ABOVE - BOB WILLS & THE TEXAS PLAYBOYS.
W.T.EASON & DANNY WILDER ENTERTAIN!
Then president of local AFM, Cass Acosta
is seen right over the head of Danny!
© 2008 - Don Logan
FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON ...SEPTEMBER,  2011

Still dry and hot in Louisiana and Texas even though
South Louisiana got some flooding.  I recently talked to
Stan Lewis, my boss at Paula Records and also one of
the young, talented artists whose career we  helped
start,   Mickey Gilley.   Gilley’s Night Club, a famous
night spot in Houston, was featured in the hit movie
URBAN COWBOY.  He now owns, operates and
appears every night at 8PM at his theater in Branson,
Missouri called the Mickey Gilley Theater.  To check on
tickets, you can call the theater at 417-334-3210.  He is
also being inducted into the Tex Ritter Hall of Fame in
nearby Carthage, Texas.

Jake Owen has a feel-good summertime smash called
Barefoot, Blue Jean Night.  He is on tour now with Keith
Urban!  Also the career of East Texan Miranda Lambert
continues to rise with the scheduled November release
of Four The Record.

Don't forget our on-line store, 1DANDY1  where
you can find many hard to find titles, including
local movie productions and older out of print
titles.  Speaking of local movie production! There
has not been much of it recently.  Local entertainers
Joe Leach and Martha Lawrence are doing some
recording sessions and I'd like to share the following  e-
mail with each of you in case you have info.

Dear Mr. Logan,
What a pleasure to talk with you. Thanks for taking so much time to share so much.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate it.  I'll certainly follow up on the ideas you gave
me.
You know, I'm doing this for mom in hopes of shedding some light on her many
contributions to Country Music and its artists with her songs and other help. At this
point, she's about as obscure as can be, and I think that's tragic. She was gifted,
beautiful and a real treasure.
I'm attaching some pictures of mom that I've shared with Roy Murphy and some other
folks here lately in case they come in handy in terms of putting a face with a name.
They're pictures of her with Jim Reeves, Paul Kallinger of XERF and a snapshot of
the Wilburns on one of their visits to our home. I'm also attaching a picture of a female
artist who isn't named. Wondering if you recognize her. Plus, there's a page (printed
on orange newsprint!) from a 1953 issue of Cowboy Songs magazine that has a little
story about mom and a picture of her. I got that recently from Georgia State
University's special collections archive. Lucked into it.

David House
Freelance Writer
david-house1@sbcglobal.net
817-281-6006 (home office)
Member: SPJ, Native American Journalists Association, Online News Association
N O T E:  The mother of DAVID HOUSE was JEWELL HOUSE!                                 

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON .....AUGUST,  2011....           

WHEN I was a young guy and a vice-president at Stan Lewis’ Paula
Records, our biggest selling pop-rock hit was the million seller, Judy In
Disguise.  This was one of those funky one hit wonder songs.  Others
in our stable of stars-to-be included Nat Stuckey, Joe Stampley,
Charlie Daniels and Mickey Gilley.  Stuckey signed with RCA and later
MCA, while Stampley went to Dot Records and Epic Records with
many #1 country hits including some duets with Moe Bandy    .  Charlie
Daniels produced several records that were released on the Paula and
Jewel labels.   Stan released one  Charlie Daniels vocal called “Middle
Of A Heartache”  .  Mickey Gilley came to us in a deal with the late
Huey Meaux that included the album called Down The Line and a single
called Night After Night.  We signed Gilley to a contract and Stan’s
Paula label gave him his first charted country record produced by
Cowboy Jack Clement.  When his contract expired, he went with his
own label and we were one day late in making a lease-offer on his
Room Full Of Roses that Playboy Records grabbed and hit with.  Gilley
once owned and operated Gilley’s Night Club, a famous night spot in
Houston, but now has his own theater in Branson called the Mickey
Gilley Theater.  To check what nights Gilley will be performing you can
call the theater at 417-334-3210    .  His theater is one of the most
popular in Branson and he is seen regularly on TV hawking and
performing country hit entertainment packages with Lorianne from
Crook and Chase  .

You local actors who appeared in Blonde Ambition will want to check
our on-line store, 1DANDY1 for the DVD.  It is listed at a special low
price starting August 15 until the end of the month or until sold out!

WHAT you typed last month to get to the Dandy Don Logan site ….
"louise alley shreveport""dandy don odessa tx""daneta bardsley"
"dina merril" "exit on 1-20 for louisiana downs" "mechanical license
for a dvd" "shreveport progressive mens club”  "disc jockey sonny
harville" "sons of confederate veterans oklahoma division"

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON - JULY 2011
It is H O T  here in Louisiana and we need rain.  However, I learned long
ago that if you don’t like Shreveport weather, just stay around and it
will change.  My nephew Andy Logan had his home completely
destroyed in the recent Piedmont, Oklahoma tornado.  The Piedmont
Chamber of Commerce has set up a fund for Andy and others who
were affected by this disaster.

I would like to share the following e-mail with you.
"David" <jtr4ever@talktalk.net>
To:
don@dandydonlogan.com
Dear Don:
Someone sent me the enclosed link. I have been a country music fan for over 50
years with a special interest in the music & career of Jim Reeves. I had no idea
who was on the photo with Jim, but after examining the other 31 pics, and a little
research & detective work, I found out the other 3 were Lawton Williams, Carl
Story & Martha Lawson. Then I found out that the show was the "Cowtown
Hoedown".
Needless to say that has opened up a new field of research for me. Sure I knew a
fair amount about the Big D, a lot more about the Louisiana Hayride, but I'm
ashamed to say, I had never heard of the Cowtown Hoedown. However, after a
morning with Google, I have learned a lot about the show - and that includes being
introduced to your good self!!! What a great website!! Oh how I wish I'd learned
about it earlier. So much for me to take in about the country music scene of my
favourite time & place.
I have well over 100 books on country music in my library, but little or nothing
historically about where it all began in your part of the woods. How come you
didn't put all those fabulous memories & reminiscenses in your own book. I
wanted to copy them for my files, but didn't have enough ink to print the 40 plus
pages!
Maybe you haven't seen all the photos on the link. Have a look at picture 10. I
have a feeling the lady might be your wife. What I would really like to know is the
year of the Reeves picture. Someone has scribed over the autograph & writing. I
don't think it's 1960. I always thought Jim had given up the Nudie suits well before
1960. There is some faint writing at the bottom of the photo which says "Hoedown
1959" - perhaps that is more accurate. Maybe you can help me.
Anyhow, I'd better be pressing on. You've left me with lots to read and think about.
Thanks for giving me so much pleasure.
Sincerely
David Bussey England (age 68)

Back across the pool here locally, Sonny Harville has been doing some
more recording.  He has been in  some form of entertainment all of his
life.  Musician, fiddler, radio show host, MC on the revival of the
Louisiana Hayride when it moved to Benton Road and session
musician and arranger on many recording sessions. Joe Leach of Joe
and Martha has had some health problems of late but now looking
forward to doing some recording sessions.  Sonny Trammel ,a steel
man on the old Louisiana Hayride has also been laying down some
tracks recently.

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING!
Peter Faulk, the man in the crumpled raincoat known on TV as
Colombo is gone.  In these  later years, he was unable to recall the role
that made him so famous. TV’s ALL MY CHILDREN airs the final
episode on ABC on September 23, 2011.  The show began more than
41 years ago.  There are plans to continue it on your I phone, etc:  Well
known DJ Linwood “Cuzzin’ Linnie” Henderson flipped the microphone
switch off for the final time.  Clarence Clemons, 69,  musician and
actor   He played saxophone with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.  
Leonard Stern, 87, TV writer and producer who is remembered for his
work on Get Smart, The Honeymooners, The Phil Silvers Show and
McMillan & Wife.  Andrew Gold,  composer whose songs included
Thank You For Being A Friend, the theme to the long-running sitcom
Golden Girls.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
license for cabriolet music song - sam’s town casino - don logan -
Shreveport american legion club - did werly fairburn ever record for
paula - film by Goodman - dandy don - sansone’s supper club - films
made in Shreveport - cabriolet music - beer in hell - Shreveport bass
man who died - 1dandy1 - name of kwkh dj -  stan record shop -
cowtown hoedown - autry inman - bossier city radio - don logan online
store - picture of mary logan - books on stan lewis - carl logan on
cowtown hoedown label - elvis osborn - frank page -

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON - JUNE 2011
LAST month was a hectic one for the extended Logan
family.  My brother’s son, ANDY LOGAN’s house and
equipment were totally destroyed by the Piedmont,
Oklahoma tornado.  He, his children, mother and a couple
of neighbors were in his storm shelter when the funnel
came across his land.  No one was injured. The following
link will take you to the newspaper story on Andy.
http://www.piedmonttoday.com/city/fire-chief-loses-house-
in-storm-feels-blessed-to-be-alive/
Years ago my daughter Penny and son Donnie were
victimized by mother nature in much the same way.  As a
kid I saw a twister in Kansas while crossing the state on our
move  to Minnesota.

For local actors who worked in the Jessica Simpson movie
Blonde Ambition, I have the DVD available at my 1DANDY1
on-line store in case you want to preserve your work.  Just
click it to get it through Amazon.com and 1dandy1.  

One of the longest lasting teams in radio history ended  on
Friday, May 6, 2011 when Imus In The Morning news anchor
and sidekick Charles McCord officially hit the off switch on
his Imus microphone for the last time.  McCord and Don
Imus had been together as a team since the early 70s
beginning at WNBC, AM 660, in New York City.

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING!
Jackie Cooper , the child star in movies or on TV as a kid
all the way up to a grown adult  passes away on Tuesday,
May 3, 2011 in a Beverly Hills, CA hospital.  He made his film
debut at 3 in the Lloyd Hamilton film shorts. Hal Roach
signed Jackie as the new tough kid in the Our Gang movie
series, also known to  fans as The Little Rascals. In early
1931, at 9, he leaves Our Gang to star in the film Skippy
where he receives an Academy Award nomination for Best
Actor.  As a character actor he works alongside  movie
greats  Jackie Coogan, Judy Garland, Wallace Beery, Henry
Fonda and Mickey Rooney. In later years, he becomes VP of
program development at Columbia Pictures' Screen Gems
division. As a  director, he wins two Emmy Awards for
M*A*S*H* and The White Shadow. In the late 1970s and
early 1980s, Jackie Cooper was seen as Perry White in four
Superman movies and in 1989, he retired. James Arness,
88,  best known for his starring role as Marshal Matt Dillon
in the long-running Gunsmoke TV series. The brother of
actor Peter Graves,  he also appeared in sci-fi films The
Thing from Another World and Them!, and How the West
Was Won.  Benny Spellman, 79, the R&B singer whose hits
included the original version of Fortune Teller, which was
later covered by the Rolling Stones.  Clarice Taylor, 93,  
best known for playing the mother of Bill Cosby's character
in The Cosby Show. She also had a recurring role on
Sesame Street.  Jeff Conaway, 60,  the actor who starred in
the film Grease and the TV series Taxi and Babylon 5.  
Joseph Brooks, 73, the songwriter of You Light Up My Life,
of suicide following allegations against him of sexual
assault.  "Macho Man" Randy Savage, 58, the wrestler born
Randall Mario Poffo, in a car accident following a suspected
heart attack.  Harmon Killebrew, 74, the baseball player
who was with the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins,
and Kansas City Royals.  Arthur Laurents, 93, a playwright
and screenwriter who wrote the "books" for the musicals
West Side Story and Gypsy, as well as the films Rope and
The Way We Were.  Sada Thompson, 83,  stage and screen
actress whose television roles included matriarch Kate
Lawrence in the 1970s series Family.  Yvette Vickers, 82,
the actress and former Playboy model, who was best known
for her film, Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman.  David Mason,
85, British classical musician best known for playing
trumpet on the Beatles' hit Penny Lane. He also was a side
musician  on A Day in the Life, Magical Mystery Tour and
All You Need Is Love.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"dandy don” “beyond a reasonable doubt” “hell yes I
cheated on you” “mark shreveport"   “stan lewis jewel"
“sons of confederate vets“"bmi mechanical” "sonny
hayride” “radio show band“ “majestic theater”  "earl
hearn” "frank page ” “song from dry prong” “vito” "taylors
inn” "sleepy brown” "leona Williams” “don logan” "ode to a
wig” "dandydonlogancom" "deathsdry prong” “melba lou
fitzwater white” “jerry kennedy”  

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON - MAY 2011
Osama bin Laden is DEAD.   I could not help but feel good
about this heathen killer being taken out.  9-11 was a
terrible awakening for most of us and if you are like me,
you now feel some closure and relief.  This event is what
will be remembered by historians about the current
president.
In entertainment, CHARLIE SHEEN has been very much in
the news here of late.  The popular Two and One-Half Men
is one of my FEW network favorites.  Charlie, with his
behavior as it is, has caught the brunt of much criticism
because of what has happened.  WE don’t know what
happened, but I do know that Sheen is a very good actor
and the show’s success was ensured with him on the
ticket.  In the meantime we got to like Jon Cryer and
watched Angus GROW UP, so there is a lot to the show,
even without Charlie.  The show has gone down just about
every social street and boulevard there are, so the reason
Sheen is gone could be that somebody wanted to take the
show in a NEW direction.  We’ll have to wait and see on
that.  Networks are famous for sticking some actor in a hit
show and ruining it!

Huey Meaux, the record producer has left the building.  My
former boss Stan Lewis knew him well and Huey often
sought Stan’s help in music matters.  During the down time
in Meaux’s career, he made a deal with  Stan to put out our
first album on MICKEY GILLEY.  Mickey was a regional
favorite at that time.  Huey already had the album  ready to
release, so getting it out was easy for us at Paula Record
company to do.  Gilley then signed a contract with us and
we got him one of his first nationally charted records.

Katie Couric will be gone from the CBS anchor chair after
years of promotion and publicity.  Her not so famous
interview with Sarah Palin left me with a bad taste in my
mouth as a former media person, when it was apparent she
was out for blood in the same manner Connie Chung dug
into Newt Gingrich’s mother back in the 90s.  Couric’s
earlier remarks at the Republican Convention when Palin
was made the VP contender of  The Governor of Arkansas
and breast-feeding mama was not REAL news and certainly
not civil.  Scott Pelley will take over the anchor seat.

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING!
Huey P. Meaux, record producer of Freddie Fender and
nationally known  music figure.  Phoebe Snow, 60, a singer-
songwriter best known for her 1975 hit Poetry Man.  The
big microphone was turned off for Nashville's first shock
jock Coyote McCloud.   Michael Sarrazin, 69, Canadian
actor, born Jacques Michel André Sarrazin, best known for
his role opposite Jane Fonda in They Shoot Horses Don't
They?   Sol Saks, 100,  television and films scriptwriter best
known for creating the 1960s TV series Bewitched.  Arthur
Marx, 89,  television sitcom writer, biography author and
tennis player, the son of comedian Groucho Marx.  Sidney
Lumet, 86, US director whose films included 12 Angry Men,
Dog Day Afternoon, Network and The Verdict.  Mel
McDaniel, 68,  country music star whose hits included
Baby's Got Her Blue Jeans On, I Call It Love and a remake
of Chuck Berry's Let It Roll (Let It Rock).  Geraldine Ferraro,
75, former Democratic party member of Congress who
became the first woman to run for vice president of the US.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
“1dandy1” “beyond a reasonable doubt”   “harley” “dry
prong” “jewel record”  “shreveport discjockeyj”
“shreveport book”  ”weatherman mister weather" "photos
of hayride" "larryryanradio"  “cabriolet music publishing
company bmi” “frank page"  "louisiana hayride”
“shreveport recording” “ferlin huskey” “bill bohannon”
“50s shreveport singer” "progressive men” “ode to a wig”

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON - APRIL 2011

WELCOME to the second quarter of 2011.  My great-grand-twins are
growing larger.  I still have to be told which is which, but I’ll get there.  
At a recent Monday morning Sleepy Brown meeting, Don Davis and
Sonny Harville told me that Ferlin Huskey had died.  I had Ferlin on my
DJ program in Ft. Worth, Texas years ago when he was in town to
perform on our Saturday Night stage show called the Cowtown
Hoedown.  We had Lawton Williams and Tony Douglas as our in-house
stars with a different name artist each week.  Ferlin was a very funny
man and sharp dresser.  Sonny had a remembrance of Ferlin from the
days when The Louisiana Hayride had a network show on Saturday
night. CBS threw it back to the auditorium after a break where Ferlin
was introduced, and it was Sonny’s job to do the band’s intro.  It went
off without a hitch.  According to Sonny it was one of the finest intros
he had ever done.  However, Ferlin stopped the show and the song at
that point as it was in the wrong tempo.  It came off as Husky humor
for his talent and showmanship were immense.

My good looking, college graduate, former stock broker brother Larry
Logan is on a U-Tube feature.  Someone filmed the singing of Dixie in
Montgomery some time back. Larry is a well-known  officer in the
Sons of Confederate Veterans organization.  Last year we called out
our deceased great-grandfather’s name once again at his graveside
and it gave the entire family a feeling of peaceful joy and love.  The link
to that video is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUV7m1lAKCM&sns=em

Click on it and hear a truly emotional song that anyone can  listening to
and enjoy.  This is a free country we live in.  Our veterans and
deceased veterans saw to that.

The Queen of Rockabilly,  Wanda Jackson   appeared on a recent
David Letterman show and the film Country Strong is out on DVD early
May.  Ronnie Dunn has his first solo album coming this spring.  There
is a single from it called Bleed Red.  He will do it on the Country Music
Awards on April 3rd.  Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t have to do it as an
actress, but she did, actually learning to play the guitar for the role of
Kelly Canter in her Country Strong movie.  Check out the section on
this site called November 22, 1963 which is a continually updating
article.


WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"ryan radio”"paula label" “larry w logan" "keel“ “oklahoma
city oklahoma"  "mena” “philpot”   "dandy don radio" “steel
magnolias“  “1dandy1” “beyond a reasonable doubt”  
“southern”  “harley” “dry prong drunk” “jewel recording” "
i'm happy with you" “shreveport dj” “shreveport book”
“juvenile court“  "huskey" “Shreveport event" ”
weatherman mister weather" "photos of hayride" "j0hnny
wessler"  “cabriolet music publishing company bmi”
“chelette  sisters"  "louisiana hayride” “shreveport
recording studio” “t tommy” “bill monroe” “60s shreveport
singer” "hibbing minnesota” “state of disrepair” "

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING last month??
Jane Russell, the actress died month before last.  Her name
was forever entwined with Howard Hughes as it was his
movie, The Outlaw, that brought her recognition.   Hughes
even had a special bra designed for her to bring some of
her appeal to the eye of the camera.  Russell also sang and
she and several other actresses had a top 10 hit in the 50s
with a song called Do Lord.  She starred with Marilyn
Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.   Johnny Preston the
Texas singer who scored with his one hit called  Running
Bear  in 1959, the year I came to Shreveport. I had played
the record earlier in the Dallas-Ft.Worth market!  Ferlin
Husky, a country singer and comic struck his last chord.  
He came to the attention of the public with a song called
Dear John, which was a duet with Jean Shepard.  He also
had an alter-ego named Simon Crum.  Former Hollywood
starlet Liz Taylor has left us.  She delivered many exciting
film roles, won many accolades and lived a long and full life.

