Western film and music star Ray Whitley (1901-1979), a former 1950s co-star with Ramblin’ “Doc“ Tommy Scott (1917-2013) Hilbbilly Jamboree and Circus Revue, shares an appearance in 1978 at the CMA Family Reunion Show and Country Music Fan Fair. For more information, visit .
Scott stepped into the entertainment field as he crawled up on the back of a “Doc“ M.F. Chamberlain’s Medicine Show wagon in Toccoa, Ga. in 1936 giving him his first opportunity to leave his parent’s farm in Eastanollee, Ga. and become a traveling showman.
Chamberlain toured the South for roughly two more years retiring f
...rom the show he began in 1890 and turning it over to Scott lock, stock and medicine formulas including the laxative Herb-O-Lac, also called Man-O-Ree and Katona and a liniment that Scott sold as Snake Oil. Scott moved to North Carolina in 1938 gaining a position on WPTF radio in Raleigh, N.C. performing as part of the Pete and Minervy dramatic troupe.Show more