Freddie Langdon

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Freddie Langdon (February 23, 1922 – August 2, 1988) was a world‑champion fiddle player from Annville, Kentucky. He learned the fiddle by ear as a child and became famous on WLW-TV’s Midwestern Hayride as the show's fiddle player. He performed with Kenny Price, Bonnie Lou, Buddy Ross, and Jay Neas, and he sang backup for James Brown at King Records in Cincinnati in the early 1960s. Langdon started his country music career at Renfro Valley, Kentucky, and appeared on the Arthur Godfrey show in the late 1950s. He and his fellow musicians Price, Ross, and Neas formed the band The Hometowners. He died of liver cancer in 1988. He was survived by his wife Faye, his son James (Jamie) of Worthington, Ohio, and children from a previous marriage—Lynda, Barry, Larry, Donna, and Devona—and eleven grandchildren.