Pat O'Daniel and The Hillbilly Boys
Syndicated
Syndicated · 1940–1950
Broadcasts
99
Cadence
Fortnightly
Rated
PG
Since
1940
The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 99
- Genre
- kids
THE HILLBILLY BOYS W. Lee O'Daniel's musical career began in January 1931, when a West Texas fiddler named James Robert (Bob) Wills entered his Fort Worth office at Burrus Mill and Elevator Company. As general manager of the firm, O'Daniel had just canceled a radio program on which Wills and his fiddle band had been advertising Burrus Mill's Light Crust Flour. O'Daniel canceled it, as he said, "because I didn't like their hillbilly music." So many cards and letters came into station KFJZ that O'Daniel had to put the show back on the air, and the band became known as the Light Crust Doughboys. When O'Daniel realized how much flour the show was selling, he became the announcer for the show and manager of the band. According to Wills, O'Daniel was an asset to the show. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_The_Hillbilly_Boys_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
1 dated broadcasts across 15 years on the air, with 14 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1936, in original transmission order.
- 1. First Song - Dinah · 30 Apr 1936
- 2. First Song - The Hog Trough Reel · Date unknown
- 3. First Song - Barrell Polka · Date unknown
- 01
First Song - Dinah
30 Apr 1936 · 14 min
- 02
First Song - The Hog Trough Reel
Date unknown · 13 min
- 03
First Song - Barrell Polka
Date unknown · 15 min
- 04
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (09) First Song - Somebody Loves You
Date unknown · 15 min
- 05
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (22) First Song - Leave Me With A Smile
Date unknown · 16 min
- 06
The Hillbilly Boys 39-xx-xx (29) First Song - Chinese Breakdown
Date unknown · 15 min
- 07
Pappy O'Daniel 39-xx-xx (39) First Song - Little Box Of Pine on the 7 29
Date unknown · 14 min
- 08
First Song - Dance All Night with a Bottle in My Hand
Date unknown · 13 min
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