WWVA Jamboree

The WWVA Jamboree is an American country music show, which is broadcast by the radio station WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. The WWVA Jamboree began in 1933 and is still on the air. The program consists of performances of different country musician and skits.

History

The end of 1932, the proposal was fitted by the leading program director George W. Smith to organize a Saturday night live show, as already successfully ran on WSM or WLS. For the first time on the air the WWVA Jamboree went on the evening of January 7, 1933 The first show was held at the WWVA studio with five artists. Fred Craddock 's Happy Five, Ginger Snap & Sparky, the Tweedy Brothers and moderator and harmonica player Felix Adams. However, in the first months of no fixed transmission time of the Jamborees were planned, there was at first only a few, in no particular order, spending sent. In March 1933, the show was on a fixed transmission time, Saturday evening brought.

Rise

A month later, pulled the WWVA Jamboree due to the onslaught visitors in the Capitol Theatre to, which could accommodate up to 3200 spectators. But the Capitol Theatre was no longer enough a year later, so we moved into the even bigger Wheeling Market Auditorium order. The admission price of 25 cents was already extremely low. In comparison, the Skillet Lickers ten years earlier took a dollar for Adults on her tours. Early members of the mission were, among others Cowboy Loye, the comedian Elmer Crowe, the Wheeling Weird Travellers and a young hillbilly musician named Marshall Jones, who made ​​a career later than Grandpa Jones. In addition to commercial Old-time music, other music genres were represented in the WWVA Jamboree, as the Croatian Junior Tamburitza Orchestra, the Royal Serenaders, and Earl Summers, Jr. and his Big Band.

A flood in 1936 interrupted the success of the Jamboree for a short time, since the auditorium was needed to house the homeless. Six months after the flood, the show went on the air again and pulled at the opening show of 5000 spectators. In 1937, Doc Williams with his band, the Border Riders, a member of the show. Williams was to become one of the most popular artists in the Jamboree. At the same time also Ramblin ' Tommy Scott and Slim Bryant had joined the mission.

Deposition and a new beginning

A year after the U.S. entry into the Second World War, the WWVA Jamboree was canceled by order of the government because of austerity measures. Previously, most of the male members had been recruited already in the army and fought overseas. For three years the WWVA Jamboree was therefore postponed and seemed to be sold forever. On July 13, 1946 an opening show at the Virginia Theatre was held, this time among others, the young musicians Hawkshaw Hawkins again. With the CBS system, the Jamboree was heard throughout most of America. In the 1940s and 1950s country stars like Wilma Lee & Stooney Cooper, Dusty Owens and Skeeter Davis were represented in the show and were given the popularity of the show upright. Unlike most shows of the 1950s, the WWVA Jamboree, did not sink, but was still broadcasting live with constant ratings. 1965 moved the show under the direction of Lee Sutton to the 3000 seats large Wheeling Iceland Exhibition Hall.

With ordinary members such as Mac Wiseman and Elton Britt over the line to win stars like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty and Buck Owens for performances. 1969 moved the show again in the Capitol Theatre to where they will be held until today. Even if WWVA changed his program in the 1980s to the message sender, was arrested on WWVA Jamboree, which continues to this day and so after the WSM Grand Ole Opry is the longest-lived country show in the world. However, the WWVA Jamboree is now called Jamboree USA or The Wheeling Jamboree and the Capitol Theatre was renamed the Capitol Music Hall. Since January 3, 2009, the shows will again be held at the Victoria Theatre, where they have been held for some time in the 1930s.

Guests and members

  • Don Gibson
  • Grandpa Jones
  • Hawkshaw Hawkins
  • Hank Snow
  • Billy Walker
  • Jimmy Martin
  • Janis Martin
  • Skeeter Bonn
  • Bill Beach
  • Dusty Owens
  • Shorty Fincher
  • Abbie Neal and her Ranch Girls
  • Tex Harrison and his Buckaroos
  • Hiram Hayseed
  • The Davis Twins
  • Skinny Clark
  • Toby Stroud
  • Slim Carter
  • Pid Hawkins
  • Jimmy Hutchinson
  • Tommy Knott
  • Penny Lou
  • Lee and Juanita Moore
  • The Wyoming Ranch Boys
  • Tommy Sutton
  • Hank King
  • Bluegrass Roy
  • Doc Williams
  • Carl Stuart
  • The Compton Brothers
  • Van Trevor
  • Curly ' Brien
  • Stan Jr.
  • Quarantine
  • Joe Pain
  • Charlie Moore
  • Bill Napier
  • Log Cabin Girls
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