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    • Sep 2, 1934
    "Hee Haw" comedian Grady Nutt is born in Amarillo, Texas. A Baptist minister and author, he joins the show's cast in 1979, three years before his death in a plane crash
    Nov 28, 1934
    The comedy team of Sarie & Sally appears on WSM Radio for the first time. Within weeks, they are regular members of the station's Grand Ole Opry lineup
    Jan 26, 1935
    The comedy duo Sarie & Sally makes its Grand Ole Opry debut
    Feb 24, 1935
    Marshall Jones performs a show in Akron, which is caught by Bradley Kincaid. In short order, Kincaid brings Jones to Boston to perform on radio station WBZ, where he's renamed "Grandpa" Jones
    May 30, 1936
    Following a two-year stay with the program, the blackface comedy duo Lasses & Honey makes its final Grand Ole Opry appearance
    Mar 17, 1937
    Sarah Colley--the future Minnie Pearl--leaves Sevierville, Tennessee, where she's directing a play, for Centerville when she learns her father, Thomas Colley, has died
    Aug 26, 1937
    Don Bowman is born in Lubbock, Texas. The singer and comedian begins a recording career in the 1960s, though he's best remembered for co-writing the Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson hit "Just To Satisfy You"
    Jul 19, 1938
    Margaret Waters, of the comedy act Sarie & Sally, is felled by an illness, forcing Edna "Sarie" Umensetter to appear solo on the Grand Ole Opry for three months
    Oct 15, 1938
    Sarie & Sally return to work as a duo on the Grand Ole Opry at the Dixie Tabernacle in Nashville. Margaret "Sally" Waters' illness had forced Edna "Sarie" Umesetter to perform as a solo comedienne for the previous three months
    Jan 7, 1939
    The blackface comedy duo Jamup & Honey debuts on the Grand Ole Opry



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