Ozark Jubilee
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Ozark Jubilee | |
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Also known as | Country Music Jubilee Jubilee USA |
Created by | ABC Radio (1954-61) |
Release | January 22, 1955 September 24, 1960 | –
Related | |
Five Star Jubilee Talent Varieties |
Ozark Jubilee is a 1950s United States
A typical program included a mix of vocal and instrumental performances, comedy routines,
The Jubilee was canceled after almost six years as rock and roll grew in popularity, and in part because of publicity surrounding tax evasion charges against Foley,[7] who was later acquitted. On September 24, 1960, the final telecast, like the first in 1955, opened with Foley's singing of "Hearts of Stone". The program concluded with his performance of "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You". The series was voted Best Country Music Show by Fame magazine's annual TV critics poll in 1957 and 1960. In 1961, NBC-TV carried a spin-off, Five Star Jubilee.
Earlier country music television programs
The first (and first live) country music program on network television was Village Barn, broadcast from 1948–50 by NBC from a New York City nightclub. From the late 1940s through the 1950s, the U.S. networks carried a handful of other country music shows, including Hayloft Hoedown and ABC Barn Dance (ABC); Saturday Night Jamboree (NBC); and Windy City Jamboree and The Old American Barn Dance (DuMont). NBC and later ABC also aired Midwestern Hayride.[8] The shows, however, were generally short-lived summer replacements and had few if any well-known performers.
Ozark Jubilee was the first
ABC-TV schedules
(all times are
- 1954–55 season(Ozark Jubilee) Starting January 22, 1955: Saturday, 9–10 p.m. Starting July 2, 1955: Saturday, 7:30–9 p.m.
- 1955–56 season(Ozark Jubilee): Saturday, 7:30–9 p.m.
- 1956–57 season(Ozark Jubilee) Starting October 4, 1956: Thursday, 10–11 p.m. Starting December 29, 1956: Saturday, 8–9 p.m.
- 1957–58 season(Country Music Jubilee): Saturday, 8–9 p.m.
- 1958–59 season(Jubilee USA) Starting September 29, 1958: Monday, 8–8:30 p.m. Starting November 1, 1958: Saturday, 8–9 p.m.
- 1959–60 season(Jubilee USA) Starting October 3, 1959: Saturday, 10–11 p.m. – September 24, 1960
From October 15, 1955 to September 15, 1956, the program aired from 7:30–8 p.m. every fourth Saturday when ABC televised
Red Foley and the rise of Springfield
During the late 1940s and 1950s, Springfield broadcasters
In April 1954, after extensive negotiations, Siman lured Red Foley from Nashville to host the show with a one-year contract, renewed for three more in 1955.
To represent the regular performers on KWTO and the Jubilee, in March 1955 Foster established Top Talent, Inc., in partnership with Siman; and to publish their songs, Siman established Earl Barton Music, Inc. with partners Foster, Mahaffey and Cox[16] Siman also handled talent bookings for the show. Foster, known by cast and crew as "the Skipper", made an appearance on the final broadcast of Jubilee USA, singing "Woodman, Spare that Tree".
By 1956, Springfield, with two other ABC shows,[17] ranked behind only New York and Hollywood for originating network television programming. Top Talent was booking Jubilee artists across the country, and that April, the Jubilee had finished third among men.[18] According to The St. Louis Post-Dispatch that February, "Springfield has become the recognized center of the country music world. In fact, it is generally agreed in television, recording and radio circles, that Springfield, now a city of 90,000, has shaken Nashville, Tennessee, home of The Grand Ole Opry and long-time mecca of hillbilly musicians, to its very foundations."[19] But the 1957 departures of Porter Wagoner and Brenda Lee to the Music City signaled the shift would not be permanent, and Springfield never generated the business or revenues of Nashville.
Publicity surrounding
Performers
Cast
The Ozark Jubilee cast was originally headlined by Wanda Jackson, Norma Jean, Bobby Lord, Webb Pierce, Marvin Rainwater, Porter Wagoner and Slim Wilson, who was also front man for both the Tall Timber Trio, made up of "Speedy" Haworth (guitar), Bob White (bass guitar) and "Doc" Martin (steel guitar); and the Jubilee Band, composed of Haworth, Martin, White, Johnny Gailey (drums), Paul Mitchell (piano) and Zed Tennis (fiddle). Featured vocalists included Leroy Van Dyke, Suzi Arden, Chuck Bowers, Sonny James, Tommy Sosebee and Tabby West.[21] Singers Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jean Shepard, who met on the show, later married.
