Birmingham TV personality Gordon Burns, known as Country Boy Eddie, has died, WBRC is reporting. He was 92. Burns hosted the “Country Boy Eddie Show” on WBRC from 1957 to 1993.
Country Boy Eddie Burns hosted a variety show on WBRC-TV/Channel 6.“He was a trailblazer for both the Alabama music and television scenes, and his contributions will continue to live on,” the statement reads.” The Burns family would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the viewers, fans, musicians, and everyone else who made his life so special.”
Born and raised in Blount County, Burns was 13 and living there when he went house-to-house selling 10-cent packs of garden seed to buy his first fiddle. Listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the radio, he had dreams of playing music instead of picking cotton.“Back about 1942 I went in one day with my fiddle to see him and said I wanted a job on his show,” Burns said in 1993. “He gave me the name “Country Boy,’ and it stuck.
But he is best known as the downhome, folksy host of the “Country Boy Eddie Show,” a variety series on WBRC that aired mornings in Birmingham from 1957 through Dec. 31, 1993. He was originally hired to fill an hour in the morning until the commercial response expanded it. “I used to have to go to bed at 6:30 at night. I never did see the 10 o’clock news until I retired,” Burns said in a 1997 interview with The Birmingham News.
Burns’ decision to retire came after almost five years of struggling with the idea. “I’d always said that some day I was going to take a year’s vacation,” he said, after managing only a few days off during the show’s run. “It was hard for me to make up my mind to quit, but once I did I was really sold on it.”
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