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In Knoxville, Tennessee the emerging media chain Scripps-Howard purchased the WNOX station in 1935, and then in 1936 the station launched its most popular program, the influential Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round, a live noontime performance show which highlighted hillbilly music artists.[1]
Lee Roy "Lasses" White of Wills Point, TX, who was featured on the Nashville radio station WSM, with "Honey" Wilds, and they were featured in their own Friday night "minstrel show and on The Grand Ole Opry, left for Hollywood in May of 1936. He found a career as a character actor in the B-Grade Western "horse operas".[2]
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May 25 – Tom T. Hall, singer-songwriter who became known as "The Storyteller."
June 22 – Kris Kristofferson, singer-songwriter and actor who grew to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
July 24 – Max D. Barnes, songwriter and record producer whose peak came in the 1980s and early 1990s (died 2004)
November 5 – Billy Sherrill, record producer for numerous acts in the 1960s through 1980s, most famously Tammy Wynette. (died 2015)
Deaths
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References
^Cook, Hollie. "Country Music in Knoxville"(PDF). Knox Heritage & Junior League of Knoxville. Retrieved April 16, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
^Carlin, Richard (2003). Country Music: A Biographical Dictionary. New York and London: Rutledge. p. 224. ISBN0-415-93802-3.
Further reading
Kingsbury, Paul, "Vinyl Hayride: Country Music Album Covers 1947–1989," Country Music Foundation, 2003 (ISBN0-8118-3572-3)
Millard, Bob, "Country Music: 70 Years of America's Favorite Music," HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (ISBN0-06-273244-7)
Whitburn, Joel. "Top Country Songs 1944–2005 – 6th Edition." 2005.
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