Tommy Scott posters, 1948-2006.

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Tommy Scott posters, 1948-2006.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/454363169

The collection contains posters advertising various incarnations of Tommy Scott's traveling medicine show and a poster for Tommy Scott's Smokey Mountain Jamboree television show.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7553690

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Scott, Tommy, 1917-2013

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Tommy Scott began his career in entertainment playing guitar and singing for local square dances. He performed on a radio broadcast for the first time in 1933, and, in 1936, joined Doc Chamberlain's Medicine Show, which had toured the South since 1890. In 1938, Scott took over the show, which was later known as Ramblin' Tommy Scott's Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree. Scott performed on radio station WWVA in Wheeling, W. Va., where he developed characters and routines that were later featured in his ...