Mary McCoy, 85, lived briefly in a tent as a child before breaking into radio in 1951 and eventually sharing a stage with Elvis Presley
As McCoy has told it, the path to her record began after her family moved to Conroe,, about 40 miles north of Houston, in the late 1940s. She recalled living in a tent with no basic utilities for a time and would take breaks from that rugged existence by learning to yodel and singing at talent shows.
“They liked what they heard,” McCoy told Guinness, and KMCO gave her a 15-minute singing show. She reported to her first day of work at the station on 20 April 1951. Presley’s first hit, That’s All Right, had come out the previous year and he was an obvious up-and-coming entertainer at the time. Of course, he went on to establish himself as one of history’s most successful musicians.
As part of her job with KSTAR, McCoy hosts a two-hour show of country music classics six days a week, according to Guinness. She had already earned induction into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame before Guinness confirmed her new record on 15 February.
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