The versatile Wilson was also half of the show's Flash and Whistler (with Floyd "Goo Goo" Rutledge); and Rutledge was half of Lennie and Goo Goo (with Lennie Aleshire), both country music comedy duos. Other comedians were Pete Stamper, Shug Fisher, KWTO's Bill Ring, Uncle Cyp and Aunt Sap Brasfield, and Luke Warmwater.[21]
The cast also included The Foggy River Boys, a singing quartet later known as The Marksmen (George Richardson, Les Robertson, Don Taylor and Earl Terry); Harold Morrison (banjo) and Jimmy Gately (guitar), a bluegrass duo; and The Wagoner Trio, made up of Wagoner, Haworth and Don Warden (steel guitar).
The house band was first known as The Crossroads Boys,[22] composed of Grady Martin, Billy Burke, Bud Isaacs, Tommy Jackson, Paul Mitchell, Jimmy Selph, Bob Moore and Mel Bly; but the name was soon changed to Bill Wimberly and His Country Rhythm Boys, a seven-piece group that alternated weekly during 1955 with Grady Martin and His Winging Strings, featuring Moore, Jackson, Isaacs and Hank Garland.[21]
Pierce hosted the first half-hour of the 90-minute programs once a month beginning October 15, 1955;
The Jubilee featured two square dance groups: the Promenaders (with caller Lowell "L. D." Keller), a competitive team originally from Southwest Missouri State College; and a children's group from Camdenton, Missouri, the (Lake of the Ozarks) Tadpoles (with caller Buford Foster). Several other groups, including the Ozark Sashayers (with caller Rex Kreider) and the teenage Wagon Wheelers (with caller Gary Ellison), made guest appearances.[21]
Foley's son-in-law, Pat Boone, occasionally appeared; as did his eldest daughter, Betty. Willie Nelson and his eventual third wife, Shirley Simpson, both auditioned for the show, but only Simpson (given the stage surname Caddell) made it.[25] Many of the regular cast were natives or residents of the Ozarks. Over the years they included:
- Lennie Aleshire
- Suzi Arden
- Chuck Bowers
- Uncle Cyp and Aunt Sap Brasfield
- Cecil Brower
- The Browns
- Smiley Burnette
- Shirley Caddell
- Bill Carlisle
- Thumbs Carllile
- Curly Chalker
- Arlie Duff
- Patsy Elshire
- James "Rusty" Estes
- Buster Fellows
- Shug Fisher
- The Foggy River Boys
- Johnny Gailey
- Alfred "Red" Gale
- Jimmy Gately
- Charlie Haden
- Hawkshaw Hawkins
- "Speedy" Haworth
- Libby Horne
- Bud Isaacs
- Tommy Jackson
- Wanda Jackson
- Sonny James
- Norma Jean
- Brenda Lee
- Merl Lindsay
- Bobby Lord
- Johnny Manson
- Bryan "Doc" Martin
- Grady Martin
- Paul Mitchell
- Bob Moore
- Harold Morrison
- Penny Nichols
- The Philharmonics
- Webb Pierce
- Marvin Rainwater
- Bill Ring
- Floyd "Goo Goo" Rutledge
- Jimmie Selph
- Jean Shepard
- Tommy Sosebee
- Carl Smith
- Pete Stamper
- Zed Tennis
- Leroy Van Dyke
- Porter Wagoner
- Billy Walker
- Don Warden
- Luke Warmwater
- Tabby West
- Bob White
- The Willis Brothers
- Slim Wilson
- Bill Wimberly
Guest stars
Virtually every country music star of the day appeared on the Jubilee[citation needed] with the notable exception of Hank Snow, who maintained an allegiance to Nashville's Opry. Among them were:
- Roy Acuff
- Rex Allen
- Bill Anderson
- Chet Atkins
- Eddy Arnold
- Gene Autry
- Johnny Bond
- Margie Bowes
- The Carter Sisters
- Johnny Cash
- Don Cherry
- Sanford Clark
- Patsy Cline
- The Collins Kids
- Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper
- Cowboy Copas
- Jimmie Davis
- Jimmy Dean
- Little Johnny Edwards
- Little Jimmy Dickens
- Jimmy Driftwood
- Tommy Duncan
- Lefty Frizzell
- George Hamilton IV
- Homer and Jethro
- Johnny Horton
- Jan Howard
- Ferlin Husky
- Stonewall Jackson
- Betty Johnson
- George Jones
- Grandpa Jones
- Pee Wee King
- Hank Locklin
- The Louvin Brothers
- Leon McAuliffe
- The Maddox Brothers and Rose
- Patsy Montana
- George Morgan
- Bashful Brother Oswald
- Buck Owens
- The Duke of Paducah
- Minnie Pearl
- Carl Perkins
- Ray Price
- Jim Reeves
- Tex Ritter
- Marty Robbins
- Margie Singleton
- Stringbean
- Hank Thompson
- Mel Tillis
- Merle Travis
- Ernest Tubb
- Conway Twitty
- T. Texas Tyler
- Gene Vincent
- Jimmy Wakely
- Kitty Wells
- Slim Whitman
- The Wilburn Brothers
- Tex Williams
- Bob Wills
- Del Wood
- Faron Young
Other guests included
The Jubilee and Brenda Lee
