Bluff Creek Round Up
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| Radio show from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | |
| publication | 1944 - around the end of the 1940s |
| production | COMA |
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| Moderation | Hiram Higsby |
The Bluff Creek Round Up was an American country show broadcast by KOMA radio station in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma .
history
Beginnings
The first Bluff Creek Round Up aired on a Saturday night in November 1944. The idea for this barn dance show came from the station's manager, Kenyon Brown. Brown faced opposition from other radio workers who felt that a show of this type would not attract enough viewers. In the end, the shows in the Shrine Auditorium were sold out from Oklahoma right from the start.
successes
Brown brought in Hiram Higsby to host the show. Higsby was well experienced in the business, having worked for nine years at WLS in Chicago , five years with the Brush Creek Follies , KMOX, and the Grand Ole Opry . Within two years the show rose to become Oklahoma's largest and most successful country show; by 1946, approximately 200,000 viewers had attended the Bluff Creek Round Up and heard far more on the radio.
Guy Sanderson and the Bluff Creek Rounders were the show's house band. The group was actually a big band that played in the big night clubs of Oklahoma City during the week. For the show, they adapted rural country music and thus accompanied the artists who did not have their own band.
Some of the stars of the show included cowboy actor Dick Reinhart, Mary Lou, the Carl Jones Quartet, Harpo and Tiny, Rusty Marion, Dixie Boy Jordan, and Cowboy Jess. The show's comedians were Lem Hawkins and Fred Fauntleroy.
The Bluff Creek Round Up aired with success throughout the 1940s but was canceled by the end of the decade.
Guests and members
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