Anybody confirm the guy second from the right is Bill "Hoss" Allen, the DJ and the guy who presented the show 'The Beat'? they are the same guy right.

ObviouslyJohn Richbourg on the far left.

According to this , yes.

http://rockradioscrapbook.ca/ckb-mar8.html

 

Yes it is. If you have any confusion, it may be because at one point he had a tash, though not on The Beat from memory. These (mainly) WLAC guys were the pinnacle of Nashville R&B promotion on the airwaves in the 60s - from left, John Richbourg (John R, Sound Stage 7 etc), Gene Nobles, Don Whitehead, Bill "Hoss" Allen, Herman Grizzard. 

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cheers guys 🙂 Mark, outside of John Richbourg, I assume the rest of those guys are the DJ team at WLAC?

59 minutes ago, Mal C said:

cheers guys 🙂 Mark, outside of John Richbourg, I assume the rest of those guys are the DJ team at WLAC?

Yes they all were, at slightly different points. 

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2 hours ago, Mal C said:

cheers guys 🙂 Mark, outside of John Richbourg, I assume the rest of those guys are the DJ team at WLAC?

There is a fantastic article/history of the station and DJ's here 

http://www.nashvillebroadcastinghistory.com/id5.html

Here's part one of an extract from the particular chapter(s) in House of Broken Hearts where  I covered the role of Nashville DJs, radio and TV in promoting soul / R&B. If you want the whole book it's available in PDF format on my site.  Part one:  https://windlefreelance.com/2022/08/01/radio-and-the-1960s-nashville-rb-scene/

And here's part 2... as a complete aside the pic with John 'R' and Jackey Beavers which has a couple of other guys in it - I speculated the others might have been Continental Showstoppers (knew it was a long shot) but since then its transpired they're not. Someone manage to identify them but can't remember who!  Roscoe Shelton / Sam Baker / Allen Orange maybe? https://a-nickel-and-a-nail.myshopify.com/blogs/news/radio-tv-and-the-nashville-r-b-scene-part-two-e-mark-windle

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