Ryman Auditorium – Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry – where Jeanette and Nelson sang!

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Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, as it looks today - Grand Ole Opry

Here’s an interesting article about the Grand Ole Opry today…and a list of famous folks that appeared there in earlier years:

Roy Acuff
Fruit Jar Drinkers
Dolly Parton
Maude Adams
Don Gibson
Anna Pavlova
Tori Amos
Alma Gluck
Adelini Patti
Bill Anderson
Betty Grable
Norman Vincent Peale
Marian Anderson
Martha Graham
Minnie Pearl
Eddy Arnold
Jose Greco
Mary Pickford
Chet Atkins
Emmylou Harris
Webb Pierce
Gene Autry
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Lily Pons
Erykah Badu
George D. Hay
Tyrone Power
Ballet Russe with Nijinsky
Helen Hayes
Elvis Presley
Tallulah Bankhead
Katharine Hepburn
Ray Price
Ethel Barrymore
Bob Hope
Jeanne Pruett
Jeff Beck
Indigo Girls
Basil Rathbone
Sarah Bernhardt
Chris Isaak
Jim Reeves
Jon Bon Jovi
Stonewall Jackson
Keith Richards
Alessandro Bonci
Spike Jones
Tex Ritter
Victor Borge
Gully Jumpers
Marty Robbins
Rod Brasfield
The Jordanaires
Roy Rogers
Fanny Brice
Hellen Keller
Will Rogers
James Brown
Mark Knopfler
Eleanor Roosevelt
William Jennings Bryan
Pee Wee King
Jeanie Seely
The Byrds
Lenny Kravitz
Jean Shepard
Emma Calve
Fritz Kreisler
Dinah Shore
Giuseppe Campanari
Dorothy Lamour
Ricky Skaggs
George Carlin
Jerry Lee Lewis
Connie Smith
Carter Family
Louvin Brothers
Hank Snow
Enrico Caruso
Lyle Lovett
John Phillip Sousa
Johnny Cash
Bela Lugosi
Bruce Springsteen
Carol Channing
Loretta Lynn
Dr. Ralph Stanley
Charlie Chaplin
Uncle Dave Macon
Stringbean
Patsy Cline
Barbara Mandrell
Edward Strauss & Vienna Orchestra
Harry Connick Jr.
Dave Matthews
Strauss Festival with Oscar Strauss
Katherine Cornell
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Rev. Billy Sunday
Crook Brothers
Metropolitan Opera Company
Ernest Tubb
Doris Day
Chicago Orchestra with Theodore Thomas
Grant Turner
Neil Diamond
John McCormack
Rudolph Valentino
Little Jimmy Dickens
Jeanette MacDonald
Vatican Choir
Isadora Duncan
Giovanni Martinelli
Vienna Boys Choir
Bob Dylan
Harpo Marx
Porter Wagoner
Nelson Eddy
Joni Mitchell
Billy Walker
Everly Brothers
Bill Monroe
Booker T. Washington
Douglas Fairbanks
Rev. Dwight L. Moody
Kitty Wells
W.C. Fields
George Morgan
Orson Welles
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Helen Morgan
Dottie West
Flatt & Scruggs
Anne Murray
Mae West
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Jim Nabors
Wilburn Brothers
Whitey Ford
Carrie Nation
Hank Williams Sr.
Pete Fountain
Willie Nelson
Tammy Wynette
Lefty Frizzell
New York Symphony
Faron Young
Nelly Furtado
Buck Owens
Neil Young
Ignace Jan Paderewski

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Mickey Rooney singing in Atlantic City through July 11

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Mickey and Jan Rooney in “Let’s Put on a Show!”

The New York Daily News reports that Mickey Rooney – now 87 – is still going strong! Tonight and tomorrow, he is performing “Let’s Put on a Show!” at the Atlantic City Hilton with his wife Jan, as part of his 85th Anniversary Tour!

He is perhaps the only movie star left from Jeanette and Nelson’s era to still have an active career entertaining.

Mickey Rooney, as you know, starred in one of Nelson’s very first movies, Broadway to Hollywood (1933). Nelson sang one number and was barely seen in the film at all, since all though his number, the camera was busy filming a fight between Frank Morgan and Alice Brady.

I saw the show a few years back and Mickey Rooney is, well, still an energetic if elderly Mickey Rooney! You can’t help but be nostalgic for the 1930s when he sings and talks about those MGM years. So, I would recommend that you go if you can, who knows how many more chances we will have to see him perform.

“It was such a different era then,” Rooney told the Daily News. “The songs had so much meaning. what Jan and I do is blend talent and multimedia. We sing, we do a little dance, we show some film clips of my early days in Hollywood. I play a piano. Jan sings. And everybody goes away happy. We love doing it.”

From the Daily News: “The Brooklyn-born entertainer, who turns 88 in September, says he is up to taking the show ‘anywhere they want to see it.’ It covers everything from his first movie, Not to Be Trusted, in 1926 to A Night at the Museum in 2006….

“I’ve always loved what I’ve done,” Rooney says in explaining why he keeps going. “I’ve done over 350 pictures” – enough to make the Guinness Book of Records this year as the actor with the longest career on both stage and screen. Nevertheless, he is moved when younger actors seek him out.

“I was at the Screen Actors Guild Awards earlier this eyar sitting backstage when Brad Pitt approached me and said he wanted to mee me. Then Angelina Jolie…Then Tom Cruise came by. I was so surprised,” Rooney recalls, his voice cracking. “All I ever wanted to do was give people a good time,” he says.

Link for tickets and information.

Mickey Rooney’s website (which hopefully will have updated tour dates for the rest of the year)

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