Grand Ole Opry star Charlie Walker, who became a popular disc jockey in Texas as he built a career as a honky-tonk singer, has died. He was inducted into the Country Music Disc Jockey Hall Of Fame in 1981. He was 81 and had been diagnosed recently with colon cancer.
A Grand Ole Opry spokeswoman said Walker died Friday morning in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tenn.
