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Down to the Opry House in Nashville there's a party,
ONE evening back in 1925, a hole suddenly developed in the program schedule of WSM, Nashville, and that's when Grand Ole Opry 'was born. A production executive,, called on "Uncle Jimmy" Thompson to fill the empty time, and "Uncle Jimmy" fiddled so many telegrams and phone calls into the studios from mountain music-hungry listeners that WSM decided he was there to stay.
Companionable southerners didn't let Uncle Jimmy solo for long. Pretty soon everyone who twanged a guitar, blew on a jug or could handle a zither swarmed over to WSM and offered to help out. Opry personnel expanded; nowadays, it is made up of farmers and ranchers recruited from the bayous, canebrakes and tobacco fields. Some are
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small shopkeepers. On Saturday nights they head for the Opry House, transform themselves with outsize shoes, Hour-sack dresses and Uncle Sam beards, and trample out before the Old Barn backdrop. Rehearsals are a matter of inspiration; five minutes is all it takes to break in a new member.
Grand Ole. Opry's national hook-up dates from 1938. To accommodate the 4000 folks who come from near and far to see it, an old tabernacle, the Ryman Auditorium, was bought. What you hear on the air (NBC, Saturday nights at 10:30 P.M. EDT) is only a fraction of the show. It actually starts at 8, goes on till 12, with the stomping, singing audience very much a part of the proceedings.
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Rod Brasfield, dressed for Saturday main. Commercials fall to Old Hickory Singers,