[Country Store Theme Song]

played by Entire Cast on the Renfro Valley Country Store radio program in 1951

John Lair (1894-1985) was a writer, historian, and radio producer most notably creating the Renfro Valley Barn Dance in 1937 first in Cincinnati and later Renfro Valley in Rockcastle County, Kentucky Lair wrote several books on music and Kentucky history and penned more than 500 songs The Renfro Valley Country Store was an early 1950s nationally broadcast radio program produced by Lair, sponsored by General Foods, and staged in a working store in built especially for that purpose

1951

Sound Music

Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College

WS-ET-51024-01

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