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Orval (William) Prophet. Singer, guitarist, songwriter, b Edwards, near Ottawa, 31 Aug 1922, d there 4 Jan 1984. After singing 1944-9 with Bill Sheppard's country band on CFRA's 'Fiddler's Fling' (a travelling radio show which appeared throughout the Ottawa Valley), Prophet toured Canada in 1949 with Wilf Carter and was recorded by Decca on Carter's recommendation. The second Canadian (after Hank Snow) to record in Nashville, he was popular in the USA and Canada during the 1950s with singles (for Decca) released under the names Orval (Rex) Prophet, 'The Canadian Plowboy,' (eg, 'Going Back to Birmingham,' 'Judgement Day Express,' 'Molly Darling') and Johnnie Six (eg, 'Mademoiselle').
Subsequent recordings (as Orval Prophet) appeared in Canada under the Harmony, Caledon, Broadland, and Acclaim labels and included several LPs and such popular singles as 'Lois and Me' (1962) and 'Run Run Run' (1962), 'Mile After Mile' (1971), 'It's Good to be Home Again' (1972), 'Eastbound Highway' (1974), 'Lisa Mae' (1976), 'Leroy Can't Go Home' (1977), 'Ol' Amos' (1978), and 'Sorry & the Hobo' (1979). Some of his songs were collaborations with Ken MacRae (including 'Judgement Day Express'), Dallas Harms, and others. Though based in Edwards throughout his career, except for a few months in 1958 in Nashville, where he had his own radio show on WWBA, Prophet toured widely in North America and appeared on CBC TV and CTV. He received a Big Country Award for outstanding performance by a male country singer in 1978 and was posthumously inducted into the CCMA Hall of Honor in 1984 and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. The singer Ronnie Prophet is a cousin.
Bibliography
Foster, Don. 'Interviewing Orval Prophet,' World of Country Music, Dec 1972 Grealis, Walt. 'Orval Prophet - inducted into hall of fame,' RPM, 14 Jul 1979 Beyer, Susan. 'The beautiful dream of Orval Prophet,' CMN, vol 4, Feb 1984 Kennedy, Ted. Country Canada (Kelowna, BC, 1989)
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