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Grand Ole Opry is a weekly Saturday night country music radio program broadcast live on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee. It is the oldest continuous radio program in the United States, having been broadcast on WSM since November 28, 1925. It is also televised and promotes live performances both in Nashville and on the road.//The Grand Ole Opry started out as the WSM Barn Dance in the new fifth floor radio station studio of the National Life & Accident Insurance Company. The featured performer on the first show was Uncle Jimmy Thompson, a fiddler who was then 77 years old. The announcer was program director George D. Hay, known on the air as "The Solemn Old Judge." He was only 30 at the time and was not a judge, but was an enterprising pioneer who launched the Barn Dance as a spin-off of his National Barn Dance program at WLS Radio in Chicago, Illinois. Some of the bands regularly featured on the show during its early days included the Possum Hunters, the Fruit Jar Drinkers, the Crook Brothers and the Gully Jumpers. They arrived in this order. However, Judge Hay liked the Fruit Jar Drinkers and asked them to appear last on each show because he wanted to always close each segment with "red hot fiddle playing." They were the second band accepted on the "Barn Dance." And, when the Opry began having square dancers on the show, the Fruit Jar Drinkers always played for them.In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became its first real star. The name Grand Ole Opry came about in December, 1927. The Barn Dance followed NBC Radio Network's Music Appreciation Hour, which consisted of classical music and selections from grand opera. Their final piece that night featured a musical interpretation of an onrushing railroad locomotive. In response to this Judge Hay quipped, "Friends, the program which just came to a close was devoted to the classics. Doctor Damrosch told us that there is no place in the classics for realism. However, from here on out for the next three hours, we will present nothing but realism. It will be down to earth for the 'earthy'." He then introduced the man he dubbed the Harmonica Wizard — DeFord Bailey who played his classic train song "The Pan American Blues". After Bailey's performance Hay commented, "For the past hour, we have been listening to music taken largely from Grand Opera. From now on we will present the 'Grand Ole Opry.'" The name stuck and has been used for the program since then.As audiences to the live show increased, National Life & Accident Insurance's radio venue became too small to accommodate the hordes of fans. They built a larger studio, but it was still not large enough. The Opry then moved into then-suburban Hillsboro Theatre (now the Belcourt), then to the Dixie Tabernacle in East Nashville and then to the War Memorial Auditorium, a downtown venue adjacent to the State Capitol. A twenty-five cent admission began to be charged, in part an effort to curb the large crowds, but to no avail. In 1943, the Opry moved to the Ryman Auditorium
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Gaylord shares decline after project cancellation
Shares of Gaylord Entertainment Co., which owns and operates meetings-focused resorts and the Grand Ole Opry country music hall, declined on Tuesday after the company canceled its plans to develop a resort and convention hotel in Chula Vista, Calif.
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Legendary NL Musician To Be Honoured At ECMA's
The singer who made "Aunt Martha's Sheep" famous and was the first Newfoundlander to ever perform at the Grand Ole Opry will be honoured by the East Coast Music Association. The late Dick Nolan of Corner Brook will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in February during the ECMA's in Corner Brook.
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Gaylord shares decline after project cancellation
Shares of Gaylord Entertainment Co. (NYSE: GET), which owns and operates meetings-focused resorts and the Grand Ole Opry country music hall, declined on Tuesday after the company canceled its plans to develop a resort and convention hotel in Chula Vista.
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Alabama’s Randy Owen starts over with solo CD
As front man and lead singer of Alabama, Randy Owen racked up 42 No. 1 singles and dozens of other hits. But his last hit with that legendary band was about a decade ago. And so far, radio has been lukewarm to Owen’s first solo album, “One on One,” released this month.
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A Grand Ole Homecoming
To be quite frank, I don't remember from where the idea arose. It could have been at the suggestion of one of two friends or - and this is quite possible - it was my own bright idea.
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