Pat O'Daniel and The Hillbilly Boys
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
74 EpisodesFortnightlyPGSince 1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 74
- Genre
- kids
THE HILLBILLY BOYS W. Lee O'Daniel's musical career began in January 1931, when a West Texas fiddler named James Robert (Bob) Wills entered his Fort Worth office at Burrus Mill and Elevator Company. As general manager of the firm, O'Daniel had just canceled a radio program on which Wills and his fiddle band had been advertising Burrus Mill's Light Crust Flour. O'Daniel canceled it, as he said, "because I didn't like their hillbilly music." So many cards and letters came into station KFJZ that O'Daniel had to put the show back on the air, and the band became known as the Light Crust Doughboys. When O'Daniel realized how much flour the show was selling, he became the announcer for the show and manager of the band. According to Wills, O'Daniel was an asset to the show. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_The_Hillbilly_Boys_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
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Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. First Song - The Devils Dream · Date unknown
- 2. First Song - Little Brown Jug · Date unknown
- 3. First Song - Sweet Sue · Date unknown
First Song - The Devils Dream
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Song - Little Brown Jug
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Song - Sweet Sue
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (13) First Song - Ida
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (25) First Song - Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (33) First Song - Milenburg Joys
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (45) First Song - Tugboat
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
First Song - Hogs in the Trough
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
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Same seasons
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What it became
The children's serial
Fifteen minutes, a cliffhanger, and a promise to be back tomorrow. Kids' audio still runs on the shape the Yukon and Speed Gibson serials cut.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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