May 21, 1956 - New York Honors The Grand Ole Opry
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WSM And Grand Ole Opry To Be Honored By Radio And Television Execs At New York Luncheon Governor Clement To Be Speaker
NEW YORK —Nashville’s WSM, WSM-TV and Grand Old Opry will be honored by the Radio and Television Executives Society at its luncheon on May 21st at the Hotel Roosevelt. Cousin Minnie Pearl, long-time Grand Old Opry star, will present a half- dozen of
her famed fellow pei-formers in a rare program of country music and comedy. Governor Frank G. Clement of Tennessee will be the principal speaker. Grand Old Opry, which started thirty-one years ago as a small group of musicians and singers, today has
hundreds of artists on its roster. Its four-and-a-half hour radio show Sat- urday nights on WSM and the NBC network brings thousands of country music fans flocking to Nashville’s Ry- man Auditorium from hundreds of miles around. In addition to Minnie
Pearl, Carl Smith, June Carter, Jimmy and Johnny Oscar and Lonzo, Ferlin Huskey and Chet Atkins, all Grand Old Opry veterans, will appear at the RTES luncheon. Gov. Clement will discuss the nation-wide impact of country music in general and Grand Old
Opry in particular.
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