Rex Cole's Mountaineers
Early in 1930 , a refrigerator salesman and broadcaster named Rex Cole asked to sponsor the group for a show on New York radio station WEAF . He was looking for something along the lines of the Beverly Hillbillies , another group who were put together in a big city ( in their case , Los Angeles ) but made to sound as if they were plucked from the American South . Cole had Fields and Hall's group billed as "Rex Cole's Mountaineers" , and their first broadcasts came in July 1930 . Most of their material was written by Fields and Hall themselves , who went by the stage names Long Tom and Joe Colt on the show . 
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