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Freddie Langdon
Fred "Freddie" Eugene Langdon (February 23, 1922 – August 2, 1988) was a world champion fiddle player. Biography Langdon was born in the small town of Annville, Kentucky, and learned to play the fiddle by ear at a very early age. He obtained most of his fame on the Cincinnati-based WLW-TV show "Midwestern Hayride" as the fiddle player on the show. Langdon played with well-known greats like Kenny Price, Bonnie Lou, Buddy Ross and Jay Neas. He also sang backup for James Brown at King Records in Cincinnati, OH in the early 1960s. He got his start in country music at Renfro Valley in Kentucky. Langdon also appeared on the Arthur Godfrey show in the late 1950s. Langdon, Price, Ross and Jay Neas were part of a country music band called "The Hometowners" Langdon died of liver cancer in 1988. His survivors are wife, Faye, and son, James (Jamie), Worthington, OH and children from a previous marriage, Lynda, Barry, Larry, Donna, Devona, and eleven grandchildren. Other instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddle
A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, the style of the music played may determine specific construction differences between fiddles and classical violins. For example, fiddles may optionally be set up with a bridge with a flatter arch to reduce the range of bow-arm motion needed for techniques such as the double shuffle, a form of bariolage involving rapid alternation between pairs of adjacent strings. To produce a "brighter" tone than the deep tones of gut or synthetic core strings, fiddlers often use steel strings. The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught " by ear" rather than via written music. Fiddling is the act of playing the fiddle, and fiddlers are musicians that play it. Among musical styles, fiddling tends to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthington, OH
Worthington is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States, and is a northern suburb of Columbus. The population in the 2020 Census was 14,786. The city was founded in 1803 by the Scioto Company led by James Kilbourne, who was later elected to the United States House of Representatives, and named in honor of Thomas Worthington, who later became governor of Ohio. History First settlement On May 5, 1802, a group of prospective settlers founded the Scioto Company at the home of Rev. Eber B. Clark in Granby, Connecticut for the purpose of forming a settlement between the Muskingum River and Great Miami River in the Ohio Country. James Kilbourne was elected president and Josiah Topping secretary (McCormick 1998:7). On August 30, 1802, James Kilbourne and Nathaniel Little arrived at Colonel Thomas Worthington's home in Chillicothe, Ohio. They tentatively reserved land along the Scioto River on the Pickaway Plains for their new settlement (McCormick 1998:17). On October 5, 1802, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
