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Timeline

1938 Born in Corning

Father works for bakery Cobakco

1940 his sister, Elaine, is born in Corning, too.

1941 WW2 begins Pearl Harbor

1942

1943 Moves to Bath,  New York,  finds father's guitar in cellar

Father works for NBC (Nabisco) bakery, 

his brother, Glenn, (d. 2020) is born in Bath

1947 First Performance at 4th Grade Assembly debut at the old Bath Haverling School (K-12)

Takes steel guitar lessons from Tracey Caulkins in Avoca

1949 Moves to Guyanoga (Keuka Lake), west of Penn Yan

Parents own grocery store

1951 Attends Penn Yan Academy, designs school mascot

First performance at the Grange

   On-air radio debut in Hornell, New York

1951 Summer on a farm in Yatesville, north of Guyanoga

Moved to Tucson, Arizona in August/early September

1953 Moved north to Coolidge, Arizona  for his father to manage a Safeway grocery store

1954 Bought a Les Paul Goldtop guitar

Met Lee Hazlewood, who was a new DJ in Coolidge

1955 Country duo Jimmy and Duane duet (Jimmy Delbridge/ Jimmy Dell) first record "Soda Fountain Girl"  produced by Lee Hazlewood

Coolidge High, Class of 1955 but he does not graduate

1956 

1957 Moovin' and Groovin

Invented TWANG

By 1957, Eddy was renting a room from Hazlewood in Phoenix and had purchased

his signature hollow-body Gretsch "Chet Atkins" model at Ziggie's Music when an

instrumental titled "Raunchy" hit the Top 5 in two versions at the same time — one by Bill

Justis, the other by Ernie Freeman.  In a Phoenix studio called Audio Recorders.

“Rebel Rouser” was the third song he and Hazlewood recorded. Water Tank story goes here...

1958 Hitmaking begins with "Rebel Rouser"  after  Dick Clark forgot his box of records and turned over Stalkin' to play the B side

Binghamton Show and visit with Maternal Grandmother

Marriage #1 to Carol  Fowler, lasts 3 years, 2 children, divorce 1961 (confirm)

Drives a '56 Chevy Convertible (confirm)

October 17 ?Birth of First Child Linda 

"Have “Twangy” Guitar Will Travel" (1958, his debut album) sold over 6 million copies

1959 August Hollywood Bowl --  First rock'n'roll performance ever held there

Touring with Friends with Dick Clark

The “Twangs” the “Thang” (1959)

$1,000,000.00 Worth of Twang (1960)

1960 First U.K. tour: with Bobby Darin.   and Lee Hazlewood to manage the sound

Ends contract with Lee Hazlewood

   Movie "Because They're Young" starring Dick Clark

1961 Birth of son, Chris in January

U.K. visit

1962 TV Show debut "Have Gun--Will Travel" with Richard Boone and 

Movie 'Thunder of Drums"  and 

"Password of Courage"??  theme "The Ballad of Paladin"

Twistin’ ’n’ Twangin (1962)

Feb 3 Celebrity Marriage to singer Jessi Colter (who was Mirriam Johnson at the time), it  lasts 5 years, one child, divorced 1968, Jessi marries Waylon Jenning

They rented in  Beverly Hills, Laurel Canyon 

Aug  18   Chemung County Fair and visit with aunt in Horseheads

$1,000,000.00 Worth of Twang Volume 2 in 1962

Silky Twang, symphony & Duane album

1963 Bought a house in Beverly Hills in Canyon 

Daughter Jennifer is born

“Twangin’” Up a Storm (1963)

Dec South Africa Tour, performed with Maureen Moore and John D. Loudermilk

1964 The Beatles and the British Invasion

1965 Bob Dylan album

1966 The Biggest Twang of All (1966)

1967 Divorce from Jessi Colter

Duane sings on the single "Break My Mind" (U.K. only)

1968-69 Lived in London -- ran away (his words)

1970 Came back to US, short tour with ?

Tour of the Orient, entertained troups in Viet Nam, his manager Al Wild died

Madison Square Garden and the Forum

1971 (confirm) Marriage to Maureen A Power for 7 years, divorced in 1979 in March 

1975 (confirm) "Son of a Guitar Man" recording Deed and Duane

1977 Country single “You Are My Sunshine” featuring  Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson...and Deed

1979 Marriage to singer Deed Abbate in December

1983 Residency in Los Angeles?  (

Tour with 

1985 Moved to Nashville

1987 Grammy for  Best Rock Instrumental for "Peter Gunn" (UK's Art of Noise release)

Summer Tour with Huey Lewis & The News

New Record -- what happened?

1988 PBS Tribute to Buddy Holly performance

1992 Grammy nomination for Best Country Instrumental Doc Watson album

1994 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Inductee

Forrest Gump Movie, original"Rebel Rouser" featured in "Run, Forrest, Run" scene

Natural Born Killers Movie, "The Trembler"

1995 Grammy nomination for Best Country Instrumental with Doc Watson for 

1996  Grand Ole Oprey Chet Atkins played with Duane Eddy, meets Doyle Dykes at the performance

(confirm) a second Recording Academy nod for “Thunder Road/Sugarfoot Rag” for best country instrumental performance.

1997 Rockwalk Induction (1997) 

2000 Ryman Auditorium, Presented with "Chetty" award by Chet Atkins (2000) 

2004 Guitar Player Magazine "Legend Award"

2008 Musicians Hall of Fame inductee, Nashville

2010 Guitar Geek Festival, Anaheim, California-- Deke Dickerson  --- buys doubleneck guitar

May ---Nashville Cumberland River devastating flood  --

   Mojo Icon Award (U.K.)

Sold out, standing ovation show Royal Festival Hall in London in October

2011 Gretsch Signature Model 6120

Grammy nomination for "I Love" Best Children's Album

Performed at the Glastonbury Festival on 26 June 2011 

2012 Rich MacAlpine interview,"Duane Eddy's Yates County Years". published in 2014

2013 Almost dies from hemmorrhaging from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm at age 76

Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist from the American Music Association

2016 "Nashville Cats: A Salute to Duane Eddy" Country Music Hall of Fame recognition for Sessions Musicians

2017 Frank interviews Jessi Colter

Frank's first radio interview of Duane for his 10th anniversary of being on the radio Frankly Speaking

Duane Eddy Day, June 7, City of Corning, New York

Duane & Deed visit Corning in October

Gretsch six string bass guitar designed by Duane and Stephen Stern released

2018 80th birthday tour to U.K. in October London Palladium

2020 Second on-air radio Interview Frankly Speaking 

2021 Steuben County Hall of Fame  acceptance (delayed due to Covid, received in 2020)

2023 Third interview by Frank, this time on TV

Nashville Music Walk of Fame

2024 "Guitar Heroes" by Mark Knopfler released and becomes #1 in UK

86th birthday then passed away April 30, 2024 from cancer