Talent Varieties is a country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 talent show

Talent show

A talent show is an event where participants perform their talent or talents of acting, singing, dancing, acrobatics, drumming, martial arts, playing an instrument, and other activities to showcase a unique form of talent, sometimes for a reward, trophy or prize...

 on American

United States

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 network television

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 and radio

Radio network

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 in 1955 that featured performers hoping to achieve fame in the entertainment business.

The weekly ABC-TV

American Broadcasting Company

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 program was a live half-hour summer replacement series hosted by Slim Wilson

Slim Wilson

Clyde Carol Wilson , better known as Slim Wilson, was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and radio and TV personality who was a cornerstone of country music in the Ozarks for more than 50 years beginning in the 1930s; both in his own right, and as a member of The Goodwill Family and The...

. Wilson introduced the amateur and professional talent, including music and comedy acts (many from the Ozarks); and his Tall Timber Trio, composed of Speedy Haworth

Speedy Haworth

Herschel Haworth, Jr. , better known as Speedy Haworth, was an American guitarist and singer who was involved with the golden age of country music broadcasting in the Ozarks...

 (guitar), Bob White (bass guitar) and Bryan "Doc" Martin (steel guitar) provided accompaniment

Accompaniment

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. The Westport Kids appeared on July 12, and Buck Griffin

Buck Griffin

Albert C. "Buck" Griffin was an American country musician and songwriter. He was a popular performer live and on radio, though he never scored a hit on record, and was compared to Hank Williams and Conway Twitty....

 appeared August 2.

The show aired on Tuesday nights from June 28–November 1. Its original time slot was 7:30–8 p.m. Eastern Time

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, replacing Cavalcade of America

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, but moved to 10–10:30 p.m. in September to briefly replace Break the Bank

Break the Bank (1948)

Break the Bank is an American quiz show which aired variously on Mutual Radio and ABC, CBS and NBC television from 1945 to 1957.-Radio:Sponsored by Vicks, the series began on radio October 20, 1945, heard Saturdays on Mutual until April 13, 1946. Initially, it featured different hosts each week,...

.

ABC Radio simulcast the program under the name Talent Round-Up from 7:30 p.m., as well as carrying an additional half-hour until 8:30.

The program originated from the Jewell Theatre in Springfield, Missouri

Springfield, Missouri

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, home to ABC's Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee is the first U.S. network television program to feature country music's top stars, and was the centerpiece of a strategy for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as America's country music capital...

, and was produced and directed by the Jubilee's Bryan Bisney.