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Cas Walker Show

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The Cas Walker Farm and Home Hour was a Knoxville, Tennessee, variety show created in 1929 by grocery-chain owner and city councilman Cas Walker to promote his cash stores, airing on WROL and WIVK radio before moving to WROL-TV (now WATE) in 1953 and running on local channels until 1983, with performers including Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin, Roy Acuff, and Chet Atkins and a stage that helped launch the Everly Brothers and a ten-year-old Dolly Parton, who first performed there in 1956.

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