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - March, 2011

The last check-up I had with my doctor brought me good
news.  Health-wise I am strong as a horse, but the good
news was that he likes being a doctor and will continue to
function as one today and tomorrow as he has in past years
in the same setting.  If you have faith in your doctor, like I
do mine, then you know the relief I felt.

Millennium Studios' new building in Shreveport, Louisiana
will be open in the very near future.  We have filmed some
very good movies in the area with Millennium doing many
of them.  What we need is a box-office blockbuster to really
get the door fully open.

The economy as it is, finds many states, including
Louisiana. trying to balance their budgets.  As states and
towns and hopefully the U.S. Government try to spend less,
it only makes sense that the studios will have to drop some
projects or trim budgets somehow.  I hope this area
continues to be able to keep the movie industry active and
growing.

For local actors who worked in the Jessica Simpson movie
Blonde Ambition, I have the DVD available at my 1DANDY1
on-line store in case you want to preserve your work.  Just
click it to get it through Amazon.com and 1dandy1.  My little
store has grown immensely this year.

Wanda Jackson has a NEW  CD out that will be available at
this site soon.  It is being shipped as I write this and
sometime between now and next month I will be adding a
section to this site called November 22, 1963 which will be
a continually updating article.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"don rondo” “larry w logan" "frank page+kwkh“ “shady
point oklahoma"  "klkl 957 shreveport larry ryan” “paula
records” “webster parish”  "dandy don radio" “stan the
record man“  “1dandy1” “beer in hell”  “southern cross”  
“sansones” “claudeking” “civil war” " i'm american i'm
cajun and i'm proud" “shreveport dj” “shreveport mayor”
“harley to heaven“  "leslie nielsen" “Shreveport ”jewel
records” "mister weather" "photos of carl belew" "jason
carr"  “cabriolet music” “bragga sisters"  "louisiana
hayride” “shreveport recording studio” “groovy joe” “bill
bush” “60s shreveport music” west virginia” “state of
louisiana” "

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING last month??
Len Lesser, a  character actor who played Uncle Leo in Seinfeld. He
also had roles in the films Kelly's Heroes and The Outlaw Josey Wales,
and appeared on the Everybody Loves Raymond TV sitcom.  George
Shearing, American jazz pianist and composer who had charting
records here in the United States spanning four decades fingered his
last chord.  His instrumentals on vinyl made programming a MOR
(Middle Of The Road) Radio Show easy.  Betty Garrett,  stage and
screen actress who starred in the films Take Me Out to the Ball Game
and On the Town.  She also  appeared in All in The Family and Laverne
and Shirley TV sitcoms  . She was married to  Larry Parks.  Gary
Moore, a  northern Irish guitarist who played with Thin Lizzy and
afterwards had a successful solo career. He was found with no pulse
in a Spanish hotel room.  Peggy Rea, a  stage and screen character
actress seen on many TV series including The Red Skelton Show, The
Waltons, Grace Under Fire and The Dukes of Hazzard where,
according to Jim Rose, she played the wife of Boss Hogg.  Maria
Schneider, a French actress who starred alongside Marlon Brando in
Last Tango in Paris.  After her film work she led a very troubled life
that ended on February 3, 2010.  David Frye,  a  comedian who gained
fame in the 1960s and 70s impersonating celebrities and political
figures, including Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.  He once
appeared at a Bill Gavin convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Don Rondo (Rondeaux) who made many records for the Jubilee and
other recording labels.  His biggest year was 1956 and in the summer
of 1957 I wore out his recording of White Silver Sand.  He had retired
from music and was a businessman.  Jane Russell who seared the
silver screen in a black and white blockbuster called THE OUTLAW left
the building.


FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - February, 2011

Well Hot Diggey Do!  I am a great-grandfather again!  
This time there were two little bundles, Harper and
Gracie, who are now home with my grand-son and
his wife. WOW is about all I can say.  I look forward to
seeing these two girls make their way through life.

Gwyneth Paltrow‘s new movie Country Strong is
out.  She appeared recently  on a TV  awards show
and knocked me away.  She actually sang (not lip-
synched) a song from the movie.

At my 1DANDY1 on-line store, our best selling
Louisiana filmed DVD is I Hope They Serve Beer In
Hell replacing Steel Magnolias.  A young actress
named Amber Tamblyn really played her part well in
another Louisiana filmed  movie Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt which stars Michael Douglas,
who is now cancer free.  This film  keeps you
guessing till the end. I did extra parts in both these
movies.

CD sales continue to dwindle, however DVD sales
are perking along, but you will notice that Hollywood
Video is out of business and big retailers like Target,
Best Buy, K-Mart and Wal-Mart are stocking smaller
inventories.  My how things have changed since Mr.
Edison made that first acoustic record player.
Incidently,one of my favorite female singers when I
did a country DJ gig at KCUL in Ft. Worth, Texas was
Wanda Jackson and Wanda has a new CD out this
month.    Sometime between now and next month I
will be adding a section to this site called November
22, 1963

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"local shreveport la radio ”  “1dandy1” “beer in hell”  
“southern cross”  “sansones” “claudeking” “civil war” " i'm
american i'm cajun and i'm proud" “shreveport dj”
“shreveport mayor” “harley to heaven“  "leslie nielsen"
“Shreveport ”jewel records” "mister weather" "photos of
carl belew" "jason carr"  “cabriolet music” “bragga
sisters" "stan the record man review"  "don davis"
"louisiana hayride” "

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING last month??
The fitness expert Jack LaLanne is gone.  The former star
of a network TV show,  exercised to the end!  Charlie
Louvin, one-half of the dynamic country due the Louvin
Brothers hung up his martin guitar.  His brother Ira Louvin
died in 1965 and most thought that would be the end of
Charlie’s career also.  But not so.  Charlie Louvin  
continued to record and had many charted songs as a solo
artist.  Gladys Horton, a singer who formed the girl soul
group The Marvelettes left.  Their  Please Mr Postman was
the first Motown hit.  Many old DJ's like me will remember
the name Don Kirshner.  He was a music publisher and
producer best known for launching The Monkees and The
Archies. .The last remaining member of the original Ozzie
and Harriet family, David Nelson, who played himself on the
popular TV show in the 1950s and '60s left the building.  He
was an actor and singer Ricky Nelson's older brother.  
Ricky died several years ago near here in a plane crash on
his way to a New Year’s performance in Dallas. Margaret
Whiting, a pop and country singer who rose to fame in the
1940s and 1950s. Her hits included That Old Black Magic, A
Tree in the Meadow and Baby, It's Cold Outside. Cowboy
movie star Jimmie Wakely joined her on the very popular
Slippin’ Around.  Also gone is Gerry Rafferty, a Scottish
singer-songwriter best known for Stuck in the Middle With
You, with Stealers Wheel.

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - January, 2011
2010 was a rough year.  Just about all of us including  
businesses large and small felt the circumstance of the
time.  Thanks to a loyal base of supporters and customers
our on-line store, 1DANDY1 survived.  But with that aside,
let me wish you a Happy New Year and maybe we can start
to turn things around this year.  However, realistically, we
won’t be able to do that until after the elections of 2012.
Incidentally, one of my best selling DVDs at the store is I
Hope They Serve Beer In Hell which is becoming a cult film
for the young and  was filmed in Louisiana and I am visually
in it, playing the part of the grand-father on the bride,
whose mother, my daughter, does not like the groom one
bit.  Megan Fay is the mom of the bride.  Some describe the
movie as nasty and borderline obscene, so I hope my grand-
children don’t condemn me for being in it.

Last month, this site received many hits on Louise Alley,
Larry Ryan, Frank Page, Sonrose Rutledge, Gene Kent and
Doug Davidson.  Louise is the longest running media
person on the air at KOKA, 980 am on Saturday mornings
as I listened to her on the way to a gig around 9AM on a
recent Saturday morning.  Larry does a show on the FM
Oldies station with Mr. Weather, Ralph Montgomery and Al
LeGrand every week-day morning and I ran into Ralph
when we were filming the Michael Douglas movie at the
Bossier Parish Court House. Mr. Weather was holstered, so
I chose my words carefully.  Frank Page has retired from
KWKH, wrote a book and is living the life of ease while
Sonrose is now Rev. Sonrose Rutledge, working for the
biggest boss of all.  Doug may still be doing some part time
radio but his main attention is to his Country Treasures
store in Blanchard.  I don’t know about Gene Kent.  Joe
Stampley told me Gene came to a Uniques Reunion show
over in Mississippi several years back to say hello.  When I
left  radio, I  become a vice-president at Paula Records and
in 1990 went with the State of Louisiana where I retired.

Gwyneth Paltrow, the actress who has done many movies,
appeared on a recent awards show and knocked me away.  
Actually singing (not lip-synching) a song from a
forthcoming movie of hers.  Year before-last, Crazy Heart
with Jeff Bridges was very successful and Gwyneth’s new
move is of the same genre.

There was a rumor last month that I had died.  Folks, that
rumor is UNTRUE.  When I first came to Louisiana there was
a young man named Don Meredith, from Mount Vernon,
Texas which was in my listening area, on his way to
becoming  a star quarterback for the early Dallas
Cowboys.  The guys at KLIF news tagged him with the
moniker Dandy Don.  Later he was the folksy charm of
Monday Night Football on ABC.  One of his broadcast
crutches was the singing of Willie Nelson’s “Turn Out The
Lights, The Party’s Over” when one of the teams got so far
behind, they could not possibly win.  He also was an actor,
appearing on several TV series’ and the movies.  For Don
Meredith, the Party Is Over.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"local shreveport la radio gay papa”  “1dandy1” “beer in
hell” “Blanchard pa” “southern cross” “garth brooks”
“mount airy nc” “shirley nelson” “sansones” “claudeking”
“civil war” " i'm american i'm cajun and i'm proud"
“shreveport dj griff roberts” “shreveport mayor” “harley to
heaven“ “branson””Richard m gano photo” “shreveport
movies” “krmd” "oldies" "cabriolet" “dale earnhart” “”
pappy Covington“ "drunk as a skunk over in dry prong" "b
b davis" "wasila  alaska" "cabriolet music" "leslie nielsen"
“Shreveport radio history”jewel records”  “john philpot”
“mr+stan“ "photos of carl belew" “bill mack” "dawn
landrum photos” “cabriolet music” “sinatra miami“ “heidi“
“bragga sisters louisiana hayride”
WHO LEFT THE BUILDING LAST MONTH ..      Don Meridith,
former quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys, actor and
Monday Night Football announcer. Fred Foy the announcer
for the Lone Ranger TV series.  Captain Beefheart, born Don
Van Vliet, leader of the Magic Band and collaborator with
Frank Zappa.  The deadpan detective on the Barney Miller
TV series Steve Landesberg left the building. Blake Edwards,
the director of the Pink Panther movie series and the classic
Breakfast At Tiffany’s died at 88.  He and Julie Andrews had
a long-time marriage.   Jazz saxophonist  James Moody
cased his sax for the last time and Ron Santo, Chicago Cubs
legend and radio announcer turned off his microphone.  Big
John Voit, country singer and musician.  Hollywood’s FIRST
child star, Baby Marie Osborne, who made and lost a
fortune before she was a teenager, thanks to her adoptive
parents, died at 99.  Lina Romay, who sang with the Xavier
Cugat Orchestra in the 40s and was also a film and TV actress
departed.  At one time she was also a horse race-track
announcer.
WHO LEFT THE BUILDING??

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - December, 2010
I HOPE everyone had a happy and blessed Thanksgiving last month.  
Once again, this year went by like a song.  You barely get warmed up
and it’s over.  I am optimistic that things will get  better next year
and 2012 will solidify who we are and where we are going.  Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.

The success of our on-line store, 1DANDY1 continues and we will
enlarge and improve it next year.  Our release of my new CD, Song
About Dry Prong, has been well received and I still write new songs
almost daily.  It’s been two years since I did my last movie part, so I
think that part of my late-in-life endeavors has culminated.  The DVD
of I Hope They Sell Beer In Hell has been one of our best sellers.

We have lost several members of the Sleepy Brown group over the
year and we miss them, but we continue to meet and celebrate our
love for country music.

From Email to this site - Loren Knapp  loren.knapp@gmail.com  asks
= Are any of Slim Whitman's Starduster Band Members still living
other than Harold Bradley? I mean from the early days at the
hayride? And Randy Ballard  n5wv@comcast.net comments:  I dont
have the time right now to research your wonderful site on local
radio. I was raised in Benton in the 60 's and it was KEEL for me and
KJOE for the parents. When we moved to Bossier in the 70's FM
stereo was getting popular and it was Gene Kent "The Burner" for
me. Does anyone know the latest on Gene Kent ? Randy Ballard "The
last man ever to buy a drink before the bar closed forever at my old
home away from home , Sak's Whisk A Go Go " Hwy 80 E in Bossier
City La. "The Neon Spectacular" !!!!!

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE last month!
"local shreveport la radio personality mrs louise alley" “1dandy1”
“Sinatra” “civic center” “Wister Oklahoma high school”
“ritareynoldsmontgomeryacademy” “southern cross” Shirley ny”
“sansones” “idreamed a dream” “civil war” "jimmy c newman i'm
american i'm cajun and i'm proud" “storyteller” shreveport dj chuck”
“branson” “keel fm” “jack Timmons” "suzie and larry ryan
shreveport" "mech means" “al hart” "shreveport stabbing 2002 nick
benson" "sonrose rutledge" "don logan fairbanks alaska" "cabriolet
music" "34-05847"  “steamboat springs“ "photos of danny wilder
shreveport on-line" “bill mack starday 45”

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING??
Just as a NEW Hawaii 5-0 series zooms on the air,  James MacArthur,
72, the actor who starred as Danny "Danno" Williams in the original
detective series Hawaii-Five-O checked out.  George Hickenlooper,
47, US filmmaker, left the theatre on the eve of the premiere of his
new film, Casino Jack.   Charlie O'Donnell, 78,  television announcer  
for a long-running stint on Wheel of Fortune and earlier, American
Bandstand.   Jill Clayburgh, 66.  stage and screen actress, played her
last scene.  Some her best known  films included Semi-Tough, I'm
Dancing As Fast As I Can and An Unmarried Woman.  Leslie Nielsen,
84, who revived his career in later years through spoof films including
Airplane! (Flying HIgh!) and The Naked Gun series. His earlier films
included Forbidden Planet, Spy Hard, Superhero Movie, Dracula:
Dead and Loving It and The Poseidon Adventure.  From a radio
background, Jean Byrd  worked for 47 years with the local NBC
Affiliate, KTAL-TV, was another victim of cancer

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON ...  November  2010
LEAVES OF GRASS, a  film that I worked in, was shown last month at
the Robinson Film Center.  It is available on Pay-Per-View and the
DVD is due out soon.   My latest CD called Song About Dry Prong is
getting some favorable comment.   However, no single song is
standing out at the present.  The CD is available from this web-site.  I
also have fresh stock on the DVD movies Ruffian, I Hope They Serve
Beer In Hell  and Blonde Ambition which were filmed in Louisiana  on
the 1DANDY1  pages.

Musician members of the Sleepy Brown group were filmed by
NXNWLA, a firm that will be opening a museum soon in downtown
Shreveport.  They recently inducted Stan Lewis, B.B. Davis, Jerry
Beach, Tillman Franks, Larry Ryan, and others into their Hall of
Fame.  This is the month of the bird .. The bird .. The birdy, bird, bird
to borrow the lyrics from one of those old top 40 tunes that didn’t
make a lot of sense, but Happy Thanksgiving anyway!

WHO Left The Building ????
Stephen J. Cannell, 69, US television producer and writer, and
novelist, whose creations included The Rockford Files, Adam-12,  The
A-Team, Wiseguy, Castle and 21 Jump Street.  Tony Curtis, 85,
Hollywood legend  known for his roles in Some Like It Hot, The
Defiant Ones, The Boston Strangler, Houdini, and Operation Petticoat
with Dina Merrill. His wives included stars Janet Leigh, mother of
their daughter Jamie Lee Curtis.  Buddy Morrow, a trombonist  who
shared the stage with everyone from Tommy Dorsey to Johnny
Carson, left at 91. Morrow played in the Paul Whiteman orchestra,  
Bob Crosby Bobcats, the Artie Shaw Orchestra,  the Tommy Dorsey
Orchestra, and later joined Jimmy Dorsey's band.  In 1950, he formed
his own orchestra, scoring hits with "Rose, Rose, I Love You," "Night
Train," "One Mint Julep" and "Hey Mrs. Jones." In the '60s and '70s,
Morrow did mostly session work and performed  regularly on The
Tonight Show. In 1977, Morrow took over the Tommy Dorsey
Orchestra, and fronted the TD band until the day he died,  working
from a wheelchair on stage with the band just three days before he
passed on.  Barbara Billingsly who played Beaver’s mom on the
1950s Leave It To Beaver TV series took her last cue.  Her last film
was the comedy Airplane - flying high!   Tom Bosley who played  Mr.
C  on TV’s HAPPY DAYS succumbed to lung cancer. He debuted on
screen in  Love with a Proper Stranger with  Natalie Wood and Steve
McQueen. Tom co-starred  with Angela Lansbury in the TV series
Murder She Wrote and  later stared in his own series,  Father
Dowling Mysteries. Retired local TV broadcaster Wray Post left and
there is an empty chair around the Sleepy Brown coffee club table
with the passing of W.T. Eason.
.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE LAST MONTH…
Emily’s garden - 1dandy1 - louisiana hayride parsippany nj - dandy
don - earl choat red Cadillac - wolfman jack furniture - don logan -
gainesville ga - cabriolet song - louisiana hayride 14 walsh drive -
lightnin hopkins ace modern - melody logan - red Cadillac - stan the
record man - felton Pruitt - mothers best - cabriolet music - seattle
wa - cal discs - crazy heart - 1dandy1 - "keel radio history" “ruffian
movie dvd“ "al hart" "micheal douglas losing battle with cancer"""
boggy creek monster legend"

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON ... October 2010
A gold-mine-find of Hank Williams masters that were retrieved from
the trash during a 1960 radio station move  will result in the release
of 143 unreleased recordings over the next three years.  Songs from
transcriptions for the “Mother’s Best Flour” radio programs that
were recorded to be played when Hank was out of town on tour will
now be released in various packages.  Time-Life, after lengthy legal
wrangling, will release the  first set on October 28, 2010.  Hank Sr.
hosted this program on WSM in 1951, two years before he died.  The
historical value of these masters is great  because they have not
been  enhanced or “fooled around” with and he sang the songs the
way he felt the song in 1951.  I am told the fidelity of these recordings
is great!

