Oral history interview with Ramblin' Tommy Scott; 1976 July 28; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1976 July 28.

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Oral history interview with Ramblin' Tommy Scott; 1976 July 28; interview conducted by Douglas B. Green. 1976 July 28.

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Entertainer Ramblin' Tommy Scott talks about his experiences as a medicine show performer. Discussion includes his family history; local musical influences during his childhood; his start as a medicine show entertainer, including work as a ventriloquist; the techniques of a successful medicine show; medicine shows as a starting ground for early performers and later forms of entertainment; comments on early medicine showmen, including Doc Chamberlain; comments on the medicine of the medicine shows; his early radio career; working with Charlie Monroe; working with Stringbean; the development of his medicine, HERB O LAC; the development of his own medicine show; performers who appeared on his show, including Uncle Dave Macon, Ray Whitley, Tim McCoy, and Clyde Moody; his movie work and experiences in Hollywood; his recording career; the Ramblin' nickname; and comments on his experiences managing a medicine show.

5 sound cassettes (3 hours, 55 minutes)

Country Music Foundation, Library & Media Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 7772408

Country Music Foundation, Library & Media Center

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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 ...

Scott, Tommy, 1917-2013

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63t9g07 (person)

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 ...

Green, Douglas B.

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Country music performer. Born March 20, 1946. Best-known as Ranger Doug from Riders in the Sky, a cowboy revival act he co-founded in 1977. Performed as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys during the late 1960s. Recording credits include a solo album, Songs of the Sage, released on the Warner Western label in 1997. From the description of Oral history interview with Douglas B. Green; 1993 November 23; interview with John W. Rumble. 1993 Nov. 23. (Country Music Foundation, Libra...