On February 23, 1956,[28] 11-year-old Brenda Lee, living in Augusta, Georgia, turned down $30 to sing on a Swainsboro radio station to see Foley and a visiting Jubilee promotional unit at Bell Auditorium. A local disc jockey convinced Foley to hear her sing before the show. He was stunned and agreed to let Lee perform "Jambalaya" that night. Foley later recalled his reaction:
I still get cold chills thinking about the first time I heard that voice. One foot started patting rhythm as though she was stomping out a prairie fire but not another muscle in that little body even as much as twitched. And when she did that trick of breaking her voice, it jarred me out of my trance enough to realize I'd forgotten to get off the stage. There I stood...after 26 years of supposedly learning how to conduct myself in front of an audience, with my mouth open two miles wide and a glassy stare in my eyes. The way I stood back and enjoyed watching her work I felt guilty for not going out to the box office and buying a ticket.[29]
Jubilee producer-director Bryan Bisney contacted her stepfather, Buell "Jay" Rainwater, who mailed him a
The
Carl Perkins, "Blue Suede Shoes", and Elvis
Carl Perkins and the Perkins Brothers Band made their television debut on Ozark Jubilee on March 17, 1956, performing Perkins' No. 1 hit, "Blue Suede Shoes"
Both Perkins and Presley were fans of the Jubilee.[34] In 1955, Presley saw Charlie Hodge, his eventual friend and stage assistant, perform on the program. He first met Hodge when a Jubilee promotional unit later visited Memphis, Tennessee. That same year, Presley asked Bobby Lord to get him an appearance on the show, but Lord told Presley the producers viewed him as "a flash in the pan."[35]
Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline made sixteen appearances on the Jubilee, which gave her the opportunity to choose her own material for a national audience.[36] She first appeared in January 1956,[37] returning on April 21. In 1957, she appeared on February 9; and on June 22 (the Oklahoma State Fair remote) she performed "Walkin' After Midnight" and "Try Again". On August 10, 1957 she sang her new single, "Three Cigarettes (In an Ashtray)" and "Try Again". Her December 5 appearance included "Make Believe", a duet with Foley; "I Don't Wanna Know"; and "Then You'll Know". During the program, Foley presented Cline with The Billboard's Most Promising County & Western Female Artist award, and Music Vendor magazine's award for Greatest Achievement in Records in 1957 (for "Walkin' After Midnight").[38]
In 1958, Cline appeared on February 21 and April 26. On November 7, 1959, she sang "Walkin' After Midnight" and "Come on In", then "Let's Go to Church" as a duet with Slim Wilson. On December 7, she sang her "Got a Lot of Rhythm in My Soul" and "Lovesick Blues", released in January 1960; and sang duets with Ferlin Husky ("Let it Snow") and Foley ("Winter Wonderland"). On June 4, 1960, Cline soloed with "Lovesick Blues" and "How Can I Face Tomorrow", released in July; and sang "I'm Hogtied Over You" with Cowboy Copas and "Rueben, Reuben" with June Valli and Eddy Arnold.[36]
Junior Jubilee
Every fourth Saturday from March 31 through September 15 (and on December 13), 1956, a special edition of Ozark Jubilee showcased young country music performers. "Junior Jubilee" aired from 7:30–8 p.m. when ABC televised The Grand Ole Opry from 8–9 p.m. Although Foley appeared, 10-year-old singer Libby Horne of McAlester, Oklahoma was the ostensible emcee.[39] Little Johnny Edwards 6-year-old singer of Sarcoxie, Missouri 1956. Brenda Lee made her first appearances on the program. Other performers included seven-year-old singer "Cookie" McKinney, guitarist John "Bucky" Wilkin, 12-year-old fiddler Clyde Wayne Spears, singer-guitarist Mike Breid, seven-year-old Billy Joe Morris, and child square dancers the Whirli-jiggers.[40] "Junior Jubilee" first appeared as a show segment on November 19, 1955, and returned as a portion of Jubilee USA on November 8, 1958.[41]
Public service
Foley periodically asked viewers to contribute to various charities, including the
The Jubilee also staged performances for inmates at the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, including special Christmas shows.[42]
Audience and sponsors
During the program's 1955 premiere, Foley asked, "If you folks want us to come and visit at your house like this every Saturday night, why don't you drop me a line in Springfield, Missouri?" In the next week 25,258 cards and letters arrived from 45 of the
- Largest male U.S. television audience