Radio, the field that made a lot of money for me in the 50’s and 60’s
is having a hard time during these difficult times.  The Walt Disney
Corporation let 4 more of their stations go dark (off the air) this past
month until a buyer can be found.  They are downsizing their medium
and small-market frequencies.  Margaret Green, a niece of the late
DJ/Singer Marvin McCoullough, who worked the Alabama-Oklahoma-
Arkansas regions, is interested in stories, information or any of
Marvin’s Capitol records.  Contact her at benngreen@windstream.
net .

WHO Left The Building ????
Cammie King Conlon, US child actor who played Bonnie Blue, the
daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, in the 1939 epic Gone
With the Wind. Her only other Hollywood contribution was voicing a
character in Bambi, in 1942.  KEVIN McCARTHY in the 1956 movie
Invasion of the Body Snatchers became a cult hero.  In later years he
toured with the one-man show GIVE ‘EM HELL, HARRY, portraying
President Truman.  HAROLD GOULD played Valerie Harper’s father
on TV’s RHODA, a con man in the movie THE STING, and  BETTY
WHITE’s boyfriend on the GOLDEN GIRLS.  EDDIE FISHER, U.S.  Pop
singer who was once America’s top-teen idol,  hosting and starring on
the very popular Coke Time TV series. At the peak of his career he
married actress/ singer Debbie Reynolds . Together, they became
America's sweethearts.  Then in 1959, the world was shocked by his
marriage to movie star Elizabeth Taylor.  Next, TV actress Connie
Stevens of  TV's Hawaiian Eye became his bride. His movie roles
included All About Eve, Bundle of Joy [with wife Debbie]  and
Butterfield 8 [with wife Elizabeth].  In 1950. he has his first hit tune,
Thinking of You. He follows that with Any Time, Oh My Pa-pa, I'm
Yours, Wish You Were Here, I Need You Now and Lady of Spain.  He
leaves three daughters, Carrie Fisher (Princess Leila in STAR WARS),
singer Tricia Leigh Fisher and actress Joely Fisher.  US professional
football player George Blanda,  who played a record 26 seasons and
was the game's highest scorer at the time of his retirement shortly
before his 49th birthday.  He was both a kicker and back-up
quarterback. The US film star who gave up acting for 30 years before
a comeback that included an Oscar-nominated role in the blockbuster
TITANIC, Gloria Stuart, died at 100. Her earlier films included The
Invisible Man, Busby Berkeley's Gold Diggers of 1935 and Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE LAST MONTH…  Stevens point, wi -
Emily’s garden - 1dandy1 - dandy don turn out the lights - Jackson, ga - wolfman-
dale hawkins - missteenshreveport - Moreno valley, ca -  stan lewis -  lady of my
dreams - vanosdale - "frank page+kwkh" - Tonawanda - dandydonhills Australia
- Wsm Nashville - Ryan radio - "paula zickafoose wv" - "cabriolet music"  
"marvin mccullough wichita falls" - "lesa mcgaha in webster parish" - "dandy
don logan" - stan lewis jewel - "mechanical license” - "pappy covington bio" -
"johnny cash audio melody mill ballroom 1979" - "earl hearon country band” -  

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON .....September  2010.
Seems like yesterday we were sweating out the arrival of the year
2000 and whether Y2K would crash all of our computers. And here it
is, the last quarter of  2010 just around the corner.  My niece, Amy
Logan is now Mrs. Craig Parrish with a lavish wedding at last month’s
end.  The weather on St. Thomas slightly delayed the honeymoon.

YES….movies are still being made here in Shreveport with many big
names coming in and out of the city.  The dvd on Leaves Of Grass, a
TV film that I worked in, is scheduled for release in October.  JOHN
PHILPOT, former local media person, farm director for KTAL TV and
KEEL radio, has a  new soft back book out that is very interesting to
read.  He is a musician and storyteller and has  written a book about
his life, including time spent in a Muslim nation, doing a public TV
show and other interesting things.  Good reading available from this
site.

STAN LEWIS is back in Shreveport after a trip to New York to
participate in an upcoming BBC documentary on the late LEONARD
CHESS, the owner of Chess Records of Chicago.  Stan was a personal
friend and has many  recollections and remembrances going back to
the early days.  And speaking of Stan, who owned the local Paula
Record label, I also heard from KENNY WAYNE who made some
records for us when I was a VP at Paula Records.  He is working out
of Nevada now.

I want to thank everyone who turned out for the 90th birthday of
mother at the First Methodist Church.  The friends, the family, church
members, my children, my brother Larry’s children, all the great-
grand-children and great-great-grandchild are loved and
appreciated.  There WILL be pictures in the ROOTS section.

WHO Left The Building ????
Bobby Hebb, singer-songwriter who wrote and sang the hit
tune Sunny in 1966.  The song was covered by many top
artists and is one of the most programmed ever.  Patricia
Neal,  84 at her home on Martha's Vineyard.  Patricia won
an Academy Award for her role as a housekeeper in the 1963
movie HUD.  She will be forever remembered as suffering a
series of strokes and fighting to regain her abilities to walk
and talk.  George Richey, songwriter, producer, publisher
and manager is gone at 74.  George is the husband of the
late Country Music Hall of Fame singer Tammy Wynette.  A J
Tuminello, 82, after a battle with cancer. He played on Susie-
Q that was recorded in the studios of KWKH and became a
rock and roll recording of historic nature.  Dale Hawkins,
James Burton, A.J. and Ronnie Lewis played that session.
David Weiss, a songwriter, who composed Can’t Help
Falling In Love With You and What A Wonderful World has
written down his last note.  And finally, former local
broadcaster, Faye Fisher of KOKA left the building.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE LAST MONTH…  rio. wv - papa -
unique - marvin McCullough - sonny harville - fant - ryan
radio - roy acuff band member sunny - dry prong song -
parade of stars -

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - August 2010
This is a big event month for the Logan Family.  My brother LARRY
LOGAN of Oklahoma City celebrates a birthday and my niece, AMY
LOGAN will marry CRAIG PARRISH.  
STAN LEWIS is back in Shreveport after a trip to New York to
participate in an upcoming BBC documentary on the late LEONARD
CHESS, the owner of Chess Records of Chicago.  Stan was a personal
friend and has many  recollections and remembrances going back to
the early days.  There is a movie out called CADILLAC RECORDS here
in the states that  dealt with the record label, however Stan points
out that there was a lot of Hollywood make-believe worked into it.
While in New York, Stan visited with Marshall Chess and Richie
Salvador.

I want to thank everyone who turned out for the 90th birthday of
mother in Poteau, Oklahoma at the First Methodist Church.  The
friends, the family, church members, my children, my brother Larry’s
children, all the great-grand-children and great-great-grandchild are
loved and appreciated.  There are pictures in the ROOTS section.

Finally, I want to share this EMAIL from Alan Jennings -

Strange isn’t it, how this Internet makes the past come alive?  Recently an
episode of American Idol featured songs of the Rolling Stones. How could I not
recall the promotion of the Stones visit to Louisiana and the newsletter you paid
for that promoted the fan club, the Stones, and the local girl who was the
president of the Shreveport chapter of the Stones’ fan club?
It all came rushing back. I think her name was Jerri. But that’s not important.
What’s important is that it took me back to the days when I was the president of
your fan club. Whether I was really your biggest fan or not was probably one for
someone else to decide. But for me, I sure was!
That newsletter – The DANDY-GRAM - was printed on canary-colored legal stock.
Landscape front and back, folded as a booklet. You had tons sent to me at the
hotel. I posted or passed out all of them. I did it all for a little attention from the
most important personality in the Ark-La-Tex: Dandy Don Logan! Mornings were
better than evenings for me. Even though I did fall asleep only after hearing
Larry Ryan sign-off with a Paul Lynde  sound-byte “Bobby! Don’t wait up for
Mother!”  (What ever became of Larry. He was 7-12 evenings, right?) except for
the time he rode the flying saucer down Market street. I perched on top of the
Ford dealership building and acted like I was an air-traffic controller. Then, the
flying saucer came. It was about the size of a go-cart and it hovered about 10
inches off the ground, towed by a brand-new pick-up, which was the real star of
the parade.  Anyway, the moments fade. But it all distills down to a smile on my
face right now because you were so kind to me, and empowering.
Dad died in 1975. The Washington-Youree Hotel was not far behind. Maybe even
ahead of him. I forget.  My sister CARLEEN, who was a locally appreciated
singer/guitarist, lives a mile or so down the road from the Carter Fold outside
Hilton Virginia. My MOM continues to enjoy her life in Shreveport, staying busier
than any octogenarian-plus that I know.
As for me, I’m a writer. No songs, though, except the ones I hum to myself.
Thanks, Don, for your example of how to treat people. All my best to you and
yours.
--  Alan Jennings, President Dandy Don Logan Fan Club  1964 -1966
Currently living in Baton Rouge, though neither busted flat nor waiting for a train.

WHAT you typed to get here last month ..
pictures of majorettes -  mcalester - don logan las vegas -
sonny harville "sansone's restaurant "nicholas benson
attorney" "sherb sentell bossier city la" "nelson king and
marty roberts wcky" "cabriolet music"
WHO LEFT THE BUILDING ..
ILENE WOODS, the voice of Cinderella in Disney's animated classic.  
She was an 18-year-old radio singer in 1948 when Walt Disney
personally auditioned her for the title character's speaking and
singing parts in 1950's “Cinderella." Woods sang on the 1950’s TV
shows of Arthur Godfrey and Perry Como before retiring from show
business in the early 1970s.  MARTY OSTROW, publisher and
president of the original CASH BOX music magazine, after a long term
illness.  HARVEY FUQUA, the only surviving member of the doo-wop  
group “The MOONGLOWS” was a victim of a heart attack.  He was
also a songwriter penning the 1954 hit “SINCERELY” which was
covered by rock and roll, pop and country acts.  Hank Cochran,
country songwriter passed.  A few of his most memorable tunes -
Patsy Cline‘s  I Fall To Pieces and She's Got You; Eddy Arnold‘s Make
The World Go Away and I Want to Go With You;  Mickey Gilley‘s  
That's All That Matters and  A Way to Survive sung by Ray Price.  
Cochran and Grand Ole Opry star Jeannie Seely were husband and
wife from 1969 to 1979 and he wrote her 1966 smash record Don't
Touch Me. Percy Tolbert of the Sleepy Brown gang left a vacant chair
around our table.

From the desk of Don Logan - July 2010
Happy 4th of July.  Former local star Kix Brooks is retiring from Brooks and
Dunn.  He will remain active in the business with his many activities.
Wynonna Judd will reunite with her mother, Naomi, to tour and record a studio
album for the final time as The Judds by the end of this year.  Joe Stampley
who started out locally with a group called The Uniques, before going on to
become a major country star is highly visible on the RFD TV Network Family
Reunion promo spot that is shown quiet often.  My new album Song About Dry
Prong is out and getting mixed reviews.  Anyone who was missed, contact me.  
The gospel song by Sonny Harville that is in the CD album is being considered by
several Christian stations.  The movie business has picked up locally with many
things in the works.  The last TV movie I worked in, Leaves of Grass, will be
released in October of this year. Bruce Willis is due in Shreveport later this
month to shoot a film.

WHO left the building …RUE MCCLANAHAN Emmy-winning actress on the hit
TV series THE GOLDEN GIRLS died from a massive stroke.  She was 76 and
known to millions as Blanche Devereaux.  Australian TV hostess Adriana
Xenides   died after surgical complications.  Best remembered as the letter
turner on the down under Wheel Of Fortune.  Jimmie Dean, the sausage man,
left the building. He is best remembered for his million-selling hit Big Bad John
in 1961, but many remember Bummin’ Around. He was also in several movies.  
Pete Quaife, the British bass man who played with the KINKS died in Canada.

You’ll be saying goodbye to these network cancellations: ABC-Defying Gravity,
Eastwick, Flash Forward, Happy Town, Lost, Better Off Ted, The Deep End, The
Forgotten, Ugly Betty and Scrubs.   CBS: Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Miami
Medical, Numb3rs, Three Rivers.  Fox: 24, Dollhouse and Past Life.  NBC: Heroes,
Law & Order, Mercy and Trauma. Others: Melrose Place, The Beautiful Life: TBL,
Nip/Tuck, Raising the Bar, and Saving Grace.

WHAT you typed to get here last month ..

"tupelo indian territory" "billie jean berlin shreveport"  "larry ryan radio
shreveport" “1dandy1“ "mississippi gambler knife" "stan lewis jewel" "nelson
king wcky"  "1970 louisiana disc jockey gay papa" "0h" "dawn landrum photos”  
“sinatra miami” bragga sisters Louisiana hayride” “don logan productions"
"margaret lewis warwick" "the dandy harwich port" "cabriolet music" "odie
crabtree" "florentine supper clubshreveportla" "earl hearon country band shady
point oklahoma" "kcoz 1001 shreveport" "lesa henderson mcgaha"

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - JUNE 2010
I’d like to share one of last month’s contacts to this web-site:
Just finished your story on line... Memories, Galore!!
I was in Shreveport from '59 to '65, after Northwestern, I worked at KTAL with, as he turned out
to be, my best friend, Bud Lowry... (he was one of those short lived 'rebels' who came to
Shreveport @ KREB), was a good friend of Buddy Blake, Bob Smith, Vern Stierman, Capt. Tall
Tower (Henry Clements) and all the '60s crew in broadcasting (TV and radio). I know that
somewhere, sometime you had to know my friend, C.C. Courtney (KRMD, Shreveport, WNOE,
New Orleans....)
I just wanted to thank you for reviving so many of the nostalgic events and times. I went on to
Corpus Christi, Lafayette, LA and spent the last 26 years of my broadcasting career in Baton
Rouge, LA. Now I'm suffering life in Sandestin Beach & Golf Resort, Miramar Beach, FL.
I appreciate the time, effort and talent you spent in putting the story together..I enjoyed every
line.
All the best,
Allen McCarty
aka R.J. Phinque III on KTAL's Laf-a Lot Club
(C.C and a buddy used to ride their bikes up about every 6 weeks and visit
when he was with WNOE)

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING ..
Art Linkletter, a personality who made the transition from radio to TV and also  
author of  the book KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS,  took his final bow on May
26 in Bel Air.  He hosted TV's People Are Funny which began on radio in 1942 and
ran on TV from 1954 to 1961. His show  House Party  became  one of TV's longest-
running variety shows.    Another TV child-star is gone. Gary Coleman who played
Arnold on  Diff’rent Strokes was taken off life support by his family.   DENNIS
HOPPER, movie actor and producer, succumbed to cancer. He directed and co-
starred in 1969’s EASY RIDER with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson and back in
1955 he appeared with the unknown James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause and
also Giant.  The flashy-suited JUDY LYNN, a big country star in Vegas in the ’60s
died at 74.  She had retired from entertaining in 1980.  SLIM BRYANT, a country
songwriter died at 101 and Pat Stevens an actress and voice/over artist who
worked on the Scooby Doo productions is dead at 64. LYNN REDGRAVE,  from a  
performing family with a stage to screen legacy of her family tree is best
remembered for Girl With Green Eyes and Georgy Girl. LENA HORNE, the first
black performer signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio has
departed.  Most will remember her as a sultry jazz singer of international
fame.    Doris Eaton Travis, the last surviving Ziegfeld girl died at 106. Dave
Fisher, folk singer with The Highwaymen passed and Phyllis Douglas, who
appeared in Gone With The Wind and Star Trek died at 73. Ronnie James Dio,
who replaced Ozzy with Black Sabbath is gone at 67.

You’ll be saying goodbye to these network cancellations: ABC-Defying Gravity, Eastwick, Flash
Forward, Happy Town, Lost, Better Off Ted, The Deep End, The Forgotten, Ugly Betty and
Scrubs.   CBS: Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Miami Medical, Numb3rs, Three Rivers.  Fox: 24,
Dollhouse and Past Life.  NBC: Heroes, Law & Order, Mercy and Trauma. Others: Melrose Place,
The Beautiful Life: TBL, Nip/Tuck, Raising the Bar, and Saving Grace.

WHAT you typed to get here last month ..
"keel radio station history shreveport" "former us marshal brian joffrion" "bob logan poteau
oklahoma" "cabriolet music" "don logan sacramento california" "jeff and melinda kvki" "sherb
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cassel louisiana hayride" "arturo gonzalez nashville"

My new CD, Song About Dry Prong, is being serviced to the media.  If I missed anyone, let me
know and we’ll take care of it.  Last month my family celebrated the placing of a permanent flag
holder and the southern Cross of Honor on the grave site of my children’s great-great-
grandfather, Robert Donald Logan by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.  The family thanks those
who shared this historical family history moment.

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - MAY 2010
My new album called Song About Dry Prong is being serviced to the media.  
Sonny Harville sings a gospel song on it called Old Time Religion and I do a song
about cancer, called Reflections On A Wig.  Rascal Flatts continues to work on a
forth-coming album despite the closing of their record label, Lyric Street
Records.  The Disney Company kept a few employees to assist the group in
getting the album out in September.  Other acts and employees were cut loose
by the label.

Early May was a day of pride for the Logan family.  My brother, Larry Logan,
hosted a day of celebration at a small  cemetery in Wister, Oklahoma where a
Dedication of the southern Cross of Honor and permanent flag holder was held
at the grave site of our great-grandfather, Robert Donald Logan.  The Logan
family had donated the original land to provide a local burial place for residents
of the area, be they European or Indian.  I and my children attended.  In addition
to my brother, Rev. Larry Free, Gen. Richard Gano, Mayor Katherine Gee, Carol
Dewitt, Cmdr. David Tamplin and others participated in the program.

WHAT YOU TYPED LAST MONTH TO GET TO THIS SITE …
"beyond a reasonable doubt movie landmark shreveport"  "james pastell
louisiana" "lesa mcgaha ruston la" "stan lewis jewel" "bmi mechanical license"
"sonny hayride” “majestic theater fort worth keel" "earl hearon country band
shady point oklahoma" "1dandy1"frank page kwkh” “Louisiana speed trap” ”
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nobody's darling" "t tommy cutrer" "dandydonlogancom" "deathsdry
pronglouisiana-jones” “melba lou fitzwater white”  

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING …
John Forsythe, actor of TV’s Bachelor Father and Dynasty, where he won two
Golden Globes for his role as Blake Carrington and the never-seen voice on the
speaker-phone for the popular Charlie’s Angels series has made his last phone
call. He was 92 and died in California.  Dixie Carter, a Tennessee actress who did
soap parts and TV sit-coms including the role of Julia Sugarbaker on the hit CBS
show "Designing Women," from 1986 to 1993.  She was the wife of actor Hal
Holbrook and had also appeared on Broadway.  Early this year I failed to note
that Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, rockabilly artist, and second wife of Willie Nelson
died.  As Shirley Caddell, she was a regular on the OZARK JUBILEE.  She
performed with Bob and Johnnie Lee Wills, Eddie Arnold, Lefty Frizzell, Floyd
Tillman and made many recordings, catching the ear and heart of well-known
DJ, Biff Collie.   In 1962, she was set to become the semi-regular character Pearl
Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies, but choose instead to go on the road with
Willie Nelson.  She did a duet with Nelson on Liberty called WILLINGLY, which
climbed to number 10 and was Willie’s first charted record. At the time of her
death, she worked for the State of Missouri and appeared occasionally in
Branson.  Finally,  Kent Hayford of the Sleepy Brown group left a vacant chair at
the Monday morning table.

