Stella Parton: Ode to Olivia

An extremely rare recording of The WOWO-Radio Hoosier Hop, with the Blackhawk Valley Boys, broadcast from Fort Wayne, Indiana during the early 1940s. Transferred from a worn 16 inch acetate transcription disc discovered in Knoxville, Tennessee.

WOWO-Radio Hoosier Hop with the Blackhawk Valley Boys (ca. 1943)

Home acetate recording made June 23, 1947. James Winchester on piano.

James Winchester Plays Boogie Woogie (June 1947)

Swing Piece with James Winchester (1940s)

Early rock and roll prototype released on the obscure Valley Records label out of Knoxville, Tennessee, November 1953.

The Valley Records Story

Shorty Long: I Got Nine Little Kisses (1953)

Bob's Cats: Tailwind (Valley Records, 1966)

Johnny Pirkle on WNOX-Radio, Knoxville, TN 1960s

Johnny Pirkle on WNOX-Radio, Knoxville, Tennessee (circa 1967)

Recorded by Claude Tomlinson at WIVK-Radio. Knoxville, TN

So Little I Wanted, So Little I Got (1960) Bill and Dolly

Vintage party record track discovered on an orphan reel to reel audiotape.

He Likes To Nibble On My Cupcakes (1960)

The Smoky Mountain Sacred Singers Brunswick- Vocalion 78 rpm disc released in 1927.  The singers are Lester McFarland, Robert Gardner (Mac and Bob from WNOX-Knoxville, Vernon Dalhart, and Wilfred Glenn.

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Stella Parton: Ode to Olivia

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