Acuff's budding career as a baseball player was cut short due to
sunstroke.
Sang "I Saw the Light" at the funeral of Hank Williams alongside C&W greats
Red Foley and Ernest Tubb who, respectively sang, "Peace in the Valley" and
"Beyond the Sunset"
He was the first LIVING person to be elected as a member of the Country
Music Hall of Fame. (Before Acuff, you had to be deceased to be elected a member.).
Among country music's pioneers.
Recorded many golden classic country hits. The songs "Wabash
Cannonball" and "Great Speckle Bird" were recorded at his first session
in 1936.