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Scope and content: A variety of items promoting and documenting the Grand Ole Opry. Includes histories, programs, promotional fliers, personal reminiscences, essays, and special commemorative issues of newspapers and booklets. Some items are heavily illustrated, most in color. Quantity of materials ranges from a single item to several folders. Most folders contain less than five items, and often only a single item. Contains some photocopies.
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Abstract: Research notes, audio cassettes and VHS video tapes, periodicals and other items collected by country music historian Bob Pinson. The collection's main focus is material related to Hank Williams, including his day to day performance and recording itinerary, and the Grand Ole Opry, specifically Opry performances that were part of the Armed Forces Radio Services broadcast, primarily from the 1940s and 1950s.
Scope and Content: The Bob Pinson...
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Abstract: Scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings and audio recordings documenting the lives of African-Americans Thomas W. Southall, especially his career in the army, particularly his service in Germany in the 1950s, building radio sites; and his wife, Myrtle Forcey-Southall, who performed under the name, Myrtle Wilson, as a contortionist and dancer, and under her later stage name, Joyce Jackson, as a jazz singer. She performed in jazz clubs on...