Grand Ole Opry

[ grand ohl op-ree ]

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noun

a successful radio show from Nashville, Tenn., first broadcast on Nov. 28, 1925, noted for its playing of and continuing importance to country music.

For these reasons and many other infamous ones, you could call Florida the Grand Ole Opry of gun nuttery.

Oh, for the good old days when Roy Acuff taught Richard Nixon how to use a yo-yo on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry.

Those scenes that are just in every nook and cranny at the Grand Ole Opry, that to me is the beauty of the show.

Uncle Dave Macon, one of the presiding eminences during the early days of the Grand Ole Opry, was just such a performer.

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