Thomas Hoyt Bryant, known professionally as Slim Bryant, was an American country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and radio personality born in Atlanta, Georgia. Bryant was born in the New South in 1908, to Posey Milton Bryant and his wife Auroria, after spending nearly nine years working with Georgia fiddler Clayton McMichen as part of his band, the Georgia Wildcats, Bryant and most of the band separated from McMichen and moved to Pittsburgh in 1940 where he and the Georgia Wildcats became regulars on KDKA's new early morning Farm Hour. He had worked at the station previously in 1931 with McMichen and in 1937 with his own short-lived group. The Wildcats became a Pittsburgh institution during World War II; and in 1949, performed on the first television program to air in that city, a musical variety show broadcast live on WDTV from Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh's Oakland section. WDTV became KDKA in January 1955. Having worked with several female singers, they added perky blonde vocalist Nancy Fingal. There were no other guests. Fingal was, Slim says, ?A very talented girl, singin? Sinatra tunes, that kind of stuff." 

December 7th, 1908 in Atlanta  /  Died:   May 28th, 2010 - aged 101