Sam hinton biography
Sam hinton, 1917-2009: he shared his passion for singing and!
The Sam Hinton Website - Biography
A Brief Biography of Sam Hinton
By Adam Miller
Photo by Peter Figen, 2001
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on March 31 1917, Sam Hinton's childhood ambition was to learn every song he heard.
Sam hinton biography
He now has over a thousand in his repertoire. "Mama used to love to tell people how she took me to Jenkins Music Store in Tulsa when I was five years old and bought me a harmonica," Sam Hinton, now 85 years old remembers. "And she said I was playing Turkey in the Straw before we got out of the store.
That was my favorite instrument.
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Then, for my eighth birthday my grandfather got me a push-button diatonic accordion."
Sam's great-grandfather, Isham Bailey Hardy (1824-1905) was a successful magician, puppeteer and ventriloquist who had his own dog and pony show.
Although he died a decade before Sam's birth, many of the songs in Sam's repertoire came to him from his great-grandfather, Isham, through Sam's mother, Nell Duffie Hinton (1889-1978). She was a gifte