While the results proved to be less popular, the ten tunes recorded were vocally well-executed and received a good deal of play on the country radio stations. In April 1951, Foley was pleased when the popular Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) flew from Hollywood to Nashville to join him for a two-day recording session, both acts hoping to repeat the previous successes that the sisters enjoyed when they teamed with Burl Ives in 1947 and Ernest Tubb in 1949, producing both folk and country hits. Featuring guitarist Grady Martin, it stayed at No.В 1 on Billboard's country chart for 13 weeks and hit the pop chart as well. In 1950, he had three million-sellers: ' Just a Closer Walk with Thee', ' Steal Away' (recorded by Hank Williams as 'The Funeral'), and a solo version of the song that became his trademark, ' Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy'. He recorded seven top five hits with the group between 19, including a No.В 1 single, ' New Jolie Blonde (New Pretty Blonde)' (a cover of a 1946 Moon Mullican hit), and the country boogie anthem ' Tennessee Saturday Night', a chart-topper in 1948.

ДЇoley began recording with his backing group, the Cumberland Valley Boys, in 1947. military bases in England, West Germany and the Azores, with Brasfield, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Little Jimmy Dickens, Hank Williams and others. In 1949, Foley was part of the Opry's first European tour, visiting U.S. His popularity was credited with establishing the Opry as America's top country music radio show. He acted as master of ceremonies, the straight man for Opry comedians Rod Brasfield and Minnie Pearl, and proved himself a vocalist who could handle all types of material. During the next eight years he established himself as one of the most respected and versatile performers in country music. In April 1946, Foley signed on to emcee and perform on The Prince Albert Show, the segment of the Grand Ole Opry carried on NBC Radio. He moved to Nashville in 1946 and was briefly a member of the Brown's Ferry Four, recording 'Jesus Hold My Hand' and 'I'll Meet You in the Morning'. He soon became known for such songs as 'The Death of Floyd Collins' and 'The Sinking of the Titanic'.

During the session at WSM-AM's Studio B, he recorded ' Tennessee Saturday Night', 'Blues in the Heart' and 'Tennessee Border'. His patriotic 1944 single, ' Smoke on the Water', topped the folk records chart for 13 consecutive weeks, and on January 17, 1945, Foley was the first country performer to record in Nashville, Tennessee. The song, later recorded by many artists including Hank Snow and Elvis Presley, became a country classic. He also released ' Old Shep' in 1941, a song he wrote with Arthur Willis in 1933 about a dog he owned as a boy (in reality, his German shepherd, poisoned by a neighbor, was named Hoover). In 1941, the same year he made his first of only two film appearances (portraying himself) with Tex Ritter in the Western, The Pioneers, Foley signed a lifetime contract with Decca Records. He then returned for another seven-year stint with National Barn Dance. In late 1939, Foley became the first country artist to host a network radio program, NBC's Avalon Time (co-hosted by Red Skelton), and he performed extensively at theaters, clubs and fairs. Vernon in 1939, performing everything from ballads to boogie-woogie to blues. In 1937 he returned to Kentucky with Lair to help establish the Renfro Valley Barn Dance stage and radio show near Mt.

His first single, 'Life is Good Enough for Me / The Lone Cowboy', was released in June 1933 on the Melotone label.

In 1930, as a freshman at Georgetown College, Foley was chosen by a talent scout from Chicago's WLS-AM to sing with producer John Lair's Cumberland Ridge Runners, the house band on National Barn Dance. Red Foley was of native Irish Ancestry Early radio and recording career He graduated from Berea High School, and later worked as a $2-a-show usher and singer at a theater in Covington, Kentucky. At 17, he won first prize in a statewide talent show. He was born into a musical family, and by the time he was nine was giving impromptu concerts at his father's general store, playing French harp, piano, banjo, trombone, harmonica and guitar. Foley was born on a 24-acre (9.7В ha) farm in Blue Lick, Kentucky, United States, grew up in nearby Berea, and gained the nickname Red for his hair color.

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