Knoxville's WNOX (Images of America)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (979 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0738566535 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Title: Legends of WNOX to sign new book Author: Wayne Bledsoe Publisher: Knoxville News Sentinel Date: 12/5/09It's not always easy piecing together parts of history, but elements of Knoxville's music history will converge at noon today at Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Kingston Pike. Thursday, Dec. Saturday, Dec. "A bunch of people went through the door during the rock 'n' roll era, but there's no telling where they are."The book-signing will be at noon today at Barnes & Noble, 8029 Kingston Pike. Personalities who appeared on legendary radio station WNOX will gather to celebrate and sign copies of the new book "Knoxville's WNOX."Personalities will include Sunshine Slim Sweet, one of the stars of the famed "Mid-day Merry-Go-Round" show in the 1940s and '50s, John Pirkle, one of the station's best-known personalities of the 1960s as well as the station's rock-er
Beyond memory I lived in Knoxville during the Johnny Pirkle/Ron Ashburn/Rob Galbraith days (1966-1968) and I DO remember the WNOX WKGN competition for ratings in the R&R domain. I think that it made both stations better. But in the story of WNOX, these were recent happenings in the time line of this book. While I'm sure that there are some, mainly students of country music history, who will find this book fascinating, it was mostly written about things that I didn't really care too much about. I was in my early 20's during my Knoxville days, in grad school at UT. That was when the UT Beacon was very concerned about the size of co. Important part of country music history WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee is much revered by serious fans and students of country music. Like Wheeling Jamboree and Louisiana Hayride and other jamboree shows of the period, the daily Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round and Tennessee Barn Dance on Saturday nights introduced many performers who went on to be country music stars. Familiar names like Carl Smith, Carl Butler & Pearl, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, The Louvin Brothers and Don Gibson are important examples. This book covere them well, including early pictures: although I would have liked more details, this book gives a good overview.Less familiar is songwriter Arthur. Amazon Customer said Very informative and good. Gift for my husband. Very informative and good read
The call letters remain an iconic landmark of Knoxville and East Tennessee.. No station has left a bigger footprint on American popular music or the radio industry as WNOX. WNOX was the eighth radio station to sign on the air in North America and the first in Tennessee. It helped write the book on radio broadcasts and productions with programs like the Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round and the Tennessee Barn Dance. Its AM signal could be heard as far south as Daytona Beach and as far north as New York City in the day of uncluttered airwaves. Its legendary programs helped pioneer an entire genre of American popular music and served as a launching pad for country music’s greatest stars and some of the nation’s best broadcasters
Images of America: Knoxville’s WNOX is author Ed Hooper’s fifth book for Arcadia Publishing. He is a journalist and writer who resides in Knoxville and has covered the region in broadcast and print.