For any country music fan (like me), The Grand Ole Opry is a place with a special magic that can never be described. It is not just where many great country singers preform, but it is a place where so much important music history has happened and in many ways the home of country music. Even though Waylon Jennings and Nashville did not even come close to seeing eye to eye, still in his song Bob Wills is Still the King he sang "You can hear the Grand Ol' Opry in Nashville Tennessee. Its the home of country music on that we all agree." It is hard to even guess where country music would be today if it wasn't for the Grand Ole Opry, but the history of the genre would be drastically different.
Tonight let us take a look at two years of the Grand Ole Opry, 1948 and 1957. The following pages come from a 1948 issue and a 1957 issue of Radio and Television Mirror. If you have trouble reading these pages click on them and use your touch screen to zoom in.
1948
1957
-Michael J. Ruhland
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