An emotional climax to this year’s Masters when Phil Mickelson ground out a 3
shot lead over Lee Westwood and then caught a glimpse of his wife Amy,  
waiting for him behind the 18th green at Augusta National with joy tears
streaming down her face.  She was recently diagnosed with cancer and as Phil
slipped into his green jacket there was a tear in his eye and a catch in his voice
as he acknowledged the win.  And that my friend, it what America is supposed
to look like.

From the desk of Don Logan - April  2010 -
My latest CD, Song About Dry Prong, is out this month after much
delay.  Sonny Harville does a song in it.  Two movies that I worked in
are out and available in the SPECIALS section of this web-site.  At this
years Oscar Night, T Bone Burnett and the movie Crazy Heart was
praised by veteran Actor Jeff Bridges in his Oscar acceptance
speech.  The country soundtrack music  tied the scenes together very
well in this film.

WHAT YOU TYPED LAST MONTH TO GET TO THIS SITE
"tommy moore shreveport radio"  "eric j brock"  "brian joffrion" “neon of las
vegas” "sherb sentell" “anchorman carl pendley” “don imus” “frank Sinatra”
“joe stampley” “”houston hoot rains” “early shreveport dj ed Hamilton” “logan’
s from poteau” “kwkh frank page” “earl hearon country band shady point ok”
“articles by mary ann van osdell“ “andrew gallagher shreveport”
“larryryanshreveport”

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING LAST MONTH ..
The body of Andrew Koenig,  former child star of the sitcom Growing
Pains and son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig was found in a
Vancouver, Canada Park.  Another  former child star from that series,
Corey Haim, also died.   Merlen Olsen, former NFL football player
who had a recurring acting role on the TV series Little House on the
Prairie left us with fond memories.  A homeless Nashville street
singer named Elringo, but known to most as Velvet Thunder, has left
his corner on Second Avenue.  Donations provided the singer with a
proper burial.   Sheldon Kurland, a session violinist who fronted  a
small string section that contributed to hundreds of hits in the ‘70s
and ‘80s left the building.   His  daughter, Amy Kurland, founded The
Bluebird Café in Nashville.   Guitarist Kenny Gill, sometimes referred
to as Louisiana Dan will never run the frets again.  He was on the hit
Dale and Grace song, Leaving It All Up To You and most of the Jimmy
Clanton Top 40 hits. The late Jimmie Davis always used him as part
of his groups. Texas country bandleader, Hank Stone passed as did
the host of the Johnnie High Country  Music Revue of Arlington, Texas.
Peter Graves,  best known for his portrayal of Jim Phelps, in the long-
running television series "Mission: Impossible," died  of an apparent
heart attack outside his home in Los Angeles.  His older brother,
James Arness, also enjoyed stardom as Marshal Matt Dillon on TV's
"Gunsmoke".  Fess Parker, the actor who gave a face to Davy
Crockett and  Daniel Boone  for millions of TV viewers left the
building.  In a life after TV, he was a California winemaker and
developer.  He was once offered an ambassador’s job, but turned it
down.  Robert Culp remembered as a star on TV’s I Spy series has
finished his last assignment. And finally, CHARLES B. PIERCE. the
former area media man who filmed THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK
with the late Vern Stierman doing the narration wrapped up his final
earthly endeavor.

We have posted some new pictures in the Archives section!
Contacting this web-site recently: retired radio engineer Carlton
Measles who worked this area in the 50s and Alan Jennings from
Baton Rouge who was a youngster in the fan club business when the
Rolling Stones first rolled into town.  


FROM the desk of Don Logan - March 2010
Tom Aswell has a new Book   called Louisiana Rocks and can be
purchased at http://www.amazon.com/Louisiana-Rocks-True-Genesis-
Rock/dp/1589806778/ref=sr_1_2?
ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267374879&sr=8-2 .    He used a lot of
material from this web-site and has a good section on Dale Hawkins.  
I gave him a good review on the inside back dust cover.  Two  made in
Louisiana movies that I worked on are out.  I Hope They Serve Beer In
Hell is  risqué and aimed at the college audience and can be
purchased at  http://www.amazon.com/Hope-They-Serve-Beer-
Hell/dp/B002VPTJOK.  It's from 20th Century Fox.  The Michael
Douglas film Beyond A Reasonable Doubt is available at http://www.
amazon.com/Beyond-Reasonable-Doubt-Michael-
Douglas/dp/B002QW7AMG.  This film was set in Shreveport and
many from the local media are featured.  Another movie I worked in
called Leaves Of Grass will be released on DVD in July of this year.  
Remember!  On our 1DANDY1 page for the Dandy Store you can order
via credit card many hard-to-find dvd’s and cd’s.

Who left the building?  The summer of 1957, I am fresh out of high-
school, playing dances and gigs in the Arkansas-Oklahoma region and
for 1 ½ hours a day, I am a rock and roll DJ.  Hoss Allen quits his
WLAC radio show and was promoting a record he had, plus a new
single by Dale Hawkins called Suzy Q.  He brought it through Ft.
Smith, Arkansas where there was only one rock and roll radio show
at the time.  I didn’t know who Dale Hawkins or Stan Lewis was back
in those days.  I never dreamed  that later in life, I would work for
Stan.   Susy Q  was a smash and the young Dale was on Dick Clark as
one of the first live acts to come on the show.  Then he went toe-to-
toe with Clark,  hosting the Big Beat.  Years after the song had hit, it
was recorded again by Creedence Clearwater and hit all over again.  
It was at that time that Dale came back to work again for Paula
Record Company.  The Groover from Goldmine struck the final chord
in February, 2010.  Others who left the building:  Doug Fieger who did
My Sharona in 1979.   Kathryn Grayson who starred in Show Boat,
Anchors Aweigh and Kiss Me Kate.  Frances Reid ,  who played the
matriarch,  Alice Horton, in the soap Days of Our Lives.   Pernell
Roberts, the actor best known for his roles in the TV series Bonanza,
as Adam Cartwright.  Zelda Rubinstein, who played the psychic in the
1982 film Poltergeist.  Justin Mentell,  a star in Boston Legal, in a car
accident.  David Brown, the producer whose films included The Sting,
Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy and The Verdict.

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shreveport radio" "montgomery high school” ”pullman wa“
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number" "brian joffrion" “neon of las vegas” "stan lewis jewel"
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pendley” “don imus” “frank Sinatra” “joe stampley” “”houston hoot
rains” “early shreveport dj ed hamilton” “logan’s from poteau”
“kwkh frank page” “earl hearon country band shady point ok”
“andrew gallagher shreveport” “dandydontruckstop”
“larryryanshreveport”  “billie jean williams horton berlin”

Congratulation to Ryan and Jay for being listed in the casting credits
of Reasonable Doubt!
FROM the desk of Don Logan - February 2010
The first decade of the 21st century is behind us now.  In those 10
years we lost many, including these notables:  Marlon Brando,
Katherine Hepburn, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, William
Buckley, Paul Harvey, Walter Kronkite, Peter Jennings,  Johnny
Carson, Julia Child, Les Paul, Carroll O’Connor, Bob Hope, Michael
Jackson, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Mary Travers, Ray Charles,
Pope John Paul II, Wayland Jennings, Lady Bird Johnson, Ted
Kennedy, Gerald Ford and a long list of others.

Remember!  On our 1DANDY1 page for the Dandy Store you can order
via credit card many hard-to-find dvd’s and cd’s.  My new CD will be
out soon.  It is called Song About Dry Prong and features a gospel
song by Sonny Harville.  Sonny was a member of the Louisiana
Hayride band and played on the road with many of the Hayride stars.

Who left the building last month-  Carl Smith,  one of the most
successful country singers produced by the Grand Ole Opry in the
1950s died at 82.  At a time when the Opry was taking most of the
stars developed by the local Louisiana Hayride,  Smith was a product
of their own stage and had 30 Top 10 hits and over 40 charted singles
in his career.  His first wife was June Carter, who married Johnny
Cash later and his second wife was Goldie Hill, a singer from the
Louisiana Hayride. Carl did movies, was on many TV programs and
hosted his own TV Show which was shown mostly in Canada where
he had many fans.   He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of
Fame in 2003. One of his songs “Hey Joe’ was redone by Moe Bandy
and Louisiana native Joe Stampley and was a hit for the 2nd time
with that duo.  Carl Smith  is survived by two sons and two daughters
including  singer Carlene Carter.     He retired from music after doing
the successful Phillip Morris road tour show to became a gentleman
horse breeder and cowboy.  Jean Simmons, the actress who had
starring roles in Spartacus, Hamlet, The Robe, Guys and Dolls, and
the TV miniseries The Thorn Birds took her last bow.  James Mitchell,
a stage and screen actor spoke his final line.  He was a long-time star
of the All My Children TV soap opera.  Robert Charles Guidry,
professionally known as Bobby Charles has written his last rhyme.  
The swamp pop songwriter died in his native Louisiana.  In his
younger days he was signed to Chess Records and was associated
with Stan Lewis.  His recording of Later Alligator was covered by Bill
Haley and the Comets as See You Later Alligator and Fats Domino
took his Walking To New Orleans to national hit status.  When Stan
Lewis formed his first record label Jewel, Bobby was the first artist
signed to that label.

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“majestic theater tx"  "john howe" "casper wy” “hank locklin" "riding
my harley to heaven" "1dandy1" “jerry kennedy fair park" "robert
cassell"  “shreveport mayor” “earl hearon"
From the desk of Don Logan - January 2010
Congratulations to John Howe, the new president of the local
musicians union.  He is an excellent musician and savvy businessman.  
While in town to celebrate the National Historical Landmark
dedication of the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, Bob Sullivan   
visited with the Sleepy Brown group.  Sullivan was a radio engineer
who went on to his own recording studio and recording many famous
entertainers and groups after proving himself in the KWKH studios
with many of the 50s hits.

A  special event was held at the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium  on
Monday, December 21, 2009.  The building was designated to the
national historical landmark registry.  That fact guarantees that the
beautiful old building will stand for many years to come.

My new CD release SONG ABOUT DRY PRONG will be released in
February 2010.  Sonny Harville will be featured on one of the songs.  
Sonny was a member of the Louisiana Hayride band and played on
the road with many of the Hayride stars.

A couple of films I worked in last year as an extra are out on DVD.
The YEAR ONE with Jack Black and  Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.    
Here’s the link: http://www.beyondareasonabledoubtmovie.com/
It is a re-make of a 1956 film and stars Michael Douglas!

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING? -
The long-running soap  As The World Turns will leave the air in mid-
year!  Brittany Murphy who starred in 8 Mile, Clueless, Sin City and
other films died suddenly.  Big Bill Lister, a former entertainer on the
Louisiana Hayride died in Texas.  Jennifer Jones who starred in Love
Is A Many Splendored Thing. Gene Barry of TV’s Bat Masterson and
Burke’s Law.  Arnold Stang the actor who voiced the Top Cat top
cartoon character. Vic Chestnut, paralyzed songwriter. George
Michael sportscaster.  Rose Tattoo founder Mick Cocks.  Connie Hines
an actress/singer.  Eric Woolfson of the Alan Parsons Project.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE LAST MONTH!
“harley to heaven“ “Vicente zumel“ "bill bush combo new years
eve" “WFIL transcription
lightnin" "joe stampley" "papa dj" “Leflore county” “applewhite”  
“vito sansones”"boggy creek movie” “majestic theater tx"  "don
logan dances”  "district attorney brian joffrion"  
From the desk of Don Logan - December 2009 -
My new CD release SONG ABOUT DRY PRONG will be released in
February 2010.  Sonny Harville will be featured on one of the songs.    
Sonny was a member of the Louisiana Hayride band and played on
the road with many of the Hayride stars.
I’m a little late posting this months from the  desk of, as I was
waiting for a special event that was held at the Shreveport Municipal
Auditorium  on Monday, December 21, 2009.  The beautiful old
building has been designated as an historical landmark.  Mayor
Cedric Glover, Arlena Acree of the Shreveport Film Department,
Sonny Trammel, Frank Page, Felton Pruitt, James Burton, Sonny
Harville, Maggie Lewis Warwick, Norm Bale, Bob Sullivan and others
associated with the Louisiana Hayride and KWKH were there, along
with media people Ed Walsh, Mary Ann Van Osdell, Gwen Campbell,
Johnny Wessler, Tom Pace, B.B. Davis and Eddie Giles plus an
enthusiastic crowd of dignitaries gathered to mark this occasion.  At
the heyday of the Saturday Night radio show with live entertainment,
Dallas, Texas promoted their own Big D Jamboree, however the
building that housed that show was torn down a long time ago.  The
historical distinction for our building will ensure that it will stand for
a long, time to come.  The dean of North Louisiana Radio, Frank Page,
received a special award and the crowd was taken back to a night in
1954 via digital disc, when Frank introduced a very nervous young
singer named Elvis for the first time on the stage of the auditorium.
A couple of films I worked in last year as an extra are out on DVD.
The YEAR ONE with Jack Black and  Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.    
Here’s the link: http://www.beyondareasonabledoubtmovie.com/
It is a re-make of a 1956 film and stars Michael Douglas!
I got many Christmas cards from many of you including Harold
Wright, the original founder of Wright’s Sound Gallery.  Harold, a
citizen of distinction in these parts is 102 and enjoying life.  The first
live TV spot I ever did in this market, when I first came to town, was
for his previous business.

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING? -
A death of sorts .. As The World Turns will leave the air in mid-year,
2010.  People’s entertainment values do change.  Brittany Murphy
who starred in 8 Mile, Clueless and other films died suddenly.  Big
Bill Lister, a former entertainer on the Louisiana Hayride died in
Texas.  Frank Page said he could almost look eye to eye with Big Bill,
but Bob Sullivan was taller than both of them.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET HERE LAST MONTH!
“harley to heaven“ “Vicente zumel“ "bill bush combo new years
eve" “WFIL transcription" "lightnin" "joe stampley" "papa dj" .

Don Logan
don@dandydonlogan.com

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - NOVEMBER 2009
The YEAR ONE movie is out on DVD.  I was an extra
in several scenes but virtually unseen on the screen
of this costumed comedy.  Jack BLACK is a very good
actor who was able to turn his character into a
believable being in the starring role!

BOB GRIFFIN who came to this market from the
same area as I, continues his lengthy realm of
longest visual TV personality.  Bob had his own kids
show for years, then became an icon in the sports
media, and continually has done some of the best
travel programs and special interest programs ever
for local media.  He is now seen in the morning news
slot at KTBS(ABC).  Kudos to KTBS for having  their
local pictures and feed shown nationally on ABC
news concerning the end of the month weather we
had in this area.

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING?  Shelby Singleton who
was born near here and worked the area as a
promoter, record producer,  and record executive  
was 77.  He was active in both Country and R&B
music. He is remembered most  for Jeannie C. Riley's
hit single Harper Valley P.T.A.  The tune won a
Grammy and a CMA Award.  Before leaving this area
he recorded  Ray Stevens  doing Ahab the Arab, Leroy
Van Dyke doing  Walk on By and Joe Dowell
performing  Wooden Heart.  They were all number
one country   hits.  When Shelby   left this area he
took Jerry Kennedy with him and together they
forged a remarkable string of hits for  Mercury.  
When he lured Roger Miller from RCA to be an artist
on the new Smash label, Dang Me became a smash up
tempo humorous song hit in 1967. Jerry Kennedy
inherited  Singleton’s chair at Smash-Mercury as
Shelby branched out on his own.  In 1969, Singleton
bought the Sun record label from Sam Phillips and
formed Sun International.   The New York Times
gave a share of the credit for Shelby‘s success to
guitarist-arranger-producer-record executive Jerry
Kennedy, who is from this area also.

Al Martino, the Italian singer of pop songs.  He was
also in films starring  in the movie THE GODFATHER
with Marlon Brando.  He played the part of a singer
that some people said was Frank Sinatra, but the
name used in the movie was Johnny Fontana.  He
was 82 and one of his best remembered hits was
called Spanish Eyes

In the early days of TV, a radio man named Soupy
Sales decided to give television a try.  His kids show
of the 60s was a Pie In The Eye sensation and is
remembered by many.  He was born Milton Supman
in North Carolina and was also an actor and
comedian who hosted both radio and TV programs.  
Others were songwriter Vic Mizzy and Dandy Don
Lane, an American who went down under to
Australia where he became a top-rated TV host.

What you typed to get to this site!"cowtown
hoedown at the majestic theater in ft worth tx"  
"shreveport la restaurant sansone" “charles sentell”
“hall of fame” “radio flag pole sitter”  

A film I worked on last year is out.   Here’s the link:
http://www.beyondareasonabledoubtmovie.com/
It is a re-make of a 1956 film and stars Michael
Douglas!

Don Logan
don@dandydonlogan.com

From the desk of Don Logan October 2009 -
A film I worked on last year is coming.  Here’s the
link:
http://www.beyondareasonabledoubtmovie.com/
It is a re-make of a 1956 film that starred Dana
Andrews.  High profile lawyer, Martin Hunter
(Michael Douglas) has an impeccable record putting
criminals behind bars and is a shoo-in for governor in
the upcoming election. But when ambitious rookie
journalist, C.J. Nicholas (Jesse Metcalfe) begins
investigating Hunter for tampering with evidence to
secure his convictions, the district attorney’s perfect
record is up for scrutiny as C.J. frames himself as a
murder suspect to catch the corrupt D.A. in the act.

Romantically involved with C.J. but unaware of his
assignment, assistant D.A. Ella Crystal (Amber
Tamblyn) becomes caught between her boss’s
political ambitions and C.J.’s dangerous exposé.  As
mounting evidence stacks up against both men, Ella’s
own life becomes threatened when she discovers
incriminating proof that puts the fate of both
Nicholas’s innocence and Hunter’s reputation in her
hands. This gripping courtroom thriller is written and directed
by acclaimed director, Peter Hyams (Running Scared,
End of Days) and also stars Orlando Jones and Joel
David Moore.  

