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R         Ozark Opry (Osage Beach, Mo.).

856                  Booklets, ca. 1963-1971.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

These are three souvenir booklets for the Ozark Opry, a country music show founded by Lee and Joyce Mace and located at Osage Beach in Miller County, Missouri.

 

These 16-page illustrated booklets were distributed at performances of the Ozark Opry.  Al­though undated, the first refers to “these past ten years,” the second refers to “the 13 years since its founding” in 1953, and the third refers to “the 18 years since its founding.”.  There are many pho­tographs of the featured performers, including views of performances at the studios of KRCG-TV in Jefferson City, Missouri, which aired a weekly show for many years.  Autographs of the per­formers, including founder Lee Mace and lead singers Patsy Randolph and Linda Houseworth, are on the last pages of the booklets.

 

Although founder Lee Mace died in 1985, the show continues today (2006) in the same lo­cation as “Lee Mace’s Ozark Opry.”

 

 

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