Red Malone
Musician
Best known for
Songwriter
Red Malone was a country and bluegrass performer on WCYB’s Farm and Fun Time in Bristol, the Virginia–Tennessee radio show that served as the proving ground for the Stanley Brothers and much of the first bluegrass generation.
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- Worked as a Farm and Fun Time entertainer on WCYB Bristol, where the Stanley Brothers had been stalwarts since December 1946.
- The Stanley Brothers learned “Love Me, Darling, Just Tonight” directly from him on that program.
- The Stanley Brothers cut the song for their 1959 Clinch Mountain Boys album, where the writing is credited to Malone and Rakes.
- The song stayed in the Stanley working sets, and Ralph Stanley kept performing it with the Clinch Mountain Boys after Carter’s death in 1966 — including on Live in Japan (1971).
- Later recordings came from the Vern Williams Band (2004) and Shawn Lane (2005).
