John “Jack” Volinkaty<\/p>\n
(1943-1992)<\/p>\n
Inducted 2015<\/p>\n
Jack Volinkaty was born in St. Louis Park, MN and three years later the family moved to Lafayette, Minnesota, a town of 500 people. He attended Lafayette Elementary School and graduated from New Ulm High School. Jack\u2019s first guitar was a light blue Fender Jaguar electric guitar. In 1965 Volinkaty connected with John Ginkel, Tom Ginkel, and Bruce Melzer forming the rock & roll combo The Shags, starting Jack\u2019s musical career. The name \u201cShags\u201d came from a superstitious ghost roaming around a Minnesota River road. Keith Verthein, a pharmacist from Lafayette, became the band\u2019s promoter. In the late 1960s Jack wrote the song \u201cSatin Sheets\u201d which took five minutes to write, a year to sell, and three years to make it big. In 1973 Jeanne Pruett picked up the song and made it a smash hit on the American country charts. \u201cSatin Sheets\u201d was also recorded by Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Barbara Fairchild, and most recently Martina McBride. It was recognized by BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) as one of the most-performed songs in their entire repertoire of more than three million songs. In 1976 Volinkaty released a highly-sought-after solo album entitled Right On Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John “Jack” Volinkaty (1943-1992) Inducted 2015 Jack Volinkaty was born in St. Louis Park, MN and three years later the family moved to Lafayette, Minnesota, a town of 500 people. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[377,65,385,57,45,61,386],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-38","category-inductee","tag-377","tag-inductee","tag-jack-volinkaty","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-new-ulm","tag-satin-sheets"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}