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Asa Martin Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0115 SAA 115
Abstract
Asa Martin was born 1900 in Clark County, Kentucky where he grew up hearing music at home and at various traveling shows. He tried his hand as an entertainer, first singing on small vaudeville shows and eventually on commercial recordings and radio with Madison County, Kentucky fiddler, Doc Roberts.On their recordings for Gennett and other labels, he played guitar with Roberts and performed a varied repertoire of songs that included parodies, traditional ballads, and current...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920-1979
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.
Asher and Little...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1933-1990
Cash Gospel Quartet Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0109 SAA 109
Abstract
This collection documents the radio performing career of the Cash Quartet from Rockcastle County, Kentucky during the 1950-1960s. The collection consists of radio program sound recordings, written program song lists, published song books, photographs, and printed personal appearance programs.
The Cash Quartet was formed by Walter Cash (1929- ) around 1956 in the Ottawa community of southern Rockcastle County, Kentucky. Other members were his wife Reba (1937- ); sister, Joanne (1936- ); and...
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Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1961; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2007
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...
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Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2017
Ernest C. Martin Radio Program Collection
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: BCA 0144 SAA 144
Abstract
Ernest Martin was a talented musician and singer, originally from Clay City, Powell County, Kentucky. In the 1930s, Martin had some success in country music on such radio stations as WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee. However, at age twenty-two, in about 1936, Martin began a career as an independent Baptist evangelist which lasted well into the 1980s. Martin traveled thousands of miles conducting church revivals and recorded radio programs of preaching and singing. These programs were broadcast...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-1968
Homer Ledford Radio Program Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0124 SAA 124
Abstract
Homer C. Ledford was an instrument maker and bluegrass musician from Winchester, Kentucky who specialized in making dulcimers, banjos, and mandolins.
He was born in Alpine, Tennessee, where he started building instruments at an early age. At age eighteen he became a student at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina and eventually went on to Berea College, and what is now Eastern Kentucky University where he graduated in 1954.
Ledford taught industrial arts at George...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1997
John Miles Gospel Music Radio Program
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0126 SAA 126
Abstract
The Prichard Quartet and the Melody Five gospel singing groups from Whitley County were jointly organized by Chester Prichard and John Miles who both worked as barbers in Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky. The Prichard Quartet at various times was comprised of Chester Prichard, John Miles, Clifford Miller, Anna Prichard, and Ruby Parton. The Melody Five included Chester, Anna, and Jaola Prichard, and Chester and Roberta Bryant. Both were accompanied on piano by Janice Lundy.
The groups...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c.1950s-1964
Kentucky Traditional and Early Country Music Oral History Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0265
Abstract
Audio and video recorded interviews and performances with Kentucky traditional musicians and singers some of whom had radio performing careers mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The interviews were conducted at various times over the period 1969-2008, by Reubein Powell, Ray Nemec, Loyal Jones, Stephen Green, Susan Eacker, and Harry Rice.
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Other: Majority of material found in 1969-2008
Kevin Parks Early Country Music Research Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0129 SAA 129
Scope and Contents
This collection documents several early country music radio performers, their sponsors and radio stations, mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The collection includes promotional material for radio stations, country music performers, and sponsors in the form of songbooks, family photo albums, calendars, program histories, and autograph books. There are also performer photographs, print publications, advertising posters and an unpublished scrap book compiled by an unknown radio...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1925-1957; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2009
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
Episodes cover...
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translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1988-1990