The Man Called X
Broadcast 29 February 1948. Public-domain transfer from the Old Time Radio Researchers certified set at the Internet Archive.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1949
- Surviving broadcasts
- 30
- Genre
- music
Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “The_Grand_Old_Opry”; these recordings are in the public domain.
1949 · 51948 · 31947 · 11946 · 11944 · 2
Source collection
Internet Archive audio collections
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: The_Grand_Old_Opry
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 6 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1944, in original transmission order.
- 1. Grand Old Opry - 44-06-17 Roy Acuff · 17 Jun 1944
- 2. Grand Old Opry - 44-08-04 Roy Acuff and Eddie Arnold · 4 Aug 1944
- 3. Grand Old Opry - 46-02-27 Eddie Arnold Capsule Program of Opry Matinee · 27 Feb 1946
- 01
Grand Old Opry - 44-06-17 Roy Acuff
17 Jun 1944 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Grand Old Opry - 44-08-04 Roy Acuff and Eddie Arnold
4 Aug 1944 · 30 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Grand Old Opry - 46-02-27 Eddie Arnold Capsule Program of Opry Matinee
27 Feb 1946 · 3 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Grand Old Opry - 47-12-14 Red Foley and Roy Acuff
14 Dec 1947 · 23 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Grand Old Opry - 48-01-08 Red Foley and Merle Travis
8 Jan 1948 · 26 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
Grand Old Opry - 48-02-29 Red Foley and Cowboy Copas
29 Feb 1948 · 25 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Grand Old Opry - 48-12-05
5 Dec 1948 · 24 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
Grand Old Opry - 1949 - From Berlin Germany
1 Jan 1949 · 42 min
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 1 January 1949. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Same night on the air
29 Feb 1948
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 29 Feb 1948.
You Are There
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1949
Other series the network carried while The Grand Ole Opry was on the air.
Same seasons
music on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The barn dance
Country performers, a live crowd, and a weekly stage that made regional music national. The Grand Ole Opry and Melody Ranch built the country music industry on air.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of The Grand Ole Opry
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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