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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Raymond H. Pulley Collection #20422, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Raymond H. Pulley in September 2007 (Acc. 100744).

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Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: James McGlothlin, November 2007

Encoded by: James McGlothlin, November 2007

Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021

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• Acuff, Roy--Photographs.
• Anglin, Jack, 1916-1963--Photographs.
• Carter, Anita--Interviews.
• Carter, Anita--Photographs.
• Carter, Helen, 1927-1998--Interviews.
• Carter, Helen, 1927-1998--Photographs.
• Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978--Interviews.
• Carter, Maybelle, 1909-1978--Photographs.
• Cash, Johnny. Performer
• Cash, June Carter, 1929-2003--Interviews.
• Cash, June Carter, 1929-2003--Photographs.
• Chordettes (Musical group)--Photographs.
• Clinch Mountain Clan--Photographs.
• Cooper, Stoney, d. 1977--Photographs.
• Cooper, Wilma Lee, 1921- --Photographs.
• Country music.
• Foley, Red, 1910-1968--Photographs.
• Hayes, Bill, 1925- --Photographs.
• High school student activities--Virginia--History--20th century.
• James, Sonny--Photographs.
• Louvin Brothers--Photographs.
• Marlowe, Marion--Photographs.
• Martin, Benny--Photographs.
• Owens, Dusty--Photographs.
• Pierce, Webb, 1921-1991--Photographs.
• Popular music.
• Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977--Interviews.
• Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977--Photographs.
• Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977. Performer
• Pulley, Raymond H.
• Radio programs--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Reed, Jerry--Photographs.
• Reeves, Jim--Photographs.
• Rock music.
• Roman, Mimi--Photographs.
• Smith, Tommy, musician--Photographs.
• Snow, Hank--Photographs.
• South Norfolk (Chesapeake, Va.)--History.
• Tubb, Ernest, 1914-1984--Photographs.
• Tubb, Justin--Photographs.
• Wells, Kitty--Photographs.
• Wilburn Brothers--Photographs.
• Wright, Johnnie, 1914- --Photographs.
• Young, Faron--Photographs.

Raymond H. Pulley was a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1966 to 1973 and at Appalachian State University from 1973 to 1995, where he also developed and managed an administrative computer training program. He is the author of Old Virginia Restored: An Interpretation of the Progressive Impulse, published in 1968 by the University Press of Virginia.

While a student at Oscar Frommel Smith High School in South Norfolk, Va., from 1955 through 1957, Pulley, an avid collector of records and musical memorabilia, worked as an engineer and disc jockey at the student-run radio station WOSFM, the first educational FM station in Virginia. As Cuzin' Ray, he hosted a daily two-hour program, "The Cuzin' Ray Hoedown," which featured rock and roll, country, and hillbilly music. When Elvis Presley and Mother Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters played at the Norfolk Municipal Auditorium on 12 February 1956, Pulley conducted interviews with them that aired on the program.

This collection contains materials assembled by Raymond H. Pulley when he hosted "The Cuzin' Ray Hoedown" program on radio station WOSFM in South Norfolk, Va. Included are news clippings about the station; Cuzin' Ray letterhead; a Carl Smith Award presented to the student-run radio station; sheet music; publicity photographs (many autographed) of country and pop musicians, including Roy Acuff, Jack Anglin, Anita Carter, Helen Carter, June Carter Cash, Maybelle Carter, the Chordettes, the Clinch Mountain Clan, Stoney Cooper, Wilma Lee Cooper, Red Foley, Bill Hayes, Sonny James, the Louvin Brothers, Marion Marlowe, Benny Martin, Dusty Owens, Webb Pierce, Elvis Presley, Jerry Reed, Jim Reeves, Mimi Roman, Tommy Smith, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, Justin Tubb, Kitty Wells, the Wilburn Brothers, Johnnie Wright, and Faron Young; 45-rpm single recordings by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley on the Sun Records label; and an open-reel audiotape of interviews conducted on 12 February 1956 with Elvis Presley, Maybelle Carter, Helen Carter, June Carter Cash, and Anita Carter. There are also photographs of those interview sessions and of the artists performing on stage.

Audiodiscs (45-8921-8926)

Audiotape (FT-20422/12810)

Images (P-20422/1-32)