Jack Reno was an American country

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer.

Career

Born in Bloomfield, Iowa

Bloomfield, Iowa

Bloomfield is a city in Davis County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,601 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Davis County.-Geography:Bloomfield is located in the southeastern part of Iowa near the Missouri border....

, Reno appeared at the Grand Ole Opry

Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, that has presented the biggest stars of that genre since 1925. It is also among the longest-running broadcasts in history since its beginnings as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM-AM...

 in the 1960s and played with Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings

Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...

 and Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

. He recorded seven albums and scored 12 hits on the American country music charts, including "Hitchin' a Ride

Hitchin' a Ride (Vanity Fare song)

"Hitchin' a Ride" is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander issued as a single by the UK-based band, Vanity Fare in late 1969. It reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1970, but was a bigger hit in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970. ...

", "Repeat After Me" and "I Want One".

In addition, he was a long-time country music DJ, with stints in Cincinnati, Ohio and Omaha, Nebraska.

Reno died of brain cancer on November 1, 2008 in Florence, Kentucky

Florence, Kentucky

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.

Albums

Year	Album	US Country	Label
1967	Meet Jack Reno	41	JAB
1968	I Want One	—	Dot
1969	I'm a Good Man in a Bad Frame of Mind	30
1972	Hitchin' a Ride	44	Target
1979	Interstate 7	—	Derbytown
1980	Hitchin' a Ride to the Country	—	Lucky Lady
1990	Nine Stitches	—	Eagle

Singles

Year	Single	US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...	Label
1967	"Repeat After Me"	10	Meet Jack Reno
1968	"How Sweet It Is (To Be in Love with You)"	41
	"I Want One"	19	I Want One
1969	"I'm a Good Man (In a Bad Frame of Mind)"	34	I'm a Good Man in a Bad Frame of Mind
	"We All Go Crazy"	22
1970	"That's the Way I See It"	67	Single only
1971	"Hitchin' a Ride Hitchin' a Ride (Vanity Fare song) "Hitchin' a Ride" is a song written by Mitch Murray and Peter Callander issued as a single by the UK-based band, Vanity Fare in late 1969. It reached #16 on the UK Singles Chart in February 1970, but was a bigger hit in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1970. ... "	12	Hitchin' a Ride
1972	"Heartaches by the Number Heartaches by the Number "Heartaches by the Number" is a popular and country song written by Harlan Howard and published in 1959.The biggest hit version was recorded by Guy Mitchell on August 24, 1959. It reached the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the weeks of December 14 and December 21, 1959. The recording was... "	26
	"Do You Want to Dance"	38	Singles only
1973	"Beautiful Sunday"	67
1974	"Let the Four Winds Blow"	57
	"Jukebox"	70