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET TO THIS SITE  RECENTLY --"terri
glorioso brando of Shreveport”  “diamond jacks Shreveport”
“Shreveport homicides 2002”  "curley herndon"  “boomtown”
“la hall of fame”  “hayride”  ‘horace announcer”  “flag pole
promotion”  “sleepy brown jimmie davis“ “kevin gauteaux la tv
“ “arkansas cotton pickers” “hank williams new years day 1953
poster” "progressive men's club shreveport"  "boggy creek
movie to be filmed in longview texas"  "new orleans artist that
does courtroom scene" "a train band shreveport louisiana" -
Logan mansion -

Stan Lewis of Shreveport, Louisiana was the 2009  inductee  
into the Louisiana Hall of Fame!  You can read all about Stan
The Record Man at the following link:   
http://louisianamusichalloffame.org/content/view/108/127/

WHO LEFT THE BUILDING?  Mary Travers, 72, of Peter, Paul
and Mary fame.  You’ll remember their songs of the Viet Nam
era called Blowing In The Wind, Puff The Magic Dragon and
Leaving On A Jet Plane, among others.  The members of the trio
were Mary,  Peter Yarrow and  Noel Paul Stookey.  Their
harmony was supreme!  
Celebrated actor Patrick Swayze, 55.  He was the star of
Dirty Dancing and Ghost with Dimi Moore, which is one of the
best love stories ever.  Swayze starred in a host of  box-office
favorites.  He was a great personality, dancer and actor.  The
husky-voiced jazz singer, Chris Connor, 81, who performed
with Claude Thornhill’s Snowflakes and the Stan Kenton
Orchestra among others. She branched out as a single and
recorded for a multitude of labels and was very popular in
Japan.  She, like Sinatra, Christy and others knew how to take a
standard and swing it!

Multi-award songwriter Ellie Greenwich of the famed New York
Brill Building scene of the 60s is gone at 68.  You'll remember
hits such as  Be My Baby, Chapel of Love and Tell Laura I Love
Her.  The daughter of former Louisiana Hayride stars Kitty
Wells and Johnny Wright, Ruby Wright, who was also a singer
with many recordings to her credit was 69!  Ruby  recently
appeared at Kitty’s 90th birthday celebration in Nashville at
the Ernest Tubb theater.

And there was another death of sorts last month.  The daytime
drama that began on radio the year I was born, GUIDING
LIGHT, is gone from CBS TV.  My grandmother listened to it on
battery-operated radio.  My mother watched it on TV, as did
my late wife and my two daughters!  

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN - SEPTEMBER 2009
Les Paul, the innovator of the modern electric guitar left the
building.  He and  Mary Ford had many chart numbers in the
40s and 50s and he was also famous with the Les Paul Trio.  He
also had many recordings on his own and he came up playing
in many of the bands of his day. Many give him credit for being
a recording genius who showed the industry how to do multi-
tracking.  He once sold his studio and when the company who
bought it put it all back together in a new location, they
discovered it did not have the same sound.  Upon investigation,
they found that the mountain behind Paul’s home where the
studio was originally located, was the culprit.  As to the guitar
that bears his name,  if you have ever played a Les Paul guitar,
you know what a keen instrument it is.  Les Paul was still active
in his profession.

It’s amazing that media and fans still browse for information
on  Jeff and Melinda, perhaps the most successful radio duo
ever in this market.  Jeff died at an early age and Melinda, after
a successful radio career  on her own, is now seen and heard on
various commercials on TV and radio.  On local TV , with Carl
Pendley gone to the energy game, the longest running anchor is
Sherri Talley and on local radio with the retirement of Frank
Page, the longest running acts are Louise Alley and Larry Ryan
and Company.
Frank was recently presented with a wall of fame at Crescent
Landing according to steel man Sonny Trammel who helped
provide entertainment for the occasion.

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET TO THIS SITE  RECENTLY --Jeff
and Melinda - Mac Sanders - Logan mansion - Buddy Blake -
Reeder radio -McLendon flag pole sitter - Phil Specter - Horace
Logan - Miss Teen Shreveport -  Gene Wyatt - Don Davis!  

Stan Lewis of Shreveport, Louisiana was the 2009  inductee  
into the Louisiana Hall of Fame!  He was the namesake of Stan’
s Record Shop, the record shop known around the world.  He
founded Paula, Jewel, Ronn and a host of other significant
recording labels.  He also owned Stan’s Record Service, a
nation-wide distributor of top independent recorded product.  
In addition to that he is a songwriter, producer and musician
who used his contacts to help local and area artists get on
recording labels with national distribution.  Recent pictures of
the Hall of Fame event and his life story can be found at the
following link!   
http://louisianamusichalloffame.org/content/view/108/127/

From the desk of Don Logan - Aug. 2009
WHO left the building last month!  American actor Karl
Malden,  son of immigrant parents, had a  career that spanned
seven plus decades.  He was  featured in classic Marlon Brando
films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront and
One-Eyed Jacks.  There were many  other notable film roles
such as Archie Lee Meighan in Baby Doll, Zebulon Prescott in
How the West Was Won and General Omar Bradley in Patton.  
To most Americans his best-known role was on television as
Lt. Mike Stone in the 70s The Streets of San Francisco. During
the 80s he was spokesperson in print and TV for American
Express, reminding us; "Don't leave home without it".  I had the
fond privilege of doing several one on one interviews with him
during the 60s when a movie he was in, The Cincinnati Kid,
premiered in New Orleans, Louisiana.  He was a true gentleman
and a great actor!

TV anchorman Walter Cronkite, the voice of authority was
stilled forever last month.  He was the newsman  who broke
into the middle of a soap-opera to tell a nation  that JFK was
dead, assassinated in Dallas, Texas. There will never be
another Cronkite because he was there before cable, when you
only had the three networks competing for news and  he also
came from a time when the newsman believed what he was
reporting and the  microphone was fair and non-biased!

WHAT YOU TYPED TO GET TO THIS SITE  RECENTLY --
"a lifetime at kwkh" "harmie smith"  “miss kwkh” “ace lewis”
“paula records” "nelson king wcky" "kcoz radio" "last dot fm"
“newbeats“ "hearing officer lesa mcgaha" “paula 282” "hank
locklin pictures” "atlantic 89457"  " jackie gleason"  "guitar duo
comedy ed sullivan" “radio man reeder” “ann margret “
"mousekedances lp" “old radio station in logan mansion”
“former dj parr” "ktbs former newsman carl pendley"   "randy
travis nashville palace collectible value" "bio loveable larry
ryan shreveport" "sherb sentell" “cosy saucier” “burton world
record” “captain of shreveport rose” “first record on paula”
“eric brock” “frank page” “

BIG DEAL at HIRSCH this month!  The location for the James
Burton world record attempt  for total number of guitar players
playing the same song at the same time in the same location is  
scheduled for HIRSCH Coliseum!  Contact the Burton  web-site
for up-to-the-minute details  Got a guitar?  Be there!!!  http:
//www.james-burton.net/worldrecord

April was a big month over in Texas for Tony Douglas, who
recorded for Paula Records when I was a vice-president there.  
His month included a trip to Austin and the State Capitol where
a proclamation was read honoring Tony's 80th Birthday  on the
House Floor. He was given a plaque and the flag that flew over
the Capitol that day. Back home in  Athens, Texas, the city
honored him by designating April 12th, as TONY DOUGLAS
DAY,  and presented him with the "Key to the City,"
http://www.tonydouglas.com

From the desk of Don Logan - July 2009
ATTENTION ALL ACOUSTIC AND ELECTRIC GUITAR
PLAYERS - Visit the link to the  following site below for BIG
NEWS concerning an event all of us can participate in.  James
Burton came by and visited with the Sleepy Brown Group
recently announcing that  on Saturday, August 22 at 2PM,  you
and thousands of others, including many big name stars will
attempt to break the Guinness World Record on number of
guitar players playing the same song at one time.  I’ll be there
for the FUN of it and it‘s your chance to be a part of something
BIG!

http://www.james-burton.net/worldrecord
EVERYONE must register on Friday night August 21, 2009
from 6:00pm through midnight during the big birthday bash for
James Burton or  on Saturday morning August 22nd beginning
at 9:00am and continuing until just before the attempt at 2:
00pm. The on site registration is at HIRSCH COLISEUM and
admission is FREE!   ON SITE REGISTRATION IS A
REQUIREMENT TO PARTICIPATE AND IS COMPLETELY
FREE.  To contact the Burton Foundation call (318) – 424-5000
Date/Time: Saturday August 22nd, 2009 at 2:00pm – Hirsch
Coliseum. Rain or Shine!

WHO left the building?  The guy who did the resounding "H-e-e-
e-e-e-ere's Johnny!" for 30 years, has left us.  Ed McMahon,
Johnny Carson’s sidekick died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical
Center from a multitude of health problems.  McMahon came
from  radio and  worked with Carson for five years on the early
TV program Who Do You Trust.  When Carson took over NBC’s
late-night show from Jack Paar in October 1962, Ed came too,
playing second banana on the Tonight Show until Carson
retired in 1992.  72-year-old movie star, David CARRADINE,
who epitomized the strong but wise warrior on screen and off,
died shortly after finishing his latest movie in China.  Don
DAVIS of the Sleepy Brown group lost his wife, Edie Davis last
month.  She had been ill for some time. Don is a well-known
musician who was around during the Hayride days. When I
visited with Tommie Ritter Smith at the Tex Ritter Museum in
Carthage, Texas a few months ago, the name Albert Brumley, a
gospel singer and composer came up.  I just learned that earlier
this year Tom Brumley, the son of Albert,  who was an
acclaimed steel guitar player in his own right, passed away in
San Antonio.  He had  recorded with Rick Nelson, Buck Owens,
Lefty Frizzell, Dwight Yoakam, Reba McEntire, Ray Price,
Steve Wariner, Sara Evans, Rosie Flores and Trini Lopez.  
Farrah Fawcett, the "Charlie's Angels" star with feathered
blond hair and a dazzling smile that made her one of the
biggest sex symbols of the 1970s, died  after losing her  cancer
battle. Local actor John Fertitta had worked with her in the
past. She  recently did a highly-rated TV documentary of her
fight with cancer. Producer and keyboardist Barry Beckett,
who recorded with musicians such as Bob Dylan, Aretha
Franklin and Paul Simon,  died in his Tennessee home at 66. As
a producer, Beckett worked with artists such as Etta James,
Elton John and Sting and was on most of the sessions Jewel-
Paula did in Muscle Shoals. He was also in demand among
Nashville's country musicians and produced Kenny Chesney's
first two albums. Musician and country music songwriter Tim
Krekel died of cancer at his home in Louisville and  Michael
Jackson, formerly of the Jackson Five, who, on his own,
became an international icon died amidst an avalanche of
media coverage at month’s end.   TV’s burly, bearded  pitchman
who hawked products on the tube that made him a pop-culture
icon,  Billy Mays,  died at 50. Fred Travalena, a Vegas headliner
and a regular on late-night talk shows with his impressionist
takes on presidents, crooners and screen stars, left us in Los
Angeles.  And at the end of the month, Gail Storm,  an American
actress and singer, who starred in two popular television
programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gail Storm
Show left us fond memories of a  wholesome appearance and
perky personality that American once looked up to and enjoyed.

From the Desk of Don Logan - June 2009
Phil Spector who was once the darling of the
recording industry, coming up with his wall of sound
technique was sentenced last month to 19 years to
life in prison  for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson
who was shot at the producer’s home six years ago.  
Spector was associated with many stars including
some sessions on John Lennon where Spector
reportedly pulled a gun on the former Beatle.  
Locally, Stan Lewis was a distributor for Spector
when he was one of the hottest labels in the country.
Meanwhile in London, Diversity, a group of street
dancers won Britain‘s Got Talent beating out favorite
Susan Boyle who has gained international attention and
became an  Internet phenomenon after appearing on the show.

What you typed in to get to this site last month …
"vito cefalu shreveport la" “montgomery”  “casino lake
charles” "buddy holly coral 9-61885 sample copy" "lil joe's
shreveport" “staff band“ “preston singer at moe and joe’s
bossier” "danetta brown white of shreveport" "neon of las
vegas" "ron gray at keel radio" "offers at el dorado casino"
“logan mansion”

Will Mitchell who worked this area long ago as Mitch and the
Misties called me from Nashville.  His songwriter in the round
concept that he filmed here in Shreveport some time back is up
and running.  The network called for more segments and he has
been busy filming those in Nashville.  He tells me the network
just ordered additional episodes, so Will will be busy!  
Millennium Films announced that two new films will be shot
locally and they will build a studio here in Shreveport.

Who left the building?   Mickey Carroll, one of the last surviving
Munchkins from the beloved 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz," died
at 89.  The  comedic actor, Dom LeLuise, who was in the Burt
Reynolds movies,   The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,
Smokey and the Bandit II,  Cannonball Run and Cannonball
Run II is no longer with us. Dom DeLuise, who  also appeared in
the comedic western Blazing Saddles,  died in his sleep after a
long illness.  The third person to voice Walt Disney’s most
famous cartoon character Mickey Mouse  died from diabetes
complications.  Wayne Allwine, a voice-over artist, began
providing the distinctive falsetto voice on The New Mickey
Mouse Club in 1977, replacing Jimmy MacDonald.  Since then
Allwine has provided Mickey’s voice for Disney theme parks,
movies, TV specials, records, and video games.  Darel
Decounter, keyboardist for such artists as Bill Anderson, Jerry
Reed, Randy Travis and for the past 16 years  the John
Anderson Band passed.  He was also a backup vocalist.
Guitarist and songwriter Stephen Bruton, who  played with Kris
Kristofferson for nearly 40 years and wrote songs that have
been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Jimmy Buffett
and others, died at 60 of  complications from throat cancer in
Los Angeles.

Liberal Hollywood movers and shakers and many musicians
applauded the new Obama drug policy which was not widely
reported.  AG Eric Holder says federal agents will target
marijuana distributors ONLY when they violate BOTH federal
and state law.  This signals the change Obama repeatedly
promised during the election from the Bush policy, which
targeted medical marijuana dispensaries in California even
WHEN they complied with that state’s law.

The first late-night talk and variety show on TV  The Tonight
Show has a new host, Conan O'Brien.  JAY LENO has been the
host since May, 1992 and has stepped down.  O’Brien took over
in May 2009.  The show celebrated its 50th anniversary in
October, 2004. The Tonight Show premiered with Steve Allen
as the host in September 1954.  In 1957, after a series of guest
hosts took their turns, Jack Paar signed on, and would be the
host for the next five years.  Controversy over an episode that
was broadcast from the Berlin Wall in 1962 led to Paar's
leaving the show.  Several months later The Tonight Show took
on a different flavor, when Johnny Carson took his position as
host.  Carson hosted the show for 30 years, and became known
as the "King of Late Night." His sidekick, Ed McMahon, had
previously been the announcer on Carson's earlier game show,
Who Do You Trust?  When Carson retired in 1992,  Jay Leno got
the job  continuing with Carson's basic routine of opening with
a comedy monologue.

May 2009 - From the desk of Don Logan

ACE LEWIS closed his Southfield Music shop in Shreveport last
month.  He and his wife Josie, have been a fixture in the local
music scene for many years specializing in sheet music, music
books, instruments and accessories.  Ace is also a musician
and leader of the ACE LEWIS Trio,  providing quality music for
years.  He and his brother, Stan are long-time members of the  
Shreveport Musician Union.  Meanwhile,  STAN LEWIS is very
prominent in a new book written by John Broven called
RECORD MAKERS and BREAKERS,  a 584 page book on the
music industry.  Stan was here  during the music explosion of
the 50s,  smack in the middle of the Elvis 54 earth-shake and
the Beatles invasion ten years later.  In addition to Stan’s
Record Shops, he owned Paula-Ronn and Jewel recording
labels and several  music publishing companies.  Wolfman
Jack, Frank Page and others did sponsored radio programs for
his
Stan’s Record Review.

Two well-known local radio people left the building last month.  
HOWARD CLARK who had recently worked with Cumulus in
Shreveport until retiring, had been diagnosed with lung cancer.  
He had worked at KVKI, KOKA, KEEL, KITT, KSYR and KLKL
locally, and a host of major market and out of state stations.  
The Program Director and host of AM DRIVE for KWKH radio,
BARNEY CANNON died at 53.  He was  well-known in country
music circles having worked at many impressive stations
before coming to  KWKH  in the mid 80s.  He is survived by his
twins Kimberly and Kyle, and wife Kaye of Jefferson, Texas.  In
film land, an actress on the very popular Golden Girls, Bea
Arthur did her final curtain call!  Vern Gosdin a Nashville
songwriter who also had a great voice and recorded many hits
himself, strummed the final chord in his 73 years here on earth
peacefully after suffering a recent stroke.

WHAT you typed in to get to the Dandy Don Logan website this
past month:
"billboard's charted information of waiting in your welfare
line" “wister majorettes band““miami” “ft smith” “sonny
harville“ "nick cushinberry little rock"  "hank locklin and pappy
daily”  “kwhn” “chuck mayfield” “tommy duncan” “cold as
december” “dale hawkins” “millennium” “radio station kent
shreveport“ “bossier strip” “record world”    "phil spector”  
"gordon terry" "a lifetime at kwkh" "shreveport la what dj died
larry ryan" "what is a record number on a mechanical license"  
"casino offers in shreveport" "death scene instrumentals"
"gaypoppa" "sync licenses on dvd" "when did stan lewis"

Recently some of the SLEEPY BROWN group visited the Texas
Country Music Hall of Fame and Tex Ritter Museum in
Carthage, Texas. (hayridecarthage.com) IF you visit
Shreveport, Carthage is just a hop-skip and jump away and
certainly worth the short time spent getting  there.  Tommie
Ritter-Smith is in charge and each  display is very
professionally done. The impressive building with a bronze
statue of TEX RITTER and his movie-star horse out in front,  is
located at 300 W. Panola Street in Carthage, phone number 903
694 9561.   Being an old radio man, I especially enjoyed the JIM
REEVES studio re-creation from his early days in Henderson,
Texas.   The old turntable with transcriptions stored in the
transcription bin underneath, the two-channel on-air/off-air
mono board, the life-like replica of Jim Reeves as a DJ, the old
AM transmitter electronics and patch panel and to record those
early commercials,  a 78RPM cutting lathe and an old Ampex
mono recorder.  It made me want to sit down inside the glass
enclosure and pull a shift.   There is push-a-button audio on  
this display with narration by notable radio mogul TOM
PERRYMAN.  There is  an impressive gift-shop area and the
conference room of the building is available for meetings and
functions at nominal fees.

Don’t forget!  You can shop the pages of the 1DANYD1
entertainment shop with your credit card through Amazon.com
from this site.  I have a new CD due for release soon called
SONG ABOUT DRY PRONG!

From the Desk of DON LOGAN - APRIL, 2009
April showers are here and 2009 marches on.  Former
Shreveport/ Houston radio man Bill Scott just can’t get
entertainment out of his system.  He does a magic show for
parties in the Las Vegas area.

