Saturday Night Jamboree

Saturday Night Jamboree is a Tennessee historical marker in Memphis., Shelby County.

Shelby Co., SW corner-Madison at Third, Memphis.

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Front: On this site during 1953 and 1954, the Goodwyn Institute Building Auditorium was home to "The Saturday Night Jamboree" a live country music show that debuted a group of unknown artists who later made music history. Among the artists who appeared were Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Johnny and Dorsey Burnett, Barbara Pittman. Eddie Bond, Charlie Feathers. Larry Manuel Lloyd (Arnold) McCollough, Bud Deckelman, and Harmonica Frank Floyd. Rear: Joe Manuel, a popular country music star of that era, founded the show with his business partner M. E. Ellis. As audiences grew, radio station KWEM, with studios in Memphis and in West Memphis, Arkansas, broadcast the show. Backstage in the dressing rooms. the musicians experimented with new sounds, mixing fast country, gospel, blues, and boogie - woogie. Their performances on the Jamboree stage of this new type of music, later called "rockabilly," may have been the first public renditions of the genre.

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USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection

Historical maps covering this location

1901 · Memphis. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1909 · Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1925 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1939 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1965 · Northwest Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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