Grand Ole Opry Errors

4501xx Roy Acuff My Old Pal Of Yesterday was likely 46-02-23. The March 9, 1946 Billboard, p 103, says "Roy Acuff introduced a new song "My Old Pal of Yesterday" on the Grand Ole Opry , Saturday Feb. 23." Show mentions post-war world and atom bomb.

46-xx-xx 21st Christmas Show.mp3 was 59-12-19 21st Christmas Show. It was the 1054th show. 1053rd show script from the previous week is available here.

48-12-00 Red Foley And The Blue Sky Boys was 48-12-12

49xxxx 'Mammy's Little Baby' was 49-11-12 Shortnin' Bread

49xxxx or 50-08-15 Aunt Jemima's Plaster was 50-08-05. Script here

490430 Shortnin' Bread was 49-11-12

49-11-01 Roy Acuff and Red Foley was 49-11-26

491203 RedFoley_WayneRainey is 500715

500815 Aunt Jemima's Plaster was 500805

51/02/29 198 First Song - The Freight Train Boogie s/b 51/09/29

51xxxx (202) Highway to Nowhere s/b 60-02-05. It is sponsored by Pet Milk. It has a song from the album "Mister Guitar" which was released in 1959.

520000 Red Foley (Jive County, Tennessee).mp3 should be 51-10-13 Giles County (end announcement notes the 39th National Safety Congress was held this week. That was held Oct. 8 - 11, 1951)

521122 Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes was 530110

53-xx-xx Red Foley & Sue Thompson aka 530000 Red Foley (Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes) was 53-01-10

540000 Ernest Tubb (Tomorrow Never Comes) and 540000 Ernest Tubb, Stringbean and 000000 Ernest Tubb, Stringbean, Martha Carson are the same show. Date unknown.

59-12-xx Christmas show was 59-12-19. See above.

94-00-00 was 49-04-23

000000 Red Foley, Hank Williams is 491120 From Berlin (Freight Train Boogie)

Some notes from Egg Crisis:

4501xx My Old Pal Of Yesterday

Has to be the wrong date as they keep mentioning they're in a "post-war world". There's also a reference to "atom bomb" so it's likely to be from the last few months of 1945.

1949.11.20 Live from Berlin" show is 2 shows cut together...

At 4:46 you have "happy thanksgiving" ... "today isn't thanksgiving"... "so many people were wishing you happy thanksgiving on thursday I decided I could wait" ... "those folks have just as much to be thankful for today, say, as they did two days ago."

Thanksgiving was on Thursday (Thanksgiving in 1949 was 1949.11.24) and the show is 2 days later (Saturday 1949.11.26)

Script here

Look at the script for 1949.11.26, page 18, there's an insert with the thanksgiving dialogue. A few other small parts of the script match, the Minnie Pearl part for example has the "bucket head" bit. The script was maybe written before the Germany visit was organised, and then had a drastic rewrite.

Also at the start "*Again* tonight from Germany", meaning it's the 2nd week of their 2-week visit.

So it's the complete show from Berlin 1949.11.26 until two edits at 27:47 and 28:44 and then you get 14 minutes of Frankfurt 1949.11.19.

At 41:20 "Next Saturday night we'll be coming to you from Berlin." ... "Transcribed from Rhine-Main airbase near Frankfurt, Germany."

1951.01.06 should be 1951.10.06.

The Hank Williams CD contains "Moanin' The Blues" & "Nobody's Lonesome For Me" from #158, 1951.01.06, and those songs aren't present in this show confirming the 1951.01.06 date is wrong.

One list I found listed the show as #199. The Hank Williams CD has tracks from #197 (1951.09.22) so count forwards 2 weeks and we have 1951.10.06.

1953.11.23 is the wrong day of the week. Goldin has it as 1953.11.28 which makes more sense.

54xxxx ErnestTubb, Stringbean, MarthaCarson - Tomorrow Never Comes

"For 2nd consecutive year Fame Magazine gave award for Best country music show on radio" - I couldn't find that, but I found a mention from the 14th Jan 56 Billboard Magazine About the Opry TV show winning the award for 1955, so we know they gave the awards in January, so this show is January, but what year?

Martha Carson sings "Singin' On The Other Side", released Oct'53, so it's likely this show is Jan'54.

60xxxx Grandpa Jones - Ladies Man

Carl Butler - "new Columbia record, 'I Know Why I Cry' " (released May 1960)

The final of the talent contest is announced as "Saturday 25th June", making the date for this show likely to be May 1960.

6104xx Louvin Brothers - Aint Gonna Work

"Let's hear that brand new one ... that's just selling like wildfire all over the country, 'The Second Time Around' ". That song was released Aug 1961.

65xxxx Flying South, later "corrected" to 1963.03.

1965 is correct.

"One of the top 50 pop songs is a tune called "Send Me The Pillow You Dream On" recorded by Dean Martin, released 1965. (10 April 1965 = "peak date". Peaked at #22.) Reviewed in Billboard 13 Feb 65.

Also Jack Scott - "I Don't Believe In Tea Leaves", New RCA record. Reviewed in Billboard 13 Feb 65.

So March 1965 would be a best guess for this one.

65xxxx That Room In The Corner Of the House

Jim Edward Brown - "I Heard From A Memory Last Night" ... "that's gonna be a big one"(Implying that it hasn't been released long enough to have entered the charts yet.) Song was reviewed in Billboard 8 May 65. In an earlier post Razzilla mentioned a "mother" reference in one of the songs, implying "mother's day" which on it's own seems tenuous, but the release date seems to back up his suggested 8th May date. If it's not that date it's very close.