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Randy Atcher (Randall Ignatius Atcher) was born on 7 December, 1918 in Tiptop, Kentucky, is a singer-songwriter. Discover Randy Atcher's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?
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Randall Ignatius Atcher |
Occupation |
American country musician, television host, narrator |
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84 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius |
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7 December, 1918 |
Birthday |
7 December |
Birthplace |
Modern-day Ft Knox Kentucky |
Date of death |
(2002-10-09) Louisville, Kentucky |
Died Place |
Louisville, Kentucky |
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United States |
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Randy Atcher Height, Weight & Measurements
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Randy Atcher Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Randy Atcher worth at the age of 84 years old? Randy Atcher’s income source is mostly from being a successful singer-songwriter. He is from United States. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
• 2019 Gold Circle Honoree, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Ohio Valley Chapter
Atcher was born in Tiptop, Kentucky, and by the age of 15 was an accomplished and favorite entertainer. Atcher played guitar, mandolin, banjo, double bass and harmonica and was often heard with his musical "Atcher Family" on WHAS AM radio in Louisville. By the 1950s, Atcher was a popular entertainer in Louisville, performing (and starring) on over 22 programs a week. Atcher died on October 9, 2002, in Louisville.
Atcher died of lung cancer on October 9, 2002, at the Hospice & Palliative Care unit at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. His body was buried at Evergreen Mausoleum in Louisville, Kentucky.
• 1994 Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year, The American Federation for the Blind, New York, New York
• 1989 Musician of the Year, Louisville Federation of Musicians
The show ran until 1970, when it was abruptly cancelled.
Atcher was the subject of a biography edited by Wade Hall and Greg Swem entitled A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music. The book was produced from a series of nine recordings of Atcher’s memoirs taped in 1969 through 2002 and transcribed by Hall and Swem.
Speaking of T-Bar-V Ranch's reach, Atcher said "One of the things that I will always remember is in 1966 the State Department asked me to take some of our entertainers and entertain the troops in Santo Domingo and in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. ...we were in this, I think, a soccer stadium – it was a huge stadium – and we had arranged the program so that I would go out by myself to start and then bring each one of them out after I had sung a few songs. I walked out on the stage and a voice from way back in the crowd said, 'Well, I'll be damned, T-Bar-V Ranch time.' That was a real highlight to have that happen that far away."
Atcher became a prolific entertainer at WHAS Radio and TV in Louisville. In 1959, at 12:15pm each day, he hosted a show called Randy Sings Ballads. At 1:00pm, Randy and the Red River Ramblers performed an hour show. His children's show T-Bar-V Ranch aired every day at 4:00pm. On Saturdays, Atcher did the WHAS Old Kentucky Barn Dance that aired Saturdays from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and the Country Record Shop show from 7:30pm to 8:30pm. Atcher's popular barn dance show was also a featured attraction for two Saturday nights at the Kentucky State Fair.
In 1953, White Castle began advertising its hamburgers through the show, the first of several companies who contracted product placement.
Atcher starred in Hayloft Hoedown, a weekly, Friday evening country music variety show that premiered on WHAS TV in June, 1951. Atcher was joined by his sidekick Tom "Cactus" Brooks and the Red River Rangers. The show aired until 1971.
In 1950 through 1951, Atcher was a performer on the WHAS AM radio program "Circle Star Ranch".
Atcher appeared on WHAS TV's first television broadcast day in Louisville on March 27, 1950. During the station's first program, Atcher previewed his concept for a locally produced children's show T-Bar-V Ranch. The next Monday, Atcher started his half-hour children's program. T-Bar-V Ranch aired at 4:00pm for almost 25 years, five days a week. Atcher said "At the time it (T-Bar-V Ranch) went off the air, it was the longest-running show with the same talent in the country." It is estimated over 135,000 children had their birthdays celebrated during the show's broadcast run.
In 1950, Atcher formed a new band, the Red River Rangers, who performed on every T-Bar-V Ranch show. The Red River Rangers band included George Workman on bass, Shorty Chesser on guitar, Bernie Smith on guitar and banjo, Sleepy Marlin on fiddle, and Tiny Thomale on piano. The band also performed live at local state fairs and events.
Atcher was heard and seen multiple times per day and per week with many different radio and later television shows. Atcher also performed at many local venues, singing and playing western music. In 1949, he appeared nightly at the Silver Creek Country Club in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
Atcher left WHAS AM, moving in April, 1948 to WGRC AM. By December, 1948, Atcher had hired on as a booth announcer and singing talent on two music shows broadcast on Louisville's WKLO AM radio. He also worked there as a disk jockey hosting his country music themed "Randy A Show". His shift featured country music, from 8am until 12 Noon, Monday through Friday.
In 1946, Atcher was hired as station musical director, helping sign WFRP AM radio on the air in Savannah, Georgia. In 1947, Atcher returned to Louisville, where he and his Swinging Cowboys band were heard nightly on WHAS AM radio as well as every Sunday morning 7:15 am on a WHAS AM radio show entitled "Camp Meeting Singers.
In 1941, Atcher joined his brother Bob and Bob's wife Laurena Applegate, known as "Bonnie Blue Eyes" as "The Western Trio" on Ben Bernie's Just Entertainment program. The program aired on Louisville's WHAS AM radio station Mondays through Fridays at 4:45 pm.
In 1938, he left Louisville for Chicago and put a band together there. He won slots performing on WJJD and WBBM and became a local star; he also recorded occasionally with his older brother, Bob Atcher.
Later in 1937, Atcher joined the hillbilly radio troupe "Uncle Henry and His Kentucky Mountaineers". In 1938, he joined "Sunshine Sue and Her Rock Creek Rangers", playing guitar and singing on WHAS AM radio. While a member of that troupe, Atcher also played the rube comedic character "Lemuel Q. Splutterfluss". In 1939 the group moved to WMOX AM in St. Louis.
Atcher attended the Western Kentucky Teachers College in 1936. The "radio yodeler from West Point" won the position of vice-president of the freshman class. The Ohio River flood of 1937 washed the Atcher family home at West Point away, and Atcher withdrew from the college, helping to rebuild the family home. He did not return to college, having decided to continue in entertainment.
Atcher originally performed with musician members of his family. A 1935 newspaper article listed "Bob Atcher, the 'Mountain Minstrel', Randall Atcher, the 'Laughing Yodeler', Dad, the 'Kentucky Fiddling Champion' and Francis, the 'Old Grin Boy'" on April 15, 1935 at Moreland High School in Danville, Kentucky and broadcast on WHAS AM radio. Readers were told they would "laugh 'till your sides ache'".
Atcher quickly became an accomplished and favorite entertainer. In 1934, at the age of 15, he was listed as the "Yodeling Wonder" during a concert he performed with his brother Bob Atcher at Hustonville (Kentucky) High School.
Atcher played guitar, mandolin, banjo, double bass and harmonica and was often heard with his musical "Atcher Family" on WHAS AM radio in Louisville. The family was first broadcast in 1932 on Louisville's WLAP AM radio station and then began a two and a half-year run on WHAS AM that ended in 1936.
Randall Ignatius Atcher (December 7, 1918 - October 9, 2002) was a Louisville, Kentucky, radio and television personality.