Remembering Renfro Valley are Buddy Bain, Virginia Sutton Bray and the Renfro Valley Folks. John Lair's Renfro Valley Barn Dance was the home of many country singers. ♪ Now you can blow your whistle ♪ ♪ Mamma you can toot your horn ♪ ♪ You can blow your whistle ♪ ♪ Mamma you can toot your horn ♪ ♪ You gonna wake up some morning ♪ ♪ And find your daddy gone ♪ Later appearing on the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and the Louisiana Hayride. With his brother Joe, Bill Callahan began performing in 1923. ♪ And a great big Methodist pie ♪ ♪ Oh, little children I believe ♪ ♪ Oh, little children I believe ♪ ♪ Oh, little children I believe ♪ ♪ I'm a Methodist till I die ♪ ♪ I'm a Methodist, Methodist 'tis my belief ♪ ♪ Methodist till I die ♪ ♪ When old grim death comes a knockin' at the door ♪ ♪ I'm a Methodist till I die ♪ One of the pioneers of country music Bradley Kincaid. Billed as the Kentucky mountain boy, he collected and recorded authentic mountain ballads. Starting on WLS in Chicago, Bradley Kincaid appeared on nearly every major Barn Dance program, during the '20s and '30s. Here to perform the classic Lost John, here's Herman Crook. A fixture on the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years. The Crook Brothers, Lewis and Herman, first appeared on WSM Radio in 1925. ♪ I want to ride Old Paint, goin' at a run ♪ ♪ I wanna feel the wind in my face ♪ ♪ A thousand miles from all these lights ♪ ♪ Goin' a cowhand's pace ♪ ♪ I want to pillow my head near the sleeping herd ♪ ♪ While the moon shines down from above ♪ ♪ I want to strum my guitar and odo-lay-eee-hee ♪ ♪ Oh, that's the life that I love ♪ ♪ I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart ♪ ♪ I want to learn to rope and to ride ♪ ♪ I want to ride o'er the plains and the desert ♪ ♪ Out west of the great divide ♪ ♪ I want to hear the coyotes howlin' ♪ ♪ While the sun sets in the West ♪ ♪ I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart ♪ ♪ The life that I love best ♪ Now a little western swing. Backed by The Prairie Ramblers, she was the first woman in country music to have a million selling record with her 1935 recording of I Want To Be A Cowboys Sweetheart. There were many singing cowboys but Patsy Montana starred on the National Barn Dance as a singing cowgirl. ♪ Deep within my heart lies a melody ♪ ♪ A song of old San Antone ♪ ♪ Where in dreams I live with a memory ♪ ♪ Beneath the stars all alone ♪ ♪ It was there I found beside the Alamo ♪ ♪ Enchantment strange as the blue up above ♪ ♪ A moonlit pass that only she would know ♪ ♪ Still hears my broken song of love ♪ ♪ Moon in all your splendor know only my heart ♪ ♪ Call back my rose, rose of San Antone ♪ ♪ Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart ♪ ♪ Speak once again of my love, my own ♪ ♪ Broken song, empty words I know ♪ ♪ Still live in my heart all alone ♪ ♪ But that moonlit pass by the Alamo ♪ ♪ And Rose, my Rose of San Antone ♪ Here was our biggest hit, 1941, San Antonio Rose. Leading things off is the band that invented Western Swing, Bob Wills, Texas Playboys. Now it's time to take their fiddles down off the wall, tune up and walk out on the stage for the Country Music Association's^ Family Reunion Show. For a week, they visited with fans, signed autographs and had a lot of fun. They've come back to Nashville to be a part of the Fan Fair celebration.
They rode the range with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry with a six-gun in one hand and a guitar in the other. These are more than fans, they're songwriters, singers and musicians, the stars of the great old radio programs like the Wheeling Jamboree, the National Barn Dance, the Louisiana Hayride and Nashville's own Grand Ole Opry. But for a few, it's a chance to renew old friendships, to turn back the clock.
For most, it's a chance to see and meet the stars of country music. Each June, country music lovers by the thousands, flock to Nashville for the annual Fan Fair.
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