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1924 in country music

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This is a list of notable events in country music that took place in the year 1924.

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Events

  • First broadcast of WLS Barn Dance in Chicago, led by the "Solemn Old Judge" George D. Hay.
  • Beginning of the "Old Times Tunes" series on Okeh Records.
  • Beginning of the "Special Records for Southern States" series on Vocalion Records.

    • No dates

  • Vernon Dalhart records "The Prisoner's Song" and "Wreck of the Old 97."

    • Top hits of the year

  • "Arkansas Traveler" - Fiddlin' John Carson with the Virginia Reelers
  • "Fare You Well, Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' John Carson
  • "John Henry Blues" - Fiddlin' John Carson
  • "Run, Nigger, Run" - Fiddlin' John Carson
  • "Little Rosewood Casket" - Ernest Thompson
  • "Old Joe Clark" - Fiddlin' Powers and Family
  • "The Prisoner's Song" - Vernon Dalhart
  • "Rock All Our Babies To Sleep - Riley Puckett
  • "Whistling the Blues Away" - Wendell Hall and Carson Robison
  • "Wreck of the Old 97" - Vernon Dalhart
  • "You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She is Gone" - Fiddlin' John Carson

    • Births

  • January 6 - Earl Scruggs, early bluegrass pioneer who, with Lester Flatt, formed the Foggy Mountain Boys (died 2012).
  • June 20 - Chet Atkins, session musician and record producer, primarily with RCA Records (died 2001).
  • June 28 - George Morgan, pop-styled singer of the 1940s and 1950s; Grand Ole Opry stalwart and father of 1990s star Lorrie Morgan (died 1975).
  • July 22 - Margaret Whiting, female country and pop vocalist of the 1940s and early 1950s; first female vocalist to top the Billboard country charts (1949's "Slippin' Around," as part of a duet with Jimmy Wakely). (died 2011)
  • September 19 - Don Harron, Canadian comedian and playwright best known to country audiences as "Charlie Farquharson" on television's Hee Haw (died 2015).

    • References

    1924 in country music Wikipedia
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