July 21, 1978: President Jimmy Carter greets Willie Nelson, left, after watching the star nation and western music singer carry out in a live performance on the Merriweather Put up Pavillion at Columbia, Md.
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July 21, 1978: President Jimmy Carter greets Willie Nelson, left, after watching the star nation and western music singer carry out in a live performance on the Merriweather Put up Pavillion at Columbia, Md.
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When Jimmy Carter ran for president, he was barely identified exterior of his residence state. He had served within the Georgia State Senate and as governor of Georgia, however was removed from a family identify. What gave momentum to his marketing campaign and endeared him to the youth vote was his friendships with musicians like Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman Brothers.
“I used to be virtually a non-entity,” Carter says within the movie Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President. “However everybody knew the Allman Brothers. After they endorsed me, all of the younger folks stated, ‘Nicely, if the Allman Brothers like him, we will vote for him’.”
Music was at all times an necessary a part of Carter’s life. Rising up in rural Georgia instilled in him a love for the gospel of Black church buildings and an appreciation for the facility and spirituality of music. His penchant for unbiased considering helped endear him to child boomer musicians like Dylan who had been in any other case antiestablishment.
Oct. 31, 1975: (L-R) The Marshall Tucker Band guitarist Toy Caldwell, then-Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter and The Marshall Tucker Band guitarist George McCorkle are photographed throughout a pre-concert reception for the governor on the Stouffer Lodge in Atlanta, Ga.
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Jan. 21, 1977: President Jimmy Carter kisses singer Cher as her husband Gregg Allman stands by (second from proper) throughout a reception on the White Home held by the Carters for the Peanut Brigade, a bunch of marketing campaign staff.
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Jan. 21, 1977: President Jimmy Carter kisses singer Cher as her husband Gregg Allman stands by (second from proper) throughout a reception on the White Home held by the Carters for the Peanut Brigade, a bunch of marketing campaign staff.
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Oct. 2, 1979: President Jimmy Carter and Dolly Parton embrace within the receiving lime on the White Home in Washington, Tuesday, . President Carter hosted a luncheon within the Government Mansion for a bunch of nation music entertainer.
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June 14, 1977: President and Mrs. Carter chat with singers Johnny Money and his spouse June Carter throughout a go to the couple paid to the White Home, in Washington, D.C. With them is the singer’s son, John Carter Money. Earlier, Money sang at Flag Day ceremonies on the Capitol.
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1977: President Jimmy Carter, first woman Rosalynn Carter and Elvis Presley
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Throughout his time as president, Carter invited many of those musicians to the White Home. His first visitor was Gregg Allman, even though the singer was going through a cocaine possession cost on the time. He hosted the primary White Home Jazz Competition on the grounds in June 1978. Carter’s son James “Chip” Carter smoked weed with Nelson on the White Home roof.
“There have been some individuals who did not like my being deeply concerned with Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan and ‘disreputables’ — , rock and rollers,” Carter stated. “However I did not care about that as a result of I used to be doing what I actually believed.”
Former President Jimmy Carter handed away on December 29, 2024 on the age of 100.
1974: Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter visits Capricorn Data through the manufacturing of Dickey Betts’ debut album, Freeway Name.
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1977: Soul and gospel singer Andraé Crouch (R) meets former President Jimmy Carter on the White Home Salute to Black Music in honor of the Black Music Affiliation.
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June 18, 1978: President Jimmy Carter (left) and musician Dizzy Gillespie (proper) on the White Home Jazz Live performance. Carter was singing ‘Salt Peanuts’ and getting cues from drummer Max Roach.
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June 18, 1978: President Jimmy Carter (left) and musician Dizzy Gillespie (proper) on the White Home Jazz Live performance. Carter was singing ‘Salt Peanuts’ and getting cues from drummer Max Roach.
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Sept. 24, 1979: The famed rock group the Bee Gees — (L-R) Maurice, Robin and Barry — go to President Carter on the White Home.
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October 17, 1978: Famed singer Marian Anderson, left, and President Jimmy Carter, proper, are proven at a White Home ceremony at which Anderson was introduced with a particular congressional award for providers to the nation. Carter praised Anderson as one who had introduced nice pleasure to the nation’s thousands and thousands of individuals.
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October 17, 1978: Famed singer Marian Anderson, left, and President Jimmy Carter, proper, are proven at a White Home ceremony at which Anderson was introduced with a particular congressional award for providers to the nation. Carter praised Anderson as one who had introduced nice pleasure to the nation’s thousands and thousands of individuals.
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Dec. 12, 1982: Former President Jimmy Carter and former first woman Rosalynn Carter be part of Willie Nelson at a efficiency on the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Ga.
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Dec. 12, 1982: Former President Jimmy Carter and former first woman Rosalynn Carter be part of Willie Nelson at a efficiency on the Omni Coliseum in Atlanta, Ga.
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1984: Jack Carter, Elizabeth Carter, former first woman Rosalynn Carter and former President Jimmy Carter be part of Randy Owen, the lead singer of nation group Alabama, on stage on the Peachtree Metropolis Amphitheater exterior Atlanta, Ga.
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1984: Jack Carter, Elizabeth Carter, former first woman Rosalynn Carter and former President Jimmy Carter be part of Randy Owen, the lead singer of nation group Alabama, on stage on the Peachtree Metropolis Amphitheater exterior Atlanta, Ga.
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Might 5, 1993: (L-R) Former President Jimmy Carter, singer-songwriter Michael Jackson and actor Emmanuel Lewis go to Atlanta, Ga., to spice up Carter’s Atlanta Challenge Immunization Drive.
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July 27, 2008: Willie Nelson is joined on stage by former President Jimmy Carter, who performed harmonica on “Georgia on My Thoughts,” on the Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, Ga.
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Feb. 6, 2015: (L-R) Honoree Bob Dylan, former President Jimmy Carter and Neil Portnow, president of the Nationwide Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, pose collectively on stage on the twenty fifth anniversary MusiCares 2015 Particular person Of The 12 months Gala honoring Dylan on the Los Angeles Conference Heart.
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Nov. 2, 2015: Justin Timberlake, Paul Williams, the President and Chairman of the Board for the ASCAP, and President Jimmy Carter current Trisha Yearwood (R) with the Voice of Music Award onstage through the 53rd annual ASCAP Nation Music awards on the Omni Lodge in Nashville, Tenn.
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April 29, 2016: Singer Bono of U2, former President Jimmy Carter and co-founder of WAFF Nile Rodgers attend We Are Household Basis 2016 Celebration Gala in New York.
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April 29, 2016: Singer Bono of U2, former President Jimmy Carter and co-founder of WAFF Nile Rodgers attend We Are Household Basis 2016 Celebration Gala in New York.
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Former President Jimmy Carter with pianist Roger Williams rejoice their eightieth birthdays collectively on the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, Ga.
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