10 Facts About Buddy Knox

Buddy Wayne Knox was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 rock hit song, "Party Doll".

In 1968, Buddy Knox, who had been living in semiretirement in Macon, Georgia, while running his publishing company, moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and signed a new recording contract with United Artists Records.

Buddy Knox's cover version of James Hendricks' "Glory Train" was another stylistic stretch and featured a gospel-like chorus of backing vocalists.

Buddy Knox's cover of the Fleetwoods' "Come Softly to Me" demonstrated a vocal range not heard on his older recordings.

Buddy Knox reached out to the new generation of songwriters who would become prominent during Nashville's "Outlaw era" of the 1970s, as he was one of the first artists to record Mickey Newbury's "I'm Only Rockin'".

On several of these recordings, Buddy Knox experimented with multitracking, something few artists had done up to that time.

For many decades from the 1970s to the 1990s, Buddy Knox was based in the small town of Dominion City, Manitoba, Canada, and toured primarily in Western Canada and upper Midwest US with occasional European appearances.

Buddy Knox said the fame took a toll on his family life.

Buddy Knox scheduled a farewell show, but died just a few weeks later on February 14,1999, in Bremerton, Washington.

Buddy Knox is interred in Dreamland Cemetery, in Canyon, Texas.