LIVE BROADCAST RECORDING FOR WARREN SMITH
FOR KXLA & KTTV'S ''TOWN HALL PARTY'' 1958

TOWN HALL BUILDING
400 SOUTH LONG BEACH BOULEVARD, COMPTON, CALIFORNIA
UNKNOWN DATE(S) SATURDAY 1958
SESSION HOURS: 8:30 TO 9:30 PM
BROADCAST OVER KXLA RADIO, PASSADENA, CALIFORNIA
PRODUCER: FORMAN PHILLIPS
HOST: TEX RITTER

''Town Hall Party'' was an American country music program, firstly broadcast on radio and then television.
The first radio broadcast was in Autumn 1951 by stations KXLA-AM in Pasadena, California and KFI-AM in Los Angeles, California. The television series was broadcast over Los Angeles network KTTV.

Promoter William B. Wagnon, Jr., had been booking such acts as Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys in ballrooms between Bakersfield and Sacramento for several years when he decided to extend his operations to Los Angeles. Burt "Foreman" Phillips, himself a bandleader had been promoting country and Western barn dance programs at the old Town Hall building, situated at 400 South Long Beach Boulevard in Compton, near Long Beach. Wagnon acquired Phillips' lease and commenced promoting a combined dance-and-show, featuring any and all country and western recording artists working in the area and available on Saturday nights. An estimated 3,000 patrons could be accommodated in the Town Hall Ballroom.

Wagnon instructed the performers to play only music which could be danced to, and to keep individual songs short and plentiful, in order to satisfy everyone's tastes.

Source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

''ROCK 'N' ROLL RUBY''
Composer: - John R. Cash
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated
Matrix number: - None - Breakdown
Recorded: - 1958
Released: - Not Originally Issued (1:25)

Name (Or. No. Of Instruments)
Warren Smith - Vocal and Guitar
Unknown Musicians

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