Question for
Friday, September 15, 2006 (coming soon):

This early "country crooner"
from the mountains of Tennessee
became one of pop music's biggest stars.

He started out to be a baseball player,
but a bad case of sunstroke ended that career.
With his band, the Tennessee Crackerjacks,
he was well known for classics such as...

"The Wabash Cannonball"
and
"The Great Speckled Bird."

And he was also a Republican candidate for governor of Tennessee in the election of 1948.

Who is he?

(Answer: Roy Acuff)