Top O' the Mornin' SIGNED Red O'Donnell 1947 NASHVILLE BANNER Harveys Dept Store for Sale

Top O' the Mornin' SIGNED Red O'Donnell 1947 NASHVILLE BANNER Harveys Dept Store For Sale

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Top O' the Mornin' SIGNED Red O'Donnell 1947 NASHVILLE BANNER Harveys Dept Store:
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Francis Xavier "Red" O'Donnell died in December, 1984 at age 73. Over the course of his long career, he reported for both the TENNESSEAN and NASHVILLE BANNER newspapers in Nashville. Both papers actually worked out of the same building. This book was published by THE TENNESSEAN in 1947. It is green cloth hardcover, 7-1/2" x 10-1/4" in size, 71 pages. It is full of brief paragraphs from O'Donnell's writings over the years. These paragraphs are historical snapshots of Nashville politics, business, society life, sports, music, history, and rumor mills. This copy was inscribed on the front pastedown to "Sam, of 'Harvey Has It' fame. Here's pie in your eye. Good luck." I'm not sure who Sam was, but he was probably an employee of the famed Harvey's Department Store in Nashville and the middle Tennessee area. The book is in Good condition: strong binding and clean text pages. No torn pages, smells, page stains, markings, underlining, or writing. The spine is sunned. The top of the spine and the corners have rubbing wear. Overall, a good SCARCE signed copy.

Red was a Nashville native, and began his journalism career in 1932, covering sports for the Tennessean. In 1943, he took a leave from his newspaper job to join the Marines, during which time he sent periodic dispatches back to the newspaper.

Although he was originally a sports reporter, Red moved to the blossoming music scene, and soon found a home and made a name for himself in what at that time was a small reporting niche.

As a music reporter and critic Red quickly made friends with many of Nashville's growing music industry stars such as Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Eddy Arnold and Chet Atkins. It was through these friendships, and a generally sympathetic coverage of the entertainment business, that he was able to score scoop after scoop over fellow reporters.

Red's work also appeared in Record World and Variety, helping move Nashville, and country music, from a small music venue to a world-wide music phenomenon.

Throughout his career Red O'Donnell distinguished himself by outstanding service to the profession of journalism, and brought great honor to himself, his community and the State of Tennessee.

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