From Border Radio Transcriptions 1939
Track No.1 Theme
[0:48] 2...Why There Is A Tear In My Eyes
[2:59] 3...Sleep, Baby, Sleep [Janette]
[4:32] 4...Just Another Broken Heart
[6:41] 5...Corrine, Corrina [Helen - June - Anita]
[7:57] 6...I Can Not Be Your Sweetheart [A.P./gt]
[10:12] 7...Red Wing [Sara/autoharp] and (Maybelle/gt)
[11:18] 8...A Broken Down Saint
[13:36] 9...Weeping Willow
[14:17] 10...You Are My Flower (Sara & Maybelle 2 guitars]
[16:43] 11...Gathering Flowers From The Hillside [June]
[18:07] 12...The Last Letter [Janette]
[19:59] 13...I Wouldn't Mind Dying
[21:40] 14...Diamonds In The Rough [A.P./gt]
[24:07] 15...The Fatal Wedding [Sara and Maybelle 2 guitars]
[24:40] 16...It's Hard To Please Your Mind [Helen - June - Anita]
[25:40] 17...Death Is Only A Dream
[27:21] 18...Theme/XET Station Break

Main Picture Shows
L to R Standing
Alvin Pleasant "A.P." Delaney Carter (48)...(1891 - 1960) - Vocals/Guitar
Janette Carter (16)...(1923 - 2006) - Vocals/Guitar/Autoharp
Reverend (Brother) Bill Guild (Announcer)
Sara Dougherty Carter (41)...(1898 - 1979) - Vocals/Guitar/Autoharp
Maybelle Addington Carter (30)...(1909 - 1978) - Vocals/Guitar

L to R Seated
Helen Myrl Carter (12)...(1927 - 1998) - Vocals/Guitar/Autoharp
Ina Anita Carter (6)....(1933 - 1999) - Vocals
Valerie June Carter (10)...(1929 - 2003) - Vocals/Guitar/Autoharp
Not in Photo
Joe Carter (12)...(1927 - 2005)

In The Winter Of 1938/39 The Carter Family Travelled to Texas where they had a twice daily Program on the Border Radio Station XERA (later XERF) in Villa Acuna (Now Ciudad Acuna) MEXICO across the Border from Del Rio,TEXAS...The Transmitter was 500 Kilowatts while the most powerful US Transmitter was 50,000 Watts.
In the 1939/40 Season the Children of A.P. & Sara (Janette & Joe) and those of Maybelle (Helen - June - Anita) joined the group for Radio Performances now in San Antonio TEXAS where the Programs were Pre-Recorded on Transcription Discs and Distributed to Multiple Border Radio Stations...The Children did not Perform on the Group's Records (Only Radio)

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