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Members of The Ozark Mountain Daredevils certainly weren’t blue after their single “Jackie Blue” hit #1 on the music industry’s cha-ching chart. The song stayed at that spot for two weeks. “Jackie Blue” was the second chart topper for the Missouri musicians, following “If You Wanna Get To Heaven.” Based upon content from the book …
On this day in Missouri History in 1922, WEW became the first radio station west of the Mississippi to get a broadcast license. The station began its historic journey on the campus of Saint Louis University and is recognized as the second-oldest radio station in America. WEW actually began operating about a decade earlier, in …