WWVA NFO: Blaine Smith

Subject: WWVA NFO: Blaine Smith
From: Gene
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:43 AM

A local music pal found some old cassette tapes from a bygone
era among his deceased mother's possessions and asked me to
transfer them to a CD recently.

The tapes are in like new conditon, but other than the
singer's name and song titles, there is no other data.

Tapes are well produced - backup musicians do a great job.

I found only the following short blurb on the -

HISTORY OF WWVA website.

Gene
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EXCERPTED:
As for those much-loved Jamboree entertainers, they 'visited'
WWVA homes daily with their tightly scheduled 15 minute programs
of music, friendly chatter and persuasive sales pitches. A
listener could buy anything from live baby chicks to rose bushes
to a home study guitar course from the advertising sponsors and
the Hillbilly singers (as they were called back then) proved to
be supersalesmen who pulled thousands of pieces of fan mail and
orders from their devoted listeners.

Stars like Big Slim, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Reed Dunn, BLAINE SMITH,
the Davis Twins, Doc Williams and many others were the favorites
of the day, their singing and selling a vital force in WWVA radio.

      BLAINE SMITH-FORTY YEARS AGO
101 - Little Ole Windrinker Me
102 - I Can't Help It
103 - Mary Ann Regrets
104 - What Makes A Nation Great
105 - Two Little Girls In Blue
106 - Green, Green, Green
107 - You Can't Put Leaves Back On Trees
108 - My Happiness
109 - There Goes My Everything
110 - There Stands The Glass
111 - A Fool Such As I
112 - Supertime

      BLAINE SMITH-COUNTRY GOLD
201 - The West, A Nest & You
202 - Wonder Valley
203 - 'Tis Sweet To Be Remembered
204 - Tears On My Pillow
205 - Sweet Fern
206 - It's A Lonely Trail
207 - When I Grow Too Old To Dream
208 - What Makes A Nation Great
209 - Two Little Girls In Blue
210 - There's A Gold Mine In The Sky
211 - The Wreck Of The 1256
212 - Suppertime

Subject: RE: WWVA NFO: Blaine Smith
From: Greycap
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 10:51 AM

There's a singer/songwriter in Nottingham, England, who used to be associated with Blaine Smith back in the late 60's - Reg Cooper. You may start a thread to see if anyone knows Reg's current address etc.

Subject: RE: WWVA NFO: Blaine Smith
From: Amos
Date: 01 Aug 03 - 02:42 PM

Gene:

What is on the tapes, as distinguished from the website?

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