The Midday Merry-Go-Round was a staple of Knoxville Tennessee radio station WNOX. The live country music variety show started in 1936 and was hosted by Lowell Blanchard. The program featured a number of early country music stars including Roy Acuff and Archie Campbell.
The Booklet these photos come from has 32 pages and along with photos, features lyrics of numerous songs along with several pages of jokes and riddles as told by Blanchard.
There is no advertising in the book and no price listed. It's possible it was sold or given out at shows or sent out by mail.
Book Cover-While there is no publication date the latest
photo seems to be 1939. A note from Blanchard mentions
8 years of the Merry-Go-Round giving a possible publication
date of 1944
Photo of the first Merry-Go-Round program.
L-R: Dynamite,
UNK, Red Jones, Spec Acuff,
Lowell Blanchard, Grandpappy (Archie
Campbell),
Clell Summey, Roy Acuff
Dynamite (Sam Hatcher), Red Jones, and Clell Summey were members of Roy Acuff's band. Though he is listed as Spec Acuff in this photo I'm pretty sure that is Spot Acuff, Roy's brother, who also played with the band.
The Midday Merry-Go-Round in 1938
L-R: Tony Musco, Monk, Tex, Lowell, Tommy Covington,
Herby Cooper, Curly, Jerry Collins, Dave Durham, Cliff Stier,
Buck Houtchins, Larry Downing, Frank Turner
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