WLW Radio Boone County Jamboree Concert Poster Coldwater OH MI KY ? 1940-46?

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History as discussed within Ken Burns' amazing Country Music History documentary series.
Original mountain, hillbilly, bluegrass, country music concert poster for the WLW (radio) Boone County Jamboree featuring Lulu Belle and Skyland Scotty, Lazy Jim Day, Helen Diller, Lafe Harkness, Hugh Cross & His Radio Pals with Shug Fisher and Other WLW Favorites all performing in the Coldwater High School Auditorium on Monday, May 20th, possibly 1940 or 1946  -- could be Ohio, Michigan or maybe Kentucky and any information would be appreciated.
Wikipedia: "
Midwestern Hayride
, sometimes known as
Midwest Hayride
, was an American
country music
show originating in the 1930s from radio station
WLW
and later from television station
WLW-T
in
Cincinnati, Ohio
. During the 1950s it was carried nationally by
NBC
and then
ABC
television. The program featured live country music (performed mainly by local musicians but on lesser occasions by national stars) and what was then called "hayseed" comedy, much of which was the inspiration for the later TV series
Hee Haw
. It is credited as the first country music program regularly broadcast by a national network.
Inspired by the
Shreveport
-based
Louisiana Hayride
, the show was originally called
Boone County Jamboree
(named for nearby
Boone County
in
Northern Kentucky
).
Midwestern Hayride
was first broadcast before 1937 and was carried live on radio each Saturday evening through the early 1970s."
Performer & WLW & Boone County Jamboree history below  .... Year still uncertain, so any information would be appreciated.
In very good - excellent condition for its age with some corner/edge wear & light aging and some general wear/handling  -- shadow back top right corner is just camera lens shadow not on poster  --  please see pictures for condition and ask questions in advance if helpful.    Will be well packed flat with insurance.   Some other similar posters listed soon for Renfro Valley Folks & WLS Chicago National Barn Dance, etc.
Wikipedia: "
Myrtle Eleanor Cooper
(December 24, 1913 – February 8, 1999) and
Scott Greene Wiseman
(November 8, 1909 – January 31, 1981),
known professionally as
Lulu Belle and Scotty
, were one of the major
country music
acts of the 1930s and 1940s, dubbed The Sweethearts of Country Music.
Myrtle Eleanor Cooper(Lulu Belle) was born in
Boone, North Carolina
; Wiseman was from
Spruce Pine, North Carolina
. Lulu Belle and Scotty enjoyed enormous national popularity thanks to their regular appearances on
National Barn Dance
on
WLS-AM
in
Chicago
, a rival to WSM-AM's
Grand Ole Opry
.
Barn Dance
enjoyed a large radio audience in the 1930s and early 1940s with some 20 million Americans regularly tuning in.
The duo married on December 13, 1934, one year after Wiseman became a regular on
Barn Dance
(Cooper had been a solo performer there since 1932). The duo is best known for their self-penned classic "
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
", which became one of the first country songs to attract major attention in pop circles and was recorded by many artists in both genres. Cooper was the somewhat dominant half of the duo with a comic persona as a wisecracking country girl. Her most famous novelty number was "
Daffy Over Taffy
". In 1938, she was named Favorite Female Radio Star by the readers of
Radio Guide
magazine, an unusual recognition for a country performer.
Lulu Belle and Scotty recorded for record labels including
Vocalion Records
,
Columbia Records
,
Bluebird Records
; and
Starday Records
, in their final sessions during the 1960s reprising their old hits. They were among the first country music stars to venture into feature motion pictures, appearing in such films as
Village Barn Dance
(1940),
Shine On, Harvest Moon
(1938),
County Fair
(1941) and
The National Barn Dance
(1944).
The couple retired from show business in 1958, except occasional appearances, going on to new careers in teaching (Wiseman) and politics (Cooper). Cooper served two terms from 1975 to 1978 in the
North Carolina House of Representatives
as the Democratic representative for three counties.
[3]
In 1977, she gave a memorable speech in which she revealed that she had been raped on the country music circuit.
Scotty Wiseman was inducted into the
Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 1971. After his death in 1981 from a heart attack in
Gainesville, Florida
, Cooper married Ernest Stamey in 1983; and in 1989 recorded her first album in 20 years for a small traditional music label, Mar-lu Records out of
Portageville, Missouri
.
Myrtle Stamey died in
Spruce Pine, North Carolina
, aged 85. In 1999,
Old Homestead Records
released a retrospective album
Early & Great
."
"Lafe Harkness was known as the '...rootin'est tootin'est harmonica player to take part in the broadcast of a rural nature'. He started at WLW in 1938 before World War II set in on his career at WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio. After his stint in the service ended, he returned to WLW in 1941.
It seems that somehow while in the service, while stationed in France at first, he managed to find his way to Germany to see if the harmonica shortage was as bad as he had heard for that's where the M. Horner harmonicas were made. There was a shortage he found, but he did manage to 'liberate' five of the M. Horner super-chromatic instruments and kept on playing so he could resume his career at WLW later.   In 1947, he was heard daily on the "Top O'Morning" broadcast. He as also a regular on the "Boone County Caravan". He also appeared on the WLW "Mid-West Hayride" that was broadcast on Saturdays at 6:30pm on WLW."
