Movie: Opry Video Classics: Pioneers

Top 10 Billed Cast

Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff

Self (archive footage)

Eddy Arnold
Eddy Arnold

Self (archive footage)

Lester Flatt
Lester Flatt

Self (archive footage)

Grandpa Jones
Grandpa Jones

Self (archive footage)

Bill Monroe
Bill Monroe

Self (archive footage)

George Morgan
George Morgan

Self (archive footage)

Ray Price
Ray Price

Self (archive footage)

Tex Ritter
Tex Ritter

Self (archive footage)

Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs

Self (archive footage)

Carl Smith
Carl Smith

Self (archive footage)

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    The Carter Family, Roy Acuff and the Sons of the Pioneers belong to a select group of the earliest and most successful country recording artists. Pioneers spotlights them all doing such signature songs as Keep On the Sunny Side, Wabash Cannonball and Tumbling Tumbleweeds, alongside the influential blue-grass bands of Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. And when Grandpa Jones stomps through Good Old Mountain Dew, you won't be able to sit down.

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    2007-11-21

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