million viewership for Hee Haw. Clark was

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Roy Linwood Clark (born 1933) is one of the most versatile and well-known country music musicians and performers. He is best known for hosting one of the first nationally televized country variety shows in the United States, Hee Haw from 1969 - 1992.

Clark has been an iconic figure in country music, both as a musician and as a popularizer of country music. Clark is an entertainer, most of all, with an amiable personality and a telegenic presence.

In the '70s, Roy Clark frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and enjoyed a 30,000,000 viewership for "Hee Haw." As both a guitarist and banjo player, Clark is a virtuoso. While he has had hit songs (e.g. "Yesterday, When I was Young" and "Thank God and Greyhound"), his instrumental skill has had an enormous impact on succeeding generations of both bluegrass and country musicians.

At the age of 14, Clark began playing banjo, guitar, and mandolin, and he won two National Banjo Championships by the age of 17. He was simu

Roy Clark, the country singer and multi-instrumentalist best known as a long-time host of Hee Haw, the television variety show that brought country music to millions of American households each week, died on Thursday November 15, 2018 at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma from complications of pneumonia. He was 85.

A multi-talented entertainer, Roy Clark became a major country music star during the 1970s.  A jovial international ambassador, he undertook several highly successful European tours that included performing to packed concert halls in the Soviet Union and high-profile television appearances in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia. He was deservedly named the CMA's 1973 Entertainer Of The Year, having broken through to pop-country crossover success with such hits as Yesterday When I Was Young, Thank God And Greyhound and Come Live With Me. In 2009 he was inducted into Nashville's prestigious Country Music Hall of Fame. Though renowned as an ace guitar player, it was as a multi-faceted entertainer that Roy Clark built his reputation, being equally at home in Las Vegas as he was i

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