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Page 2. ILLUSTRATED PAPERBOY. Wednesday, December 30, 1998
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Around Town
” on the Grow
.Cleveland
Madie Jones recently
I sent me a message to write about
some of the old country music
artists. That's easy. For years.
I have been doing research on
country music artists in Texas
for a book. I started out writing
biographies on different artists
and bands, with the earliest
dating back to about 1910. Also
as part of the research, I have
attempted to obtain all infor-
mation possible about the
records these various bands re-
corded. Presently, I have over
700 pages of information but
no publisher...YET.
Some of the earlier pio-
neers included the Saddle
Tramps out of Dallas; Crystal
Springs Ramblers from Fort
Worth: Vernon Dalhart from
Jefferson. Texas; Smith's Ga-
rage Fiddle Band; Solomon and
Hughes; Confederate Solider;
Capt. M.J. Bonner; and the
Cartwright .Brothers.
One of the people I
wrote about is Carl Sprague.
Carl was the baseball coach at
Texas A&M back in the 20's.
He also had a small group of
musicians and they played on
radio station WTAW at Col-
lege Station. Anyway, he and
his little band did some record-
ing of cowboy songs in 1925
back there befoFe Jimmy
Rodgers. )
Of course nearly every-
one has heard of the Lightcrust
Doughboys. Bob Wills along
with Pappy O'Daniel organized
that band back around 1931.
But prior to becoming the
Lightcrust Doughboys, Bob
started off with a little group
working for the Aladdin Lamp
Company in 1930 on station
WBAP. The group was com-
posed of Bob with just his fid-
dle and a guitar player by the
name of Herman Amspiger and
a vocalist by the name of Milton
Brown.
Bob later broke away
from the Doughboys and
formed his famous Texas Play-
boys. Milton Brown also left
the Doughboy band and formed
his own group, The Brownies.
Featured fiddler for The
Brownies was Cliff Bruner
who later would form his own
band that would feature a pi-
ano player by the name of
Moon Mullican. And Moon
would become famous on his
own in the 50s with great songs
such as I'll Sail My Ship Alone
and Mona Lisa.
And while I'm telling
about Cliff Bruner; it was Cliff
that helped Ernest Tubb get a
recording contract with Decca
Records back around 1938 or
'39.
During the 40s and 50s
country music hit big in Texas.
Just about every town had a
band and many of these bands
were releasing records. In
Waco, there was a band, The
Lone Star Playboys. Their fid-
dle player, Cotton Collins,
wrote a song that the band re-
corded and made famous,
Westphalia Waltz.
Down in San Antonio
was a band, Buster Coward
and The Tune Wranglers. They
made famous a song Drifting
Texas Sand. Also, around San
Antonio, there were Adolph
Hoffner and his band Red Riv-
er Dave, The Texas Tophands,
and Grand Ole Opry star
Charlie Walker. Also there
was a fellow named Del
Dunbar, the D-Bar Ranchhand
with a daily radio program and
his friend, Big Bill Lister. Both
appeared regularly with the
Texas Tophands. North of San
Antonio at Taylor, there was
Jimmy Heap and the Melody
Masters. Their fiddle player,
Perk Williams was the writer
of Release Me (the latter sold
that song). Their piano player
Arlie Carter and William War-
ren wrote Wildside of Life.
Other bands around
Texas included Cajun fiddle
player Harry Choates, song
writer and singer Leon Payne,
Bill Boyd, Justin Tubb, Goldie
Hill, Floyd Tillman, Lefty
Frizzell, Hank Thompson, Ray
Price, George Jones, Johnny
Horton, Jim Reeves and oth-
ers,
Closer to Cleveland is
my good friend Mary McCoy
out of Conroe. Back in the
50s, Mary and Jimmy
Copeland did some recording.
Mary also appeared on the
Louisiana Hayride back then.
Over in Navasota there was
Smiling Jerry Jericho. One of
the more popular bands back
in the 50s was the Miller Broth-
ers Band from Witchita Falls.
Houston was famous,
too, for Ted Daffan, writer of
No letter Today and Born to
Lose. Also, Floyd Tillman,
Shelly Lee Alley and his
Alleycats, Clyde Brewer, and
quite often, Beaumont enter-
tainer George Jones, would
appear at local clubs.
Out in West Texas,
there was Hoyle Nix who
worked with Bob Wills for a
time before forming his own
band and there was Slim Wil-
let who wrote Don't Let The
Stars Get In Your Eyes.
A lot of those record-
ing artists in the 50s workec
Texas and did a lot of record
ing in Dallas and Houston. In
fact, Slim Whitman had a fa-
vorite studio in Dallas where
he recorded all of his records.
For radio and state pro-
grams,Nashville had the Granc
Ole Opry but Shreveport hac
the Louisiana Hayride and Dal-
las had the Big D Jamboree.
Oh, those were the
days. I have some great mem
ories from my days in radio
and a lot of wonderful music
that I still play around the
house. Thanks, Madie, for ask-
ing me to reminisce a little.
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MEETING A COUNTRY LEGEND - This picture showing Peggy Dodson and ]
her son Sam posing with country legend Hank Thompson, was taken in Canton, ]
Texas June 14, 1990. See the related story on country legends in Glen Dodson’s
‘Around Town...Cleveland on the Grow. Photo by Glen Dodson*
GRINCH CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS - As part of the Christmas program by the
Cleveland Royal Braves Band was the appearance of the Grinch Who Stole Christ-
mas. Later in the musical presentation, the Grinch celebrated Christmas giving out|
candy to children in the audience.
photo by Glen Dodson*,
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