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American country music TV program
Saturday Night Jamboree
, also referred to as the
NBC Jamboree
, was an early American
country music
series on
NBC-TV
from December 4, 1948–July 2, 1949. The name was originally given to an NBC Saturday night radio show in the 1930s, which was broadcast on the WEAF station in New York City.
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The TV series aired live from New York City from 8–9 p.m.
Eastern Time
on Saturdays for three weeks in December 1948, with
yodeler
Elton Britt
as host. Beginning in January 1949, the host was Boyd Heath and the program aired from 8–8:30 p.m. until April, when it moved to 9:30–10 p.m. through July 2.
The cast included comedian "Chubby Chuck" Roe; Sophrony Garen, vocals; Ted Grunt,
fiddle
; Eddie Howard,
banjo
; John Havens,
guitar
; "Smilin'" Edwin Smith,
accordion
and Gabe Drake,
bass fiddle
.
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The show's competition included
Stand By for Crime
on ABC,
Spin the Picture
on DuMont
, and sports on CBS.
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Other
Saturday Night Jamboree
programs
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Other programs named
Saturday Night Jamboree
included the following:
- A program that ran for more than 10 years on
WSAZ-TV
in Huntington, West Virginia.
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- A program that debuted on
WFMY-TV
in Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 4, 1953.
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- A radio program on
WOPI
in the Bristol, Tennessee-Bristol, Virginia market in the 1940s.
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- A radio program on
WMAQ
in Chicago in the mid-1930s.
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References
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- ^
NBC Yearbook
, National Broadcasting Company, 1937
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Norton, Jack (16 March 2022).
Cornstars: Rube Music in Swing Time
. Lulu.com.
ISBN
9781458340429
.
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Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (June 24, 2009).
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present
. Random House Publishing Group. p. 1195.
ISBN
978-0-307-48320-1
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
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Hyatt, Wesley (October 6, 2015).
Short-Lived Television Series, 1948-1978: Thirty Years of More Than 1,000 Flops
. McFarland. p. 10.
ISBN
978-1-4766-0515-9
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
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Tribe, Ivan M. (November 21, 2021).
Mountaineer Jamboree: Country Music in West Virginia
. University Press of Kentucky.
ISBN
978-0-8131-8737-2
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
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Carlin, Bob (December 24, 2014).
String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont
. McFarland. p. 202.
ISBN
978-0-7864-8036-4
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
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Johnson, David W. (January 24, 2013).
Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers
. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
ISBN
978-1-62674-243-7
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
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Dunning, John (May 7, 1998).
On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio
. Oxford University Press. p. 249.
ISBN
978-0-19-984045-8
. Retrieved
April 4,
2023
.
External links
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