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R         Haden Family (Musical group).

1095                Booklets, 1940-1944.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

These are two booklets concerning the Haden Family, a musical group that performed dur­ing this period on radio station KWTO at Springfield in Greene County, Missouri.  The booklets were distributed to fans of the group.

 

These illustrated booklets are a Haden Family Album (1940) and A Day with the Haden Family Down on the Haden Farm (1944).  The Haden Family consisted of “Uncle Carl” Haden (born in 1909), his wife Mary Jane (Day) Haden (born in 1908), and their children: Carl Haden, Jr. (born in 1926), Mary Elizabeth Haden (born in 1928), James Lowell “Smoky Mountain Jim” Ha­den (born in 1932), Charles Edward “Cowboy Charlie” Haden (born in 1937), and Sharon Kay Haden (born in 1943).  The booklets include biographical information, photographic portraits, snapshots of the family, and the lyrics to three songs (“Moberly Mine Disaster,” “Who Will Love You When I’m Gone?” and “Ozark Moon”) written by Carl Haden, Sr.

 

The Haden Family appeared daily on KWTO radio in Springfield.  The first booklet con­sists mostly of family snapshot portraits, while the second, larger, booklet, shows the family’s dairy farm near Springfield and snapshots from their daily lives.  Charles Edward “Charlie” Haden later became a well-known jazz bassist.

 

 

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