Name/Title
FolioEntry/Object ID
2012.35.4a-bDescription
Foldout postcard (back cover split off), "Roy Acuff's Folio of Original Songs Featured Over WSM Grand Ole Opry," thumbnail picture of Roy Acuff and log cabin illustration on front left with "Greetings from…/ Roy Acuff/ Nashville, Tenn.," addressed in pencil to Mrs. James Faulkner/Anniston, Ala/1610 South Guitar (sp?), 4 ¼" x 6"w, 1941.
per Roy Acuff: The Smoky Mountain Boy by Elizabeth Schlappi, 1978, p44: "During 1940 Roy and Mildred compiled a songbook that had many of Roy's most successful compositions; it also contained a few pictures. It was entitled Roy Acuff's Folio of Original Songs Featured over WSM Grand Ole Opry…. Each of the postcard-type fold-out songbooks cost a nickel to print and sold for a quarter. It was put on sale in 1941. One announcement on the Opry brought 5,000 orders the first week. Mildred, plus six girls hired from the National Life Insurance Company, worked for six months to address them…. On February 28, 1942, the "Roy Acuff Songbook Show" debuted on the Opry…. Eventually almost a million copies of the songbook were sold, and it provided a large part of the revenue for the founding of Acuff-Rose and the purchase of the Acuff's first real home."