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Brush Creek Follies feature takes first

Performers Kit and Kay, circa 1940
KMBC radio publicity photo
Performers Kit and Kay, circa 1940

By Steve Bell

Kansas City, MO – Researchers at the Marr Sound Archives of the UMKC Library have created a web site allowing visitors to relive the days of "rural music" network radio, "live" from Kansas City. The Brush Creek Follies was, in its day, the number two radio show of its type in the nation. After 50 years, its old recordings and former performers Kit and Kay still retain their charm.

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