A couple of movies I worked in this past year are now
scheduled -  I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell -spring 2009 and
Leaves of Grass Opens January 1, 2010 with a cast of: Edward
Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss,
Keri Russell.  Tim Blake Nelson is the director.

Coming soon, my new CD with a song in it by former Hayride
band member Sonny Harville.  Leaving the building recently:
Actress Natasha Richardson, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave -  
Jimmy Boyd who did the original Christmas novelty tune I SAW
MOMMY KISSING SANTA CLAUS on black and white TV
shooting his recording straight to the top of Billboard’s charts
3 weeks after it was released. It  sold 2 million copies in 10
weeks - Actor Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award,  was best
known for his role as the slick strategist for the liberal
President  on "The West Wing." He had a long history  of left-
leaning social and political causes. However, Silver, an Emmy
nominee for a recurring role, supported  President George W.
Bush over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after the 2001
terrorist attacks. This lost him some friendships and turned
Hollywood heads. - ERNIE ASHWORTH (Talk Back Trembling
Lips), a songwriter and entertainer who appeared on the
Louisiana Hayride and later joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1964
and moved to and remained in Tennessee. - DAN SEALS of
Seals and Croft  was also a part of England Dan and John Ford
Coley who had great  tunes like I’d Really Love To See You
Tonight and Summer Breeze.  In the mid 80s Seals becomes a
solo country singer and works out of Nashville. - HANK
LOCKLIN who sang SEND ME THE PILLOW YOU DREAM ON
and PLEASE HELP ME I’M FALLING  started a blossoming
career here on the LOUISIANA HAYRIDE and the BIG D
JAMBOREE.  When I was working in Ft. Worth, Texas, he
recorded a LAWTON WILLIAMS song called GEISHA GIRL that
crossed over in some markets. He went on to join the Grand Ole
Opry but moved to  Florida in his later years. -  Odie Crabtree
who had a TV show on WSAZ in Huntington, West Virginia
passed earlier!  He let me sing on his TV program once when I
was very young and living in Montgomery, West Virginia.  He
had moved to Texas.

Here’s what brought a lot of visitors to this web-site
during the month gone by:
"hank locklin at the big d jamboree dallas texas"
"lyrics to tony douglas's his and hers"   "b mitchell
reed xeg"  "wister okla police officers killed" "morgan
choate"  "no way out soundtrack paul anka julia
migenes" "words to song well i woke up this morning
on my mind with jesus"  “"bmi songwriter bernie
harville jr"   "songs and covers permitted under 115
mechanical license"  “t texas tyler” "linda brannon"
"school majorette photos" "pulstrak" "jim higgins
rock and roll"  "arlie duff+louisiana hayride+photos"  
"randy traywick 45 rpm paula record"  "jimmie
martin murdered girlfriend" "how to get into
landrum arts" "brian joffrion shreveport la"  "peggy
lee is that all there is”   "rusty reynolds actor bio ny"  
"toussaint mccall - one table away"  "rod
bernard/american bandstand" "gene kent and keel
radio" "hank farrell dj and country singer in the long
view area"  "east texas classic country music his and
hers" "scotti brothers bittersweets"  "pete graves
bummin around"  

Some members of the Sleepy Brown group, including
myself, visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and
TEX RITTER Museum recently.  More on that next
month.



FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN MARCH, 2009

The short month has come and gone.  We are now well into
2009.  Did you hear the falsie report?  Word had it that Dolly
Parton had died.  No truth in it.  She actually has turned the 80s
comedy 9 TO 5 into an even bigger musical stage show!

Local film maker Jeffrey Goodman has started a blog that can
be accessed at:  http://cahierspositif.blogspot.com/.  He has
produced a feature called  Last Lullaby.  Jo Smith who has
played music with Don Davis, Tex Grimsley and Sonny Harville
sent me some pictures.  They will be seen in the archives
section of this site soon.  

KEY words that brought many visitors to this site last month
were -"sentell minden la bossier city la"  "branden killen " “porn
star” “tim hickey”  "tex grimsley" "william holford aca
recordings houston tx" “kcul dream girl“ "letter to my grandson
read on paul harvey" “stan the man“ "who sang the gospel song
river soundtrack on roscoe jenkins" "devil eyes for cabriolet"
"keel radio station shreveport rock and roll history"
"chancellor a-9802" “steel guitar felton” “marie radio lady”  
“Joe and Tony Stampley” "1944 wsm announcer louie
buckhorse" “klco allstars’  "smiling eddie hill" "name of the
singer in the movie the sandpit of generals" "americdisc dist
mendota heights mn" "leader of the pack promo copy" "dandy
don simpson" "shreveport progressive mens club" "hammond
trumpet richard wilcox" "earl hearon" "johnny paycheck in
poteau okla"  "words to hurricane betsy by lightnin hopkins"
homer odum"

One of the people I heard from last month was   Dan
Harville Jr. email = spike@mikeandspike.com     He
commented:  Just wondering if you knew my great uncle  Sonny
Harville?   I have not seen him for over 40 years. I am a DJ on a
country station, have been off and on for 30+ years, I also play
guitar, bass, drums and am teaching myself piano.  YES DAN, I
SEE SONNY REGULARLY.  AS A MATTER OF FACT SONNY
DOES A GOSPEL SONG ON MY SOON TO BE RELEASED CD
CALLED SONG ABOUT DRY PRONG.

All of you extras who worked on THE YEAR ONE .. Did you see
the SUPER BOWL commercial on the film?  Jack Black is one of
the hottest prospects right now, so pat yourself on the back for
getting into that flick.

Little notice was given to the fact that James Whitmore left the
building last month. http://www.imdb.
com/name/nm0926235/  He was on the miracle-grow TV
commercial in recent years and had been in many movies.  He
also did TRUMAN on stage and a WILL ROGERS one man show
that I will always remember.  Also the voice of famed
broadcaster Paul Harvey is stilled forever in February.   Molly
Bee who rose to fame at the tender age of 13 in 1952 with I Saw
Mommy Kissing Santa Claus also left the building.  She was
only 10 when she sang a Hank Williams song on the  Rex Allen
radio show and became an instant favorite.  In the fabulous
50s, she was a sidekick on the Pinky Lee children’s TV show.  

And speaking of children.  Nadya Suleman and her 14 children
went to front page news  when it dawned on  taxpayers that
they would be footing the bill for the hospital.  The average cost
for a premature baby's hospital stay in California is around
$164,273.   Having worked for the Louisiana Child Support
office I can see the system being worked!

How bad is the recession???  Bad enough for the Governor of
California,  Arnold Schwarzenegger  to  make a cameo as
himself in  Sylvester Stallone's upcoming movie,  The
Expendables. The flick is set to begin shooting March 28 in
Brazil and will then move to Louisiana for an additional two
months of filming.

FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN  FEBRUARY 2009
January went by like a flash, so it looks like 2009 won’t be
around for long.  I was contacted  by Malcolm from the UK (
malcy.chapman@btinternet.com).  He said -   I recently picked up
a record by a Donald Adkins on Random Records (Narco County Jail /
Still In Love With You) and was wondering if you knew anything about
him or the musicians playing on the record, where it was recorded etc. Not
for any particular reason, I'm just intrigued by the record. I love finding
these obscure little records and trying to find out who they were, where
they are and, as your publishing company published both sides, I thought
perhaps you would remember him, or when it was recorded or when you
published it etc.

Nice to see Tommy Tomlinson get a mention. As a fan of the Johnny
Horton records, I always wondered who this guy was in the picture. On
some of the recordings Johnny did for Columbia it sounds to me like
Grady Martin on lead guitar but perhaps it was Tommy imitating Grady.

Best regards from the UK,
Malcolm Chapman

I got that picture of Tommy from his son Tommy Tillman Tomlinson.  
Adkins was from Texas and the session was done at Robin Hood Brians
studio.  I didn’t know  Donald Adkins well and have lost track of him.  I
don’t remember the musicians, but it could have been Nat Stuckey’s Sweet
Thangs.

Last month saw MANY extra visitors to this site.  I finally determined
that most of that increase came from the link I have on the FILM page to
Alexandyr Kent’s blog.  He is a writer for the Shreveport Times and is UP
on what’s happening in the ShreveWood film world, so I have the link for
those who forget his web-address.  They can get to his site through my
site.  HE had the video of film star Josh Brolin’s arrest and apparently
everybody wanted to see that video.  Other names that brought people to
my site were -  "phil spector”  “a distinctive sound”   "derrell stephens”
"history of old radio station kent shreveport"  " logan actor"  “rocking in
the rockies”  "buck roberts"  "elvis called her mom on louisiana hayride"  
"johnny o'neill former ktsa and kilt dj" "sherb sentell" "george d'artois"  
"billie jean williams Horton”  "cabriolet music"  "john howe saxophone -
“el dorado casino" "poteau indian territory photo"  “vintage cds
shreveport la”  "kwkh frank page"  "the louisiana boys joe stampley john
fred gg shinn"

I am awaiting the release of my next CD called SONG ABOUT DRY
PRONG around the first of March.  I’m trying something new in that the
CD will be in a cardboard cover, like the old Lps, and not in a jewel case.  
Sonny Harville and the Sonny Harville Singers will be featured on a
gospel song.  The title tune is about Dry Prong, Louisiana which is down
in Grant Parish and it is DRY down there!  

Ellis Starkey, a former local musician now living in Nashville was
mentioned to me recently by W.T. Eason.  There is a link to Starkey’s site
in my Archives section.  The ELVIS CONNECTION SHOW played the
Carson Center in Paducah, KY in January.  Ronnie McDowell did the
vocals with backup from The Stamps Quartet, The Jordanaires, the
beautiful high voice of Millie Kirkham and former Shreveporter, D.J.
Fontana on drums.

JOE STAMPLEY tells me he was in town recently for the JAMES BURTON
Festival and still is talking about the reception.  He informed me that D.J.
Fontana and Wanda Jackson are about to go into the ROCK and
ROLL HALL OF FAME.
Thanks for visiting -

JANUARY 2009 - FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON
Through this web-site, I have been contacted by many of you
about this and that and other things, but I’ve also heard from
the grand-children of many people I knew in my past.   Uncle
Hank Craig who was heard on the Mexican Border station XEG
has a great-grand-daughter and grandson who are seeking
pictures and information that anyone might have on Hank
(Edward G Craig -  egcraig63@aol.com).   Also, the grandson of
B.C. FERRELL  (Steve Ferrell -  steveferrell86@yahoo.com)of
the FERRELL Brothers of Longview, Texas who tore up
audiences in Dallas and Ft. Worth many years ago is looking
for the same.

Van JOHNSON  , the actor with  boy-next-door looks that kept
him a popular Hollywood star of the 50s  left the building.  With
his freckled face, sunny personality and red hair, he starred
opposite June ALLYSON, Elizabeth TAYLOR, Esther WILLIAMS
and many other leading ladies during his MGM years.  At a
Frank Sinatra concert in Miami in the late 60s, he was in the
audience and was introduced from the stage by  Sinatra and the
audience gave him a very receptive show of appreciation.  Stan
Lewis said that Sinatra had a habit of calling up old friends and
actors like Johnson, and if they were not busy with a gig, he’d
fly them to his show and they would visit before and after the
show.  Johnson is probably best remembered for his roles in 30
Seconds over Tokyo and The Caine Mutiny.

I have not done any movies since  LEAVES OF GRASS and THE
YEAR ONE.  My business has expanded to the point now that it
is more difficult to take the time off to do these extra parts.  One
of the movies that I worked in, FRONT OF THE CLASS, was
shown on CBS TV on December 7, 2008 as a Hallmark Movie
feature.  I have been in enough movies now to  have a listing in
the IMDb  movie data base of my own.  There has been one
there for a long time with my picture on it, but the risqué
movies listed were not ones I had appeared in.  Many people
were confused as that actor was  a porn star.  My IMDb
information is at   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3185063/
and  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3185063/resume.

Locally, Johnny Wessler and Jerry Harris have a 2009  
calendar out that lists a different attraction and historical
Shreveport or Louisiana fact for all 365 days of the year. The
Forum Magazine featured it recently.  In addition to the
beautiful monthly photographs, it has over 50 quality smaller
photographs of local people and places along with the
birthdays of some of the more famous Shreveport / Bossier
citizens that are listed at the bottom of the calendar.  To order,
you can contact Johnny at  jwwessler@aol.com.

These are the search words that brought the most  visitors to
this web-site:
"mcalester"  “dancing girls” “tony douglas” “diamond jack”
“diamond dan” "'jeff edmund Shreveport” “rockabilly“ “tim
hickey” “15 to drive the family car” "producer frankie miller
black land farmer tommy hill" “his and hers” “sands singer”
"song in the car scene of the movie you drive me crazy" “stan  
record”  "derrell stephens" “hey mister stan”  “mary ann van
osdell” “cowtown hoedown”  "american bandstand - WFIL
transcription acetate records" “eddie kozak” "t tommy cutrer"
“why am I crying”  "dick clark beech nut kinescope" "rocking in
the rockies dvd" "bill bush combo new years eve"

LUIZ MONTENEGRO (lamsantos@hotmail.com) is looking for
old vinyl on Johnny Rivers from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Be
on the lookout for my new CD soon.  It's called SONG ABOUT
DRY PRONG and features a gospel song at the end by Sonny
Harville and The Sonny Harville Singers.

don@dandydonlogan.com

DECEMBER   2008 - FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON
I have always known there was something special about Robin
Hood Brians.
He’s the studio owner/engineer/musician who helped us so
much with our young and aspiring Paula recording artists
when I was a young VP at the label.  I have not seen or talked to
Robin Hood in many years.  I had occasion to do so the other
day and via cell, I located him standing in the line at a grocery
store with a roast he had just purchased and he was on his way
to visit a friend who had recently lost a loved one.  I did not ask,
but Robin probably cooked and prepared the roast also. I think
that is a special touch and the mark of a man.

FRONT OF THE CLASS on CBS, December 7 has me in the
background scene at the funeral.  This IS a quality movie.  We
film a lot of movies in Louisiana now, but so far we have not
filmed one as big as Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.  We need a
film like that to make the industry know that we are REALLY
here.  We have gotten a lot of bad publicity recently over a local
incident.  On one of the films I did  recently, I was in a setting
with MEAGEN FAY .  She has a list of credit’s a mile long.

I heard from many interesting people this past month through
this site.  One was Glen Craig.   egcraig63@aol.com    Mr.
Logan, You spoke of working at the Cowtown Hoedown with
Uncle Hank Craig.  He was my grandfather.  I never knew him
as he passed away when I was 4 months old. But I have heard a
lot about him. Did you know him long? Thanks!  

Yes, I along with Jack Henderson and Uncle Hank were co-
emcees for that show for a time when I was a DJ at KCUL.  I
also sang on that show.  That was after Hank had left and was
on XEG and one of the smaller area stations.  When he sold out
his part of the Hoedown, he brought me a record on a black
label with silver print by an artist named Willie Nelson.  Since
he was no longer on XEG, he asked if I would play it and I did.  
Your grand-dad made me become the first DJ on a 50,000 watt
station to ever play a Willie Nelson record. Later, when they
hired Willie as guitarist for the Hoedown Band,  Ken “PeeWee”
Short brought Willie by the station.  We had coffee and Willie
thanked me for his first big break, but as I remember it, I was
the one who paid for the coffee!  This was right after HORACE
LOGAN came to KCUL and I was making plans to go into
TOP40 radio.

Our economic situation is hurting a lot of big names.  TIGER
WOODS loses lucrative contract with automaker.  Deidre Hall
and Drake Hogestyn fired from popular daytime soap. At Fox,
the animated comedy KING OF THE HILL, which is in its 13th
year, was cancelled.   Brooke Smith (Dr. Erica Hahn) got the
axe at Grey’s Anatomy!

Search words that brought you to Dandy Don’s web-site this
past month!  
Gautreaux - Pendley Piano Gallery - Jay Brock - j  jack burns
lindenhurst ny - wayne raney at wcky - lyrics to tg shepherds
song devil in the bottle - rusty reynolds willie nelson look like  
rob vardeman  marvin mccullough singer dj - song about
cabriolet  keel radios larry ryan  tex grimsley - frankie spano
and stans records - lisa mcgaha tn - ferrell brothers music - big
d jamboree - edward kozak shreveport la - famous sayings of
george lorenz the houndog -  minden courtroom


Studs Terkel has left the building! He was a  writer and radio
personality and died at  age  96 in his home of Chicago.   When I
was with Stan Lewis in the record business, Stan leased a
master from Studs, who at that time was doing a TV show in
the Chicago area.  Studs sent some of his publicity with the
master and it appears Studs knew everybody.  Nashville
Songwriter Hall of Fame member Danny Dill died recently. And
the Wolf Man may be gone, but he’s BACK with  the Midnight
Special TV series available on DVD!  I tried to obtain copies for
my web-store on this web-site, but was told it is being
merchandised as direct sales only.



NOVEMBER 2008 - FROM the desk of DON LOGAN
These past weeks, I have been contacted through this web-site
by Robert Zickafoose concerning Basil and West Virginia  (Mr.
Logan, I was reading through your website and you mentioned
that you  went to school with a guy by the name of Basil
Zickafoose in West Virginia).  George Bryant wanting
information on the soul DJ Gay Papa (I'm looking for
information about a DJ named Gay Papa. Can you direct me to
where I may find out more about him. I remember him from
when I was a boy growing up here in Shreveport and was
curious as to what became of him, his real name etc.)   Max
Abod asking about George Carlin stories and a Boston Globe
writer, James Sullivan who is writing a book on George Carlin.

Death continues to dominate the local movie-industry news.  
Arkansas  TV Anchor,  Anne Pressly, died from a brutal beating
in her Little Rock, Arkansas home recently.  Earlier, she was
here in Shreveport doing scenes in the movie “W“ where she
was cast as a conservative newswoman.  She worked for the
Little Rock ABC affiliate and  was only 26.  December 7, 2008
on CBS, Front Of The Class will be shown.  Locally filmed, I am
in the funeral scene.

Opening weekend for “W” had it coming in fourth in the
standings bringing in $10.5 million dollars at the box office.  
The movie was rushed out to do some late Bush-Bashing before
the upcoming elections.  I never knew you could get a movie out
this quickly.  Shreveport continues to get a bad ‘rap’ from one
of the stars of “W” on the national talk show scene.  Look folks,
we ARE what we are and when you get to know us, we are
pretty nice.   DON’T try to change us. We accept you as YOU
are, so WHY all this hassle.  As to the way Shreveport officials
handled the situation, I’m sure, if there was wrong-doing, it will
come to light!  

