With the Sunday Night Opry back on the schedule, the Thursday Night Opry takes a break for a couple of weeks, returning in mid-July. Basically, that means there are only two mid-week Opry shows on the calendar this week.
Gary Mule Deer hasn't been on the Opry in a while, but he is back on both the Tuesday and Wednesday night shows this week. On Tuesday night, he is joined by Riders In The Sky, Bill Anderson and Don Schlitz. Wednesday night, joining Gary, will be T. Graham Brown, Del McCoury and Charlie McCoy.
Tuesday July 1
7:00: Riders In The Sky, Drew Baldridge, Bill Anderson, Appalachian Road Show
Intermission
8:20: Bryce Leatherwood, Gary Mule Deer, Maddie & Tae, Don Schlitz
Wednesday July 2
7:00: T. Graham Brown, Kelsey Hart, SG Goodman, Del McCoury Band
Intermission
8:20: Caroline Jones, Gary Mule Deer, Drake Milligan, Charlie McCoy
I did want to mention one important Grand Ole Opry debut that took place on Saturday July 2, 1955. That was the night Patsy Cline made her first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. (In a few places the date is listed as July 1, however that was a Friday night).
Here is the running order from that night 70 years ago:
7:30: Federal Fertilizer Co.
Carl Smith (host): There She Goes
Fiddle Tune: Ragtime Annie
Minnie Pearl: Comedy
Cowboy Copas: Gone and Let Me Blues
Fiddle Tune: Wake Up Susan
7:45: American Ace
Carl Smith (host): Back Up, Buddy
Ray Price: If You Don't, Someone Else Will
Wilburn Brothers: I Wanna, Wanna, Wanna
Carl Smith: Oh, Lonesome Times
Fiddle Tune: Fisher's Horn Pipe
8:00: Martha White
Ernest Tubb (host): Kansas City Blues
Ferlin Huskey: I'll Baby Sit With You
Flatt and Scruggs: Salty Dog Blues
Patsy Kline: A Church, A Courtroom and Then Goodbye
Possum Hunters: Fire In The Mountain
Ernest Tubb: The Lonely World
Carlisles: Bargain Day
Flatt and Scruggs: Flint Hill Special
Ferlin Huskey: Cuz You're So Sweet
Ernest Tubb: Daisey May
Fiddle Tune: Turkey In The Straw
8:30: Prince Albert
Faron Young (host): Live Fast, Love Hard, and Die Young
Rod Brasfield: Comedy
Hawkshaw Hawkins: Why Don't You Leave This Town
Fiddle Tune: Grey Eagle
Faron Young: God Bless God
Moon Mullican: When Love Dies, Where Does It Go
Minnie Pearl: Comedy
Hawkshaw Hawkins: How Can Anything So Pretty Be So Doggone Mean
Grandpa Jones: Good Old Mountain Dew
Faron Young: All Right
Fiddle Tune: Old Joe Clark
9:00: Royal Crown Cola
Roy Acuff (host): Wabash Cannon Ball
Fruit Jar Drinkers: Love Somebody
Johnny & Jack: I Get So Lonely
George Morgan: The Best Mistake I Ever Made
Kitty Wells: As Long As I Live
Jug Band: Shot Gun Boggie
Bill Monroe: Blue Moon of Kentucky
Roy Acuff: Glory Bound Train
Oswald: Curly Headed Baby
Roy Acuff: Green Back Dollar
9:30: Jefferson Island Salt
Carl Smith (host): Loose Talk
Jimmy Dickens: When I Play The Fiddle
Eddie Hill: Same Old Dreams
Lew Childre: Southern Hospitality
Goldie Hill: Please Don't Betray Me
Crook Brothers: Black Mountain Rag
Carl Smith: Kisses Don't Lie
Jordanaires: Will You Be Ready
Chet Atkins: Bye, Bye Blues
Jimmy Dickens: Conscience Set Me Free
Fiddle Tune: 8th of January
10:00: Wallrite
George Morgan (host): I'd Like To Know
Bill Monroe: My Rose of Old Kentucky
Carlisles: It's Bed Time Bill
George Morgan: I Think I'm Gonna Cry
Fiddle Tune: Sleepy Lou
10:15: Dr. Le Gear
Ray Price (host): Let Me Talk To You
Grandpa Jones: Herd Of Turtles
Patsy Kline: Good Bye And So Long To You
Ray Price: Our Broken Heart
Fiddle Tune: Wake Up Susan
10:30: Hester Battery
Ernest Tubb (host): You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry
Jimmy Dickens: Blackeyed Joe
Goldie Hill: Cry, Cry Darling
Ernest Tubb: I Know My Baby Loves Me
Fiddle Tune: Ricketts Horn Pipe
10:45: D Con
Ferlin Huskey (host): She's Always There
Moon Mullican: Pipeliner
Benny Martin: Ice Cold Love
Gully Jumpers: Bully of The Town
Ferlin Huskey: I Feel Better All Over
11:00: W. E. Stephens
Carl Smith (host): I Just Don't Care Anymore
Hawkshaw Hawkins: On White Rose
Eddie Hill: Smack Dab In The Middle
Kitty Wells: Making Believe
Carl Smith: More Than Anything Else In The World
Crook Brothers: Pretty Little Polly
Johnny and Jack: No One Dear But You
Annie Lou & Danny: Satisfied Mind
Hawkshaw Hawkins: I'll Take A Chance
Carl Smith: No, I Don't Believe I Will
Fiddle Tune: Mississippi Sawyer
11:30: Delited
Faron Young (host): If That's The Fashion
Cowboy Copas: Gone And Left Me Blues
Lew Childre: Snow White Horse
Sam & Kirk: Freight Train Blues
Faron Young: Forgive Me Dear
Fruit Jar Drinkers: I Don't Love Nobody
Grandpa Jones: Kitty Clyde
Wilburn Brothers: Let Me Be The One
Cowboy Copas: Man Upstairs
Faron Young: If You Ain't Loving, You Ain't Living
Fiddle Tune: Sally Goodin
(Yes, that is the way Patsy Cline's name was spelled on the program that night).
Just to show the star power of the Opry back in 1955, every segment host/star, would be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. And just to show how Opry members came and went back then, of the segment hosts, only Ernest Tubb would remain with the Opry consecutively once he joined. Roy Acuff left for a year, while George Morgan also left for a short time. Both returned.
Enjoy the mid-week Opry shows.
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