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1945. The million selling gospel albums are also perfect examples of his versatile and mellow tenor voice and his impeccable phrasing.

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Mac Wiseman

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Bluegrass musician and music industry executive.

Later he played with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. 30.

Mac Wiseman joined the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1946, the same year the legendary bluegrass band was formed. As fate would have it, Wiseman also found himself taking part in one of the most historic "splits" in bluegrass music.

The group, which would record for Mercury from 1948 through 1950, featured Flatt, Scruggs, Rainwater on bass, and Jim Shumate on fiddle. Managed the WWVA Wheeling Jamboree 1966-1970. Education: Graduated Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, c. 2-8.

Music City News, October 1973, p. "You could see the decline or lack of interest in country music," Wiseman recalled to Muleskinnner News interviewer Doug Green, describing the musical climate of the mid-1950s, "and rock music was coming on the scene.

Emerged in the late 1940s as a featured singer with Molly O’Day. In 1994 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Association's Bluegrass Hall of Honor in Owensboro, Kentucky. Introducing the twin- fiddle sound to the bluegrass mix through his own innovations during the 1950s, Wiseman has otherwise specialized in more traditional, sentimental material, such as the A.

P. Carter-penned "Jimmy Brown the Newsboy" and the old-time classic "Letter Edged in Black."

Malcolm B. "Mac" Wiseman was born in the town of Crimora, near Waynesboro, Virginia, on May 23, 1925. The Wiseman home was a popular gathering spot for the musically inclined, as Mac's father had one of the only phonograph players in the area, and even owned a battery-powered radio.

Apart from the bluegrass festivals where he continues to perform, Wiseman has remained active behind the scenes in the bluegrass music industry. In later years he also sang with the group, but it wasn’t until he branched out on his own did he become known as the “voice with a heart.” Mac released a string of hit songs and classic roots and country albums beginning in the 1950s.

In the 1950s, he was the star of The Old Dominion Barn Dance on WRVA in Richmond, Va.

During the folk revival in the 1960s, Wiseman had successfulconcerts at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall.

He joinedproducersRandallFranks and Alan Autry for the In the Heat of the Night cast CDChristmas Time’s A Comin’ released on Sonlite and MGM/UA for one of the most popularChristmasreleases of 1991 and 1992 with Southern retailers.

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May 23, 1925
Crimora

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Malcolm B.

Wiseman
Malcolm Wiseman
The Voice with a Heart

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"I recall that people came from several miles distance on Saturday night to listen to the [Grand Ole] Opry and the WLS Barn Dance, Wiseman recalled in Music City News, "often staying until the wee hours of the morning or sometimes all night, and then having breakfast and going home." Wiseman taught himself to play the guitar when he was twelve years old, and soon built a large repertoire of traditional songs.

During high school, Wiseman grew more and more interested in music, and decided to find a way to make it his livelihood.

Graduating from their music program in about 1945, Mac went on to join the announcing staff of radio station WSVA in Harrisburg, Virginia, as newscaster and disc jockey.

As his on-air schedule permitted, Wiseman made extra money by writing advertising copy for WSVA sponsors. He has most recently recorded for independent labels Churchill Records and the Los Angeles-based CMH, all the while maintaining his traditional bluegrass style.

by Pamela Shelton

Mac Wiseman's Career

Disc jockey, WSVA, Harrisburg, VA, c.

Born May 23, 1925. In addition to performing at Newport in 1959, Wiseman would become a frequent, and popular performer at many of the major festivals spawned by the Newport festival throughout the following decades.