Uncle Ned and the Hayloft Jamboree were a wildly popular blue-grass band during the 1950s and ‘60s. Uncle Ned was inducted into the Georgia Radio Music Hall of Fame in 2012.
Known to his fans as Uncle Ned, Stripling hosted “Uncle Ned and the Hayloft Jamboree,” which performed on WMAZ radio for 18 years. When WMAZ television went on the air in 1953, Uncle Ned and the Hayloft Jamboree did 9 hours per week on TV, 5 hours per week on radio and a minimum of 4 live performances each week. The TV performance ratings drew WMAZ’s second-largest viewing audience, bested only by Gunsmoke, the nation’s most popular Western. Gene “Uncle Ned” Stripling died suddenly at the age of 42, while performing at a dance in Hawkinsville in 1958.
(1915-1958) (Block 1, Section I, lot 5, row 2)
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