RAMBLIN TOMMY SCOTT Smoky Mountain Sunset MACY'S 78 rpm

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What you are bidding on is a very very old, USA pressing of RAMBLIN TOMMY SCOTT: SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUNSET.  The 10" is an original pressing from the  50's on the MACY'S Records label.  This is a classic hillbilly track and would sound great on a jukebox.

Tommy Scott was born in a little town near Toccoa, Georgia, up in the mountains about 100 miles east of Atlanta. Tommy began his musical career when he was around ten years old, playing the guitar and singing for old-time square dances and parties.
When he graduated from high school, his first job was with a platform medicine show, where they played about a week in each town they went to.
In 1933, Tommy did his first radio show over WTFL, a small radio station near Athens, Georgia.
Along the way, he worked at several other small radio stations and travelled in shows such as circuses, radio dramatics and variety shows.
In 1937, Ramblin' Tommy met up with Uncle Pete and Minervy and was part of their home town show which was a fifteen minute dramatic show over WPTF in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It wasn't too long though before he joined a well known recording group and started working on the WWVA Jamboree out of Wheeling, West Virginia. There, Tommy became a featured soloist and did a black-face routine (who's character name may have been "Lightning") which he did for audiences in several states. Another character was that of "Luck McLuke" (a talking mannequin) which was said to be his favorite comedy routine throughout his career up to that point. 
Ramblin' Tommy then moved to Louisville, Kentucky in 1939 where he began doing an early morning broadcast over WHAS. When he wasn't working on the station, he was busy making personal appearances with other groups in the nearby towns in the Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia areas.
Later on he started doing radio transcriptions which were at one time broadcast on 82 radio stations across the United States. Some of these stations included KRLD in Dallas, Texas; WBT in Charlotte, North Carolina; WBIG in Greensboro, North Carolina; WSM in Nashville, Tennessee; and cities such as Shreveport, Lousiana, Cincinnati, Ohio, Little Rock, Arkansas; Memphis, Tennesse and on it goes. 
Around 1948, he was doing his own show and was known as "Ramblin' Tommy Scott's Hollywood Hillbilly Jamboree".
In 1939, he married his wife, Frankie. They had a child named Sandre Yvette Scott. Both were a part of his show at the time.

I grade the 78's visually inasmuch as I don't have a 78 player to play them.  1-10 ten (10 will be new and unplayed)(6-7 will be VG to VG+).  Anything above a 5 is worth having in my opinion.  1-5 they are marked and scratchy, but still may play ok.  Bear in mind most of these are nearly 70 years old and they won't look like they came off the store shelf. 

Condition = 6-7

MACY'S RECORDINGS

TRACKS:

SMOKY MOUNTAIN SUNSET / AIN'T WHAT SHE USED TO BE