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WLS National Barn Dance 420000 Milwaukee
State Fair
WLS National Barn Dance 420000 Wisc.State
Fair
WLS National Barn Dance 421000 9th Anniv.Show
WLS National Barn Dance 421205
WLS National Barn Dance 421212
WLS National Barn Dance 431002 10th
Anni.Show
WLS National Barn Dance 440129 AFRS
67
WLS National Barn Dance 440415 20th
Anniv
WLS National Barn Dance 440708 AFRS
90
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Well-well-welcome to your ole 
Neck-in-neck with popularity with Nashville's Grand Ole Opry was Chicago-based WLS National Barn Dance. Its toe-tapping listenership covered both rural communities and city dwellers for several decades. In the 1920's, people paid the 75 cent admission to see the performance with a barn loft stage and bales of hay for the musicians to sit on. Some of the early stars and favorites of the series included Bradley Kincaid, Tommy Dandurand, Chubby Parker, Pie Plant Pete, and Walter Peterson. In the 1940s, star Joe Kelly charming persona lead him onto hosting 
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