Del Reeves
Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974

Franklin Delano Reeves has had a long career in country music, beginning when he was a teenager in North Carolina in the 1940s. He moved to the Bakersfield, California area, home of Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and many other country greats, in the 1950s and made an aborted foray into rock and roll. Then moving to Nashville in the 1960s, he finally found a home. Many Del Reeves songs are novelty in nature and a lot mention girls and trucks. "Girl on the Billboard," was probably his biggest hit (1965). Then there was "The Belles of Southern Belle," "Women Do Funny Things to Me," "Looking at the World Through a Windshield," and "The Philadelphia Fillies."