Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell join Hall of Fame

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"We love you Roy Clark. We love you," Grand Ole Opry star "Little" Jimmy Dickens told Clark as he formally inducted him into the hall. "Everytime you hit the stage you update country music 10 years, and that's what it's all about."

An emotional Clark said it was humbling to be mentioned alongside many of his musical heroes.

"Just to be associated yourself with the members of the Country Music Hall of Fame and imagine that your name will be said right along with all the list ... ," he said.

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True to form, Clark entertained with a couple of humorous stories and a song, "Yesterday When I Was Young."

Crowell led a harmonica-heavy rendition of Roy Orbison's "Candy Man" for McCoy, 68, a multi-instrumentalist best known for his harmonica work.

McCoy's first session was "Candy Man" in 1961. Since then, he's recorded with Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Gordon Lightfoot, Paul Simon, Ringo Starr, Leon Russell, Tanya Tucker and many more.

"Well, I never really cared for harmonica or harmonica players until I heard Charlie McCoy," said Harold Bradley, a veteran session guitarist who formally inducted McCoy. "Charlie has taken harmonica playing to a whole different level. It's not just his great technique, it's his interpretation of many musical styles, from bluegrass, country and rock 'n' roll to a Hugo Montenegro album with strings and French horns."

McCoy, who continues to record and perform, said when he first arrived in town he wanted to be a singer and didn't know what a "session" was. But he learned fast watching a teenage Brenda Lee record "Sweet Nothin's" with Nashville's top studio musicians, known as the "A Team."

"When I watched those Nashville A Team musicians work I said 'To heck with singing, I want to do this,'" McCoy recalled.

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