Vida Jane Butler

Vida Jane Butler (1923 - 2007) was a radio pioneer known on the air as "Janie Joplin."cite news |work=NPR All Things Considered |title=Tenn. Radio Pioneer 'Janie Joplin' Has Died |date=2007-04-05 |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9396752 |accessdate=2008-05-08] She was an announcer on WHER in Memphis, Tennessee, which went on the air on October 29, 1955.cite news |work=NPR All Things Considered |title=WHER -- 1000 Beautiful Watts |url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3304084 |date=1999-10-29] The station was billed as the "First All-Girl Radio Station."

Butler was told her first name was considered too old-fashioned and too Southern for WHER, where she worked as an announcer and a copywriter. After WHER went off the air in the early 1970s, Butler used her talents in radio commercials. She was nominated for a Cleo Award for this work.

Butler would always sign off her show by saying, "Be good and you'll be happy!"

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