URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Robert Van
Variants
- Osborne, Robert Van, Jr.
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1931-12-07
Death Date
- 2023-06-27
Birth Place
- Thousandsticks (Ky.)
Associated Locale
- Gallatin (Tenn.)
Field of Activity
Occupation
Songwriter
Additional Related Forms
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: His Bobby & his mandolin [SR] p1981:container (Bobby Osborne)
- found: Bluegrass mandolin extravaganza [SR] p1999:container (Bobby Osborne) insert (b. 1931, Hyden, Ky.)
- found: McCloud, B. Definitive country(under Osborne Brothers: Bobby Osborne; given name: Robert Van Osborne, Jr.; b. Dec. 7, 1931, Hyden, Ky.; singer, songwriter, mandolin, guitar, banjo)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed June 29, 2023(in obituary dated June 27, 2023: Bobby Osborne, the singer and mandolin player who with his younger brother, Sonny, led one of the most groundbreaking bands in the history of bluegrass, died on Tuesday [June 27, 2023] in Gallatin, Tenn., a suburb of Nashville. He was 91. Robert Van Osborne Jr. was born on Dec. 7, 1931, in Thousandsticks, an unincorporated Appalachian enclave near Hyden, Ky., where he and his brother grew up)
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1993-01-11: new
- 2023-06-29: revised
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