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Show Advertisement SPEAXIKS OF I'OHEY CAN YOU STRIKE IT RICH , IN COUNTRY MUSIC? By EZRA T. CLARK President Davis County Bank Young Americans, especially those from struggling families in small ! towns and rural communities, often ! think that today there are no more , vast frontiers to explore, no places to strike it rich, no great dreams to dream. Nothing could be further from the truth. One of the great w 1 miMmummmmm new entertainment i frontiers is country , j music. You can I discover it right in 1 j your own back I yard. And if you're j talented enough - , and determined I enough, it's still ; possible to follow I your dream to . . ! riches and stardom, I y" i even without a f i v y t ' wealthy family or I If ; advanced educa- j ' ' tional degrees iiutu behind you. EZRA T. CLARK In fact, most of the great country artists today rose out of poverty. Now their names are famous, like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynet-te, Wynet-te, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark, Barbara Mandrell, Willie Nelson, Way Ion Jennings - and on and on. Once upon a time, the road to stardom for young entertainment hopefuls led to Hollywood. Now it leads to Nashville, Tennessee, at least for would-be country music performers and songwriters. Nashville is the new Star City. More than 2,000 new songwriters a year are signed on by the leading music performing rights agencies there. More than $100 million worth of country music acts are booked annually an-nually out of Nashville's 35 talent agencies. Nashville's Music Row includes 57 recording studios operating 24 hours a day. More than half of all the record singles in the United States are produced pro-duced in Nashville each year. The country music capital of America traces its beginning to a radio show called Grand Ole Opry, which began in 1928. Now the longest running run-ning radio show in America, Grand Ole Opry is actually a stage show presented presen-ted each Friday and Saturday night before a million visitors annually and broadcast live to the nation. Staged in the new 4400-seat Opry i House nine miles from downtown ' Nashville, where the show moved five : years ago, the Grand Ole Opry is today part of a $66 million Opryland complex. com-plex. The complex includes a 600-room hotel and a 200-acre amusement park i called Opryland, U.S.A. The new Opry House originates five nationally-syndicated TV shows, including in-cluding Hee-Haw, which are broadcast by 670 stations - making Nashville the largest TV production center between New York and Hollywood. It appears that the country music trend is sweeping the U.S.A. and still growing. Where less than 50 radio stations sta-tions in America were programming country music full-time 25 years ago, there are now nearly 1200 full-time country music stations. Dozens and dozens of new singers, songwriters, and other artists have made it over the rocky road to stardom. It's been 40 years since Roy Acuff, the first country music troubadour, came out of the eastern hills of Tennessee Ten-nessee singing "The Great Speckled Bird." But country music is still an entertainment frontier where you, young man or woman, could strike it rich if you dare. I tH" - Completely sale 7f i! - Free Consultation V, J - Complete privacy o I V - Body and Facial f jj - call tor early or late appointments i) j j Call: Connie Flake - Licensed & Registered Electrologist h 295zIP40 nffik IBM- MEN'S 2-PANT SUIT HEADQUARTERS JS 165 South Main 132 South Main 210 South Main University Mall XffJ BUn,i,Ul Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Orem JfeC Men's i i Sjffihy, (LOOT j M m & I Over 4,000 Suits ; :lm H " Vested Suits . f ,v 2 Pant Suits , . i : 'Jyrt' Sizes36to60 V iM P ' I" Re9u,ars Lngs k I Hf(a Shorts, X-Longs j I II II lij : (o(o!00 f n (p)00 fl (oirolGO I : . 8 A,Y3, DOOR BUSTERS Hen's Ties Hen's Shoes I Men s "1 ' j 7m 5)0)99 Sprt Coals i1 LJA II JL 23" I J i IZ w |