CHARLOTTE-Cecil Robert Campbell, 78, of 2331 Lanier Ave.died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Wilson Funeral Home. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Goodwill Baptist Church cemetery in Kernersville. A former musician with the Tennessee Ramblers. Campbell was a recording artist with RCA who had appeared in movies with Dale Evans, Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter. He was also a former Briar Hopper and a member of Grace United Methodist Church. Surviving are wife, Mrs. Catherine Campbell; daughters, Mrs. Linda Chavis of Charlotte, Mrs. Joretta Slay of High Point; sister, Mrs. Mattie Linville of Clemmons; brothers, Edgar Campbell of Summerfield, Raymond Campbell of High Point; three grandchildren. The Family will be at the funeral home 7-9 p.m. today. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 1300 Baxter ST., Charlotte, N.C. 28204 or to the American Cancer Society, 500 E. Morehead St., Charlotte, N.C. 28202

TENNESSEE RAMBLER CECIL CAMPBELL DIES:
The last of the original Tennessee Ramblers is gone. Mr. Cecil Robert Campbell of Charlotte, known throughtout the Southeast for songwriting and steel guitar and banjo playing, died June 18, 1989, at Presbyterian Hospital. He was 78. He sold nearly a Million copies of his 1947 recording of "Tryon Street Boogie." Caroliina themes wound through many of Cecil Campbell's 100 or so songs, in cluding (Catawbay River Blues," "My Little Hut in Carolina" and "North Carolina Skies." He wrote country music back when it was called "hillbilly music"and appeared on WBT's Briarhopper radio show in the 1930s and '40s. But Mr. Campbell also wrote and recorded Hawaiian tunes such as "Little Hula Shack in Hawaii" and " Neath Hawaiian Palms." "He'll be remembered mostly for his steel guitar playing," said Don White, a friend and one of the Tennessee Ramblers, "and he wrote a lot of good songs." One of his most popular records was a 45 rpm novelty called "Everybodys's Eatin' Out; Nobodys's Cookin' In." As one of the Tennessee Ramblers, Mr. Campbell traveled to Hollywood in 1930s and '40s to appear in six movies. The westerns-including "Ride Ranger Ride," "Sundown Valley," "Swing Your Partner" and Yodeling Kid from Pine Ridge"-starred Dale Evans, Gene Autry and Tex Ritter. Mr. Campbell was born on a tobacco farm near Danbury iin 1911. He graduated from Walkertown High School in Walkertown, near Winston-Salem, and moved to Charlotte in 1935. He taught himself to play the guitar when he was 14 or 15 years old, sitting around the tobacco farm chewing on the home-grown leaf. And in 1970, the guitar player knownf or his down-to-earth friendliness was admitted to the archives section of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. "He played by ear," said his daughter, Linda Chavis of Charlotte. "he loved to make people laugh. and he never met a stranger. "He'd go down to Florida, and he'd come back with someone to visit and spend the night," she said.(The Charlotte Observer June 20, 1989)