The group was said to have been a mix of traditional songs of the original Carter Family with pop, gospel, and vaudeville comedy.
(They were reported as having kept their travel low key, with their father Ezra driving the group in a van to and from their destinations.)
This broadcast would serve as their first commercially sponsored program and their first radio debut as "The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle."
The show had just begun and started small; however, by the end of its first year, it was selling out its 1,400-seat theater twice a night, every Saturday.
Having spent five years in Richmond, the girls were yet again offered a job opportunity, this time in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Offered a radio show at Springfield, Missouri's KWTO, the group, along with Atkins left Knoxville.
They performed with famous names such as Elvis Presley, Carl Smith (June's husband at the time), Ernest Tubb, and Johnny Cash and spent roughly ten years working the Grand Ole Opry as well as on various other radio broadcasts.
June and Helen released a number of singles; Anita had several chart records and hit duets with both Hank Snow on "Bluebird Island" and with Waylon Jennings on "I Got You".
She and Cash eventually began a relationship (initially extramarital); both divorced their spouses in 1966 and married in 1968) and went on to record several hits with him.
The second edition of The Carter Family released their last record, the 1977 single "Papa's Sugar" a year before Mother Maybelle's death.
In 1989 The Carter Sisters joined The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band for the recording of their Country Music Association's Album of the Year, the follow-up Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Vol.
[2] The Carter Family receives special billing on the cover for their background vocals on Merle Haggard's 1971 album The Land of Many Churches.