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January 29, 1954

 Audio Recording, Old Dominion Barn Dance, Karo Corn Products Program, 29 January 1954 (WRVA–133), WRVA Radio Collection, Accession 38210, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Old Dominion Barn Dance Broadcasted

This forty-second excerpt from the January 29, 1954, broadcast of the popular country music radio program, the Old Dominion Barn Dance, featured the show's host, Mary Higdon "Sunshine Sue" Workman (1911–1979). The weekly show was broadcast from Richmond for eleven years beginning in September 1946. Radio station WRVA in Richmond was so successful that the program was syndicated nationally and reached audiences as far away as the West Coast, Canada, and South Africa.

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