Art Satherly - actually Spelt SATHERLEY - still has family in Bristol, Somerset and South Wales, United Kingdom. (October 19, 1889, Bristol, England - February 10, 1986, Fountain Valley, California

Fountain Valley, California

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) was a record producer

Record producer

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 and A&R

A&R

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 man, who was born in England

England

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 but spent most of his career in the United States

United States

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Satherley moved to Wisconsin

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 in the 1910s, and took a job in the 1920s as a promoter for Paramount Records

Paramount Records

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, selling discs by Ma Rainey

Ma Rainey

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 and Blind Lemon Jefferson

Blind Lemon Jefferson

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. He joined Columbia Records

Columbia Records

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 in 1930 and subsequently became one of the most successful country music

Country music

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 promoters in the genre's early history. Among those he produced were Gene Autry

Gene Autry

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, Bob Wills

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, Hank Penny

Hank Penny

Herbert Clayton Penny was an accomplished banjo player and practitioner of western swing. He worked as a comedian best known for his backwoods character "That Plain Ol' Country Boy" on TV with Spade Cooley...

, Lefty Frizzell

Lefty Frizzell

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, Carl Smith

Carl Smith (country musician)

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, Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins

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 and Roy Acuff

Roy Acuff

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He left Columbia in 1952 and went into semi-retirement, occasionally returning to production work.

In 2011, following many years campaining, a Blue Plaque was eventually unveiled close to 'Uncle' Art's birthplace in Bedminster, Bristol. The ceremony was in fact filmed and formed part of a short documentary broadcast by BBC Television on 7 February 2011, just three days before the 25th anniversary of Art's death in 1986.