If you’re a fan of Goo-goo candy, did you know that GOO is Grand Ole Opry?
Anyway, add to the list but try not to repeat any names. Living or dead is okay.
Chet Atkins
Hank Snow
Ernest Tubb
Hank Williams
Roy Acuff
Minnie Pearl
It looks like the Goo-goo candy cluster predates the Grand Ole Opry by at least a decade, so if it was named after the show, it would have to have been either before the show came on (1925?) or after some retrofitting of the facts. I just never bothered to check the obvious connection for authenticity.
Sorry.
Johnny Cash
June Carter Cash
The Everly Brothers
Bill Monroe
Grandpa Jones
Marty Robbins
Some of my personal favorites:
Trace Adkins
Bill Anderson
Dierks Bentley
Clint Black
Garth Brooks
Roy Clark
Charlie Daniels
Diamond Rio
Little Jimmy Dickens
Joe Diffie
Gatlin Brothers
Vince Gill
Tom T. Hall
George Hamilton IV
Emmylou Harris
Alan Jackson
George Jones
Hal Ketchum
Alison Krauss,
Patty Loveless
Loretta Lynn
Barbara Mandrell
Martina McBride
Del McCoury
Reba McEntire
Ronnie Milsap
Lorrie Morgan
Brad Paisley
Dolly Parton
Charley Pride
Jeanne Pruett
Riders In The Sky
Ricky Van Shelton
Ricky Skaggs
Connie Smith
Ralph Stanley
Marty Stuart
Mel Tillis
Pam Tillis
Randy Travis
Travis Tritt
Josh Turner
Steve Wariner
The Whites
Trisha Yearwood
Yes, I like country music!
Maybelle Carter
Rod Brassfield
Johnny Paycheck
About anyone else that I can think of has already been mentioned.
Thanks for the great replies from some people who should be able to answer a question I hadn’t bothered to check before posting the OP.
When did “member” become a designation? In searching for a definitive list online I couldn’t locate the names in the OP under the “official” members list which kaiwik posted most (if not all) of. I know those folks were regulars when I was a kid, and on up until they died, and surely they’re official members of the CMHOF, but is there some cutoff date for the use of the term “member” as it relates to the Opry?
I should go ahead and confess this, I suppose. I have been to several shows at the Ryman, and I saw Ray Charles at the new Opry House in Opryland and I have watched parts of a few GOO shows on TV and listened to some on the radio, but I have yet to go to a live show of the Opry in all the years I have been in Nashville. Is that blasphemy? Do you have similar experiences with whatever it is that makes your hometown famous or at least noteworthy?
Zeldar - Over 20 years in Nashville and I’ve never seen the Opry. I did see “Always, Patsy Cline” at the Ryman.
StG