LOOP Presents: Country Style U.S.A

LOOP Presents: Country Style U.S.A

Country Style, USA is a series of 15-minute radio and film programs produced by the US Army as a recruiting aid from 1957 to 1960 featuring top American country music artists. Each year 13 episodes were produced in Nashville, Tennessee and distributed to local radio and TV stations. Among the hosts was Jody McCrea. Artists featured on the shows included Jim Reeves and Moon Mullican.  The programs were produced by Owen Bradley and his brother Harold, the chief architects of the 1950s and 1960s Nashville sound in country music and rockabilly.

This episode: Johnny Cash

Eddy Arnold Time is an American musical television series syndicated to local stations from 1955 through 1957. The show consisted of 26 half-hour filmed episodes starring Eddy Arnold in different roles within a musical narrative. Arnold portrayed, among others, a lumberjack, a traveling salesman, a cowboy, a pet shop owner, himself, and even Stephen Foster.

This episode: "The Cornhusking Bee"

Plus, a reel full of Snader Telescriptions featuring Bob Wills and others.

16mm/B&W/Sound/70 min.