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Lennie Aleshire
Leonard Harrison Aleshire (April 27, 1890 – October 15, 1987) was a versatile United States, American vaudeville and later country music performer from the 1920s into the 1960s. A singer, dancer and songwriter, he was also half of a musical comedy duo, Lennie and Goo Goo, with Floyd Rutledge. The pair appeared on local and national radio and television programs originating from Springfield, Missouri, during the 1940s and 50s. Biography Early years Lennie Aleshire was born April 27, 1890, in Christian County, Missouri, just south of Springfield, Missouri, Springfield. He was playing the fiddle by age six and learned the guitar, banjo and other instruments by ear. At 15, he lived with the Creek (American Indians), Creek Indians near Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, though his mother was half Cherokee. After his parents died, he lived with his brother and sister near Dadeville, Missouri, Dadeville. Aleshire and his brother John played the fiddle; their sister Linda played guitar. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian County, Missouri
Christian County is located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, its population was 88,842. Its county seat is Ozark, Missouri, Ozark. The county was organized in 1859 and is named after William Christian (Kentuckian), William Christian, a Kentucky soldier of the American Revolutionary War. Christian County is part of the Springfield, Missouri, Springfield, MO Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Between 2000 and 2010, it was the fastest-growing county in the state and one of the fastest growing ones in the nation as the county became more suburban due to the booming growth in Springfield, Missouri, Springfield. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (0.2%) is water. The county is drained by James River (Missouri), James River and branches of the White River (Arkansas), White River. The surface is undulating or hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nixa, Missouri
Nixa is a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 23,257. It is a principal city, and the second largest city in the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The area was first settled by farmers who located their farms along the wooded streams near present-day Nixa. The area became a crossroads, as it was a half-day ride with a team of horses from Springfield. Teamsters found it a convenient stopover site when hauling freight between Springfield and Arkansas. The village became known as Faughts. An early resident, Nicholas A. Inman, was a blacksmith from Tennessee, who set up a shop in 1852. When a post office was opened, a town meeting was held to decide on a name for the new community. Because of his years of service to the community, the town was suggested to be named for him. Another suggestion was "nix" because the community was "nothing but a crossroads". The name Nix was finally decided upon, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSGF (AM)
KSGF (1260 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Springfield, Missouri, United States. The station, which launched in 1926 as KGBX, is owned by SummitMedia. The station also simulcast on 104.1 FM, which is licensed to Ash Grove, Missouri, United States. Programming KSGF broadcasts a News/Talk radio format. Weekday programming includes a local morning show called, "KSGF Mornings with Nick Reed," hosted by Nick Reed with executive producer Sarah Myers. The remainder of the weekday is taken up by syndicated shows hosted by Glenn Beck, Dana Loesch, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, the Red Eye Radio, and Ben Shapiro. Weekend programming includes Kim Komando, Joe Pags, and Cigar Dave. Local news comes from the KTTS news team and national news comes from Fox News Radio. History The beginning This station first began broadcasting experimentally in August 1926 with the call sign 9AYM on a frequency of 325 meters (922 kHz). The station was later licensed in 1926 as KGB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grandpa Jones
Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.McCall, Michael; Rumble, John; Kingsbury, Paul, eds. (1 February 2012). The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 269–270. . Biography Jones was born in the small farming community of Niagara in Henderson County, Kentucky, the youngest of 10 children in a sharecropper's family. His father was an old-time fiddle player, and his mother was a ballad singer and herself adept on the concertina. His first instrument was guitar. Ramona Riggins, one of several women who began to gain some recognition in a musical form long dominated by men was Grandpa's wife and musical partner of over thirty years.Jones, Grandpa (1939). Family Album honographbr>Leon McIntyre Collection, 1970-2011 Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairmont, West Virginia
Fairmont is a city in and county seat of Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Fairmont Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marion County, and is a principal city of the larger Morgantown–Fairmont Combined Statistical Area. History Beginnings In the eighteenth century, the earliest development of Fairmont consisted of subsistence farming settlements. In 1789, Boaz Fleming, a Revolutionary War veteran, migrated to western Virginia and purchased a 254-acre farm from Jonathan Bozarth. In 1808, Fleming made his annual trek to Clarksburg to pay his brother's Harrison County taxes. While in Clarksburg, Fleming attended a social gathering that included his cousin Dolley Madison, wife of President James Madison. Fleming complained to Mrs. Madison about having to travel over a hundred miles each year from his home to pay his Monongalia County taxes and his brother's Harrison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMMN (AM)
