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Sammy Bland

=== Sammy Bland was active in broadcasting and entertainent circles for more than five decades, broadcasting the first Daytona 500 stock car race, known throughout Eastern North Carolina for live television and radio performances and across the South for his syndicated “Racing News with Sammy Bland,” sponsored on radio by Ford Motor Company. Samuel William Bland, Jr. was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on April 14, 1929, the son of the late Sam and Pearl Whitfield Bland. He assisted his family with the grocery store they owned, worked with the railroad and held a couple of other jobs to help support the family. Sammy had his own swing band which played throughout Eastern Carolina and then founded “Sammy Bland and the Folk Caravan.” He went to work with WCEC and WFMA radio as an announcer and promoter in Rocky Mount, NC. While there, he participated in many promotions for the community, such as living on a house boat for a week, living in a fallout shelter at the Rocky Mount Fair and other promotions. Other community happenings involved service organizations and fundraisers for charities in cooperation with the radio station. For a short period of time, Sammy traveled with Lash LaRue as an announcer for the show and appeared with many well known country music stars in Nashville, Tennessee. During this time he became a friend of Hank Williams Sr. and roomed with him in Nashville near the Grand Ole Opry. While still with WCEC, he started and starred in his own variety show on WNCT in Greenville, NC, known as the Jewel Box Jamboree. The show was live and featured local talent from the area as well as Jean Winstead (pianist and vocalist on the show) and other members of the band. The group recorded several songs during the 1950s. Not their favorite cut, “I Just Heard The News,” has been released on a blues CD entitled “Long Gone Daddy”. The album, with various artists, became a top seller in Europe. The band is incorrectly identified as Sammy Bland and His Radio Boys. The band never went by that name, however Sammy’s photograph is featured on the front cover. Sammy worked with WCEC through the 1960s and used that as the base for the Racing News broadcast and NASCAR Sprint Cup races which he broadcast live from the various tracks on the circuit. Included in this was the broadcast of the first Daytona 500, which landed him on the list of the top 50 Virginians in NASCAR produced during the 50th Anniversary Celebration of NASCAR. His racing network was known as the American Racing Network. Also a track announcer at several of the tracks, including Darlington, Rockingham and Richmond International Raceway, Sammy’s “partner” was the late Ray Melton. The two of them worked with Joe Moore in his early days in the sport. Joe went with Motor Racing Network where is he now an anchor. When Ray died in 1988, Ann B. Salster joined her father, Sammy, as a track announcer at Richmond. When he decided to retire, in 2001, he had been involved in NASCAR for almost six decades. At the time they were the only father-daughter track announcing team in Winston Cup, the senior NASCAR circuit. During the days of Racing News, another company was formed for broadcasting. The group was called BLENECA Productions – Sammy Bland, Ned Jarrett and Kenneth Campbell. Retired Cup Champion Ned Jarrett worked with Sammy and Kenneth on live broadcasts and prepared a racing program which became a part of the network. Sammy’s closest friends in the racing circuit were Joe Weatherly, Paul Sawyer, Curtis Turner, Junior Johnson and other drivers and promoters of that time. He can be heard at the Talladega Speedway Museum announcing the crash at Charlotte Motor Speedway which caused the death of Fireball Roberts. Sammy left WCEC in the late 1960s and continued his racing broadcasts and serving as track announcer for several years. He then joined WITN-TV in Washington, North Carolina. There he was weatherman and in charge of promotions. Many young people remember his afternoon program “The Funny Page with Sammy and WITNey The Hobo.” Sammy and WITNey did the show live every afternoon at 5 p.m. and on many non-race weekends traveled throughout Eastern Carolina making live appearances and distributing their dolls – one side was Sammy and the other side was WITNey. Racing News became a television program when Sammy left WITN and joined WCTI in New Bern, North Carolina. Sammy was vice president of sales as well as an on-air personality at the station. In the 1970s Sammy and his family moved to Harrisonburg, Virginia where he joined WHSV as Vice President concentrating in sales and doing some on-the-air work with productions such “Talent Showcase” which was filmed at James Madison University featuring local talent. During this time he continued his work at the various tracks. During the early 1980s Sammy moved to Charlotte Amalie in the U.S. Virgin Islands to manage the Worrell Newspaper’s TV stations there. (WHSV was a part of the Worrell chain.) In the mid 1980s Sammy retired from broadcasting full time. He worked with his Production Company/Advertising Agency – AMR, assisted his daughter with The Amelia Bulletin Monitor newspaper in Amelia Court House, Virginia and aided his wife in the operation of The Bar-B-Que Ranch on Highway 11, north of Harrisonburg. He also continued his track announcing at Richmond International Raceway. Today, he is fully retired, but helps his wife with the restaurant, which is still in operation. Sammy has been married to Faye Lawson Bland for 63 years. They have five children: Ann, Cindy, Sammy III, Jin and Faye; 11 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

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Tip: Categorizing images

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CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

• Image:Sammy Bland, Joe Moore, Ray Melton.jpg was uncategorized on 15 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
• Image:The Funny Page with Sammy and WITNey.jpg was uncategorized on 15 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
• Image:Sammy Bland and the Folk Caravan.jpg was uncategorized on 16 June 2010 CategorizationBot (talk) 10:36, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

File:The_Funny_Page_with_Sammy_and_WITNey.jpg

File:The_Funny_Page_with_Sammy_and_WITNey.jpg has been listed at Commons:Deletion requests so that the community can discuss whether it should be kept or not. We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry. If you created this file, please note that the fact that it has been proposed for deletion does not necessarily mean that we do not value your kind contribution. It simply means that one person believes that there is some specific problem with it, such as a copyright issue. Please see Commons:But it's my own work! for a guide on how to address these issues. Please remember to respond to and – if appropriate – contradict the arguments supporting deletion. Arguments which focus on the nominator will not affect the result of the nomination. Thank you!

JuTa 00:54, 13 November 2011 (UTC)