Curley Collins collection, 1928-2002.

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Curley Collins collection, 1928-2002.

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The Curley Collins collection documents the musician's career with ephemera including news clippings, programs, and advertisements; photographs;periodical articles and book excerpts; correspondence; legal documents; and writings. The material dates 1928-1956, 1964-1969, 1975-2002, though all items in the collection are in photocopied form.

.25 linear ft.

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 6962383

Georgia State University

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WSB (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)

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WSB (Welcome South, Brother) Radio, the first radio station in the south, began broadcasting on March 15, 1922. From the description of WSB Radio Broadcasting Script, 1939. (Georgia Institute of Technology). WorldCat record id: 50144464 WSB Radio was the first radio station to broadcast from the city of Atlanta, with its first broadcast on March 15, 1922. The station was originally owned and operated by the Atlanta journal newspaper. Both the Atlanta journal and WSB were pur...

Collins, Curley

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Ruel Culbertson (Curley) Collins (1915-1986) played the fiddle, guitar, and banjo in country and western bands of the 1930s-1980s. Born near Catlettsburg in eastern Kentucky, Curley Collins began playing music professionally at age 14. In 1936, he joined popular Kentucky band Pop Eckler and His Young'uns. WSB Radio in Atlanta invited Eckler's band to join its "Cross Roads Follies" broadcasts. The band performed variety shows throughout the Southeast, in which Collins, who won a national fiddling...