Wikipedia: "
Midwestern Hayride
, sometimes known as
Midwest Hayride
, was an American
country music
show originating in the 1930s from radio station
WLW
and later from television station
WLW-T
in
Cincinnati, Ohio
. During the 1950s it was carried nationally by
NBC
and then
ABC
television. The program featured live country music (performed mainly by local musicians but on lesser occasions by national stars) and what was then called "hayseed" comedy, much of which was the inspiration for the later TV series
Hee Haw
. It is credited as the first country music program regularly broadcast by a national network.
Inspired by the
Shreveport
-based
Louisiana Hayride
, the show was originally called
Boone County Jamboree
(named for nearby
Boone County
in
Northern Kentucky
).
Midwestern Hayride
was first broadcast before 1937 and was carried live on radio each Saturday evening through the early 1970s.
Television station WLW-T came on the air in 1948, sharing larger quarters with radio station WLW in the former Elks Building, re-christened Crosley Square. It eventually became the originating studio for the regional network Avco Broadcasting Corporation, which included
WLW-A
in
Atlanta
,
WLW-D
in Dayton,
WLW-C
in Columbus and later
WLW-I
in Indianapolis (after WLW-A was sold) when the program moved to television in the early 1950s. Then originating from WLW-T,
Midwestern Hayride
was simulcast on WLW radio until the early 1960s, then was revived in the mid-60s. At the show's peak there was a one-year waiting list for tickets to be in the audience (100 people was the limit for each weekly show).
In 1951,
Midwestern Hayride
was picked up by NBC-TV as a summer replacement for
Sid Caesar
's
Your Show of Shows
. NBC aired it each of the following summers through 1956, except 1953. ABC-TV then carried it during the summers of 1957–59. For much of its television run
MH
was hosted by Dean Richards, lead vocalist of The Lucky Pennies, a local singing group. Richards also introduced a "Polka Time" segment (geared to Cincinnati's German heritage and its local breweries) aired near the program's close until 1969, when he was replaced by
Henson Cargill
riding on the success of his hit song "Skip a Rope".
By the early 1970s, then-16 year
MH
veteran
Kenny Price
, a popular musician and comedian nicknamed The Round Mound of Sound, had a string of country hits for
RCA Records
including local favorite "
The Sheriff of Boone County
". On the strength of those hits, Price was picked to be the new host of the show, which by then had shortened its name to
Hayride
(
Louisiana Hayride
had succumbed to rock and roll's popularity and left the airwaves by 1960).
Like many other locally produced shows of the day,
Hayride
become increasingly more expensive to produce, and WLW-TV executives decided to bring the show to an end in 1972. Kenny Price became a regular on Nashville-based
Hee Haw
four years later and remained there until his death in 1987.
In 2009,
WYNS-FM
, a low-power community FM station in
Waynesville, Ohio
(north of Cincinnati), announced it would commence a similar live weekly country music broadcast,
The Ohio Hayride
, beginning May 15, 2010. The local program, possibly the first of its kind since the demise of
Hayride
, was to feature local musicians as well as country music artists from past decades. The program was also to air on WPFB-AM in Middletown, Ohio and stream from the WYNS station website at www.hybridfm.net."
"A major promotion of the WLW station in the 1940s was the
Boone County
Jamboree. A 1942 advertisement in the trade publication
Billboard
noted: "WLW Boone County Jamboree acts played to 169,406 persons, July 4 to October 4. An all time record of 63 bookings in seven States. New attendance records established at 14 events."
The August 1941 adoption of the Federal Communications Commission's "duopoly" rule restricted licensees from operating more than one radio station in a given market. At this time the Crosley Corporation owned both WLW and WSAI, so to conform with the new regulation in 1944 WSAI was sold to Marshall Field. The next year Crosley sold WLW to the Aviation Corporation of the Americas (
Avco
), earning a handsome return on his original investment of a quarter-century earlier.The Crosley name was so well respected that Avco retained it as the name of its broadcast division until 1968.
WLW was the outgrowth of an interest in radio by
Powel Crosley Jr.
, although information about his earliest activities is limited. Crosley recounted that his introduction to radio occurred on February 22, 1921, when he took his son to the local Precision Equipment Company store to investigate purchasing a receiver. He was shocked to find that a high-end receiver would cost 5, and after assembling his own receiver from parts, he realized that commercial mass production could be done at much lower prices. Starting with individual parts, then moving on to complete receivers, in the 1920s the Crosley Radio Corporation was a leading manufacturer of inexpensive sets, and Powel Crosley became known as "the Henry Ford of radio".
Crosley was also an early experimenter with making radio transmissions. Most accounts say he began in July 1921, using a 20-watt set located in an upstairs billiard table room, repeatedly playing a phonograph record of "
Song of India
", while asking local amateur radio enthusiasts to call if they heard his signals. In 1921 the Crosley Manufacturing Company was issued two radio station licenses: one for a standard amateur station, 8CR, located at 5723 Davey Avenue, which was Crosley's
College Hill
home, and the other for an Experimental station, 8XAA, located at the company's Blue Rock Street factory building in Northside."
Much more history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLW