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Toby Keith was inspired to become a musician by his grandmother's club in Arkansas

Toby Keith was inspired to become a musician by his grandmother's club in Arkansas
WE’LL DO ALL THAT COMING UP HERE IN A FEW MINUTES JONATHAN. THANK YOU BELOVED SINGER, SONGWRITER AND OKLAHOMAN TOBY KEITH PASSING AWAY OVERNIGHT. THE COUNTRY SUPERSTAR WAS JUST 62 YEARS OLD AND FIGHTING STOMACH CANCER. AND THIS MORNING WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE AS WE REMEMBER HIM. AND TAKE A LOOK BACK AT HOW HE GAVE BACK TO HIS COMMUNITY. SO LET’S GO OUTSIDE TO KOCO AUDREY GOODSON, WHO HAS A LOOK AT HIS LEGACY. WE. KYLIE AND ALEJANDRA. GOOD MORNING. THE MUSIC WORLD AND OKLAHOMA HAS LOST SUCH A LEGEND OVERNIGHT. TOBY KEITH WAS JUT 62 YEARS OLD WHEN HE PASSED AWAY OVERNIGHT, HIS FAMILY POSTING THIS ON FACEBOOK MOURNING HIS LOSS. THIS COMING LESS THAN TWO YEARS AFTER IT HAD BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT KEITH HAD STOMACH CANCER. THE COUNTRY MUSIC ICON WAS WAS BORN IN CLINTON, BUT HIS PARENTS MOVED TO MOORE WHEN HE WAS YOUNG. HIS 1993 DEBUT ALBUM, PRODUCED A NUMBER ONE COUNTRY HIT, SHOULD HAVE BEEN A COWBOY, AND MANY OF HIS SONGS REFLECT GROWING UP RIGHT HERE IN THE SOONER STATE. OKLAHOMA HAS STAYED HIS HOME THROUGHOUT HIS FAME, AND BY THE END OF 2011, HE HAD 20 NUMBER ONE BILLBOARD COUNTRY HITS. THIS MORNING WE’VE TALKED WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT OF MOORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ABOUT THE LEGACY THIS FAMOUS ALUMNI LEAVES BEHIND. THERE’S GOING TO BE A WHOLE, UH, HERE IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, WITH HIS PASSING AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, JUST, YOU KNOW, OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE WITH, UH, WITH HIS FAMILY. I’VE ALSO TALKED TO BARRY SWITZER THIS MORNING, WHO WAS A VERY CLOSE FRIEND OF TOBY KEITH’S. HE TELLS ME THAT HE’S NOT QUITE READY TO TALK ABOUT ALL OF THIS QUITE YET, BUT HE’S WISHING HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS ALL OF THE BEST, AND HE’S WITH THEM IN THIS TOUGH TIME. BACK TO YOU GUYS. AND SO ARE WE HERE AT KOCO FIVE NEWS. AUDREY, THANK YOU. AND WHILE TOBY KEITH MADE HIS MARK ON NASHVILLE, THE OKLAHOMA NATIVE NEVER FORGOT WHERE HE CAME FROM. YEAH, KEITH GAVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY THAT RAISED HIM IN COUNTLESS WAYS. KOCO SHELBY MONTGOMERY IS LIVE AT TOBY KEITH’S I LOVE THIS BAR AND GRILL IN DOWNTOWN OKC. SHELBY GOOD MORNING. TOBY KEITH OPENED UP SEVERAL RESTAURANTS AND BARS LIKE THIS ONE HERE IN BRICKTOWN. NOW. HE ALSO MADE SURE TO SUPPORT EVERYTHING OKLAHOMA, INCLUDING THE SOONERS SITTING IN THOSE CAMP. FIVE SONGS OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN COWBOY. THAT WAS TOBY KEITH AT ESKIMO JOE’S IN STILLWATER ON JANUARY OF 2023, SINGING WITH THE CROWD NOW, TOBY KEITH GAVE BACK TO HIS COMMUNITY IN SO MANY WAYS, STARTING THE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION, HELPING CHILDREN WITH CANCER SINCE 2006. THEY OPENED THE OKAY KIDS CORRAL, A COST FREE HOME FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER PATIENTS RECEIVING TREATMENT. THE KIDS CORRAL JUST HIT THEIR TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY LAST MONTH, DONATING $10,000 TO THOSE CHARITIES THAT MAKE THEIR WORK POSSIBLE. WE DO WHATEVER WE CAN IN OUR ABILITY TO HELP THESE FAMILIES SURVIVE WHILE THEY’RE HELPING THEIR CHILD BEAT CANCER. FOR WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE OKAY KIDS CORRAL FOR COMMENT. REPORTING LIVE IN OKLAHOMA CITY, SHELBY MONTGOMERY KOCO FIVE NEWS. ALL RIGHT, SHELBY, THANKS FOR THAT UPDATE THERE. AND GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT REMEMBERING TOBY KEITH THIS MORNING IN A POST ON LINE SAYING THAT HIS LEGACY WILL FOREVER BE IN THE HEARTS OF OKLAHOMANS AND FANS AROUND THE WORLD. I KNOW HIS SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON AND JUNIOR US SENATOR MARKWAYNE MULLIN SAYING, QUOTE, TOBY WAS AN OKLAHOMA WAS OKLAHOMA PROUD. HE LOVED HIS FAMILY LIKE HE LOVED HIS COUNTRY. MAY HE REST IN PEACE. AND FINALLY, OKLAHOMA HAS OTHER U.S. SENATOR JAMES LANKFORD CALLING KEITH, QUOTE, A GREAT
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Toby Keith was inspired to become a musician by his grandmother's club in Arkansas
Country music superstar Toby Keith died on Monday night after a history of stomach cancer.As a boy, Keith was inspired by the musicians who played at his grandmother's club in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Although he grew up on the family farm in Moore, Oklahoma, he spent summers at Billy Garner's Supper Club.Keith wrote the song "Clancy's Tavern" from his 2011 album of the same name about the club."The name of the bar was Billy Garners' Supper Club, but it wasn't fitting into my song very well. My Grandfather had nicknamed her Clancy because she was a saloon keeper, and always called her Clancy around the house," Keith said. "So I used Clancy's Tavern. I give you the visual and everything you see when you go in the door. There's nothing made up in this song. Every bit of this is word for word, exactly what you would have seen if you went in the front door at 5:00 and stayed all night long. It's a pretty special song to me."The club, which was on Rogers Avenue near the current Mercy Hospital, no longer exists.

Country music superstar Toby Keith died on Monday night after a history of stomach cancer.

As a boy, Keith was inspired by the musicians who played at his grandmother's club in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Although he grew up on the family farm in Moore, Oklahoma, he spent summers at Billy Garner's Supper Club.

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Keith wrote the song "Clancy's Tavern" from his 2011 album of the same name about the club.

"The name of the bar was Billy Garners' Supper Club, but it wasn't fitting into my song very well. My Grandfather had nicknamed her Clancy because she was a saloon keeper, and always called her Clancy around the house," Keith said. "So I used Clancy's Tavern. I give you the visual and everything you see when you go in the door. There's nothing made up in this song. Every bit of this is word for word, exactly what you would have seen if you went in the front door at 5:00 and stayed all night long. It's a pretty special song to me."

The club, which was on Rogers Avenue near the current Mercy Hospital, no longer exists.