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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Larry Manuel Collection on Joe Manuel and the Saturday Night Jamboree, Memphis, Tenn. #20409-z, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Larry Manuel in December 2005 (Acc. 100297).

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The summary description was created in June 2018.

Encoded by: Laura Smith, June 2018

Updated: June 2019

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Country musicians--Tennessee--Memphis.
• Manuel, Joe, 1912-1959.
• Manuel, Larry J.
• Memphis (Tenn.)
• Old-time music--Southern States.
• Radio programs, Musical--United States--History--20th century.
• Saturday night jamboree (Radio program)

Larry J. Manuel of Memphis, Tenn., is a retired firefighter, rockabilly musician, and recording artist. He is the son of Joe Manuel (1912-1959), a hillbilly musician and radio star of the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. Larry Manuel performed with Joe Manuel's band on the elder Manuel's stage act and radio show called the Saturday Night Jamboree, which ran from 1953 to 1954 in Memphis.

The collection assembled by rockabilly musician Larry Manuel contains three typescripts and sixteen captioned photographs pertaining to his father and hillbilly musician Joe Manuel (1912-1959) and the elder Manuel's stage act and radio show called Saturday Night Jamboree. The Jamboree ran from 1953 to 1954 in Memphis, Tenn. Typescripts are a profile of Joe Manuel's music career, copy of a letter Larry wrote about the Memphis music scene of the 1950s, and a description of the Saturday Night Jamboree. Photographs are chiefly copies of promotional pictures for the radio show and include handwritten labels identifying the individuals and groups depicted.

• Image folder: PF-20409/1