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Is King Biscuit Time still on the air?

Is King Biscuit Time still on the air?

HELENA (KATV) — The show has done more broadcasts than both the Grand Ole Opry and American Bandstand – more than 17,500 broadcasts since June 2016. Now the longest running daily radio show in America is set to mark another milestone – 75 years of King Biscuit Time.

What is historically significant about the King Biscuit Time radio show?

King Biscuit Time was the first regular radio show to feature the blues and the first regular radio show to feature live blues performances. It was also one of the earliest examples of integrated radio in the South.

What is the name of the Helena Arkansas radio show?

King Biscuit Radio Show
King Biscuit Radio Show – Helena, Arkansas.

Where was the first blues radio program King Biscuit Time broadcast?

Helena
The first broadcast of King Biscuit Time was on November 21, 1941 on KFFA in Helena, and featured blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller) and Robert Lockwood, Jr.

Who was an influential blues musician featured on the King Biscuit show who caused BB King to become a musician?

Elmore James, a legendary blues guitarist, was born in Richland, Miss., in 1918. He appeared on the “King Biscuit Time” show on KFFA in Helena and on the Hadacol show on KWEM radio in West Memphis during the 1940s. He also frequently worked clubs in West Memphis in the late 1940s. He died in 1963.

What was Muddy Waters nickname?

Muddy
His nickname, “Muddy,” bestowed by his grandmother, celebrated that early fondness for mud. Later, playmates added the “Waters.” Even his earliest musical experiments came from the earth. “When I was around three years old,” he recalled, “anything with a sound, I would try to play it.

Did B.B. King smoke?

Initially “Blues Boy”, his name was shortened to BB. I didn’t do dope other than liquor, like many others did,” says King, who stopped drinking nearly 20 years ago. “I smoked cigarettes, but only the ones that Uncle Sam taxed.”

What was B.B. King’s real name?

Riley B. King
B.B. King/Full name
For more than half a century, Riley B. King – better known as B.B. King – has defined the blues for a worldwide audience. Since he started recording in the 1940s, he has released over fifty albums, many of them classics. He was born September 16, 1925, on a plantation in Itta Bena, Mississippi, near Indianola.

How old is Lil Walter?

37 years (1930–1968)
Little Walter/Age at death

Who paid for Muddy Waters Funeral?

When Hubert Sumlin died penniless of heart failure at the age of 80 last December, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards stepped in to pay funeral costs for the influential Chicago blues guitarist.

Who was Albert King married to?

King is survived by his wife, Glendle, of Lovejoy, Ill.; two daughters, Evelyn Smith of Racine, Wis., and Gloria Randolph of Phoenix; a son, Donald Randolph, of Venice, Ill.; a sister, Elvie Wells of Chicago; 8 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

What is King Biscuit Time?

King Biscuit Time is the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history. The program is broadcast each weekday from KFFA in Helena, Arkansas, United States, and has won the George Foster Peabody Award for broadcasting excellence.

Is King Biscuit Time in the National Recording Registry?

In 2018, certain selections of King Biscuit Time from 1965 were selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or artistically significant.”

What is the King Biscuit Blues Festival?

In 1986, the first annual King Biscuit Blues Festival (later renamed to Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival and returned to King Biscuit Blues Festival in 2011) was held in Helena, attracting thousands of blues aficionados from around the world.

Who played in the original King Biscuit Entertainers?

Williamson and Lockwood played live in the studio and were the key musicians in the original studio band, the ‘King Biscuit Entertainers.’ Other musicians who joined the original band were Pinetop Perkins on piano and James Peck Curtis on drums.