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Opry Video Classics: Pioneers
Top 10 Billed Cast
Roy Acuff
Self (archive footage)
Eddy Arnold
Self (archive footage)
Lester Flatt
Self (archive footage)
Grandpa Jones
Self (archive footage)
Bill Monroe
Self (archive footage)
George Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Ray Price
Self (archive footage)
Tex Ritter
Self (archive footage)
Earl Scruggs
Self (archive footage)
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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