The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country music scene concert in Nashville, Tennessee, founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as an hour of "barn dance" radio in WSM. Currently owned and operated by Opry Entertainment (Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc.) division, it is the longest radio broadcast in US history. Dedicated to respecting country music and history, the Opry features a mix of famous singers and contemporary chart-toppers featuring country, bluegrass, Americana, folk, gospel and comedy and theatrical shows. It attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world and millions of radio and internet listeners.
Slogan utama Opry saat ini adalah "The Show that Made Country Music Famous". Slogan-slogan lain termasuk "Home of American Music" dan "Country's Most Famous Stage".
In the 1930s, the show began to hire professionals and expanded into four hours; and WSM, which aired at that time with 50,000 watts, made the program a Saturday night music tradition in nearly 30 states. In 1939, it debuted nationally on NBC Radio. The Opry moved into a permanent home, the Ryman Auditorium, in 1943. As it evolved into importance, so did the city of Nashville, which became the "country music capital" of America. The Grand Ole Opry holds such significance in Nashville whose names are listed on the city/district line marks on all major highways. The signs read "City of Music | Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County | Home of Grand Ole Opry ".
Membership in Opry remains one of the crowning achievements of country music. Country music legends like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Marty Robbins, Roy Acuff, Carter family, Bill Monroe, Ernest Tubb, Kitty Wells and Minnie Pearl are regular customers on Opry stage. In recent decades, Opry has hosted contemporary stars like Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Reba McEntire, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Blake Shelton, Chris Young, and Ricky Skaggs. Since 1974, the show has been broadcast from the Grand Ole Opera House east of downtown Nashville, with a three-month annual winter plunge back to Ryman since 1999. The show has been sporadically broadcast on television in addition to radio programs.
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History
Beginner
The Grand Ole Opry begins as WSM Barn Dance in the new radio studio on the fifth floor of National Life & amp; The Accident Insurance Company in downtown Nashville on November 28, 1925. On October 18, 1925, management began a program featuring "Dr. Humphrey Bate and the string quartet of the musicians." On November 2nd, WSM hired anonymous broadcaster and director George D. "Judge" Hay, an enterprising pioneer of WLS's National Barn Dance program in Chicago, also named the most popular radio. broadcaster in America as a result of his radio work with WLS and WMC in Memphis, Tennessee. Hay launched the WSM Barn Dance with 77-year-old Uncle Jimmy Thompson on November 28, 1925, celebrated as the birthday of the Grand Ole Opry .
Several bands regularly on the show during the early days including Bill Monroe, Possum Hunter (with Dr. Humphrey Bate), Fruit Drawers Jar with Uncle Dave Macon, Crook Brothers, Binkley Brothers' Dixie Clodhoppers, Sid Harkreader, Deford Bailey, Arthur Smith Fiddlin , and Gully Jumpers.
Judge Hay, however, loves the Fruit Drawers Jar and asks them to perform last in every show because he wants to always cover every segment with "playing red hot violin". They are the second band to be accepted at the Barn Dance, with Crook Brothers being the first. When Opry started having a square dancer on the show, Fruit Jar Drinkers always played for them. In 1926, Uncle Dave Macon, a Tennessee banjo player who had recorded several songs and toured the vaudeville circuit, became the first real star.
Name
The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" was first pronounced in the air on December 10, 1927. At that time, Barn Dance followed the NBC Red Network Music Appreciation Hour , a classical and elective music program from the grand opera presented by the classic conductor Walter Damrosch. That night, Damrosch said that "there is no place in the classics for realism." In response, the Opry presenter George Hay said:
Friends, the newly closed program is devoted to the classics. Doctor Damrosch told us that there is no place in the classics for realism. However, from now on for the next three hours, we will not present anything but realism. It will come down to earth for "understated".
Hay then introduced DeFord Bailey, the man dubbed "Harmonica Wizard", said:
Over the last hour, we've been listening to music taken mostly from the Grand Opera. From now on, we will present "Grand Ole Opry".
Bailey then stepped onto the mic to play "The Pan-American Blues," his song inspired by Pan-American , the main passenger train L & amp; N Railroad.