Ryan Glorioso Casting called me to do the extra re-shoots for a
new ending to the film, The Year One.   I spent five full days on
location before they wrapped it at the Sibley Sand Pit in
Webster Parish.  They have constructed a whole town movie
set with lots of sand around it, so we can  even do desert
movies now in North Louisiana.  It’s quite remarkable. On the
set, I ran into several media people including Tony King,
formerly of  KRMD fame and many interesting people. It was
rumored that Mark (In The Dark) Christopher was also there,
but I didn’t run into him. This is the kind of movie where
everyone is costumed with turbans and shawls and nobody in
the background can be recognized!

There is a link on my FILM page of this web-site that will re-
direct you to the Glorioso Web-site.  IF YOU are interested in
being in the movies, you should  register there.  On this past
shoot that I worked on, they used 400 plus extras daily, plus an
additional 120 were added  on one day.  Working as an extra is
hard and you need to be in good health and able to run, walk
and stand for long hours.

I’m working on my new CD that will be out around the first of
the year.  Sonny Harville, former member of the Louisiana
Hayride Band slipped out of retirement to do a recording
session, leading a gospel song with the Sleepy Brown Group for
my next CD.

Here’s what many  typed in the search-box to come to this web-
site last month - morgan choate radio disk jockey"
famous sayings by ann-margret - paul harvey letter to my
grandson - lafayette coowner - susie shams - mary ann van
osdell
Helen Clare France - older radio personalities - shreveport la
gene kent - song in factory girl motorcycle scene"
mechanical license for dvd recordings - derrell stephens bmi -
jeff edmonds shreveport keel kvki"

It’s amazing that the names Jeff Edmond and Melinda keep
popping up.  Jeff died many years ago. Of all the big name DJs
who have worked this area and that includes Wolf Man Jack,
George Carlin, and so many others, Jeff and Melinda still ring a
bell in the heart of the people who listened to them.  They are
probably the best radio team to ever grace this area and
Melinda is still one of my favorites.


OCTOBER 2008 - FROM the desk of   DON LOGAN

Recently, I was in contact with Emily Lehane of the Texas
Association of Broadcasters.  I have written a song about
Rusty Reynolds, a former DJ who went into station ownership.  
He receives a special award at their convention this month and
my song Wrong Side Rusty will be used in the program.  Many
former Shreveport DJ’s are in the Texas Radio Hall of  Fame.  
RUSTY  is already there, as is Wolfman, Chuck Dunaway,  
George Carlin and many others.

The DJ who covered my song Mister Stan, Vicente Zumel
continues to expand and grow on the international market via
his Blues show in Spain.  Lavisa Dunlap, who wrote a song way
back in the 70s that I released on one of the labels I was
associated with,  contacted me with a 'hello' from the past as
did Bill Scally and Pass Porter.

Recently Jerry Reed left the building and I recalled the year I
had gone to Nashville for the old October DJ convention when I
was in the record business with Stan Lewis.  Several of us
record people from various and assorted labels were looking
for something to do and there was a concert by the  Nashville
Symphony or Nashville Pops with Chet Atkins out in front of
the group.  It was a sensational night of entertainment with
Jerry Reed getting up and out of HIS seat, coming on stage and
doing several numbers with Chet and the symphony on the
classical gut-string guitar.  That was one of those times when
something special happened and you just happened to be
there.  It was a highlight in my life that I will never forget.

I  recently did my acting thing in ‘I Hope They Serve Beer In
Hell’, ‘Front of The Class’ and ‘Leaves of Grass’.  You may even
be able to see the old mug in them.  The film industry said
goodbye last month to Paul Newman.  Recently he was in the
movie Road To Perdition and the TV series EMPIRE FALLS.  
When I was in training for my first State of Louisiana job in
Baton Rouge, Newman was filming the movie BLAZE.  My
friend John Fertitta was in that flick, playing in the institution  
scene opposite Paul Newman.  Newman also appeared in a race
at one of the area race tracks during that time. When
something BAD happens, something GOOD usually comes also.
James Dean was signed to star as the disfigured boxer in the
TV adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Battler’ when Dean
died in  1955.  His role was taken by a little-know performer,
Paul Newman.

Charlie Walker, a country singer who appeared on the
Louisiana Hayride many times and was like a fixture in the
Dallas-Fort Worth area music scene  left the building last
month.  His recording of  PICK ME UP ON YOUR WAY DOWN is
a long time favorite and one of the most popular solo numbers
for just about any steel guitar player.

I am working on my next CD that may be released before the
end of the year.  The DANDY SHOP on these web pages
continues to grow with orders this past month to such places
as Coral Springs, FL, Sedona, AZ, Elmira, NY, Fort Worth, TX,
Edison, NJ, Alliance, NE, Portland, OR, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
Jefferson City, TN, Taylorsville, UT, Puyallup, WA,
Parsippany, NJ and Lavon, TX.

Don’t forget our Fun-Test page!!  WIN FREE stuff.

Over the month, people used these search words to
get to this site: Betty Jo Mooring, Lightnin' Hopkins,
Eric J. Brock, Larry Ryan Radio, Jimmy Davis, Jim
Rose, Sleepy, Judge Lisa, Uniques, A Tender Arm,
Black and White, Buck Roberts, Lane, Tomlinson,
Green Frog, Joe Osborn,  D'Artois, Teresa and others.

The information and  memoirs from this  website
have been used in another book.  Remember, if you
use my comments in a book you are writing or film
documentary , proper credit MUST be given.  

don@dandydonlogan.com


SEPTEMBER 2008 -  FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN
Lots of people hitting this site in recent weeks.  One was Jim
Higgins, the mayor of Montgomery, WV., who says:
I ran across your Internet site and noticed you lived in
Montgomery at one time and worked at WMON. My father was
the band director when you were in the band. I am presently
and have been on several occasions, the Mayor of
Montgomery. Just wanted to say "hello" and wish you well.
Regards,
Jim

Search names that brought a lot of people to this site this past
month were:  Marvin Mc Cullough,  Judge Gallagher - All These
Things - Joe Stampley - Rockabilly Cover -  Tim O'Brien -  
Lightnin’ Hopkins -  Betty Jo Mooring - Ron Baxley -  radio-
Brando-Bob Griffin-Lesa McGaha,

Jerry Wexler, a driving force behind Atlantic Records in the
early days has left the building.  Also, two entertainers who
were in Shreveport recently doing pictures have departed the
building.

Jerry Reed who was one of the first rock-a-billy acts on Capital
in the 50s left the building.  I met him in Atlanta, GA when he
was Jerry Hubbard.  He became a master at the guitar and did
the movies, Saturday morning cartoons and had numerous hit
records.

Isaac Hayes who recorded for Stax Records and had out the
1971 movie called SHAFT which won him a grammy died
recently.  My old boss Stan Lewis was a distributor for Stax and
while they were making that movie back in ‘71, they ran into
some cash flow problems.  In case you don’t know it, it takes
big bucks to finance a picture then and now.  So, they sent a
man down to their distributors Shreveport, Dallas and New
Orleans to pick up money.  Memphis had a brand new super-for-
it’s-time airport.  As the fellow was returning with a bag full of
money, the airport security caught sight of the money and all
heck broke loose for awhile, until it was straightened out.  
Hayes was the songwriter for Hold On I’m Coming by Sam and
Dave. Hayes had been in Shreveport recently completing  the
movie "Soul Men," in which he played himself.

That film also starred Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac, who  
also died recently  after a bout with pneumonia. He was quite
well know as host of his own show and one of the actresses I
worked with on a recent film set had worked on his show
several times.


Rusty Reynolds, a former DJ that I worked with here in
Shreveport is to receive a lifetime achievement award at the
Texas Radio Hall Of Fame festivities.  I have written a song
about Rusty called Wrong Side Rusty that is in my Stage Of The
Stars CD and it is going to be a part of the presentation in
October.  Congratulations to Rusty as he HAS done it all in
radio and richly deserves the recognition.

Film wise, I worked for three days in a movie called I Hope
They Serve Beer In Hell filming at the Women’s Department
Club and Centenary College and CBS is filming Front Of The
Class and I worked on that set as an extra one day.  I am
working on my next CD and I have written a song about  Dry
Prong, Louisiana that will be included.

Orders were shipped out this past month to:  Goodyear, AZ,
Bakersfield, CA, Wheat Ridge, CO, Aurora, IL, Prior Lake, MN,  
Forked River, NJ, Morrisonville, NY,  Marseille, 13012 France,
Corrales, NM,  Galena Park, TX, Rialto, CA, Cookeville, TN,
New Paltz, NY, and Kosciusko, MS.

FROM THE DESK OF DANDY DON - AUGUST 2008

One of the GOLDEN GIRLS has left the building.  Estelle Getty,  
who played the crotchety Sophia, died shortly before her 85th
birthday.  The series with Betty White, Rue McClanahan and
Bea Arthur was a hit sit-com of the 80s that crossed over into
the 90s.  The part of Sophia was a minor role to begin with, but
escalated into a full and equal role as the public took to the
feisty mom!

Having worked as an extra on many movie sets now and with
my expertise in old-time radio, I know what it looks like, feels
like and sounds like when two or more people come together
into a programmed situation and they mold and jell together
like the Golden Girls did.  Locally Jeff and Melinda on radio had
that effect on the public.  Carl and Karen and Al and Liz in the
TV anchor spots created the same vibes. I have seen it happen
on local movie sets where the main actors and the background
blend together to make some very good impressionable scenes!

I am working on a new CD of songs that I have written that will
feature some of our local actors and some members of the
Sleepy Brown Group who have “Hayride“ in their background.  
I am also busy with a CD of soundtrack music that you can use
behind your own cam-corder projects and college film projects
on a royalty-free basis.  

On my movie-life side, I worked a movie that is from a book
written by a fellow named Tucker Max.  His best-selling book is
called I Hope They Sell Beer In Hell.  It is also the title of the
movie.  Tucker is also in this movie as an actor. This movie has
a lot of the seven words former Shreveport DJ George Carlin
said you could not say!!!

The next time you view  'Entertainment Tonight', check out host
Mary Hart’s legs!  They are insured by Lloyd's of London.  
Current movies that I have worked on  are: Blonde Ambition,
The Mist, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Harold and Kumar
Escape from Guantanamo Bay and Ruffian.  Ruffian is still
being shown on both ESPN and ABC from time to time.  Of all
the movie scenes I have done, my scene in Ruffian  is the best.  
On the TV movie, I was cut down to just talking with the
handicapper, but on the DVD the scene extends to me moving
back to my seat where a bevy of beauties awaits  me.

In downtown Shreveport, the Robinson Film Center  at 617
Texas Street is now open.   It has two theaters where   classic
cinema, independent and  international  cinema can be seen.   
Abby Singer’s, a full-service bistro and bar is on the 2nd floor
and has the only public dining balcony in Shreveport-Bossier.

Search names that drew many visitors to this site last month
were Vicente Zumel,  Tom Campbell, Bill Scott, George Carlin,
Sentell, Joe Osborn,  Ozzie and Harriet, Shreveport DJ,
Melinda, Rick Nelson, Frank and Helen Page, Sinatra, Tracey E.
W. Laird,  Dale Hawkins,  Gay Papa, John Andrew Prime and  
Lisa McGaha.  Visit the DANDY SHOP on this site.  Credit card
orders are handled safely and securely through Amazon.com.

My latest CD release is STAGE OF THE STARS.  Orders have
gone out this past month to:  Great Mills, MD - Vista, CA -
Ulysses, KS - Hallettsville, TX - Honey Grove, PA - Yucaipa, CA  
- West Hills, CA  - Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235 - Bethlehem, PA 15 -
Putnam Valley, NY  - Knoxville, TN  - Santa Paula, CA  -
Litchfield Park, AZ  - Youngsville, NC - Dulce, NM  - Cupertino,
CA  - Elgin, Tx  - Marlboro, NJ  - New Hartford, NY  - Decatur,
TX  - Fresno, CA - Fort Collins, CO  - Largo, FL  - Logan, UT
Caseyville, IL  - Lindenhurst, NY  - Burghill, OH - New Windsor,
NY - Albuquerque, NM  -

The information and  memoirs from this  website have been
used in another book and one screenplay.  Remember, if you
use my comments in a book you are writing or film
documentary , proper credit MUST be given.  

JULY 2008 -  FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN

A former Shreveport DJ, George Carlin,  has left the building.  
Shreveport remembers  the young man who was stationed at
nearby Barksdale AFB and  worked part-time for at least two
stations in the area.  Carolyn Babin who worked radio before,
during and after my radio career here saw him several times
when she worked at  KENT radio where he worked nights on
weekends.  However, it was at KJOE that Carlin was the
subject of an AP news release on being the first DJ and station
to play a new unreleased ELVIS record anywhere in the states,
thanks to former local record baron, Stan Lewis.

Even with the success Carlin had in the entertainment business,
he did not forget many of the locals and kept in touch.   I came
to the market in 1959 and he had left in 1957.  He and Jack
Burns, a newscaster and comedian wound up working at KXOL
in Ft. Worth and from there they went to California as a
nightclub team.  His Hippy-Dippy-Weatherman is said by
some, to be loosely based on former Louisiana weatherman Al
Bolton and in another of his recorded routines he mentioned
Louisiana DJ, singer and songwriter Rod Bernard.


I found information on the web that indicates he sold over 85
million records and still ranks as Billboard magazine’s most
popular single country artist of all time.  In the early days of
black and white TV, it was Eddy Arnold who was the summer
replacement for the hot shows.  He could do what a lot of
country acts of the day could not do and that was sing with a
big band behind you on the variety shows.  RCA even paired
Eddy with Jaye P. Morgan for several sides of highly collectible
material.  Radio is a strange vehicle and in the early days for
your name to be remembered, you had to have a distinct
second moniker that made it easy for new fans to remember
you.  Mine was Dandy Don, instead of just plain Don Logan.  
Eddy Arnold’s was “The Tennessee Plowboy”.
Eddy Arnold has also left the building.  He was one of the first
SMOOTH country singers.  I never met Arnold, but his
comment to the audience on his acceptance to the Country
Music Hall of Fame turned me into a fan when he said,   “I never
wanted the accolades .. I just wanted to sing”!

Tim O’Brien, going for his doctorate, came to Shreveport
recently to interview Stan Lewis, former owner of Stan’s
Record Shops and the internationally known recording
companies, Jewel, Paula and Ronn labels.  I was there also to
answer some questions for Tim about Lightnin’ Hopkins.  Local
author and journalist Mary Ann Van Osdell also interviewed
me recently about entertainment in general and got me to
talking about that era of my life more than I usually do.

Tim O’Brien, going for his doctorate, came to Shreveport
recently to interview Stan Lewis, former owner of Stan’s
Record Shops and the internationally known recording
companies, Jewel, Paula and Ronn labels.  I was there also to
answer some questions for Tim about Lightnin’ Hopkins.  Local
author and journalist Mary Ann Van Osdell also interviewed
me recently about entertainment in general and got me to
talking about that era of my life more than I usually do.

Five years in the works and it is now here in downtown
Shreveport, the Robinson Film Center.  Located at 617 Texas
Street, it has two theaters that show  independent,
international, and classic cinema.  The only public dining
balcony in Shreveport-Bossier is there too, in  Abby Singer’s, a
full-service bistro and bar.

Don’t forget to check out the DANDY WEB SHOP for  CD’s,
books and movies that I am in and other top movies, vinyl and
CD’s.  Credit card orders are handled securely  by Amazon.
com.  I shipped orders this past month to -  Nashville, TN,  
Napa, CA, Wentzville, MO, Staten Island, NY, New Orleans, LA,
Edmonds, WA, Magnolia, TX, Issaquah, WA and many other
points around the world.  Thanks!

The information and  memoirs from this  website have been
used in 2 more books.  Remember, if you use my comments in a
book you are writing , proper credit MUST be given.  BILL
SCOTT, a former local DJ and TV dance host, has a web-site in
Las Vegas.

Some of the names that brought browsing individuals to my
web-site this past month were  Lesa McGaha, Bob Griffin, Nat
Stuckey Band Members, Bill Mack, George Carlin, Sleepy
Brown,  Jimmie Davis, Jeff and Melinda,  Ray Bartlett, Hub
Brando, Rod Bernard, Ed Hamilton, George Clinton,  Melinda
Coyer, Officer Harvey SPD , Carl Pendley Piano, Deborah
Filcoff and Sherb Sentell.

MAY-JUNE 2008 - FROM THE DESK OF DON LOGAN

SHREVEPORT SOUNDS IN BLACK AND WHITE has just been
published  by University Press of Mississippi.  This is an
interesting book on area music and people who made it happen
by Kip Lornell and Tracey E. W. Laird..  There is a full chapter  
in this book devoted to my days in radio  as Dandy Don.   Kip
and Tracey were nice enough to  list me in the credits as a lot of
the material from my web-site was used in their book. There is
a great section on Stan Lewis of Stan’s Record Shops and Jewel-
Paula-Ronn Records.  Stan had mentioned my name in the
section about him and on the back cover of the book and it
seems many journalists and people thought I was dead.   So,
Kip throws that rumor out the door in this new book.  You will
recognize many other local names mentioned in this book and
there is a section by journalist John Andrew Prime.    This 350
page soft back book is available from local book stores and the
1DANDY1 store on this web-site by clicking on the Dandy
Store.  It is published by the University of Mississippi Press.  
Meanwhile, Tim O'Brien came up from Houston last weekend
and talked to Stan and I about Texas Bluesman Lightnin'
Hopkins who recorded for Stan.

The name RUSTY REYNOLDS RADIO is used by a great
percentage of you who visited this site recently. There is a song
in my latest CD called WRONG SIDE RUSTY that just happens
to be about that guy.  However, most people refer to it as the
AGGIE song.  Rusty is a great over-all radio man having done it
all, from DJ to station owner.  

In my latest CD called STAGE OF THE STARS, there is an
instrumental version of my song MISTER STAN, Part 2,  which
was the title tune of my first CD.  It is done by Vicente Zumel of
Barcelona, Spain.  It seems just about everyone around the
world knows of this personality and the track does cook.  
Record labels  can contact me or Vicente about leasing this cut
for use on your own compilations.

This site puts us back in contact with a lot of former musicians
and people from the area, like ELLIS STARKEY.     Starkey
comments:   The first dance I ever played drums was in 1966.
You were  the  DJ.  Felt like the BIGTIME!  I played with "The
Empty Hearts" and  seems like it was at St. Teresa's CYO in
Shreveport.  What FUN!!!  I  always enjoyed you on KEEL. The
last time I saw you was when the Rogue  Show signed with
Paula in 1970. Check these out  go to www.youtube.com ,   put
Rogue Show in search box. We have 3 "videos". Also check out  
www.butchandjean.com , my wife Jean and I (Butch) perform
original comedy and  music. Best of the best to you!!!

For radio news, go to Jim ROSE.
http://news.jimroseremembersradio.com

I have four CDs out now and  business is picking up.  Orders
were shipped this past month to many places in the continental
US and outside, including Fairless Hill, PA, Beverly, KY,
Mountain View, CA, Yorktown, VA, Ooltewah, TN, Eureka, CA,
Portland, OR, Port Reading, NJ, Knoxville, IA, Carol Stream, IL,
Sault Sainte Marie, MI, Brattleboro, VT, Taylors, SC,   Blue Eye,
MO and Oro Valley, AZ.

