Charline Arthur was an American singer of boogie-woogie, blues, and early rockabilly.
15 Facts About Charline Arthur
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In 1950, Arthur began work as a singer and a disc jockey at the Texas radio station KERB.
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Charline Arthur left three years later after the impresario Colonel Tom Parker discovered her, signing her with RCA Records.
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Charline Arthur was a regular performer on the Big D Jamboree radio program throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
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Charline Arthur performed and toured with Elvis Presley and others, but in 1956 RCA dropped her from the label and her career declined.
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Charline Arthur Highsmith was born in 1929 to a Pentecostal minister and his wife from Henrietta, Texas and was the second of twelve children.
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Charline Arthur's ambition was to play guitar; she collected bottles and cashed them in to raise the money for her first guitar.
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Charline Arthur joined a traveling medicine show after winning the show's talent contest.
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Charline Arthur later performed on some of her records and managed her during the early part of her career.
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Charline Arthur moved to Kermit, in West Texas, where she worked for a while as a DJ and singer, stirring up some controversy.
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Charline Arthur toured in 1954 with the RCA country and Western caravan, with Hank Snow, by Greyhound tour bus.
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Charline Arthur continued to tour and played with Elvis Presley a number of times in Texas throughout 1955, including on the Big D Jamboree show when Elvis made his first appearance there on 16 April.
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Charline Arthur felt that the conflict with Atkins was caused because he wanted her to record more assertive songs than she wanted to perform.
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Charline Arthur died there on November 27,1987, aged 58, due to natural causes.
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An important reissue of Charline Arthur songs was Welcome to the Club, containing singles recorded between 1949 and 1957, on the German label Bear Family Records.