RIP Oklahoma country singer Jody of “Jude ‘n’ Jody”
Harold Dean “Jody” Taylor, who with Jude Northcutt formed the “Jude ’n’ Jody” country music duo, died Saturday at his home in Lexington, according to The Oklahoman Staff Reports. He was 74.
“Jude ’n’ Jody” began as a musical act in 1954, playing local music venues, dances and parties around central Oklahoma. The pair went on to own a furniture store in Oklahoma City, famous for its slogan “We Love Folks,” and had a long-running country and western TV show in the 1960s and ’70s.
“We started doing shows together, just out in places close by. Then they, a little bit later on, got their own television show called ‘Country Social’ and I was a guest on that,” said Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson of Oklahoma City, a friend of Taylor since the 1950s.
She added, “Everybody else lost a good entertainer and a good person, but I lost a dear friend and he will be missed.”
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at First Baptist Church in Lexington. Wilson-Little Funeral Home in Purcell is handling arrangements. Taylor’s family asks for memorials to be made to the American Cancer Society.
To read the rest of Taylor’s obituary, click here.
-BAM
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