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Archie Campbell (comedian)
Archie Campbell (November 7, 1914 – August 29, 1987) was an American comedian, writer, and star of ''Hee Haw'', a country-flavored network television variety show. He was also a recording artist with several hits for RCA Victor in the 1960s. Biography Early career Born in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, Campbell studied art at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, after which he began a radio career at WNOX in Knoxville. After a year alongside Roy Acuff on their ''Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round'', he relocated to WDOD in Chattanooga, where he stayed until joining the U.S. Navy in 1941. At the end of World War II, Campbell returned to WNOX. He left that station for rival WROL, where he helped start Knoxville's first country-music television show (on WROL-TV), ''Country Playhouse'', that premiered in 1952 and ran until 1958. At the close of that show, he moved to Nashville to replace Rod Brasfield on the nationally syndicated Prince Albert segment of the Grand Ole Opry. Shortly a ...
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Bulls Gap, Tennessee
Bulls Gap is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 756 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA MSA, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities, Tennessee, Tri-Cities" region. The downtown area is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Bulls Gap Historic District. The town was named for the famous gunsmith, John Bull, who made his home in the gap of mountains. Geography Bulls Gap is located at (36.259094, -83.079507). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. History In November 1864, a small Civil War battle was fought here. The Battle of Bull's Gap was a Confederate States of America, Confederate victory, with John C. Breckinridge the victorious general. Demographics 2020 census As of the 2020 United States census, ...
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WRJZ
WRJZ (620 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Knoxville, Tennessee. It airs a Christian talk and teaching radio format and is owned by Tennessee Media Associates, headed by Thomas Moffit, Jr. The studios are on East Magnolia Avenue in Knoxville. By day, WRJZ transmits a 5,000-watt non-directional. At night, to avoid interference to other stations on 620 AM, WRJZ uses a directional antenna with a five-tower array. Programming is also heard on two FM translators: 99.5 MHz in Sevierville and 102.5 MHz in Knoxville. Programming In morning drive time, Bob Bell hosts a show focusing on news, weather and information. The rest of the day, WRJZ airs national programs including ''Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson'', ''Insight for Living with Chuck Swindoll'', ''In Touch with Charles Stanley'', ''Turning Point with David Jeremiah'', ''Truth for Life with Alistair Begg'', ''Hope in the Night with June Hunt'' and ''Focus on the Family with Jim Daly''. WRJZ also airs C ...
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Jack Barry (television Personality)
Jack Barry may refer to: *Jack Barry (baseball) (1887–1961), American baseball player and manager *Jack Barry (Gaelic footballer) (born 1994), county player for Kerry *Jack Barry (game show host) (1918–1984), American television host and producer *Jack Barry (unionist) (1924–2005), American labor union leader *Shad Barry (1878–1936), known also as Jack Barry, American baseball player See also

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Juvenile Jury
''Juvenile Jury'' was an American children's game show that originally ran on NBC from April 3, 1947, to August 1, 1954. It was hosted by Jack Barry and featured a panel of children aged ten or less giving advice to solve the problems of other children. Celebrity guests appeared on the show, including Eddie Cantor, Red Skelton and Milton Berle. The show began in 1946 as a radio program on WOR in New York,"Radio: Juvenile Jury" ''Time magazine'', June 17, 1946. but then successfully made the transition to television. It continued to be broadcast as a radio program until 1953.Sies, Luther F. ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960.'' McFarland & Co. 2000. p. 301. Controversy In a 1953 episode, four-year-old panelist Michelle Fogel claimed that she was told the questions/"problems" the night before, and further claimed that her answer to the first problem was what "my mommy told me to say"; Barry then, and again several times during the remainder of the episode, tried to ...
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Spoonerism
A spoonerism is an occurrence of speech in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis) between two words of a phrase. These are named after the Oxford don and priest William Archibald Spooner, who reportedly commonly spoke in this way. Examples include saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow", or "runny babbit" instead of "bunny rabbit". While spoonerisms are commonly heard as slips of the tongue, they can also be used intentionally as a word play. The first known spoonerisms were published by the 16th-century author François Rabelais and termed . In his novel '' Pantagruel'', he wrote ("insane woman at Mass, woman with flabby buttocks"). Etymology Spoonerisms are named for the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden from 1903 to 1924 of New College, Oxford, who was allegedly susceptible to this mistake. The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' records the word ''spoonerism'' as early as 1900. The term was well-es ...
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Country Music Association
The Country Music Association (CMA) is an American trade association with the stated aim of promoting and developing country music throughout the world. Founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, it originally consisted of 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre. The CMA is best known for its annual CMA Music Festival, CMA Fest and Country Music Association Awards broadcast live on network television each fall (usually October or November). About Initially, CMA's Board of Directors included nine directors and five officers. Wesley Rose, president of Acuff-Rose Music, Acuff-Rose Publishing, Inc., served as CMA's first chairman of the board. Broadcasting entrepreneur and executive Connie B. Gay was the founding president. Mac Wiseman served as its first secretary and was also the CMA's last surviving inaugural member. The CMA was founded, in part, because of widespread dismay on Music Row about the rise of rock and roll and its influence on c ...
