BILL
LOWERY Bill
Lowery was the youngest station manager in American
radio when he was twenty one years old. He continued
working in various major market radio and TV stations,
including Atlanta’s WQXI and WGST, until the
mid 1950s, when he went into fulltime record production
and music publishing. Lowery Music Company’s
first hit was Gene Vincent’ “Be–Bop-A-Lula” in
1956. The Lowery catalogs eventually included over
five thousand songs by writers including Mac Davis,
Joe South, Bill Anderson and recorded by The Beatles,
Mick Jagger and Linda Ronstadt among thousands of artists.
Lowery also owned Southern Tracks Studio. He was the
first (with Ray Charles) inducted into the Georgia
Music Hall of Fame in 1978. Bill Lowery was inducted
into the Country Music D J Hall of Fame in 1984.
