Bob Loyce Moore was an American session musician, orchestra leader, and double bassist who was a member of the Nashville A-Team during the 1950s and 1960s.
12 Facts About Bob Moore
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Bob Moore performed on over 17,000 documented recording sessions, backing popular acts such as Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison.
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Bob Moore was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States and developed his musical skills as a boy.
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In 1950, Bradley hired Bob Moore to perform on a direct-to-disk transcription which was recorded via cable from the stage of the Ryman Theatre.
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Bob Moore went on to perform on over 17,000 documented recording sessions and was a key member of The Nashville A-Team, a core group of first-call studio musicians, that began to coalesce in the early 1950s.
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Bob Moore plays the bass intro on the Roger Miller hit, "King of the Road".
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Bob Moore worked in a variety of music scenes, including a performance at the Newport Jazz Festival and recording with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
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Bob Moore had strong roots in country music, and in 1994 Life named him the number one Country Bassist of all time.
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Bob Moore performed with such diverse recording artists as Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Flatt and Scruggs, Patti Page, Sammy Davis, Jr.
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Bob Moore was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Bob Moore died on September 22,2021, at the age of 88.
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Bob Moore appeared on almost all of Cline's Decca sessions from her first in November 1960 to her last in February 1963, during which time he backed her on songs such as:.