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Presumably one of these guys is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Tubb He led the Texas Troubadours which played at the first Grand Ole Opry show from Carnegie Hall. PIctures at www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=10193 would seem to confirm that Tubb is in the light suit in the middle. But Bob McCoy doesn't seem to have been a member of the band. Maybe he's the guy hiding behind Tubb -- perhaps adjusting a mike.

books.google.com/books?id=yygEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=RA1-PA22&a... www.legacy.com/ns/fullstory.aspx?storytype=1&storyid=42 is another biography, with a video of him singing "Walking the Floor Over You", a big hit for him and much heard and covered over the years. [ www.allmusic.com/song/t1431695 shows albums that have included the song.]

Seems like Mrs. R. H. Davis is Mrs. Richard Harding Davis. Harding's second wife was Bessie McCoy (c1886-1931), a Vaudeville performer--they wed in 1899, he died 1916. Harding was a journalist associated with the Hearst papers, but he also wrote a lot of stories that were adapted for Broadway shows. www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=68280 www.nndb.com/people/398/000048254/ Bessie's sister in show business was called Nellie McCoy. www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=52211

Thanks pennylrichardsca for the additional information. I spoke to someone who knows vaudeville performers and he confirmed that this is Bessie McCoy on the left and Nellie McCoy on the right.

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Ernest Tubb was leader of the Texas Troubadours.


The concert was the first Grand Ole Opry concert from Carnegie Hall.
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has info on the complete line-up.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie_Pearl www.yabbers.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?mforum=voiceucnj&... has info about Shorty and Smokey Warren.

Picture of Radio Dot at www.beavertownnews.com/index.php/history-corner-history-a... My guess is that the guy there is Smokey Swan, shown below her (in suspenders) in the Gottlieb picture. books.google.com/books?id=g2jSdOR8aUkC&pg=PA93&lp... indicates that they were married. His real name was Louis W. Swan and she was born Dorothy Maxine Henderson.

books.google.com/books?id=dmZjDsgUq9cC&lpg=PA98&o... indicates that Smokey Warren had a band named the Arizona Trailblazers which changed to the Mountain Dew Boys with sponsorship from Pepsi. The band's name seems to have been Arizona Trailblazers in 1959, according to Billboard of 8/31/1959 books.google.com/books?id=NgoEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA56&d... Dottie Mae (a later stage name for Radio Dot) was still touring with him!