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The regulars oi the Ouachita Roundup, heard from KTHS, Hot Springs, each Tuesday night. From left to right: with leis around their necks, the Easterlies:; standing, Carl, Lulubelle, Truman, Pee Wee and Cotton, the Skyliners: second from the right, Ed Appier. The remainder are members of Cowboy Jack's Prairie Pals. In addition to the regulars, from fifteen to thirty guests appear on the Roundup each week.
THE QUACHITA ROUNDUP
THE OUACHITA ROUNDUP is the successor to a barn dancetype of show which has been featured on KTHS, Hot Springs, weekly for the past thirteen years. Originally scheduled as a Barn Dance, the program was first conducted by Campbell Arnoux in 1929 and was broadcast from the studio of KTHS until the spring of 1938 when the show was renamed the Country Store and moved to the city auditorium.
During its colorful existence the feature has presented many notables and practically all the outstanding hillbilly and cowboy acts of the Southwest.
At one time, the Country Store, as it was then called was deluged with rabbit's feet. During a performance one night, Ed Appier, who then served as master of
ceremonies, made great formality of hanging a rabbit's foot on the microphone. Within a month he had received rabbit's feet from thirty states. The collection included every size bunny tootsie from the tiny red rabbit in Georgia to the great Snowshoe rabbit. The response wasn't entirely limited to the feet of rabbits. A bass fiddle was adorned with two mule-sized ears from a Texas jack for many months.
In the spring of 1938, the Country Store had grown to such proportions that acts were run into the studio for broadcast in relays, so the stage of the city auditorium was set to simulate a Country Store and the show moved there with the public invited to attend.
Shortly afterward, in an effort to give the program a distinctive
name it was renamed the Ouachita Roundup after the Ouachita National Forest near which Hot Springs is located. The setting now includes a campfire, a chuck wagon and bales of straw.
Everett Kemp succeeded Ed Appier as master of ceremonies and Pee Wee Roberts took over in 1939. The Ouachita Roundup, one of the oldest shows of its kind on the air, has moved from night to night and had many changes in talent, but it continues to attract a nationwide audience. Frequently cards are received from listeners who have never missed a broadcast.
The Ouachita Roundup is currently heard from KTHS, Hot Springs, at 9:05 P.M. Tuesday nights. ■
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