- 28 percent more per-set viewers than the average of all prime time shows
- Largest per-set U.S. television audience, 3.40 persons
By early 1956, the Jubilee had earned a 19.2
ABC promoted and sold the program as prime family entertainment. Sponsors included the American Chicle Co., Rolaids, Anacin (1956), Williamson-Dickie (1957–60), Massey Ferguson (1958–60), Arrid, Postum (1958), Carter's Little Pills and Sargent's Dog Care Products (1960);[49] and was sold nationally by Ted Bates & Company. Joe Slattery handled station breaks and some commercials, often appearing during Jubilee USA with Massey Ferguson farm tractors and accessories in film clips or on stage.
The live audience was briefly part of the broadcasts when a camera would swing around to show the sold-out Jewell Theatre. Attendees, often nearly 90 percent out-of-state,[50] would cheer and hold up signs or banners with the names of their hometowns. Producers estimated 350,000 people (from as many as 30 states on some nights) attended the performances at the Jewell from 1954–1960. Visitors also came from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and Bermuda.[44] Tickets had to be requested as long as six weeks in advance and it was believed [by whom?] to be the only network TV show with paid admission ($1.00 main floor, 75 cents balcony and 50 cents standing room). Second (non-broadcast) shows were frequently added to accommodate the demand during the summers.
The Jubilee regularly noted it was carried "coast to coast", and to promote the show, "personal appearance units", often including Foley, performed at state fairs and other venues in 42 states, Alaska (then a U.S. territory) and every Canadian province.[43]
Production
Ozark Jubilee's first broadcast was December 26, 1953 with an hour-long telecast from the studio of KYTV before a live audience,[51] hosted by Bill Bailey. The two-and-a-half-hour radio version, hosted by Foley, began July 17, 1954 on KWTO from Springfield's 1,100-seat Jewell Theatre, a former movie theater.[52] ABC Radio began carrying 30 minutes of the program August 7, and added another half-hour on a delayed basis on Tuesday nights starting October 5. The KYTV show followed with 90-minute TV simulcasts from the theater starting September 4, 1954.[53]
The program debuted on ABC-TV on January 22, 1955, but the first 14 national telecasts were staged at
The program used equipment and staff from KYTV, which was then a dual ABC-NBC network affiliate. It debuted using two black-and-white RCA TK-11 cameras with a third added a year later. Vocals of some hit songs were lip-synched. Overhead shots of square dancing and for other creative purposes were accomplished using a large mirror angled above the stage[citation needed]. One 1960 show included an elephant from a visiting Adams & Sells Circus quietly performing on stage behind an "oblivious" Uncle Cyp[citation needed]. The program had two remote broadcasts: June 22, 1957 from the Oklahoma State Fair during the state's semi-centennial;[54] and February 21, 1959 from the Masonic Auditorium[55] in Detroit, Michigan for a Massey Ferguson dealers convention.[56]
In July 1957, Dan Lounsbery, producer of NBC's
The Jubilee's executive producers were Crossroads vice presidents Si Siman and John Mahaffey, and the producer-director was Bryan
Five Star Jubilee
In 1961,
Legacy
After cancellation by ABC, live performances from the Jewell Theatre continued over KWTO-AM (with 15 minutes carried by NBC Radio on Saturday afternoons through 1961), and groups of cast members continued making personal appearances.[54] The theater was demolished five months later in February 1961;[61] a marker in Jubilee Park, dedicated in 1988, notes its location at 216 South Jefferson Ave. Cast and production crew members held reunions at the 1988 dedication, in October 1992, and in April 1999.[62]
The Jubilee was culturally significant for giving millions of urban and suburban American viewers their first regular exposure to country music[citation needed]. As Webb Pierce told TV Guide in 1956, "Once upon a time, it was almost impossible to sell country music in a place like New York City. Nowadays, television takes us everywhere, and country music records and sheet music sell as well in large cities as anywhere else."[4] In return, the Jubilee gave many of the biggest names in country music their first experiences performing on television.
