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The Delta Music Museum is a museum in Ferriday, Louisiana. It offers exhibits on sixteen rock and roll and blues musicians from the Mississippi River delta country. The museum opened with a grant from the State of Louisiana and is operated by local volunteers. There is no admission charge; the facility relies on the sales of souvenirs. Visitors from all over the United States have signed the guestbook since the museum opened in the spring of 2002. A scaled-down version of the museum, called simply the Ferriday Museum, had begun operations at another location in 1995. There are also exhibits on two well-known former Ferriday personalities not affiliated with the music industry: former CBS and ABC commentator Howard K. Smith (1914–2002) and Ann Boyar Warner (1908–1990), second wife of Warner Brothers studio mogul Jack L. Warner. There is a mural drawn in 1991 presented by Monterey High School in Concordia Parish.〔Exhibits, Delta Music Museum, Ferriday, Louisiana〕 The first exhibit one encounters in the museum is a sculpture of the three Ferriday cousins at the piano: singers Mickey Gilley of Branson, Missouri, Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, the last an evangelist based in Baton Rouge. Other honorees are blues trombonist Leon "Pee Wee" Whittaker, a native of Newellton in northern Tensas Parish.〔"Delta Music Museum Celebrities", brochure, Delta Music Museum, 6 pages〕 ==List of inductees== *Former Louisiana Governor James Houston "Jimmie" Davis (1899–2000), a Jackson Parish native, produced '’You Are My Sunshine'’, once among the most recognized songs in the world. *Conway Twitty (1933–1993), a native of Friars Point, Mississippi, had fifty-five No. 1 hits in the nation, a record unsurpassed by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and Frank Sinatra. *Aaron Neville (born 1941) is a popular Christian and jazz performer from New Orleans. *Allen "Puddler" Harris (born 1936), a native of Jigger in Franklin Parish and a resident of Lake Charles, was, among many accomplishments, a member of the original Ricky Nelson and the last Jimmie Davis bands. *Percy Sledge (born 1940), a native of Leighton, Alabama, he resides in Baton Rouge and produced the international hit ''When a Man Loves a Woman''. *Johnny Horton (1929–1960), a Texas native affiliated with the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, is best remembered for ''North to Alaska'' and ''The Battle of New Orleans''. *Irma Thomas (born 1941), the "Queen of Soul" from Ponchatoula in Tangipahoa Parish, has been dubbed the truest female representation of New Orleans music *Clarence "Frogman" Henry (born 1937), was said to be able to sing like "a frog", hence his nickman; he traveled for a time with The Beatles. *Fats Domino (born 1928) spoke French before he did English and is remembered particularly for ''Ain't That A Shame'', ''Blueberry Hill'', and ''Walking to New Orleans''. He was a celebrity victim of Hurricane Katrina. *John Fred Gourrier (1941–2005) formed John Fred and the Playboys and later produced records for other singers, including Irma Thomas. *Dale Houston (1940–2007) and his singing partner Grace Broussard (born 1939), hit the charts with ''I'm Leaving It All Up to You''. He was a native of Seminary, Mississippi, who grew up in Baton Rouge and lived briefly in Ferriday in 1963. *Pete Fountain (born 1930), a clarinetist, became one of the principal names in New Orleans jazz and was a regular on ABC's ''The Lawrence Welk Show''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Delta Music Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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