WMMN (920 AM) is a sports formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Fairmont, West Virginia Fairmont is a city in and county seat of Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Fairmont Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Marion County, a ..., serving North-Central West Virginia. WMMN is owned and operated by Laurel Highland Total Communications, Inc., through licensee LHTC Media of West Virginia, Inc. History On November 1, 1935, WMMN joined the CBS radio network. At that time the station was licensed to A.M. Rowe Inc., with George B. Storer the chief stockholder. It operated on 890 kHz with power of 500 W (daytime) and 250 W (night). References External links * * * MMN Sports radio stations in the United States CBS Sports Radio stations {{WestVirginia-radio-station-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line with Kentucky. The city is the economic and cultural hub of the Cincinnati metropolitan area. With an estimated population of 2,256,884, it is Ohio's largest metropolitan area and the nation's 30th-largest, and with a city population of 309,317, Cincinnati is the third-largest city in Ohio and 64th in the United States. Throughout much of the 19th century, it was among the top 10 U.S. cities by population, surpassed only by New Orleans and the older, established settlements of the United States eastern seaboard, as well as being the sixth-most populous city from 1840 until 1860. As a rivertown crossroads at the junction of the North, South, East, and West, Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WLW (AM)
WLW (700 AM) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio. Owned by iHeartMedia, WLW is a clear-channel station, often identifying itself as The Big One. WLW operates with around the clock. Its daytime signal provides secondary coverage to most of Ohio and parts of Indiana and Kentucky. It can be heard at city-grade strength as far as Indianapolis, Indiana; Lexington, Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, with secondary coverage as far as Louisville and the outer suburbs of Cleveland and Detroit. At night, with a good radio, it can be heard in much of North America. WLW serves as the Cincinnati network affiliate for ABC News Radio; the AM flagship station for the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network; a co-flagship station for the Cincinnati Bengals Radio Network; and the home of radio personalities Mike McConnell, Rocky Boiman and Bill Cunningham. The WLW studios are located in Sycamore Township (with a Cincinnati address). The transmitter is a uniquely constructed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located almost entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and also contains a tiny portion extending into Marshall County. Wheeling is located about 60 miles (96 km) west of Pittsburgh and is the principal city of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the metro area had a population of 145,205, and the city itself had a population of 27,062. Wheeling was originally a settlement in the British colony of Virginia, and later the second-largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. During the American Civil War, Wheeling was the host of the Wheeling Conventions that led to the formation of West Virginia, and it was the first capital of the new state. Due to its location along major transportation routes, including the Ohio River, National Road, and the B&O Railroad, Wheeling became a manufacturing center in the late n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWVA (AM)
WWVA (1170 kHz, NewsRadio 1170) is an American AM radio station that broadcasts with studios in Wheeling, West Virginia. Its towers are located in St. Clairsville, Ohio. It is West Virginia's only class A 50,000–watt clear-channel station, sharing the frequency's Class A status with KTSB in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and KJNP in North Pole, Alaska. WWVA can be heard in most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States at night, as well as most of Canada. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and uses the on-air nickname "The Big One" (borrowed from sister stations WLW and WTAM). WWVA was one of the first stations in the U.S. to have an in-studio Citizens band radio to talk to listeners at night, in between songs and other on-air items, during the 1970s when it produced and ran an in-house nightly truckers' show hosted by the popular radio personality, Buddy Ray. Ray left the station in the early 1980s. In two instances has WWVA been threatened with relocation, neither bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennie And Goo Goo
Lenny or Lennie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Lenny (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Lennie (surname), a list of people * Lenny (singer) (born 1993), Czech songwriter Arts and entertainment Music * ''Lenny'' (album), by Lenny Kravitz * "Lenny" (instrumental), by Stevie Ray Vaughan * "Lenny" (Buggles song), a 1982 song by The Buggles * "Lenny" (Supergrass song), a 1995 song by Supergrass * Lenny, a guitar owned by Stevie Ray Vaughan * Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, pianist and composer Other arts and entertainment * Lenny (bot), an anti-telemarketing chatbot * ''Lenny'' (film), a 1974 biography of Lenny Bruce * "Lenny" (short story), a 1958 short story by author Isaac Asimov * ''Lenny'' (TV series), a 1990–1991 situation comedy starring Lenny Clarke * Lenny face (Internet emoticon), used to express sexual innuendo, or mischief Other uses * Hurricane Lenny, a 1999 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean * Lenny's Sub Shop, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer, and baseball owner who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was the owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/Anaheim/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997. From 1934 to 1953, Autry appeared in 93 films, and between 1950 and 1956 hosted ''The Gene Autry Show'' television series. During the 1930s and 1940s, he personified the straight-shooting hero—honest, brave, and true. Autry was also one of the most important pioneering figures in the history of country music, considered the second major influential artist of the genre's development after Jimmie Rodgers. His singing cowboy films were the first vehicle to car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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