The Ernest Tubb AirplayExpress Awards Page

Honky-tonk singer-songwriter, movie actor, record retailer, a longtime Grand Ole Opry star, and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Ernest Dale Tubb was among the most influential and important country performers in history. Throughout his own illustrious fifty-year career he gave numerous younger stars invaluable broadcast and concert exposure.

While his own career was on an upswing in the early and middle 1960s, honors and accolades came his way, including election in 1965 to the Country Music Hall of Fame, the same year he received a gold record for “Walking the Floor Over You.” Tubb hosted a syndicated TV show out of Nashville between 1965 and 1968, with Willie Nelson his co-star in the early episodes.

No artist toured as much for as long as Ernest Tubb, who worked 150 to 200 shows each year between the early 1960s (when he first turned his Texas Troubadours into a dance band and started playing the nightclub circuit) and 1982, at which time a long-standing battle with emphysema forced him to quit. No artist was better to his fans, and no fans were more loyal to their star: Ernest Tubb had one national fan club with a single president (Norma Winton Barthel) for its entire existence between 1944 and its deactivation in the early 1990s, a few years beyond Tubb’s death in September 1984. – Ronnie Pugh

– Adapted from the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum’s Encyclopedia of Country Music, published by Oxford University Press.

“I Ain’t Been Right Since You Went Wrong” Performed by Ernest Tubb and Written by Pete Drake. A number One on AirplayExpress Traditional Country Top20 Charts during April 2019 earning Country Legend Ernest Tubb a Platinum Disc Award from AirplayExpress.

“I Ain’t Been Right Since You Went Wrong” Performed by Ernest Tubb and Written by Pete Drake. Reached the Top 5 of AirplayExpress Traditional Country Top20 Charts during the first quarter of 2019 earning Country Legend Ernest Tubb a Gold Disc Award from AirplayExpress 

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