KAY bASS-iK Facts

• 7873 Owned by Tex Williams
• 8414 backed up Johnny Cash
• 24908 plays in the Broadway show Cabaret
• 5581 backed up Muddy Water, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and other blues greats.
• 7082 owned by Aubrey Haney and Randy Howard
• 1055 owned and made for Bob Wills
• 39593 owned by and backed up Lonzo & Oscar
• 5818 backed up Mel Torme His band were the Mel Tones
• 1883 backs up the Country Gentlemen
• 7630 backed up Lynn Morris James King, Longview and Root 5 recording
• 1065 used in the Chicago Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony
• 24230 backed up Bob Seger, Dolly Parton, Peter Rowan, Elvis Costello, Ry Cooder
• 3214 Played by Dick Smothers. Dick Smothers has never owned a Kay bass.
• 1360 Owned and played by Missy Raines
• 53914 Owned by Charlie Cushman-sideman for Mike Snider
• 49620 Used by various groups as they play at the Station Inn in Nashville, TN
• 51207 Played in Nelson Riddle Orchestra
• 19437 Owned and played by Chubby Jackson-5 string jazz bassist
• 25671 was played on the Louisiana Hayride. This bass also has a duplicate number.
• 6573 Owned by Melvin Clevinger, the man manufacturing the famous Electric Upright
• 10589 backed up the "Doc"Tommy Scott Last Real Medicine Show
• 36261 ½ backed up Louis Armstrong, Owned by Pops Crawford duplicate number
• 25904 owned by Rose Maddox
• 12342 is the pit bass for Broadway musical The Sound of Music
• 29417 backed up Country Gentlemen
• 24733 backed up the Kingston Trio
• 37729 backs up Little Roy Lewis
• 51430 backs up Lost and Found Band
• 57229 backed up Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mt. Boys
• 7284 and 1055 backed up Bob Wills
• 27481 backed up Hank Williams
• 40986 back up the Dillards
• 51364 back up Lisa Ray and Jimmy Martin
• 9839 back up Jim & Jesse owned by Tom Ewing-guitar player for Bill Monroe
• 25480 one of three basses played by Chubby Jackson
• Paul McCartney has a Kay bass
• 5948 backed up Chubby Checkers
• 55287 helped its owner to win the VA State Bass Fiddle Championships Twice.
• 32930 helped put Byron Berline through college. Backed him in his band.
• 6122 & 34300 backed up Del McCoury
• 481 backed up Doyle Lawson
• 6785 backed up the CBS Orchestra
• 37328 backed up the Dixie Chicks
• 35723 backed up Country Gentleman
• 29285 backed up Billy Joel and Shania Twain
• 5938 backed up Tommy Flanagan, Conrad Herwig, Dave Liebman, Quest, Michael Franks and Paul Bley
• 38386 backs up Larry Sparks
• 6382 backed up Emmy Lou Harris
• 12532 backed up Porter Waggoner and the Blue Ridge Boys
• 28621 backs up the Mantovani Orchestra
• 35305 backed up Grandpa Jones
• 46234 used by Lester Flatt’s Nashville Grass on the Grand Ole Opry and rercording sessions.
• 831 backed up Horace Heidt, Eliot Lawrence, Ted Weems, Vincent Lopez and played at Disneyland
• 17975 backed Tex Beneke during the 1940’s.
• 2360 Backed up Jack Jones
• 18847 backed up the Georgia Crackers
• Bass on Grand Ole Opry stage is not a Kay.
• 11601 Played in Jack Ruby’s Carrousel Club in Dallas at the time JFK was shot.
• 37519 Played behind Raymond Fairchild and the Maggie Valley Boys
• 7203 backed up the Dorsey Band
• 21906 backed up the Stoneman Family
• 56686 backed up Johnny Cash
• 14397 backs up Hank Thompson
• 37774 backed up IIIrd Tyme Out, James King, U.S. Navy Country Current Band, Lost Highway, Karl Shiflet