Radio varieties (Sept 1940-June 1941)

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LIFE OF PAT BUTTRAM (SO FAR) By PAT BUTTRAM Pat Buttram, one of the outstanding stars of the WLS Barn Dance. T WUZ horned in. a little town of Addison, Ala. (200 population) on the night of June 19, 1915. There wuz no doctor in Addison so I wuz horned without one. The house we lived in at the time wuz a church remodeled into a "parsonage". You see, my dad wuz a preacher in Addison, an' wen they huilt a new church they moy.ed_u£_into_lhe_Qld_Dne. .. Dad Fq90 8 didn't make much money the year 1 wuz horned (only $200), hut everyhody agreed that he wuz the hesi circuit rider in Winston County. 1 might explain that a circuit rider is a preacher that has more than one church an' rides from one to the other each Sunday. The reason for this is very few churches in the hills can aford a preacher of its own, an' it takes two or three churches to suport one preacher. Dad never has made any more than a hear livin' at preachin' but he alius says he counts his hlessins instead of his cash and figures hes doin' pretty good. But gittin' hack to me (after all, I'm the he-ro of this story) I wuz the youngest of seven children an' we wuz all raised on "ruterheggers and rahhits." I had three hrothers older'n me so hy the time the pants got down to me they wuz pretty RADIO VARICTIES MARCH