National Barn Dance (Radio Program) -- History.
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Doc Hopkins Audio Recordings Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0266
Abstract
Doctor Howard Hopkins was a popular performer on mid- western radio in the 1930s and 1940s. Born January 26, 1900, in Harlan County, Kentucky, Hopkins began playing banjo during his boyhood on an instrument his father crafted for him.
The Hopkins family moved to Rockcastle County, where Doc’s neighbors included his future radio colleagues John Lair, Karl Davis, and Harty Taylor. In 1930 Lair invited his schoolmates to Chicago, and Hopkins named the new band the Cumberland Ridge...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2017
T.J. Wood Jr. Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0139 SAA 139
Abstract
Born in Berea in 1921, Thomas J. Wood, Jr. was a Navy veteran of World War II and a graduate of Harvard University and the Harvard Business School. Wood had a lifelong career in advertising. Acting as an agent for John Lair, Wood would sell a package of three network Renfro Valley radio programs—the Saturday night Barn Dance, Sunday Morning Gathering, and Country Store—to General Foods in New...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1949-1970