The host of Chuck Wagon Jamboree is Ken Curtis, who is best known as Festus Haggen in television's Gunsmoke. Ken Curtis got his start in radio singing stand-in for Frank Sinatra in the Tommy Dorsey Band. In Chuck Wagon Jamboree, Ken jokes with fellow "hillbillies" between musical numbers in this fun and playful old time radio western music show. Grab your boots and fiddle and sing along in this toe-tapping good time.