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Little Miss Dynamite helped shape the direction of rock, pop and country music.

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100 Greatest Men: #62. Red Foley

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One of the great crooners of the post-war era, Red Foley helped build a crucial bridge between the country music of the mountains and the Nashville Sound of the sixties.

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