1961 Jim and Jesse McReynolds, known onstage as Jim & Jesse, a traditional brothers duet from Virginia who have appeared on radio stations around the Midwest and Southeast since the 1940s, perform on the GRAND OLE OPRY. Three years later they join the OPRY cast. 1962 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES premieres on CBS accompanied by the theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," performed by Flatt & Scruggs, who make several cameo appearances on the show. In 1963, it becomes the first bluegrass song to hit #1 on the country charts. 1964 John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers) makes a documentary about coal mining in Kentucky and banjo picker Roscoe Holcomb called THAT HIGH LONESOME SOUND, an expression that has come to be associated with Bill Monroe, in part because the film features footage of a Blue Grass Boys performance. 1965 Carlton Haney stages the original Roanoke Bluegrass Festival, the first of its kind. For the remainder of the decade and, particularly in the early 1970s, bluegrass festivals across the country are tremendously important in expanding the music's audience, and function as a reincarnation of the traveling tent shows that were once an integral part of country music. 1966 The magazine BLUEGRASS UNLIMITED begins publishing in Washington, D.C. Carter Stanley passes away. 1967 Bill Monroe launches his first festival out of the Brown County Jamboree Barn in Bean Blossom, IN, calling it a "Big Blue Grass Celebration." The festival is an annual event that continues today as the Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. 1968 "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt & Scruggs appears in Arthur Penn's film BONNIE AND CLYDE. 1969 Flatt & Scruggs break up. Lester Flatt continues playing traditional music, while the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring Scruggs' two sons, integrates rock and other non-country musical forms into its sound. 1970 Bill Monroe is inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame as the "Father of Bluegrass." Rounder Records is founded by music fans Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin, and Marian Leighton-Levy as an outlet for folk and traditional music styles. Two years later, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rounder releases a series of records chronicling the history of bluegrass. Photo: Ryman Auditorium (top left), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, HABS, TENN,19-NASH,20-34.