Midnite Jamboree

The Midnite Jamboree is a radio program launched May 31, 1947 by country musician Ernest Tubb. Falsely billed as "the second longest running radio show in history" (numerous shows from the late 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s remain on the air) behind the Grand Ole Opry, it is recorded from the Texas Troubadour Theatre at Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville, Tennessee each Saturday night at 10:00 p.m. Through a brokered programming arrangement with Ernest Tubb Record Shop, the Jamboree airs two hours after its recording on WSM, immediately following the Opry. The program has been hosted by Jennifer Herron since 2004.

Show format

The Midnite Jamboree begins each episode with the theme song "Walking the Floor Over You" by the show's namesake Ernest Tubb, followed by playing a record from Jimmie C. Rodgers. The remainder of the show is devoted to a single country music act, who plays a set lasting approximately an hour. Many of the acts play a shorter set at the Grand Ole Opry earlier in the night before playing a full set at the Midnite Jamboree. The set is periodically interrupted to play songs from featured albums on sale at the record shop.

Each week features a different guest artist. Some of the artists are semi-regulars, making more than one appearance in a year, including Tubb's nephew Glenn Douglas Tubb, Lisa Layne (formerly of Vince Vance and the Valiants), and Opry regulars Jeannie Seely and Riders in the Sky.