Dusty Shaver and His Radio Revue Born:  August 21, 1925 Died:  May 23, 1982 WBSC Bennettsville, SC WKYR Keyser, WV WMMN Fairmont, WV WTBO Cumberland, MD

About The Artist William "Dusty" Shaver spent many years as a popular country vocalist on radio stations in such locales as Harrisonburg, Virginia, Fairmont, Clarksburg, and Wheeling in West Virginia, and finally as a deejay in Keyser, West Virginia and Oakland, Maryland. Although a skilled country singer he became best known for his "rube comedy" character "Oscar August Quiddlemurp," a name created for him by Buddy Starcher. Those fellow musicians he worked with included Starcher, Hank the Cowhand (Stanford), and Cherokee Sue and Little John Graham. When live country music began to be phased out by radio stations, he turned to disc jockey work, a job he continued until his death at the age of fifty seven. His limited recording career consisted of two songs on the Cozy label with mandolin support by Little John Graham, on which Dusty feigned crying on one song and laughing on the other. Credits & Sources Hillbilly-Music.com would like to express its thanks to Ivan M. Tribe, author of Mountaineer Jamboree — Country Music in West Virginia and other books that can be found on Amazon.com and numerous articles in other publications for providing us with information about this artist.

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Recordings (78rpm/45rpm)   Cozy Rec. No. Side Song Title   202 A My Name Is Ticklish Reuben   202 B Come Sit By My Side, Little Darlin'