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Town Hall Party was a country music institution from 1952 to 1961; a weekly television series that featured three hours of live down-home entertainment every Saturday night on Los Angeles' KTTV-TV, the show was recorded on kinescope film for later rebroadcast (both at home and for American servicemen overseas), and this home-video release from Bear Family Records features highlights from the show's April 18, 1959, edition. Performers on this broadcast include Merle Lindsay and the Ozark Jubilee Boys, Gordon Terry, Jeannie Mack, Skeets McDonald, Johnny Bond, Charlie Williams, Billy Mize, Cliff Crofford, and more.