The program also gave national exposure to a number of female country music pioneers, including Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Wanda Jackson, Jan Howard, Jean Shepard, Kitty Wells and Norma Jean; the show also featured a local
The program was the subject of a 1993 book, Remembering the Ozark Jubilee;[64] and in 2003, Ozarks Public Television released an hour-long documentary[permanent dead link], Ozark Jubilee: A Living Legacy. Cast and crew gathered once again for its premiere at the Landers Theatre.
Streets in a residential neighborhood of nearby Nixa, Missouri include Ozark Jubilee Drive, Red Foley Court, Slim Wilson Boulevard, Bill Ring Court, Zed Tennis Street and Haworth Court.[65]
Missouri State University digitization project
More than sixty full or partial
See also
Notes
- Business Week, p. 30: "...Springfield has gone a long way toward replacing Nashville as the recognized center of the country music world."
- ^ Program listing (August 2, 1958), TV Guide, Vol. 6, No. 31, p. A-12
- ^ Except for brief runs on Thursday and Monday
- ^ a b Shulman, Art "Dynamo–Country Style" (July 7, 1956), TV Guide, p. 28
- ^ "Joel Whitburn's Top Country Songs 1944-2017"
- ^ A small softbound booklet offered to viewers containing inspirational anecdotes and poetry Foley had collected. WSM sold a similar booklet when he was with the Grand Ole Opry titled, Red Foley's Sacred Album.
- ^ "This Day in Country Music: April 23". AP NEWS. 2018-04-23. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- ISBN 0-345-37792-3
- ^ a b "'Ozark Jubilee' Hits ARB Top for May TV" (June 11, 1955), The Billboard, p. 22
- ^ Weekly program listings (1955–1960), TV Guide, Vols. 3–8
- New York Journal American, p. 9
- New York Journal American, p. 9
- Business Week, p. 30
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (July 30, 1955), The Billboard, p. 20
- ^ "Hillbilly TV Show Hits the Big Time" (March 10, 1956), Business Week, p. 30
- ^ Misurrell, Ed "How a Local Boy's Hobby Brought TV to the Ozarks" (October 2, 1955), "Pictorial TView", New York Journal American, p. 9
- ^ The Eddy Arnold Show (1956) and Talent Varieties (1955)
- ^ "ARB Top Shows Among Men" (May 26, 1956), The Billboard, p. 9
- ^ Terry, Dickson "Hillbilly Music Center" (February 5, 1956) St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The Everyday Magazine", p. 1
- ^ "Foley Acquitted Of Tax Evasion" (April 23, 1961), Springfield Leader & Press, p. A1
- ^ a b c d e Ozark Jubilee Souvenir Picture Album (second edition, 1956), © Ozark Jubilee's Crossroads Store
- ^ Red Foley (host); Bill Burke, Bud Isaacs, Tommy Jackson, Grady Martin, Paul Mitchell, Jimmy Selph, Bob Moore (musicians) (1955). Ozark Jubilee (avi) (Television production). Springfield, Missouri: Crossroads TV Productions.
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (October 15, 1955), The Billboard, p. 47
- ^ Weekly program listings (1955–1956), TV Guide, Vols. 3–4
- ISBN 0-7864-1080-9, p. 158
- ^ Weekly program listings (1955–1960), TV Guide, Vols. 3–8
- ^ "Ozark Jubilee". UCLA Library Catalog–Film & Television Archive. UCLA. November 10, 2009. Archived from the original on July 8, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2010.
