Bob Moore
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For the football player of the same name see Bob Moore (American football).
Bob Loyce Moore (born November 30, 1932 in Nashville, Tennessee), is an American session musician, orchestra leader, and bassist.
Moore developed his musical skills as a boy, and by age 15 he was playing double bass on a tent show tour with a Grand Ole Opry musical group. At age eighteen he acepted a position touring with Little Jimmy Dickens. At age twenty, his abilities brought an offer to play on the famed Red Foley TV show, The Ozark Jubilee. Working with Foley's band in Springfield, Missouri while traveling to Nashville on weekends proved to be exhausting. After two years, he returned to his native Nashville.
Bob Moore was 12 years old when he first met Owen Bradley. At that time, Owen was playing trombone in WSM's staff band. In 1950 Owen Bradley hired Bob Moore to perform on a direct-to-disk transcription which was uploaded via cable from the stage of the Ryman Theatre. Soon thereafter, Owen Bradley became the head of Nashville's division of Decca records, and brought Moore in as a session musician. Moore went on to perform on more than 17,000 thousand recording sessions.[citation needed] Moore was a member of The Nashville A-Team.
In 1958, he played on his first of many Elvis Presley sessions. The following year he teamed up with Fred Foster to establish Monument Records where he would become part of the musical success of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, Roy Orbison. In 1960, he formed the Bob Moore Orchestra and recorded an album which included the song " Mexico" that as a 45rpm single went to number seven on the Billboard pop music charts.[citation needed]
In his long career, Moore has 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. While he has strong roots in country music, and in 1994 Life magazine named him the number one "Country Bassist" of all time, he has performed with such diverse artists such as Bob Dylan, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Julie Andrews, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Connie Francis, Wayne Newton, Quincy Jones, Burl Ives, and French singer Johnny Halliday.
[edit] Family
Bob Moore's son R. Stevie Moore is a rock singer and songwriter, known for his many independent home recordings. Moore's daughter Linda Faye Moore was a Miss Tennessee and a Top 10 finisher in the Miss America pageant; she was a member of the 1980s country-pop female band Calamity Jane, which had minor hits with 1981's "Send Me Somebody To Love" and a 1982 cover of the Beatles' "I've Just Seen A Face." Moore's two other sons, Gary and Harry, are not involved in the music business.
