KLAW 101 - Oklahoma's Best Country » Billy Grammer http://klaw.com Oklahoma's Best Country Sat, 25 May 2013 02:04:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Longtime Opry Member Billy Grammer Passes Away at 85 http://klaw.com/billy-grammer-passes-away/ http://klaw.com/billy-grammer-passes-away/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:38:33 +0000 Jeff Giles http://tsminteractive.com/?p=34691 Billy Grammer, the singer and guitarist best known for his million-selling 1959 hit ‘Gotta Travel On,’ passed away Wednesday after a long illness. He was 85.

A World War Two Army veteran, Grammer broke into country music only after losing his job as a toolmaker after the war. He scored big with his debut single, ‘Gotta Travel On,’ the first of four top 40 hits in a recording career that continued for a decade.

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