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WCKY was in Covington, Kentucky. I guess the WCKY Jamboree was some kind of a barn dance show. The station also had the Liberty Theater Barn Dance at some point.
ReplyDeleteOn the station WCKY was Hank Williams Death Announcement by the DJ Nelson King:
ReplyDeletehttp://vodpod.com/watch/5678441-hank-williams-death-announcement-on-wcky-radio-on-1-1-53
Uncle Hank
WCKY was originally licensed to Covington, KY(hence the call letters) and went on the air in 1929. In the early 1930s it moved its studios across the Ohio River to Cincinnati,Ohio where it was at the time this recording was made. In the 1940s the WCKY Jamboree became the best known hillbilly DJ show in America with Nelson King
ReplyDeleteplaying records from 8:05 to midnight every night. He was voted the top hillbilly DJ in the country for eight consecutive years. Don Davis came along later and DJd from midnight to 1:00 AM after the Jamboree. In 1961 WCKY began broadcasting the live WCKY Ohio Jamboree from Madison Lake Park in London, Ohio with Clay Eager as the emcee.