Larger place
As the audience for live performances increases, National Life & amp; Accident Insurance radio spots are too small to accommodate hordes of fans. They are building a bigger studio, but it's still not big enough. After several months without audiences, National Life decided to allow the event to move outside its home offices. In October 1934, Opry moved to the Hillsboro Theater in the suburbs (now Belcourt); and then on June 13, 1936, to Dixie Tabernacle in East Nashville. Opry then moved to the War Memorial Auditorium, a downtown venue adjacent to the State Capitol. A 25 cent reception was charged for trying to curb a large crowd, but to no avail. On June 5, 1943, Opry moved to the Ryman Auditorium.
Country top-charting acts were performed during the Ryman year, including Roy Acuff called King of Country Music, Hank Williams, Webb Pierce, Faron Young, Martha Carson, Lefty Frizzell, and many others.
An hour from Opry was broadcast nationally by the NBC Red Network from 1939 to 1956; for most of his run, it aired an hour after the inspiring program, National Barn Dance . The NBC segment, originally known as the sponsor, The Prince Albert Show, was first held by Acuff, replaced by Red Foley from 1946 to 1954. From October 15, 1955 to September 1956, ABC-TV broadcasted instantly, the once-a-month television version of a month on Saturday night (sponsored by Ralston-Purina), precedes an hour from the 90-minute time of the Ozark Jubilee . From 1955 to 1957, Al Gannaway owned and produced the Film Program The Country Show and Stars of the Grand Ole Opry, syndicated by Flamingo Films. Gannaway's
On October 2, 1954, a teenager Elvis Presley made the only show Opry . Although the audience reacts politely to his revolutionary rockabilly music, after the show of Opry manager Jim Denny tells Presley producer Sam Phillips that the singer's style does not fit the program.
1960s
In the 1960s, when the hippie counter-cultural movement spread, the Opry maintained a conservative image that was stung with "longshairs" not shown on the show. The Byrds is an important exception. Rock pioneer Country Gram Parsons, then a member of The Byrds, was in Nashville working on a country rock band album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo . The band's record label, Columbia Records, had arranged The Byrds to be allowed to perform at Ryman on March 15, 1968, a prospect that thrilled Parsons. However, when the band took the stage, the audience's response instantly annihilated, resulting in mocking, sneering and mocking calls of "tweet, tweet" and "cutting your hair" The Byrds outraged Opry's establishment by breaking with the accepted protocol when they performed the Parsons song "Hickory Wind "rather than Merle Haggard's" Life in Prison "song, as Tompall Glaser has announced. Two decades later, shortly after the death of Parsons, the members of The Byrds will reconcile with Opry and collaborate on the 1989 album Will the Circle Separated: Volume Two .
Another artist who collided with the stringent Opry ' standard was Jerry Lee Lewis, who, after several successful years on the country charts, made his first and only appearance at the Show on the date January 20, 1973. Given the two conditions for his performance (no rock and roll and indecent), Lewis goes on to ignore the two (referring to himself as a certain unhealthy maternal humiliation at one point) and, within 40- sets of minutes, a mixture of rock and roll hits and covers of other country singers songs. Lewis is said to be bitter about how he was treated when he first arrived in Nashville in 1955 and purportedly uses his Opry appearance to take revenge on the Nashville music industry.
Grand Ole Opry House
The Ryman Auditorium was home to the Opry until 1974. In the late 1960s, National Life & amp; Accidents want a new, bigger and more modern home for long-running radio shows. Ryman Auditorium, 51 years old when the Opry moved there, started to collapse because the surrounding city center environment became a victim of increasing city damage. Despite these flaws, the popularity of the show is increasing and the number of weekly viewers exceeds 3,000 seats. Operators Opry are trying to build a new air-conditioned theater with a larger capacity, more parking, and the ability to easily function as a television production facility.The ideal location will be in less urban urban areas , providing a more controlled, more secure, and more fun experience for visitors.
National Life & amp; The accident bought a farm owned by a local sausage manufacturer (Rudy Farm) in the Pennington Bend of Nashville area, nine miles east of the city center, and adjacent to the newly built Briley Parkway. The new place Opry will be the center of the major entertainment complex at the site, which will then come to include Opryland USA Theme Park and Opryland Hotel.
The theme park opened to the public on June 30, 1972, well ahead of the 4,000-seat Opry House, which debuted almost two years later, on Saturday, March 16, 1974.
