Valley Rewind: Carolina Barn Dance, 1950

This ca. 1950 photograph features performers on WBRM's Carolina Barn Dance. Starting in 1949, The Carolina Barn Dance was broadcast from coast to coast on the Liberty Broadcasting System. The program originated at the Carolina Theatre on Lower Street in Spruce Pine and was sent to the network’s Texas studios over a telephone line on Friday evenings. It was taped and rebroadcast from 8-9 p.m. Saturday nights. WBRM in Marion carried the show on Saturday mornings. The Carolina Barn Dance featured many nationally and locally known acts, such as Lulu Belle, Scotty Wiseman and Walt Davis' Mount Mitchell Ramblers. The show ended when Liberty Broadcasting went bankrupt in 1952.