Al Dexter
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Clarence Albert Poindexter, known professionally as Al Dexter, was born on May 4, 1905, in Jacksonville, Texas. He was an American country musician and songwriter who started his musical career with dance bands and formed The Troopers in the early 1930s. Dexter's breakthrough came with "Honky Tonk Blues", released by a small label. In 1934, he signed his first record deal with Vocalion Records after being discovered in New Orleans. By the late 1930s, under contract with Okeh Records, he achieved significant success with "Pistol Packinâ Mama", released in 1943, which sold over three million copies and topped the Billboard charts for 17 weeks. Throughout the 1940s, Dexter had a series of Number 1 hits and received twelve gold records. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1971. After his final charting single in 1948, he opened a club in Dallas. Dexter died on January 28, 1984, in Denton, Texas.
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