Hey TJ

[Owd Wullie]

Check this out

Renfro Valley (Ky.) Singers, 1930s & 40s..

[FRJ]

Great picture, Willie. Some look like family.

[tjmurphy]

That's a pretty cool pic Willie. I believe the big girl in the middle with the banjo is Lilly Mae Ledford. She was the leader of the the old time band "The Coon Creek Girls". There is still a group known as the "New Coon Creek Girls". She was also a fiddle player. Red Foley was a member of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and was from Berea, Ky. Originally, the founder of the Barn Dance, John Lair, wanted to do the Barn Dance in Cincinnati, but the city didn't want the "hillbilly" tag. Historians have said that if Cincinnati had accepted the Barn Dance, Nashville, TN would have never been called "Music City", Cincinnati would have. And, speaking of Cincinnat, Henry Ford originally wanted to build his Ford plant there because of the railroads and the Ohio River. Cincinnati sure was screwed up in their thinking back then.

Thanks Willie

[jerryd6818]

Just think, Cincinnati (that's the home, that's the home of WCKY - Oh, sorry. I can't think of Cincinnati without thinking of WCKY and CHICKEN MAN! HE'S EVERYWHERE! HE'S EVERYWHERE!) could have been Music City and the car capital of the world, all rolled into one. Small minds...

[big monk]

Oh yeh___I remember Cincinnati

[tjmurphy]

Just think, Cincinnati (that's the home, that's the home of WCKY - Oh, sorry. I can't think of Cincinnati without thinking of WCKY and CHICKEN MAN! HE'S EVERYWHERE! HE'S EVERYWHERE!) could have been Music City and the car capital of the world, all rolled into one. Small minds...

When I was a kid, WCKY was a 50,000W clear channel station and service men from all over the world would write in saying they were listening. One of the shows was "The WCKY Jamboree" with Wayne Rainy and I think Lonnie Glosson, and they would play a mix of Country and Bluegrass music. The show went off the air sometime in the mid 60's. WCKY was actually in and transmitted from Covington, Ky., just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. While stationed at Ft. Hood, TX I was scanning the bands and low and behold, there was Wayne Rainy broadcasting out of Del Rio, TX, still pushing "Red Top Baby Chicks". In the 1930's-40's one of the Cincinnati radio stations was WLW, which was a 100,000W clear channel. FDR broadcast his "Fire-side chats" over the WLW transmitter. When the chats were finished, FDR desided that WLW didn't need to be that powerful and had them backed off to 50,000W. When I was a kid I could actually listen to WLW on an electric pole in the neighborhood at certain times of the evening. WLW was founded and owned by Powell Crosley who also was famous for manufacturing the Crosley automobile and Crosley radios. He felt that everyone should have a radio and sold them cheaply enough that everyone could afford one. He also owned the Cincinnati Reds.

Oh yeh___I remember Cincinnati

Though we never had a WKRP we do have a WKRC.

[jerryd6818]

If I remember correctly, by the time I got to Dayton, OH in 1967, WCKY was rock & roll baby.

While stationed at Ft. Hood, TX I was scanning the bands and low and behold, there was Wayne Rainy broadcasting out of Del Rio, TX,

250,000 watt clear channel border blaster XERF Ciudad Acuna Coahuila Mexico, right across the Rio Grand river from beautiful Del Rio Texas - In the spring of 1962, before I went into the service, we listened to Wolfman Jack.

[griz1200]

TJ...You remember WPFB in Middletown? The home of Moon Mullins.

[tjmurphy]

Sure do. I'd listen to "Moon" every evening on the way home from work. WPFB was a powerhouse Bluegrass Music station. Paul was a great fiddler. He played with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys and The Boys from Indiana. He wrote the Bluegrass classic "Katy Daly". He's missed in the music world.

[griz1200]

I used to listen to him on the way back to Wilmington from Troy. I was going to welding school up there. He used to crack me up. I think his son kinda took over, but I can't remember if he was on WPFB. I don't know if he was with the Boys From Indiana or not.

[tjmurphy]

Paul Mullins was the original fiddler with the Boys from Indiana. He is on the "Atlanta is Burning" album. His son Joe, bought a radio station in, I think, Wilmington, Ohio and is still on the air. Paul Mullins and Traditional Grass was a great band. Joe is still playing in the band "Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers". He's a great banjo player and tenor singer.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Now, back in the 60's I used to listen to the Chicken Man, the most fearless crime fighter the world has ever known, on WLS out of Chicago.

So, who originated the skit, WLS or WCKY?

Charlie Noyes

[jerryd6818]

Charlie, apparently neither one.

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenman_(radio_series)
Chickenman is an American radio series that spoofs comic book heroes. It was created in the mid 1960s by Dick Orkin, who at the time was a production director at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Its famous catch-phrase is, "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"

The series was loosely patterned after the Batman television show. It made its appearance in the spring of 1966 as a segment on radio station WCFL's Jim Runyon Show. Runyon served as its narrator. Orkin voiced the hero throughout the 195 episodes.

I didn't read the rest of the Wiki entry. Apparently it was syndicated?

[caddyman1973]

AAHHHHH!! Pictures of some home folk!! I've always lived within 5 to 7 miles of Renfro Valley. Renfro Valley is still going strong. Thanks for the pic Wullie!!!