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Williams  Doc Williams (June 26, 1914 – ) was an influential
country music band leader and vocalist.  Doc Williams and his
wife Chickie were popular performers in the Canadian maritimes
and New England; although the couple and their band the Border
Riders recorded, performed live and appeared on the radio for
over five decades, they never had a national hit. Doc was born
Andrew John Smik, Jr. in Cleveland, Ohio and was raised in
Kittanning, Pennsylvania, and got his professional start playing
with the Kansas Clodhoppers during the early '30s. Doc
eventually formed his own band, Doc Williams and the Border
Riders, and moved to WWVA Wheeling in 1937; soon, with the
addition of comedian Froggie Cortez and cowboy crooner Big Slim
the Lone Cowboy, they became one of the station's most popular
attractions. In 1939, Williams married Jessie Wanda Crupe, a
singer known for her sweet voice who soon adopted the stage name
Chickie Williams. Doc founded Whee