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Jim Ed Brown
Birth Name : James Edward Brown
Also known as : Jim Ed Brown
Born : April 1, 1934
Sparkman, Arkansas
Died : June 11, 2015
Franklin, Tennessee
Genres : Country
Occupation : Singer-songwriter
Instruments : Guitar
Years active : 1954–2015
Labels : RCA Victor
Jim Ed Brown, (James Edward Brown), American country music singer (born April 1, 1934, Sparkman, Ark.—died June 11, 2015, Franklin, Tenn.), recorded numerous sweetly sentimental hit songs as a solo artist, as a duet singer with Helen Cornelius, and as a member (with his sisters Maxine and Bonnie) of the vocal harmony group the Browns and was a fixture on country music TV and radio shows.
The Browns’ smash hit “The Three Bells” (1959) held the number one spot on Billboard’s country singles chart for 10 weeks and also topped the Hot 100 chart. Brown began his career in earnest when he sang with his sister Maxine on the Barnyard Frolic radio show on a station in Little Rock, Ark. They released five singles as a duo before Bonnie joined them in 1955 and they became the Browns.
The group had country hit songs with “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” (1955), “I Take the Chance” (1956), and “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” (1957). “The Old Lamplighter” (1960) was a favorite on the pop charts. The Browns joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1963, but the singers’ popularity later waned, and the Browns disbanded in 1967. Brown had begun a solo career in 1965, with modest success, but he did score a major hit with the honky-tonk number “Pop a Top” (1967). Though he also reached the country top 10 with “Morning” (1970) and “Southern Loving” (1973), he had greater success after he teamed up with Cornelius.
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Their debut single, “I Don’t Want to Have to Marry You” (1976), topped the country charts, & their recordings “Saying Hello, Saying I Love You, Saying Goodbye” (1976), “Lying in Love with You” and “Fools” (both 1979), & “Morning Comes Too Early” (1980) also reached the upper precincts. The Browns were elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in March 2015.
Brown hosted the syndicated country television show Nashville On The Road, along with Jerry Clower, Helen Cornelius, and Wendy Holcombe. The entire cast was replaced in 1981. The new host, Jim Stafford, kept hosting it until it ended in 1983. He also hosted The Nashville Network, You Can Be A Star (a talent show), and Going Our Way, which featured Brown and his wife traveling the U.S. in an RV. Brown lived in the south Nashville suburb of Brentwood, Tennessee, with his wife Becky.
Brown announced in September 2014 that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had temporarily retired from hosting his radio programs to undergo treatment. By early 2015 he was in remission and returned to hosting his radio programs. However, on June 3, 2015, he stated that the cancer had returned. Brown died a week later on June 11, 2015 at the age of 81.
