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Asher and Little Jimmie Sizemore Radio Program Reference Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0143 SAA 143
Abstract
Asher Sizemore (1906-1975) initially worked as a bookkeeper for a mining company in Pike County, Kentucky, but aspired to be a singer. In 1931, singing old-time and cowboy songs, he appeared on radio in Huntington, West Virginia, before moving to WCKY Cincinnati and then WHAS Louisville, where he was first joined on air by his five-year-old son Jimmie (1928- ). In 1933, the duo were hired by the WSM Grand Ole Opry, where they remained a popular act for about 10 years.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1990
Over Home Radio Programs
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0112 SAA 112
Scope and Contents
Thirteen non-commercial audio cassette recordings, Dec. 1988 - June 1990, of Over Home, a radio program series documenting Western North Carolina traditional musicians and storytellers that aired on WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina.
Listen To Programs / Read Play Lists
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1990
William Sears Home and Field Recordings Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0130 SAA 130
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of (1) video and audio home recordings, (2) radio programs 1950s - 1970s, and (3) video field recordings, 2008, documenting a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties, Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2008