Long ago artist

[Kenny Yates]

How far back can you go in naming the artist who ere well know at one time or played the opry or both or whatever. Here is a few that I can remember, barely.

Lew Childers
Robert Lund (sp)
Milton Estes
The Fruit Jar Drinkers
Wayne Raney and Lonnie Glosson

[Tim Rowley]

Uncle Jimmy Thompson
DeFord Bailey
Dr. Humphrey Bates and the Possum Hunters
Rod Brassfield
Charlie Monroe
Whitey Ford (the Duke of Paducah)
Uncle Dave Macon
Johnny and Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys
Wade Mainer
Floyd Tillman
Al Dexter
The Bailes Brothers
The York Brothers
The Willis Brothers
The Delmore Brothers
Sam and Kirk McGee
Jimmy Skinner
Curly Fox and Texas Ruby
The Crook Brothers
The Callahan Brothers
Rose Maddox
Lulu Belle and Scotty
Karl and Harty
The Blue Sky Boys
The Davis Sisters
Margie Bowes
Lady Marian Worth
Fiddlin' Arthur Smith
Zeke Clements
Vernon Dalhart
Ernest "Pop" Stoneman
Carson Robison
Fiddlin' Sid Harkreader
Moon Mullican
Cowboy Copas
Hawkshaw Hawkins
T. Texas Tyler

And a thousand others!

[Ed Naylor]

Tim- Have you been sneeking a peek through my old 78 RPM records??? You missed Jimmie Skinner. Ernie Lee,Jimmie Osborne and Hank Penny.Ed Naylor Steel Guitar Works

[Mike Weirauch]

Miss Del Wood on the Piano
The late Bob Luman
Carl Smith
Bobby Lord
Marty Robbins
Cousin Jody
The late Ralph Sloan and the Tennessee Travelers

[Don Townsend]

Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers, and of course Lester "Roadhog" Moran and his Cadillac Cowboys (he says with tongue in cheek)
Don

[Donny Hinson]

The Wilburn Brothers
Carl Belew
Tompall and the Glaser Brothers
Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
Roy Drusky
Red Sovine
Fiddlin' John Carson
Al Hopkins and His Bucklebusters
The Possum Hunters
The Skillet Lickers
Eck Robertson
The Callahan Brothers
Merle "Ridgerunner" Travis
Bradley Kincaid
The Bogtrotter Band
Patsy Montanna
The Coon Creek Girls
Red Foley
Ferlin Husky
Jimmy Wakely
Lefty Frizzell
Pete "Oswald" Kirby
Uncle Jimmy Thompson
Robert Lunn
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
The Crook Brothers
Billy Walkey
Stu Phillips
Goebel Reeves
The Light Crust Doughboys
Tennesee Ernie Ford
Marvin Rainwater
Dave Dudley
Johnny Horton
George Morgan
Don Gibson
Wanda Jackson
Cliff Carlisle
Molly Jackson
Molly O'Day

(Some of these may have been from the WLS Barn Dance?)

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[Mike Weirauch]

What about Pete Drake?
Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters
Lonzo & Oscar

[Herb Steiner]

Lew Childre?! Wow! I use his fishin' reels, Lew's Speed Spools!

Actually, his sons are the ones who owned the tackle mfg. company. Don't know if Lew had a hand in it or not.

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[Kenny Yates]

Bradley Kincaid, was he the one who use to do the singing news.

"this news is the truth
every line says I
I'll betcha thirty cents
You can't catch me in a lie".

[Kenny Yates]

and from the west coast, Molly Bee and the Collins kids. Hmmmm.....Wanda Jackson

[Kenny Dail]

Two ex vaudville comedians known as "Jamup 'n Honey".

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[Robert Williams]

Don't forget these unforgetables:
Eddy Arnold
Little Roy Wiggins
James Farmer
Kayton Roberts
Singin' Sam
Zeke Manners
Jerry Byrd
Billy Byrd