The opening night was attended by US President Richard Nixon, who played some songs on the piano. To continue the tradition of performances at Ryman, a six-foot-high oak tree circle was cut from the corner of the Ryman stage and tied to the center of the stage in a new place. The artists on stage usually stand in circles as they perform.
While the amusement park was closed and destroyed after the 1997 season, the Grand Ole Opry House remained in use. The surrounding area is left intact through the construction of Opry Mills, which opened in May 2000.
The Opry continues every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday at the Grand Ole Opry House from March to November each year.
The Grand Ole Opry House is added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 27, 2015.
Return to Ryman Auditorium
After the departure of the Opry , the Ryman Auditorium sat mostly empty and decayed for twenty years. Initial efforts by National Life & amp; Accidents to tear down Ryman and use his bays to build the chapel in Opryland USA were met with strong opposition from the public, including influential musicians at the time. The plan was abandoned, and the building remained standing with an uncertain future. Although there is no show, this building still has significance as an attraction that it will remain open for tours.
In 1991 and 1992, Emmylou Harris performed a series of concerts there and released several recordings as an album titled On Ryman . The high importance of the concert and the album is updated in reviving the Ryman Auditorium as an active venue. Beginning in September 1993, Gaylord Entertainment made a complete renovation to Ryman, returning it to a world-class concert hall that reopened with A Prairie Home Companion on June 4, 1994.
On Sunday, October 18, 1998, Opry held an awards ceremony at the Ryman Auditorium, marking his return to the venue for the first time since his last performance on March 15, 1974. The show was well received. by fans, artists and management, so the decision was made to organize Opry ' a regular show there on January 15th & amp; 16, 1999 as part of a celebration to commemorate 25 years in a new place.
Starting November 1999, Opry was held at the Ryman Auditorium for three months, partly due to the ongoing Opry Mills construction. The Opry has returned to the Ryman for three winters every month since then, allowing the show to recognize its roots while also taking advantage of smaller venues during the off-peak season for tourism. While still officially Grand Ole Opry , the event was billed as Opry At The Ryman . From 2002 to 2014, the travel version of Radio City Christmas Spectacular took shelter at Grand Ole Opry House every holiday season when the Opry went away. It was replaced by Dr. Seuss' How Grinch Steals Christmas! The Musical starting in 2015.
2010 flood
In May 2010, the Opry Building was flooded, along with many from Nashville, as the Cumberland River overflowed its banks. While the improvements were made, Opry himself remained undisturbed. During the summer of 2010, the provisional broadcasts came from alternative venues in Nashville, with the Ryman Auditorium hosting most of the shows. Other places include the TPAC War Memorial Auditorium, another former opry house; TPAC Andrew Jackson Hall; Nashville Municipal Auditorium; Allen Arena at Lipscomb University; and Two Rivers Baptist Church.
Most of the main floor of the auditorium, the backstage area and the whole stage (including the wooden ornamental circle from the Ryman stage) are under water during the flood. While the Grand Ole Opry House stage was replaced afterwards, the Ryman circle was restored and re-placed at center stage at the Grand Ole Opry House before the show resumed. Remediation after the flood also resulted in a renovated backstage area, including the construction of a dressing room and a player lounge.
Opry returns to Grand Ole Opry House on September 28, 2010 in a special edition of Opry titled Country Communes Home broadcast live in the Great American Country. The night was filled with unique Opry moments. Martina McBride and Connie Smith duet with the typical Smith hit "Once a Day", and other collaborations including Dierks Bentley and Del McCoury ("Roll On Buddy, Roll On"), Josh Turner and Lorrie Morgan ("Golden Ring"), and Montgomery Gentry and Charlie Daniels Band ("Devil Went Down To Georgia"), among others. The show closed with all-star guitar jam featuring Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs, and Marty Stuart.
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Broadcast
The Grand Ole Opry is broadcast live on WSM-AM at 7 pm. CT on Saturday night, shortened from the previous time starting at 6:30. A similar program, Friday Night Opry , aired live on Friday night. From February to December, Tuesday Night Opry is also live. Wednesday events are usually served in summer. The length of the show varies; as of October 2016, the show runs three nights a week for 2Ã,¼ hours each night (Saturday night shows are often extended to midnight).
