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What's New - Featured Articles. WSM Grand Ole Opry — WSM went on the air on October 5, 1925 to much fanfare. A fellow from WLS in Chicago, George D. Hay, came to Nashville to be a part of that first broadcast.
You're going to go browsing through our database of artists and groups. You'll get to see what shows they were a part of, the career honors they've received, the recordings they've made (where we can find the information) as well as some tidbits about them.
With the rise of Elvis Presley, he and "the King" became friends. Jimmie was also part of a historical event of sorts — the first National Hillbilly Music Day that was a celebration of the birth and life of Jimmie Rodgers in Meridian, MS.
WWVA 20th Anniversary Family Album 1926-1946. Hillbilly-music.com - Go back in time to learn about old time country music in the early days.
Eddie Cletro and his Roundup Boys also appeared in the movie "The Trail of the Rustlers" that starred Charles Starrett, known then as the Durango Kid and Smiley Burnette and released by Columbia Pictures in 1950. Eddie and his first wife, Wynne, were married for some 54 years.
Kay Adams had a big winner with “Little Pink Mack,” and “Six Days Awaiting,” her answer to Dave Dudley’s while-back smash, “Six Days On The Road,” should be another chart-destined item for her. The side is a brisk-moving swinger that should do it again for Kay. “Be Nice To Everybody” is a spirited, mid-tempo bouncer.
As time went by, the Hayloft Frolic was the number one rated country music show in Indiana and was number two to only the WLW Mid-western Hayride out of Cincinnati in the midwest. The show's cast contained a fair amount of talent to go with those ratings.
About The Artist. Da Costa Woltz led one of the first and best string bands to record from that musically rich area that includes such locales as Galax and Hillsville in Virginia and Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
The Southern Moonlight Entertainers was a name for a Vocalion recording group that one might suspect from the name might be a pop vocal group or a small orchestra. But in reality, under ordinary circumstances, it was a fiddle band better known as the Rainey Family. It was led by George Rainey. Members included: