Jack tries to understand and relate to the longest-running member of the National Barn Dance, Grace Wilson. Lots of good history on the early days of the Barn Dance in this episode. Jack breaks his silence on Disney animated features.

Songs:

Theme to the National Barn Dance

Grace Wilson - Just a Little Street

Patsy Cline - Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home

The Dinning Sisters - Shine On, Harvest Moon

Grace Wilson - Bringin’ Home the Bacon

Henry Burr - Are you Lonesome Tonight?

Tommy Dandurand & His Barn Dance Fiddlers - Larry O’Gaff

Tom Owens - Kings’ Head

Pie Plant Pete - Waiting for the Railroad Train

Chubby Parker - Nickety Nackaty Now Now Now

Ford and Glenn - Sleepy Head

Ralph Waldo Emerson - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise

Bradley Kincaid - Pretty Little Pink

Grace Wilson - Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

Ray Charles - Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

Grace Wilson - I Wonder When

Grace Wilson - Forget Me Not Means Remember Me

Roger Miller - Not in Nottingham

Lulu Belle and Scotty - You Go To Your Church and I’ll Go to Mine

References:

Berry, C. (Ed.). (2008). The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (Vol. 543). University of Illinois Press.

Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (1993). Finding her voice: The saga of women in country music. Crown.

Carlin, R. (2014). Country music: a biographical dictionary. Routledge.

Malone, B. C. (2017). Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots and Country Music (Vol. 1). University of Oklahoma Press.

McCusker, K. M. (2008). Lonesome cowgirls and honky-tonk angels: The women of barn dance radio (Vol. 543). University of Illinois Press.

Stand By! https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/WLS/Stand%20By/

WLS Family Album https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Station-Albums/WLS/