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Tillman Franks was born on 29 September, 1920 in Stamps, Lafayette County Arkansas, USA, is an American songwriter. Discover Tillman Franks's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Country music bassist/songwriter and manager
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September 1920
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace Stamps, Lafayette County Arkansas, USA
Date of death 26 October, 2006
Died Place Shreveport, Caddo Parish Louisiana
Nationality United States

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Who Is Tillman Franks's Wife?

His wife is Virginia Helen Suber Franks (married 1946-2006, his death)

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Wife Virginia Helen Suber Franks (married 1946-2006, his death)
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Children Tillman Ben Franks, Jr. The Reverend Watson Franks Darlene Pearl Franks Pace Launius Carolyn Rose Franks Browning

Tillman Franks Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Tillman Franks worth at the age of 86 years old? Tillman Franks’s income source is mostly from being a successful songwriter. He is from United States. We have estimated Tillman Franks's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

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1890

Franks was born in Stamps in Lafayette County in southwestern Arkansas, to George Watson Franks (1890-1967) and the former Pearl Galloway (1896-1983).

When he was two years of age, Franks' family relocated to Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana, where they assumed residence in the Cedar Grove neighborhood.

1920

Tillman Ben Franks, Sr. (September 29, 1920 – October 26, 2006), was an American bassist and songwriter and the manager for a number of country music artists including Johnny Horton, David Houston, Webb Pierce, Claude King, and the Carlisles.

1927

Franks served in the United States Army during World War II, after which he married the former Virginia Helen Suber (1927-2016), a native of Carthage, Texas, and a daughter of Earl Clark Suber (1900-1954), who served with the military police in World War II, and the former Rose Lee Rich (1907-1937).

Virginia was subsequently reared in two Shreveport orphanages and like her husband graduated from C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport.

She became an artist with speciality in oil paintings, a seamstress, and sang with her husband of sixty years and their son, Tillman Franks, Jr. The Franks had two sons and two daughters.

After the war, Franks and Claude King formed the Rainbow Boys while working at an assortment of other jobs, mostly in automobile sales.

1948

On April 3, 1948, Franks played bass with the Bailes Brothers on the first night of the Louisiana Hayride, broadcast on Shreveport radio station KWKH.

1955

In 1955, as Johnny Horton's manager, he switched the budding singer from Mercury Records to Columbia.

1956

He and Horton were co-composers of "Honky Tonk Man", Horton's 1956 hit record, that Dwight Yoakam also recorded as his first single.

1959

He was the sole writer of Horton's first No. 1 single, 1959's "When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)".

1960

During 1960, Franks co-wrote with Horton the successful singles "Sink the Bismark" and "North to Alaska".

Franks was injured in the head and internally as well in the automobile accident on November 5, 1960, in Milano in Milam County in East Texas, which resulted in the death of Johnny Horton and the eventual loss of a leg by a third musician, Tommy Tomlinson.

1962

In his later years he lived in southwestern Shreveport near his long-term friend Claude King, known for the 1962 hit songs "Wolverton Mountain" and "The Burning of Atlanta", a ballad about the 1864 battle of Atlanta in the American Civil War.

1996

On July 11, 1996, Shreveport observed "Tillman Franks Day", sponsored by KWKH.

2003

Franks' contribution to rock and roll music has been recognized by his induction into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Louisiana Hall of Fame, and his induction in 2003 into the Northwest Louisiana Walk of Stars where his feet and hand impressions are in concrete beside other talents, such as Elvis Presley, Terry Bradshaw, Kix Brooks, David Toms, and Franks' longtime friend Claude King.

The "Walk of Stars" is located under the Shreveport side of Texas Street Bridge, officially known as the Long–Allen Bridge (Shreveport) that spans the Red River to Bossier City.

Tillman Franks helped to coin the phrase "The Magic Circle," which he describes in his autobiography as: "an area 50-miles in radius from downtown Shreveport from which many kinds of music evolved. I was lucky to have lived my life in The Magic Circle."

2006

Franks died in the fall of 2006 at the age of eighty-six.

His son, the Reverend Watson Franks, preached the funeral.

The family is interred at Forest Park West Cemetery in Shreveport.

2019

In 2019, KEEL Radio recalled Franks as "a legend that should be remembered [for] all the contributions not only to Shreveport's musical history but to rock and country."

Franks' out-of-print autobiography entitled Tillman Franks: I Was There When It Happened is still in demand by his remaining fans.