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1940 songbook for Birmingham, Alabama, radio personality Happy Hal Burns. Includes selections of Spirituals, Songs of Romance, Hymns, and Western Ballads, in addition to photos, "Inspirational Thoughts," and endorsements of Burns's sponsor, the…

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Birmingham radio personality Happy Hal Burns on his tractor, 1955.

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Letter from the American Snuff Company to a fan of Birmingham’s Happy Hal Burns. (See previous image).

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Happy Hal Burns, Birmingham radio personality, “and his little dog ‘Sissy’” in a wartime promotional photo. Photo is addressed to Mrs. M. R. Daniels in Thomasville, NC, and accompanied by a form letter from Happy Hal’s sponsor, the American Snuff…

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Happy Hal Burns (Harold Frank Byrnes) was a popular, longtime Birmingham radio personality and a mentor to many of the city’s “hillbilly” and country acts, including Hank Penny, Sidney “Hardrock” Gunter, and Gordon Edwards “Country Boy Eddie” Burns…

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