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Known beneath the amusing but relatively dusty stage name of “the Outdated Employed Hand,” this performer’s real forte was being a radio announcer. Nevertheless, the loose mixture of live radio creation and music that dominated the traditional days of nation music, old-time, and early bluegrass radio broadcasting allowed him to …

b. Byron Harry Parker, 6 Sept 1911, Hastings, Iowa, USA, d. 6 Oct 1948. Parker’s profession started as you half of the Gospel Twins, a duo who made an appearance regularly in the first 30s on an area place in Shenandoah, Iowa. Between 1934 and 1937, he caused the Monroe …