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Lowell Blanchard

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Lowell Blanchard (November 5, 1910 – February 19, 1968) was an American radio presenter and performer. Blanchard, a native of Chicago, Illinois, was a station manager and popular show host for WNOX-AM Radio in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was inducted into The Country Music On-Air Personality Hall of Fame in 1977. He is said to have given country performers Henry D. Haynes and Kenneth C. Burns their stage names, Homer and Jethro, after forgetting their stage names during a 1936 broadcast on WNOX.