BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Andrew John Smik, Jr.
Description: Vocalist , USA
Known For: “Willie Roy the Crippled Boy” and “My Old Brown Coat And Me”.
Instruments: Vocals
Music Styles: Country
Location: United States of America
Date Born: 26th June 1914st
Location Born: Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
Date Died: 31 January 2011
Location Died: Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
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CONTACT DETAILS
Web Site: http://www.docwilliams.com/cms/
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Doc Williams
An influential American country music band leader and vocalist.
Doc Williams founded Wheeling Records in 1947 and through it released all of his and his wife’s albums.
Doc eventually formed his own band, Doc Williams and the Border Riders. The group went on the air on WWVA Wheeling in 1937; soon, with the addition of comedian Froggie Cortez and cowboy crooner, Big Slim the Lone Cowboy, and became one of the station’s most popular attractions.
In 1939, Williams married Jessie Wanda Crupe, a singer who soon adopted the stage name Chickie Williams (February 13, 1919 – November 18, 2007). The Williams’ were popular performers.
Doc Williams founded Wheeling Records in 1947 and through it released all of his and his wife’s albums; occasionally, they sang together, and sometimes with their three daughters.
Williams died in Wheeling, West Virginia, aged 96.