The Ozark Jubilee Makes The Country's Top Country Music Stars
The Jubilee gave many of the biggest names in country music their first experiences performing on television.

The longest running country music series on network television, The Ozark Jubilee, was responsible for some of our biggest country music stars fame. It was also the first time a country music program had such a national viewership. It ran for 5 years and 8 months, starting January 22, 1955. It effectively brought country music into the homes of over 9 million viewers, and that was just in the beginning.

Red Roley was the host, as well as the country's top country music personality of the time, and he brought on guests like his son-in-law Pat Boone, Carl Perkins and the Perkins Brothers Band, Johnny Cash, June Carter, Patsy Cline, Eddy Arnold, Brenda Lee and Chet Atkins.

Carl Perkins made his TV debut on the series, singing "Blue Suede Shoes," at exactly the same time as Elvis Presley sang the same song at the same time on a different show, Stage Show. The artists sang everything from rockabilly, country and western, bluegrass, honky tonk, the Nashville sound, gospel and folk.

Red Foley closed each show, broadcasting form the Jewell Theatre in downtown Springfield, Missouri with a "song of inspiration" and signed off with the phrase "Goodnight mama, goodnight papa." For a time Springfield rivaled Nashville as America's country music capital.

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