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Illinois Valley Jamboree on WMBD

Description: This postcard features an inscribed image of performers for the Illinois Valley Jamboree that aired on WMBD. From the left side of the image is Ray an announcer/emcee in suit, striped tie, and dress shirt. Behind Ray is the bassist, Don. Don is wearing a button-up shirt, cowboy had, and a scarf tied around his neck. Jim, the guitar player, is wearing a dark button-up shirt, vest, trousers, cowboy hat, and cowboy boots. Ruth, the singer, is wearing a light colored blouse with a dark colored skirt, dark cowboy boots with light colored trim work and a cowboy hat. Zeke the fiddle player is just visible in a dark hat. Findley “Red” Belcher is playing the banjo in overalls and a plaid button-up shirt. The last person in the line-up is Paul Grove on the mandolin. Paul is wearing a dark western style shirt and trousers with light trim, dark cowboy boots with white trim, a light colored cowboy hat and a white scarf tied around his neck. The group is arranged around a microphone bearing the WMBD radio station banner. The reverse side has been addresses to Beulah Rudisell with no other correspondence. The top half of the one-cent stamp is missing.
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll74/id/252
Collection: Indiana Entertainment Foundation
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright: In Copyright
Subjects: Groves, Paul
Belcher, Red
Country musicians
Country musicians--clothing
Guitar
Microphone
WMBD (Radio station : Peoria, Ill.)
Double bass
Violin
Banjo
Mandolin

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