RANCH ROUND-UP
EPLACING Won’t You Come In? at 9.30 each Monday, beginning November 12, is a popular American variety programme, "Pappy" Cheshire’s Ranch Roundup. "The songs and stories of the plains and mountains of the American West have become... basic entertainment for a major part of all radio listeners throughout the United States," declares "Pappy" Cheshire, who is confident of a similar reaction in New Zealand. "Pappy," who is (he admits it himself) an authority on the lore and music of the cowboys, the loggers, the miners and huntsmen of the American continent, has spent the major part of his life in the theatre and radio of the West and Middle West, and now divides his time between radio, television and motion picture work, In his newest venture, Ranch Roundup, "Pappy" is the central character. This is a "Western" variety programme combining old and new songs-and storiestypical of those heard on ranches and in lumbering and mining communities stretching from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. The group of entertainers who revolve around "Pappy" Cheshire in this show ate all popular artists in the United States, First there are Andy Parker and The Plainsmen, a group of five singers and instrumentalists, well known through the recordings they have made. Parker also steps out of the group to act as an occasional foil to the pro-
gramme’s chief comedian "Hank" Penny who, we are told, was discovered in a cotton patch near Rimlap, Alabama. The feminine touch in the show is provided by Ginny Jackson (born Idaho), who found fame as a vocalist-and landed a recording contract-after an appearance on a Santa Monica tele-
vision show. Ginny is also singing star of the CBS Rex Allen series. Wally Imes, who lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona, is a relative newcomer; but is considered to be one of the most promising of a large crop of "Western style" ballad singers. Wally is the proud owner of "Wasatch Winnie"
who, being a horse, does not sing, but is nevertheless described as an entertainer. "Pappy" Cheshire’s Ranch Roundup will begin on Monday next from all YA stations. There will be no broadcast on November 26 or December 3, listeners should note, because of Olympic Games broadcasts from Australia,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 7
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