ABSTRACT
Began in 1979, by Noel Lee, the company is the world’s leading producer and supplier of upscale cables for audio, video, home theater, car, computer, satellite, and custom installation. Monster has since grown to encompass several different new divisions that manufacture and market a variety of noncable products including Monster Game, Monster brand power conditioners, Entech audio and video components, and loudspeakers. The company also produces music through its record label, Monster Music. [website: https://www.monstercable.com./]
HOWARD FERSTLER
American country singer, guitarist, and songwriter, born Ruby Blevins in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She began her singing career in her teens, and was lead vocalist with a group called the Prairie Ramblers from 1934 to 1948, touring widely, and appearing on the National Barn Dance radio show. Known as “The Cowboy’s Sweetheart” or “The Yodeling Cowgirl,”
she was one of the mainstays of the Barn Dance for about 25 years, and had her own radio program as well. She sang with the influential string band named The Prairie Ramblers (Chick Hurt, Jack Taylor, Tex Atchison, and Salty Holmes). Montana’s radio appearances and recordings were instrumental in the establishing of country music as a prime force in American life. She recorded extensively from 1932 to 1959 on various labels, including Columbia, Decca, Surf, Victor, and Vocalion. An early Victor was typical of her enduring popular discs: “I Love My Daddy Too”/“When the Flowers of Montana Were Blooming” (#23760; 1932). Montana never retired; she has composed more than 200 songs, and continued making appearances, sometimes with her two daughters. In 1989 she released a new album, The Cowboy’s Sweetheart, on the Flying Fish label, and she performed in the annual University of Chicago Folk Festival. She was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame shortly after her death.
