WELO

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WELO or WELO 580 AM is a local radio station situated in Tupelo, Mississippi.

WELO had begun broadcasting on May 15, 1941 in South Spring Street, Tupelo, above the Black and White dry goods store. Some local talents were involved in starting up the station, among them the announcer Charlie Boren and the bandleader and radio technician Archie Mackey. The hillbilly star of the station in 1946 was a twenty-three-year-old native of Smithville, Mississippi, Carvel Lee Ausborn, who went by the name of Mississippi Slim.

Ernest Bowen, who had tangential musical connections with Elvis Presley, became a longtime general manager at WELO.