Bob Moore was born in
Nashville, Tennessee, United States and developed his musical skills as a boy. By age 15 he was playing
double bass on a tent show tour with a
Grand Ole Opry musical group, and at 18, he accepted a position touring with
Little Jimmy Dickens. At age 23, his abilities brought an offer to play on the famed
Red Foley ABC-TV show,
Ozark Jubilee. Playing with the show's band in
Springfield, Missouri on Saturdays and traveling to Nashville during the week proved to be exhausting, however, and after two years, he returned to Nashville. Moore was 12 years old when he met
Owen Bradley, who was playing trombone in Nashville radio station
WSM-AM's staff band. In 1950, Bradley hired Moore to perform on a direct-to-disk transcription which was recorded via cable from the stage of the
Ryman Theatre. Soon thereafter, Bradley became the head of Nashville's division of
Decca Records and brought Moore in as a session musician. Moore went on to perform on over 17,000 documented (Federation of Musicians Local 257) recording sessions and was a key member of
The Nashville A-Team, a core group of first-call studio musicians, that began to coalesce in the early 1950s. In 1958, he played on his first of many
Elvis Presley sessions at
RCA Studio B and soundtrack. The following year he teamed up with
Fred Foster at
Monument Records where, as the label's musical director, he created arrangements for
Roy Orbison. ==With Patsy Cline==