In 1968, a radio announcer marked the death of Clyde Julian Foley with a startlingly cruel line: a great country singer, too bad no one will ever remember him. The man he was dismissing was Red Foley, one of the most important figures in country music's rise, a multimillion-selling artist who helped carry the genre onto national radio and television.

This episode restores a giant the culture nearly forgot: Foley's enormous record sales, his pioneering television work on the Ozark Jubilee, the gospel landmark "Peace in the Valley," and his role mentoring the next generation. We ask how someone so foundational slipped from memory, and why his influence deserves a second look.

• The cruel on-air dismissal that framed his legacy
• Multimillion-selling hits and the gospel classic "Peace in the Valley"
• Pioneering country on ...