Opry can also be heard live on Roadhouse Willie on channel 59 on Sirius XM Satellite Radio. The program is also streamed on the WSM website.
ABC broadcast the Grand Ole Opry as a monthly series from 1955 to 1956. PBS broadcasted annual live performances from 1978 to 1981. In 1985, The Nashville Network began airing a half-hourly edited version of the program as the Grand Ole Opry Live ; the event was moved to Country Music Television (evolving into an hour in the process), and then to the Great American Country (GAC) cable network with the Opry Live show no longer aired on television. RFD-TV brings a rerun of the Opry broadcast under the title Opry Encore .
Membership
- Main Article: Grand Ole Opry Member List
The regular viewer in the Grand Ole Opry can be inducted into the organization as a member, by way of existing members nominating it. Membership Opry must be maintained throughout the artist's career and ends when his player dies. Although a number of legendary state artists lost their Opry membership (such as Hank Williams, Sr. and Willie Nelson) or never received it in their lives (long-time prominent Merle Haggard, George Strait, and Conway Twitty became outstanding examples), received Opry Membership is regarded as an honor equivalent to the hall of fame induction.
Controversy
In April 1963, Opry's management made a rule that members should perform at least 26 shows a year to keep their membership active. WSM lowered the number of performances needed to 20 in January 1964; in 2000 the minimum number of Opry shows is at 12. The minimum number of shows has been reduced over the years, but artists offering membership are expected to show dedicated to Opry with frequent attendance.
Another controversy that rages for years is a permissible instrument, especially the use of electrically reinforced drums and instruments. Some purists are surprised at the prospect; Traditionally, bass strings provide rhythmic components of country music and rarely used percussion instruments. Electrical amplification, then new, was regarded as a province of popular music and jazz in the 1940s. Although Opry allowed the electric guitar and steel guitar by World War II, restrictions on drums and horns continued. They caused a conflict when Bob Wills and Pee Wee King opposed the ban on the drums.
Commercialization
The Company has enacted its trademark under the name "Grand Ole Opry", which has trademark registration in the United States and in many countries around the world. It has taken court action to restrict the use of the word "opry" (not directly trademarked) to members of Opry and products associated with or licensed by it, and to prevent the use of the word in a way that would imply a connection to the Grand Ole Opry. In late 1968, for example, WSM sued Opry Records, a record label not independent of WSM, and the court stated that "the record is full of newspaper articles and magazines and clippings that show conclusively that the term 'Opry', stands alone. has used it, continues to be used in the country and western music circles in reference to the plaintiff's' Grand Ole Opry. "The court also stated" the accused has adjusted, at risk, the dominant or prominent term in the plaintiff's sign, a term that identifies the 'Grand Ole Opry' in the public mind for many years before the start of 'Opry Records' - the name adopted by the defendant. "In other cases, the Trademark Trial and the Appeal Board give a brief assessment that the term" Opry "is a generic term (and thus no more protected than the word" Grand "or" Ole ") but the Federal Circuit Court reversed this decision. As recently as 2009, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board gave an assessment of Texas Opry House, LLC, which has filed a trademark application for TEXAS OPRY HOUSE.
In 2004, it was announced that Grand Ole Opry had been contracted for the first time by "presenting sponsors", Cracker Barrel, and the name of the sponsoring company would be associated with the Grand Ole Opry in all the ad. Humana, Inc., Cracker Barrel, and Dollar General are the current Opry sponsors.
Awards
- Peabody Award, 1983
- National Radio Hall of Fame induction, 1992
See also
- The Country Music Association
- Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Music & amp; the Spoken Word - "Radio program the world's longest radio " (beginning July 15, 1929).
Note
References
- Hay, George D. Grand Ole Opry Story . 1945.
- Kingsbury, Paul (1998). "Grand Ole Opry". In The Encyclopedia of Country Music . Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. pp.Ã, 208-9.
- Wolfe, Charles K. Meaningful Riot: Birth of the Great Ole Opry . Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, 1999. ISBNÃ, 0-8265-1331-X.
External links
- Official website
- Grand Ole Opry on TV Internet Archive Full event on April 28, 1956 in black & amp; white
- Library of Congress Local Legacies Project: Grand Ole Opry
- Grand Ole Opry in Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner
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