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Bill Anderson

As a singer, television host and prolific songwriter, Bill Anderson became a prominent and much loved figure on Nashville's country music scene throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Anderson earned a degree in journalism and was working at the Atlanta Constitution newspaper when City Lights, a song of isolation and loneliness he'd written as a 19-year-old, became a surprise hit for Ray Price and topped the country charts in 1958. "Whispering Bill" went on to score seven Number 1s on the country chart as a performer in his own right and crossed o...