Fact #148199
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Roy Acuff makes his Grand Ole Opry debut at the Dixie Tabernacle, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Sacks of mail soon begin arriving at WSM radio, requesting the boy who sang Great Speckled Bird be invited back. This appearance is also memorable as the day on which Acuff sideman Clell Summey becomes the first person to play a Dobro on the Opry.
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