Andrew Brandt
speaker
3,213 appearances
41 recordings
12 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 21 Sep
Andrew Brandt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Number 9.
The Farewell to Minnie Pearl.
March 4th, 1996.
While 1996 was a great year in country music, it was also the year a legend in the industry was lost.
March 4th, 1996, Minnie Pearl passed away at the age of 83.
Minnie Pearl was Sarah Ophelia Colley.
Born 1912, Centerville, Tennessee.
Her family?
Comfortable.
She had access to arts and education early.
She studied theater and dance at Ward Belmont in Nashville, a finishing school that also turned out some very serious performers like she was in.
The important part was she was formally trained.
Voice and movement and timing.
She worked on that craft long before she ever got to the Opry stage.
Right out of school, she took a job with the Wayne P. Sewell Producing Company, which sent young producers across the South to stage community shows.
I think gyms and courthouse rooms, school auditoriums.
And so she was performing.
And she wasn't just telling jokes, though.
She was organizing casts.
I mean, she was a producer.
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