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Tell It Like It Is (song)
"Tell It Like It Is" is a song written by George Davis and Lee Diamond and originally recorded and released in 1966 by Aaron Neville. In 2010, the song was ranked No. 391 on ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Aaron Neville version In 1966, Aaron Neville recorded and released the original version of "Tell It Like It Is" on his album also entitled ''Tell It Like It Is'' (Par-Lo Records). In November 1966, the track was issued as a single which peaked in early 1967 at No. 2 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 (behind "I'm a Believer" by the Monkees) and No. 1 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The personnel on the original recording included George Davis arranging and playing baritone saxophone, Emory Humphrey-Thompson (Umar Shariff) on trumpet, Deacon John on guitar, Alvin "Red" Tyler on tenor saxophone, Willie Tee on piano and June Gardner on drums. In 2015, the version of the song recorded in 1966 by Aaron Neville was inducted into the Gra ...
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The Dark End Of The Street
"The Dark End of the Street" is a 1967 soul song, written by songwriters Dan Penn and Chips Moman and first recorded by James Carr. It became his trademark song, reaching number 10 on '' Billboard Magazine's'' R&B Chart, and crossing over to number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100. History and original recording The song was co-written by Penn, a professional songwriter and producer, and Moman, a former session guitarist at Gold Star Studio in Los Angeles and also the owner of American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. The song itself was ultimately recorded across town at Royal Studios, home of HI Records. In the summer of 1966, while a DJ convention was being held in Memphis, Penn and Moman were cheating while playing cards with Florida DJ Don Schroeder,Guralnick, Peter (2002). and decided to write the song while on a break. Penn said of the song “We were always wanting to come up with the best cheatin’ song. Ever.”Gordon, Robert (2001). The duo went to the hotel room of ...
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The Men In My Little Girl's Life
"The Men in My Little Girl's Life" is a song written by Mary Candy, Eddie Dean, and Gloria Shayne, which was performed by Mike Douglas. His recording was arranged by Jerry Fielding and produced by Manny Kellem, and was featured on Douglas' 1966 album ''The Men in My Little Girl's Life''. Chart performance It reached #3 on the adult contemporary chart and #6 on the U.S. pop chart in 1966. In Canada the song reached #14 on the AC charts and #37 on the Pop chart. Other charting versions * Archie Campbell released a version of the song as a single in 1966 which reached #16 on the U.S. country chart. *Tex Ritter released a version of the song as a single in 1966 which reached #50 on the U.S. country chart. Other versions *Telly Savalas Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (; January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was a Greek-American actor. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak on the crime drama series '' Kojak'' (197 ...
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Starday
Starday Records was an American record label producing traditional country music during the 1950s and 1960s. History The label began in 1952 in Beaumont, Texas, when local businessmen Jack Starnes (Lefty Frizzell's manager) and Houston record distributor Harold W. Daily (better known as "Pappy") decided to form a record label. The Starday name is a combination of Starnes' and Daily's last names. After four releases, former Four Star vice president Don Pierce was brought into the fold and the three men founded the Starday Recording and Publishing Company. Soon after, Starnes sold his shares out to Pierce. In the mid-1950s, Art Talmadge of Mercury Records made Starday a unique proposition, whereby Mercury contracted out all production of Country and Bluegrass music to Starday Records. This move proved not to be the success Mercury had hoped it would be, and this resulted in an acrimonious split between Daily and Pierce. Daily joined Mercury records as an A&R man/Talent Scout, whi ...
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Trouble In The Amen Corner
"Trouble in the Amen Corner" is a late 19th or early 20th century poem by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh. In 1960, Archie Campbell turned a slightly modified version of the poem into a country gospel song, with spoken words. The song quotes from the hymn "Rock of Ages", which is mentioned in the original poem. Campbell's version reached #24 in the ''Billboard'' country music Top 25. Description The elderly Brother Eyer habitually occupied the "amen corner", where the most vocally devout worshipers congregated, in a "fashionable church" with a "stylish congregation". But: ''His voice was cracked and broken; age had touched his vocal cords. And nearly every Sunday he would mispronounce the words Of the hymns, and 'twas no wonder; he was old and nearly blind, And the choir rattling onward always left him far behind. The chorus stormed and blustered, Brother Eyer sang too slow, And then he used the tunes in vogue a hundred years ago; At last the storm cloud burst and the church was told, ...
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Grand Ole Opry
The ''Grand Ole Opry'' is a regular live country music, country-music Radio broadcasting, radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM (AM), WSM, held between two and five nights per week, depending on the time of year. It was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as the ''WSM Barn Dance'', taking its current name in 1927. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (a joint venture between NBCUniversal, Atairos and majority shareholder Ryman Hospitality Properties), it is the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history. Dedicated to honoring country music and its history, the Opry showcases a mix of famous singers and contemporary Record chart, chart-toppers performing country, Bluegrass music, bluegrass, Americana (music), Americana, folk music, folk, and gospel music, gospel music as well as comedy, comedic performances and Sketch comedy, skits. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and mil ...
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