Produced in the mid 40s, it started Charlie Linvalle, Kentucky state champion fiddler; yodeler Carolina Cotton; singer Kirby Grant; comic Johnny Bond; the Riders of the Purple Sage (Foy Willing, Kenny Driver, Al Sloey). ca. 1947: Maureen O'Connoer; Clem Smith; singing cowboy Ken Curtis; Andy Parker and the Plainsmen. _{John Dunning}