Hillbilly- Music. Al Rogers and the Rocky Mountain Boys. Al Rogers was born July 2. West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. But. Al sent us a biographical writeup and indicated it was West Mifflin. When Al was twelve. That guitar was a Christmas.
Al. It didn't take long for Al to master; he learned to play it quickly. He wrote. to Rusty Herman, an entertainer he had heard an Radio Station WKPA in New Kensington. Pennsylvania. To Al's surprise, Rusty showed up at his home for a personal audition. By the time he was sixteen, he already had his own.
Millie, who sang and played Bass on. Station WKPA in New Kensington. Air Force and was assigned to Special Services. South Pacific, the Philippines and Okinawa. After. his discharge in 1. WJAS in. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, playing his guitar and singing.
His high ratings attracted a. St. Louis, Missouri, Groves Laboratories.
As a matter of fact. Al's ratings were higher than Arthur Godfrey, who followed Al on the station with. CBS Show. A member of his fan club, Mildred Stinner, wrote Floy Case to let her know that Al's shows. WJAS were on each morning at 7: 1. She notes that he had just arrived. WJAS in Pittsburgh. Readers were also told that he.
WWSW as well. He was planning on staying in the Texas. Pittsburgh. It perhaps shows you how the media and the artists were back then. Chaw told his cousin. Pittsburgh to make sure Al Rogers was there when she arrived.
Indeed he was. as well as the female singer on his shows at the time, Betty Pearl. Mary Jean noted. that they had a grand time, talking most of the night and well, Al probably had to rush. WJAS studios in time to make his early morning show. She gushed. over the fact that fans had told her about this new singer on WJAS and how good he was. He seemed to have. KGNC. His fan mail set a record in terms of the coverage.
Fans as far away as 1. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, he was on the air at 1. Chaw Mank. wrote in a 1. Al's sponsors on the show was Groves Laboratories. Shurtz, he knew how to do recitations in the form of poetry on his shows as well.
He wrote one of the magazine columnists in 1. Nelson King's WCKY Jamboree. Shurtz. noted that Al's show at WSAZ , the Western Hayride. One of his sponsors over WSAZ was Gwinn Brothers Flour Mills. Jenny Via reported that . The artists were not going to accept any.
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All of the proceeds from the show were to go to purchase. Bob and his dog. Myers; Fred and Ollie Cook and their Skyline Patrol; Jimmie Skinner. Ray Lunsford and others. One article notes that the dog, three months training. Morristown, New Jersey where the dogs were raised. Another article notes that the matinee.
Hawkshaw Hawkins. But luckily, no one was injured, though she. Mary Jean Shurtz tells readers that Al.
After a year of courtship, they were married on May 2. Post- war bookings were sparse, but Al managed to do. At that time, he also had an early. WHTN in Huntington, West Virginia, Kentucky and. Southern Ohio. Betty Pearl was a part of his act at that time and one columnist noted that.
Al do his comedy routine yet, though had heard good reviews about. Around this time, we read where Al and his group were touring in a new. Chrysler Town and Country automobile. We learned in one column.
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She noted that Al had signed a recording contract with a record label. He went. to Nashville and auditioned for Fred Rose of Acuff- Rose Publications. Al auditioned for Fred and after singing. Fred stopped him and said, . He was elated; to him, this was one of the happiest times of his life. Several of his recordings were on the hit charts at WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia.
WJJD in Chicago, Illinois, WPAT is Patterson, New Jersey, and WVOK in Birmingham, Alabama. Randy Atcher would. Old Kentucky Barn Dance as well as his long running television. T Bar V Ranch for kids. Country Music Hall of Famer Pee Wee King had a. WAVE as well when Al was working for the station. Frank, one of the all time.
WSM's famous. Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee. He commuted. from Louisville to Nashville every Saturday night to appear in front of the. Grand Ole Opry audiences at the Ryman Auditorium.
In 1. 95. 2 their first daughter. Joanne (Jodi), was born. In 1. 95. 7, their second daughter, Kathy, was born. For the next. thirty years Amarillo was home for the Rogers family.
During those years he had a very. TV series that he produced and starred in, called The Panhandle Barn Dance. Then Al had. his own disc jockey show from 5: 3.
Monday through Friday. Saturdays from 2: 0. But the article doesn't. KGNC in Amarillo. Years later, he opened another club in Amarillo called. Sipango Club where he performed as a solo artist, and was still very popular.
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