Career
lieutenant was later covered by artists such as Bill Anderson, Rodney Crowell, January Howard, Patty Loveless, Jimmy Martin, Red Sovine, and Travis Tritt. In 1964, he joined Porter Wagoner"s Wagonmasters. During the 1960s, he worked as an old-time fiddler on The Porter Wagoner Show and later worked with the aspiring female star on the show, Dolly Parton.
Among the later songs Magaha wrote, "We"ll Get Ahead Someday" provided a top-ten country single for Wagoner and Parton in 1968, one of their first duet hits.
He became a regular performer at the theme park Opryland United States of America in the 1970s. He died at age 74 at Nashville"s Veterans Hospital.
Magaha was known as Nashville"s Dancing Fiddle Manitoba Magaha, like Curly Ray Cline, had a fiery stage presence doing his dancelike movements while he was fiddling.