- ^ Rhodes, Don "Young Star Took First Steps in Rise to Fame in Augusta" (September 19, 1997), The Augusta Chronicle, p. 18
- ^ Brenda Lee Productions, Brenda Lee–Her Life and Career Archived 2009-04-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ O'Brien, Jack "TV Review: Ozark Jubilee" (April 1, 1956), New York Journal American
- ISBN 0-7868-8558-0
- ISBN 0-7868-6073-1, February 17 is correct, not "March 17", p. 171
- ^ Go, Cat, Go! mistakenly said "March 17" instead of February 11, p. 163
- ^ Hoekstra, Dave "The King Earns a Country Crown; Honor recalls Elvis' Nashville Roots" (September 20, 1998), Chicago Sun-Times, "Show", p. 13
- ^ Crumpler, Ike "Martin Singer Topped Charts" (April 17, 2004), The Stewart News/Port St. Lucie News, p. A1
- ^ ISBN 0-306-80886-2, p. 186
- ISBN 0-312-95158-2, p. 80 Cline refers to a January 1956 appearance in a letter but did not give the date.
- ISBN 0-312-95158-2, p. 147
- ^ "TV Week" (July 21, 1956), Chicago Daily Tribune p. 2
- ^ Weekly program listings (1956), TV Guide, Vol. 3
- ^ Weekly program listings (1955–1958), TV Guide, Vols. 3–6
- ISBN 1-55853-133-5, p. 113
- ^ a b The Ozark Jubilee starring Red Foley (1956), RadiOzark Enterprises, Inc.
- ^ a b Dessauer, Phil "Springfield, Mo.–Radio City of Country Music" (April, 1957), Coronet, p. 154
- ^ a b "Ozark Jubilee" (February 13, 1956), Available on ABC-TV, ABC, Vol. I No. 37
- ^ "First Birthday" ad (January 21, 1956), The Billboard, p. 15
- ^ TV Ratings: 1955–1956, ClassicTV.com
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (March 13, 1959), The Billboard, p. 18
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (August 24, 1959), The Billboard, p. 46
- Kansas City Star, p. C1
- ISBN 0-9638648-0-7, p. 17
- ^ Friedman, Joel "Folk Talent and Tunes" (July 24, 1954), The Billboard, p. 29
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (September 18, 1954), The Billboard, p. 35
- ^ a b "The Death of TV's Jubilee" (September 18, 1960), Springfield Leader & Press, p. D4
- The Detroit Free Press
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (February 16, 1959), The Billboard, p. 18
- ^ Sachs, Bill "Folk Talent & Tunes" (July 15, 1957) The Billboard, p. 94
- ^ DeBlois, Frank "Them Big City Ways" (August 17, 1957), TV Guide, Vol. 5, No. 33, p. 9
- ^ "'Jubilee' Turning to Color TV" (April 30, 1961), Springfield Leader-Press
- ^ Byrne, Bridget "Barbara Mandrell: Just a Mom at 'Heart'" (January 19, 2000), BPI Entertainment News Wire
- ^ "Glamorous 50 Years To End for Theater" (December 25, 1960), Springfield News & Leader, p. D1
- ^ Marymont, Mark "'Ozarks Jubilee' Reunion Preserves Past" (April 23, 1999), Springfield News-Leader, p. 20E
- The Memphis Commercial Appeal, p. A1
- ^ Remembering the Ozark Jubilee contained a number of minor errors; the most significant was the common inaccuracy that the show reached 25 million viewers.
- ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ^ UCLA Library Catalog, Film & Television Archive
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- Hocklander, Sony "Celebrating 100 Years" (August 10, 2008), Springfield News-Leader, "Life", p. 1C
- "Brenda Lee-Her Life and Career". Brenda Lee Productions. Archived from the original on 2009-04-14. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
- "UCLA Library Catalog, Film & Television Archive". UCLA. Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2009-09-19.
External links
- Jubilee photos from the History Museum for Springfield-Greene County
- Ozark Jubilee radio and TV cast photos at Hillbilly-Music.com (successive visits display a different rotating photo set)
- "The Ozark Jubilee" OzarksWatch Video Magazine (Iowa Public Television) January 2010
- "My Memories of the Ozark Jubilee", by Don Baker