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Mel Tillis Net Worth
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Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $20 Million.
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Biography
Mel Tillis information Birth date: August 8, 1932 Birth place: Dover, Florida, United States Profession:Singer-songwriter, Actor, Composer Nationality:United States of America Spouse:Doris Tillis (m. 1957–1977) Children:Pam Tillis, Mel Tillis, Jr., Hannah Tillis, Connie Tillis, Cindy Tillis, Carrie April TillisAlbums:36 All-Time Greatest Hits, Four Legends
Height, Weight
:How tall is Mel Tillis – 1,83m.
How much weight is Mel Tillis – 77kg
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Lonnie Melvin Mel Tillis is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits. Tilliss biggest hits include I Aint Never, Good Woman Blues, and Coca-Cola Cowb…
Biography,Early lifeTillis was born in Plant City, Florida but later raised in Pahokee, Florida (near West Palm Beach) in 1932. His stutter developed during his childhood, a result of a bout with malaria. As a child, Tillis learned the drums as well as guitar and at age 16, won a local talent show. He attended the University of Florida but dropped out and joined the United States Air Force. While stationed in Okinawa, he formed a band called The Westerners, which played at local nightclubs.After leaving the Air Force in 1955, Tillis returned to Florida where he worked a number of odd jobs, eventually finding employment with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Tampa, Florida. He used his railroad pass to visit Nashville and eventually met and auditioned for Wesley Rose of famed Nashville publishing house Acuff-Rose Music. Rose encouraged Tillis to return to Florida and continue honing his songwriting skills. Tillis eventually moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and began writing songs full-time. Tillis wrote Im Tired, a No. 3 country hit for Webb Pierce in 1957. Other Tillis hits include Honky Tonk Song and Tupelo County Jail. Ray Price and Brenda Lee also charted hits with Tilliss material around this time. In the late 1950s, after becoming a hit-making songwriter, he signed his own contract with Columbia Records. In 1958, he had his first Top 40 hit, The Violet and a Rose, followed by the Top 25 hit Sawmill.Rise to fameAlthough Tillis charted on his own Billboards Hot Country Songs list, he had more success as a songwriter. He continued to be Webb Pierces songwriter. He wrote the hits I Aint Never (Tilliss own future hit) and Crazy, Wild Desire. Bobby Bare, Tom Jones (Detroit City), Wanda Jackson, and Stonewall Jackson also covered his songs. Tillis continued to record on his own. Some well-known songs from his Columbia years include The Brooklyn Bridge, Loco Weed, and Walk on, Boy. However, he did not achieve major success on the country charts on his own.In the mid-1960s, Tillis switched over to Kapp Records, and in 1965, he had his first Top 15 hit with Wine. Other hits continued to follow, such as Stateside and Life Turned Her That Way (which was later covered by Ricky Van Shelton in 1988, going to No. 1). He wrote for Charley Pride (The Snakes Crawl At Night) and wrote a big hit for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition called Ruby, Dont Take Your Love to Town. He also wrote the hit Mental Revenge for Outlaw superstar Waylon Jennings. (It has also been covered by the Hacienda Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, Barbara Mandrell, and Jamey Johnson.) In 1968, Tillis achieved his first Top 10 hit with Whos Julie. He also was a regular featured singer on The Porter Wagoner Show.The height of his careerThings turned around in 1969 for Tillis. He finally achieved the success he always wanted with two Top 10 country hits, These Lonely Hands of Mine and Shell Be Hanging Around Somewhere. In 1970, he reached the Top 5 with Heart Over Mind, which peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Country Songs list. After this, Tilliss career as a country singer went into full swing. Hits soon came quite easily, such as Heaven Everyday (1970), Commercial Affection (1970), Arms of a Fool (1970), Take My Hand (a duet with Sherry Bryce in 1971), and Brand New Mister Me (1971). In 1972, Tillis achieved his first chart-topper with his version of his song I Aint Never. Even though the song was previously a hit by Webb Pierce, Tilliss version is the better-known version of the two. Most of the above-mentioned song hits were recorded on MGM Records, Tilliss record company in the early part of the decade.After the success of I Aint Never, Tillis had another hit, which came close to No. 1 (reaching No. 3), entitled Neon Rose, followed by Sawmill, which reached No. 2. Midnight, Me and the Blues was another near chart-topper in 1974. Other hits Tillis had on MGM include Stomp Them Grapes (1974), Memory Maker (1974), Woman in the Back of My Mind (1975), and his version of Mental Revenge (1976). Tillis achieved his biggest success with MCA Records, with which he signed in 1976. It started with a pair of two No. 1 hits in 1976, Good Woman Blues and Heart Healer. (In an interview, he mentioned having written five hits in one week.) Thanks to this success, in 1976 Tillis won the CMA Awardss most coveted award, Entertainer of the Year, and was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame that year. He achieved another No. 1 in 1978 with I Believe In You and then again in 1979 with Coca-Cola Cowboy, which was put in the Clint Eastwood movie Every Which Way but Loose, in which he also made a cameo appearance. Also in 1978, Mel co-hosted a short-lived variety series on ABC television, Mel and Susan Together with model Susan Anton. Other hits around this time included Send Me Down to Tucson, Aint No California, and I Got the Hoss. In mid-1979, Tillis switched to another record company, Elektra Records.After signing with Elektra, he continued to make hit songs such as Blind In Love and Lying Time Again, both hits in 1979. Until 1981, Tillis remained on top of his game as one of country musics most successful vocalists of the era. Your Body Is an Outlaw went to No. 3 in 1980, followed by another Top 10 hit, Steppin Out. Southern Rains in 1981 was his last No. 1 hit. That same year, he released an album of duets with Nancy Sinatra which spawned two hit singles, the Top 30 hit Texas Cowboy Night and the double A-side, Play Me or Trade Me/Where Would I Be. He remained with Elektra until 1982 before switching back to MCA for a brief period in 1983. That summer, he scored a Top 10 hit with In The Middle Of The Night and had his last Top 10 hit with New Patches in 1984. By this time, however, Tillis had built up a financial empire thanks to investing in music publishing companies such as Sawgrass and Cedarwood. He also appeared in movies, including Love Revival, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975), The Villain (1979), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980),The Cannonball Run (1981), and Uphill All the Way (1986), a comedy western in which he starred with fellow country singer Roy Clark, among others. In 1979, he acquired radio station KIXZ (AM) in Amarillo, Texas, from Sammons-Ruff Associates, which converted from Top 40 to country music and became a force in the Panhandle region. A short time later, Tillis acquired Amarillo, Texas, Rock FM station KYTX, which changed calls to KMML (a play on Tilliss stutter). Still later he operated WMML in Mobile, Alabama. All of his stations were sold after a time for a healthy return. He briefly signed with RCA Records, as well as Mercury Records, and later Curb Records in 1991. By this time, his chart success had faded.Later career and lifeSince his heyday in the 1970s, Tillis remained a songwriter in the 1980s, writing hits for Ricky Skaggs and Randy Travis. He also wrote his autoBiography, called Stutterin Boy. (The title comes from Tilliss speech impediment.) Tillis appeared as the television commercial spokesman for the fast-food restaurant chain Whataburger during the 1980s. He also built a theater in Branson, Missouri, where he performed on a regular basis until 2002. In 1998, he teamed up with Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings, and Jerry Reed to form The Old Dogs. The group recorded a double album of songs penned entirely by Shel Silverstein. In July 1998, Old Dogs Volumes 1 and 2 were released on the Atlantic Records label. A companion video, as well as a Greatest Hits album (composed of previously released material by each individual artist), were also available. In the 1990s, Tilliss daughter, Pam Tillis, became a successful country music singer in her own right, having hits like Maybe It Was Memphis and Shake the Sugar Tree.The Grand Ole Opry inducted Mel Tillis on June 9, 2007. He was inducted into the Opry by his daughter Pam. Along with being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, it was announced on August 7 that year that Tillis, along with Ralph Emery and Vince Gill, is the latest to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.FamilyTillis has six children: songwriter Mel Sonny Tillis, Jr., singer-songwriter Pam Tillis, Carrie April Tillis, Connie Tillis, Cindy Tillis, and Hannah Tillis. Mel has one brother, Richard, and two sisters, Linda and Imogene.
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