MARCH-APRIL 2008... from the desk of Don Logan

I had web-site contact in February  from a lot of people.  Brent
and Duncan Stephens, bothers, now living in Texas, who used
to listen to Dandy Don on the radio when they were just
youngsters.  Heard from George Pattison concerning the
Louisiana group Mitch and the Misties, one of the great college
bands of the 60s. They worked out of Northwestern  and the
personnel consisted of William (Bill) Mitchell, vocals - Sam
Jacobs, guitar and vocals - Carlton Basco, organ - Benny
Powell, bass and organ - Toby Cooper and Gary Stratton,
Saxophones.   Toby Cooper taught for many years, owned and
operated Toby’s Night Club, which was the former North
Shreveport  landmark known as the Stage Door,  and fronted
several different bands in the area.  At Sansone’s, a former
premier eatery and music showcase,  he was a particular  
favorite with a Dixie Land group.  One of the highlights of their
act was marching from the bandstand    with Clarinet,
Trombone and other instruments through the supper club
portion of the restaurant, entertaining the dining patrons there,
and then returning to the bandstand without missing a beat,
which was pretty remarkable.  The bass and piano man
remained on stage to keep the beat going.  Toby is still active in
music with a web-site at www.tobycoopermusic.com

The names Joe Monroe, Frank Page, Vito Cefalu, Elvis, Sonny
Harville, James Burton, Eric J. Brock, Stan Lewis, Bob Griffin,
Joe Osborn and others led 20 % or more of the searches to my
web-site this past month.  Joe Monroe with daytime station,
KJOE, was the number one Top 40 station in the market before
Gordon McLendon brought KEEL to life, back during the reign
of AM radio in the 50‘s.  Vito Cefalu ran Sansone‘s Restaurant
with his daddy, Mr. Tony.  Sonny Harville, is a well known
musician on the Louisiana Hayride,  former DJ and announcer
for the short-lived New Louisiana Hayride at the Benton Road
location.  Eric Brock is a respected journalist, writer and
author who has regular columns in one of our local papers.  
There are statues of ELVIS and James Burton at the entrance of
the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport.  Bob Griffin is the
longest visible TV personality to ever be seen in this area, while
Stan Lewis built a record empire out of Stan’s Record Shop. Joe
Osborn played bass at the end of every episode of the Ozzie and
Harriet TV Show when a young RICKY NELSON sang. Frank
Page is the dean of Louisiana radio personalities, being on the
air longer than any other radio star.  He has  a new book called
Frank and Helen Page, 50 years at KWKH.

And speaking of books, SHREVEPORT SOUNDS IN BLACK
AND WHITE has just been published  by University Press of
Mississippi.  This is an interesting book on area music and
people who made it happen by Kip Lornell and Tracey E. W.
Laird.  There are several pages in a small section of this book
devoted to Dandy Don and Kip and Tracey were nice enough to  
list me in the credits also. There is a great section on Stan
Lewis of Stan’s Record Shops and Dale Hawkins.   You will
recognize many other local names mentioned in this book and
there is a section by journalist John Andrew Prime.  He is great
at writing stories assigned to him but,  it is so good to read his
words about what he knows and has seen in the entertainment
world.  Incidentally, both books, Shreveport Sounds in Black
and White and Frank and Helen Page, 50 Years at KWKH, both
correct the anecdote that Jim Reeves got to SING on the
Hayride because Hank Williams Sr., was too drunk to perform.  
This 350 page soft back book can be purchased from this web-
site.  

For you record collectors, the Former World-Famous DJ Vinyl
page is back on this site.  There are many collectible vinyl
treasures from my days as a DJ  and other collections from
notable DJs.  My new CD, released at the end of 2007, Stage of
the Stars is doing well.  Vicente Zumel is getting a lot of
comment with his version of Mister Stan, part 2, which is in
that CD.  And the song called YOU HAD TO BE 15 is being well-
received.  

On the local music scene, the most popular group I would say
is,  the Harmon Drew Super Group, while the most popular
regularly performing  bands are the Bill Bush Combo and the
Bluebirds.  Buddy Flett of that group  is having health
problems.  CLAUDE KING celebrated his  birthday on February
24th at a Louisiana Hayride Party at the Shreveport Municipal
auditorium. There is a song in my new CD called THE
MUNICIPAL that is about that famous place.

Jim Rose, former area radio man, has a regularly released JIM
ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO newsletter out of Houston, that is
now available FREE at his new site …….
http://news.jimroseremembersradio.com

I have four CDs out now and my business is picking up.  Orders
were shipped this past month to many places in the continental
US and outside, including East China, MI.,  Rogers, AR.,
Brightwood, VA., Flint, MI, Salem, OR., Westford, MA,
Margate, FL., Half Moon Bay, CA., Sano, Tochigi, Japan and
Shreveport, LA.

MARCH 2008 - FILM TALK....

Want to get into the movies.  Look for the OPEN casting calls
and GO!  There is a local meet-up the first Tuesday of each
month  in Building D or other announced location on the
Bossier Parish Community College campus.  The program is
hosted by Clare France of the Robinson Film Center.  Check
their web-site for up to the minute information..  BPCC has
many courses for acting and related movie industry positions.
Larry Powell, Dean of the telecommunications department, can
tell you more on what they offer.

Early last year, I did several days filming on “Blonde Ambition”
with Jessica Simpson.    It was cold then and I am only briefly
seen as I buried my face in the scarf, heavy overcoat with  high
collar  I was wearing.  That film never went to the theaters, but
is out on DVD.  Ms.  Simpson has been here twice to make
movies.  She also is contemplating a country CD.  Many of the
local extras, including me, are in THE MIST, now making the
rounds of the theaters.

Recently, on March 2-3-4 and 5, I was filmed as an extra on the
Michael Douglas film BARD (Beyond A Reasonable Doubt) in
the Courtroom scenes.  Dina Merrill, an actress with miles of
movies behind her, and one of the backers for this film, was on
the set.  I sat next to her for a short time. There are many other
films being shot here and some big ones coming down the pike.  
BARD is a re-make of a 50’s film and is set in Shreveport.  The
New Bossier Parish Courthouse courtrooms were used for the
courtroom scenes.   Arlena Acree of the Mayor’s office has a
scene in another part of this film which should be released later
this year.

On the set, gossip had the local eatery who gave the king
treatment to Ice Cube recently,  telling the Michael Douglas
entourage, there would be a 40 minute wait as they would not
upset their customers who were personal friends.  Needless to
say, that place did not get their  business.  I don’t think, if I had
been waiting  there in line,  I would have been upset that a well-
known actor was eating at the same place I did.   As a matter of
fact, that would take a back-seat to any feeling of injustice of
his being seated before me, by my being able to tell the  story
to  the grand kids.  Douglas filmed this part of the film in the
four days he was here, and again, on the set gossip had him
making four million dollars for the picture.

We had a great bunch of extras, but of course there were a few
who did not honor the signed code on behavior, and that makes
us all look bad to the crew and casting agents who put us
there.  One extra passed out and required medical attention.
Several others were dismissed for not adhering to the rules for
EXTRAS,  including cell phones ringing in the middle of a scene
and taking unauthorized pictures.  When you spend four days
with people you don’t normally work with, don’t know
personally, or don’t know at all, tempers can flare, BUT thank
goodness you can never tell it in the finished movie.  I found
out, on set, that Olivia Newton-John did some local soundtrack
recording with Dana Mc Common of Fairfield Sound, when she
was in town filming.  I have used Dana’s studio in my music
business.

THE DANDY SHOP, online music, movie and book shop is now
on this web-site and you can order a selection of new and used
merchandise online, safely and securely via credit card.

February 2008.... from the desk of Don Logan
My new CD is called STAGE OF THE STARS and is  available
from this web-site for only $8.00 postpaid to USA, autographed
if you desire.  Two of the songs, STAGE OF THE STARS and
THE MUNICIPAL are about the Municipal Auditorium in
Shreveport, Louisiana.  This beautiful building sports a new
statue of Elvis at the entrance and across the way, one of
James Burton, the lead guitarist of Elvis' band for many years.

The Municipal, one of the songs in my new album mentions
Elvis and several other great Hayride stars by name.  Elvis
appeared on her stage many times.   The Frontier in Las Vegas
where Elvis appeared in the fifties is no more.  A few years
back the tin building in Dallas, known as the Sportatorium fell
victim to the wrecking ball.  It was home to the Big D Jamboree
for years, and yes, Elvis appeared there two times. Thanks to
the friends of the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium,  our
building stands proud and tall.

In my Stage Of The Stars CD there is a song  called UNSUNG
SONGS.   This is a song about Hank Williams Sr. It details the
West Virginia connection, where he was very popular.  I lived
in Montgomery, WV for several years, long after Hank's death
and the people there felt left out of  reporting of his death and
the sensation surrounding it.  He was scheduled to perform on
New Year's Eve in Charleston.   There were plans to turn the
Pure Oil Station in Oak Hill, WV  into a Hank Williams
Museum.  In the end, the plan was scuttled and the Pure Oil
Station where Hank's driver pulled in, asking for directions to
the hospital, was razed.  This is the same station where Hank's
brand-new, baby-blue Cadillac  was stored until the family
could pick it up.

This CD has some  good solid country type tunes included.  
They are: COLD AS DECEMBER - LAND OF LOVE - FROM A
TENDER ARM - I FEEL THE ASHES - WHEN YOU SMILE by Jo
Morris - STAGE OF THE STARS and  THE MUNICIPAL, which
features a female solo by Cindy Lane-Adams and a fine steel
guitar ride by Derrell Stephens. In this new CD, a song  WRONG
SIDE RUSTY, is  one of those personal experience songs I come
up with.   This deals with an actual person I worked with,  
Rusty Reynolds.   He was a DJ and music director, who  later
went into sports and then radio ownership and is in the Texas
radio hall of fame. There are some who are calling this song
AGGIE MUSIC!     I wrote a song about a co-workers  dog  called
Harry The Dancing Dog and the song called You Had To Be 15
has a great guitar ride by Earl Hearon.  An instrumental in the
CD by Vicente Zumel from Barcelona, Spain is a knocked-out
toe-tapper called Mister Stan, part 2.

In my movie career, I am in a brief visible scene in Stephen
King's THE MIST which is now making the theaters and  am
invisible  in  Blonde Ambition  with Jessica Simpson, a DVD just
released.  Minden, Louisiana becomes Minden, Oklahoma in
that film and Willie Nelson plays pa-paw.   I also had a small
part in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins which is being released
to  the movie houses this month.  My best movie scene so far
was in the TV Movie and DVD,  RUFFIAN.  One last thing on
music .. The Eagles, who have not made a recording in years,  
are back and hitting.  The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bon Jovi and
Sting have also had success with country flavored songs and
this could be a trend for 2008.  My music business continues to
grow with orders shipped last month to Houston, TX,
Albrightsville, PA, Kalamazoo, MI, Adelaide South Australia,
Wheaton, Il, Eugene, OR, Framington, MA, Red Bluff, CA,
Yuma, AZ, Birmingham, AL, Hopkinton, MA,  and many other
locales.

Got queries this past month to this web-site concerning  Mitch
&  The Misties,  Stan Lewis,  Sonny Harville, Sansone's,  Joe
Stampley,  Legend of Boggy Creek,  Bob Griffin,  Randy
Traywick  Travis,  and Hub Brando.

FEBRUARY 2008 FILM TALK
This month in Shreve-Wood and coming up...........

The movie industry may have found a local hero in Alexandyr
Kent.  He  did some great writing on several stories
surrounding the new Stephen King movie THE MIST which was
produced and filmed here locally!  I was one of the many extras
in this movie and Kent wrote a nice piece with picture in the
Sunday Times prior to the opening of the movie.  It now has
opened and is being shown locally and nationally. Kent’s
accounts certainly propelled the momentum and excitement
around the film, locally.  His blog LINK is listed above and
below for late film news.

Want to be in the MOVIES?????  Actors wanting to get into the
movies can attend the meet-up, the first Tuesday of every
month in Building D on the Bossier Parish Community College
campus.  The program is hosted by Clare France of the
Robinson Film Center.  The new Robinson Film Center  will be
completed later this year and it will become a center for local
film people.  BPCC has many courses for acting and related
movie industry positions.  JEFFREY GOODMAN will be
teaching a film course at both LSUS and BPCC.

The locally made DEBATERS with Denzel Washington, could
possibly be the BIG  ONE, the blockbuster that lets the world
know we are here in North Louisiana and taking care of
business in Hollywood South.  I am told that Millennium  
Studios still plans to build a studio here.

New Orleans had several blockbusters made there before
Katrina hit.  We have played host to some successful, money
making movies in our area, but so far, no Gone With The Wind.  
Movie wise,  we continue to grow with  one local church set to
get into the family type film business by year's end.

I have not shot any movies recently and I am unseen in the
DVD, Blonde Ambition,   which has just been  released  in
January.  However, my dark overcoat, gloves, scarf and my
warm  smoking breath CAN be seen.  In that DVD, Minden,
Louisiana becomes Minden, Oklahoma and Willie Nelson got
the part I wanted.   Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins will hit the
movie theaters this month and I was an extra actor in it also.  
There are movies constantly being filmed here in the area and
extras are always needed.  There are many actor workshops
and acting classes being offered by  gifted actors/actresses
and local and regional colleges.

The DVD Ruffian  is  available for sale from this site. In this
movie and DVD,   I have two clear facials. The first one in the
Janney scene at 10:43 into chapter 4 at right top discussing the
race with  a handicapper, with my race program in hand, then
shaking hands and rushing over to left screen  to join some
lady friends.  The lady friends ending was not in the TV movie
but, is in the DVD, where I have a  second visual shot at 1:06:50
in chapter 17, after the break-down, when Nack (Frank Whaley)
runs into me as he is rushing to get to the track.

The movie industry is not all about the STARS, but when a
young person has worked their way up and he dies young, like
Heath Ledger, there is a jarring effect, the same kind of effect
that we felt back when James Dean left the building.

My new CD of songs that I have written and sing, along with
some friends, has been released and  is being well-received.  
The new CD is called STAGE OF THE STARS which is the stage
inside the Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, where many
famous country entertainers once played.  Since Dawn
Landrum of Landrum ART LA did my head shot for the casting
companies, I used two of her pictures on the cover on this latest
CD.  Comments are good about her work and the cover design.

Local movie world.
My first encounter with the movie world was back
when Hurricane Betsy did so much damage to the
New Orleans area in the 60s. They held the world
premier of the movie CINCINNATI KID with Ann
Margret, Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson and
Karl Malden in New Orleans  and I was there as a
member of the media.  It was a blast to interview
these stars.  McQueen didn't make it.  We didn't
know it then, but his health had already started to
fail.

Now that the MOVIEWORLD has come to this area
and I have had the distinct pleasure of working on
several of the sets, I have heard many extras
griping about not being seen in the final takes.  
Well, stop griping because that's a sure way to
make the local casting agencies lose your number.  
The directors and AD's don't have time to listen to
you complain.

I know a lot of you have great acting ability and it is
true, you don't get a chance to shine when you are an
extra.  Wanna-be actors have been asked to leave if
they try to stand out too much when they are
employed as an extra.  Just do what the director tells
you to do, when he tells you.  Learn to follow
directions.  It's important.

If you are one who is serious about  a future in
acting, be prepared.  Take a course at a local college
or  go to some acting workshops.  You have to look at
this as a professional and if you get the big break,
you may only have that one chance to prove you
have the stuff it takes, so you should be prepared to
impress somebody.
Photo courtesy of THE STATIC.  J. Pete Hopkins,
editor
DANDY DON at KTCS AM, Ft. Smith, Arkansas.   
He was a rock and roll DJ for 1 1/2 hours daily.  
Success felt good and he moved  on to Texas
Top-40 Radio.
PAUL REVERE AND THE RAIDERS AT    
HIRSCH with Larry Ryan, Ron Gray and
Dandy Don. Photo by Terry Atwood.
DANDY DON WITH REX AND KEVIN OF  
LOUISIANA PUBLIC TV DURING SHOOTING
OF MAKING WAVES - THE LOUISIANA RADIO
STORY!  Photo by Betty Jo Mooring.
THE HILLBILLY  CAT
HORACE (Elvis has left the building)LOGAN
MONA BATEMAN was barely a teen when the
picture above was taken at a photo kiosk as
Johnny Horton and his band  finished up their
last gig in Austin, Texas at the Skyline.  
Mona's daddy had played drums for the Horton
troupe. After this picture was taken, Johnny
started his trip back to Shreveport.  This was
the last photo ever taken of the Singing
Fisherman.
Photo (C)2009 - Mona Bateman
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(above) In 2008, old friends Sonny Harville, Don Davis
and Jo Smith got together to relive some music!
Don Logan's last job with the
State of Louisiana was in the
Webster Parish Court with
Hearing Officer Lesa McGaha.   
ADA Sherb Sentell was called to
serve his country.  He is pictured
here at Ziggurat.
EARLY COUNTRY BAND (left to right)
Don Davis, bass-Sonny Harville & Tex
Grimsley, fiddles- Bob Moore, guitar-Jo
Smith, guitar.
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DANDY DON at St. Theresa's CYO Record Hop
and King and Queen finals.
SOUTHERN   PLAYBOYS
Bill Cunningham, Parks Todd, Wendell Cunningham, Bud
Orr and Jo Smith.
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Don Davis - Circa 1950s
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HOLLYWOOD RANGERS with Jo Smith, Don Davis,
Tex Grimsley, Arky and Lois Clark..
WISTER, OKLAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL BAND - MY
COUSIN JEANNE FREE-BALLEW WAS A
MAJORETTE (R-next to drum)!  I WAS 9TH CHAIR
CLARINET (2nd from end last left row) AND IN THE
3RD GRADE.
TOMMY TOMLINSON - played with
many bands on the Hayride.  He Is
most remembered as Johnny
Horton's guitar man.  Photo
courtesy of Tommy "T" Tomlinson.
8th Air Force Dance Band. Josey Smith is shown on far
left.  (C) 2010 J.Smith
(Below) DON with local songwriter NOLEN BROWN
A Texas band chillin' out before Louisiana Hayride
show.  Jimmie Martin is shown far right.
At KCUL Penthouse studios, Ft. Worth,
Tx: Don with Claude Gray, the recording
artist who later would record Family
Bible and I'll Just Have A Cup Of Coffee
on Mercury and Hank Harrell, a DJ and
artist/songwriter from New Mexico.
Photo by Edythe B. Stringer
A Poster from one of the many live music
dances I presented after the sock-hop faded.
2011 was a GOOD year for Miranda
Lambert from nearby East Texas.