Country Radio Past

Back in the 1940's and 1950's  we didn't have a lot of country music on the radio here in the Puget Sound Area... KVI was the station that had some....Sagebrush Serenade was on mid-day.....at 5:30 pm was Chuckwagon Jamboree...At 10:30 pm was Ranch House Roundup until about midnight...So we listened to  those programs ...Harry Long and Buck Ritchie  were the main DJs...When KAYO  got going on full time country, Buck and Harry went  there..I think that was in the late 1950's. ..Bobby Wooten and Gary Vance soon joined KAYO also....KAYO brought entertainers in to play at the Opera House after the Century 21 Fair ended in 1962..also to the Evergreen and Puyallup  Fairs and some of the club venues...By that time  more and more country music  was taking root and expanding  bringing more country radio stations into  the area...Also with TV gaining more stations, came country programs  there.. This was great for  all of us who were country music fans...Country Music  told stories of real life....