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[Portrait of Shorty Warren, Rosalie Allen, Ernest Tubb, Cy Sweat, Dave Miller, Radio Dot, Smokey Warren, Dick Richards, Minnie Pearl, Bob McCoy, and Smokey Swan, Carnegie Hall, New York, N.Y., Sept. 18-19, 1947] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  Ernest Tubb was leader of the Texas Troubadours.
  
  
  The concert was the first Grand Ole Opry concert from Carnegie Hall.
  See poster at
  
  
  
  has info on the complete line-up.

• swanq said:

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

• swanq said:

  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.

• swanq said:

  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!