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Subj: Today in History - Nov 28
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Nov 28, 1925:
The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting
The Grand Ole Opry, one of the longest-lived and most popular
showcases for western music, begins broadcasting live from
Nashville, Tennessee. The showcase was originally named the Barn
Dance, after a Chicago radio program called the National Barn
Dance that had begun broadcasting the previous year.
Impressed by the popularity of the Chicago-based National Barn
Dance, producers at WSM radio in Nashville decided to create
their own version of the show to cater to southern audiences who
could not receive the Chicago signal. Both the Grand Ole Opry and
the National Barn Dance aired on Saturday nights and featured
folk music, fiddling, and the relatively new genre of
country-western music. Both shows created a growing audience for
a uniquely American style of music and were launching grounds for
many of America's most-loved musicians--the singing cowboy Gene
Autry got his first big break on the National Barn Dance. The WSM
producers recognized that Americans were growing nostalgic for
the rural past, so all live performers at the Grand Ole Opry were
required to dress in hillbilly costumes and adopt old-time names.
The four-and-a-half-hour Grand Ole Opry program became one of the
most popular broadcasts in the South, and like its Chicago
cousin, helped make country-western an enduring part of the
popular American musical landscape.
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