Johnny Hicks

b. 19 May 1918, on a farm near Kansas City, Missouri, USA, d. 9 April 1997, Carmel, California, USA. While attending the University of Texas, in 1938, Hicks was offered an announcing job on a local Austin station. It turned out to be with the country music programme of Wilbert Lee O'Daniel, then Governor of Texas. In 1941, he worked as a disc jockey and sang on KABC San Antonio and WBAP Fort Worth, where working with Ernest Tubb converted him completely to country music. He relocated to Dallas, in 1942 and worked with the Callahan Brothers and Jim Boyd on different stations. H...