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    The Grand Ole Opry is a regular live country-music radio broadcast originating from Nashville, Tennessee, on WSM, held between two and five nights per...
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  • The Grand Ole Opry is a country music concert and radio show, held between twice and five times per week, in Nashville, Tennessee. The show began as a...
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    Kerry Marx (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    guitarist and studio musician who has served as Music Director of the Grand Ole Opry since 2018. He is best known for his work with that organization, where...
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    Ryman Auditorium (category Grand Ole Opry)
    Ryman Auditorium (originally Union Gospel Tabernacle and renamed Grand Ole Opry House for a period) is a historic 2,362-seat live-performance venue located...
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  • Grand Ole Opry Favorites is a 1964 album by American country music group the Browns. In 2000, this album and another album, Sweet Sounds by the Browns...
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    Porter Wagoner (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    vocal duo with him from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles from 1954 to 1983. He was elected to the...
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  • WSM (AM) (category Grand Ole Opry)
    of which is branded as "Route 650") and is known as the home of the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest running radio program. The station is owned Ryman...
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  • jockey at Nashville's WSM, as an announcer on the Grand Ole Opry, and as the host of TNN’s Grand Ole Opry Live. He is also the show announcer for Huckabee...
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    Scotty McCreery (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    country music's crowning achievements when he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was inducted on April 20 by his childhood hero Josh Turner. McCreery...
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    Blake Shelton (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    invited to join the Grand Ole Opry during the September 28, 2010, "Country Comes Home" concert celebrating reopening of the Grand Ole Opry House after the...
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  • his place. January 19 – Elle King made headlines after taking to the Grand Ole Opry stage while heavily intoxicated during a Dolly Parton tribute show,...
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    Heavy Dreams on November 27, 2020. On April 10, 2021, Bryan made his Grand Ole Opry debut. He later signed a deal with Warner Records to release his music...
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  • Grand Ole Opry is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Frank McDonald and written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. The film stars the vaudeville...
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    in clubs and attempted to build interest, but was turned down by the Grand Ole Opry, as he was already at the Louisiana Hayride country stage and radio...
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    female artist in the country music field and the first to play the Grand Ole Opry. As one of the first African-American country performers, Martell helped...
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    Patsy Cline (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    Working with new manager Randy Hughes, Cline became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and then moved to Decca Records in 1960. Under the direction of producer...
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    Roy Clark (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    generations of bluegrass and country musicians. He became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1987, and, in 2009, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame...
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    Jean Shepard (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1955. After Kitty Wells's 1952 breakthrough, Shepard quickly followed, and a national television gig and the Opry helped make...
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    Little Jimmy Dickens (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    Columbia Records and to officials from the Grand Ole Opry. Dickens signed with Columbia in September and joined the Opry in August. Around this time he began...
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    worst part of his day. On the September 12, 2023, Gabriel made his Grand Ole Opry debut in honor of his grandfather, Johnny Cash. The show was dedicated...
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    star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted as a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2017. Gayle was born Brenda Gail Webb in Paintsville, Kentucky. She...
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    Jeannie Seely (category Grand Ole Opry)
    Country Soul". Seely is also known for her membership and presence on the Grand Ole Opry, having appeared more times on the program than any other performer...
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    Minnie Pearl (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    character Minnie Pearl, was an American comedian who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (1940–1991) and on the television show Hee Haw...
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  • David "Stringbean" Akeman (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    cast member on the hit television show Hee Haw and as a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Akeman was well known for his "old-fashioned" banjo-picking style,...
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  • Oscar, performing "Who's Lovin' You", and in March, she appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, as well as making a cameo appearance on the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice...
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    crowning achievements when she was invited to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry by Garth Brooks and was subsequently inducted by Terri Clark on December...
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  • Stars of the Grand Ole Opry is fourteenth studio album by American country music artist Jan Howard. It was released in April 1981 via First Generation...
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    one CMT Music Award and one Grammy Award. She became a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2021. Pearce was born Carly Cristyne Slusser in Taylor Mill, Kentucky...
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    Johnny Paycheck (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    1938 – February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job...
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  • Billy Walker (musician) (category Grand Ole Opry members)
    records during a nearly 60-year career, and was a longtime member of the Grand Ole Opry. Billy Walker was born in Ralls, Texas, United States, and was the youngest...
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