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In 1973 Jerry Lee Lewis played one show at the Grand Ole Opry, which barred both rock & roll and profanity. Jerry kicked off a 40-minute rock & roll show, calling himself a "rhythm and blues-singin' motherfucker". It was all revenge on the Nashville scene for his cold welcome in 1955.
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77-year-old fiddle player Uncle Jimmy Thompson was the first performer on the Grand Ole Opry in 1925. He had started playing the fiddle in the 1860s and likely learned tunes from veterans returning from the Civil War.
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As a sitting president, Richard Nixon played piano at the re-opening of the Grand Ole Opry at the Grand Ole Opry House in 1974.
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When the Grand Ole Opry show was moved from the Ryman Auditorium to the new location of the Grand Ole Opry House, in an effort to maintain the Opry's storied past, a large circle was cut from the floor of the Ryman stage and inlaid into the center of the new Opry stage.
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At the age of 13 Dolly Parton performed at the Grand Ole Opry and met Johnny Cash who encouraged her.
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The first performer on the country music program "The Grand Ole Opry" was an African American
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Bob Ross was a big country music fan, and was once brought on stage at the Grand Ole Opry, and later that night gave Hank Snow a private painting lesson
