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Ouch!

The talent from UNT could be a thread all its own:

http://northtexan.unt.edu/notable-famous-alumni/music

How did we slight the greatest country singer ever, the real George, George Jones

Born in Saratoga, Texas, the Possum was once married to Tammy Wynette and they were known as the King and Queen of Country Music.

Houston Kashmere IS Soul Thunder Stage Band
Proto- Funk at its best! Had a killer basketball team too. They were at the Dr. Pepper Tournament in Dallas and came in wearing candy-apple red matching suits!

Another Texan (from Sherman) who was as hot a country star as there was in his time. When teamed with Don Rich had an endless string of hits. He went on to host Hee Haw for the longest run in television history. After Rich's death in a motorcycle accident Buck never had another hit.

In 1988, Dwight Yoakum asked Buck (his idol) to sing with him on his record of "Streets of Bakersfield " and it went to number one.

The day Black Sabbath came to Dallas - and nobody knew!



Old Midway buddy was working for Showco then so I just got off the PM horn with him, asked him if he was there, "No but I was working for Showco. Showco used McFarland for rehearsals or auditions sometimes. I saw the Rolling Stones at McFarland. It was word of mouth only the day of show and they called themselves the London Green Shoed Cowboys."

Born in Wood County, Texas, Ray Price was blessed with maybe the best voice in country music. Later in his career he began singing ballads and Tony Bennett commented that Ray's voice rivaled Sinatra's or his own.

Hank Thompson was born in Waco, Texas and graduated from Waco, Texas. He and his Brazos Valley Boys had one of the most successful runs in the history of country music being named Country Band of the Year 14 years in a row by Billboard magazine. He was popular for decades and played his last concert in Waco just six days before he died at the age of 82.

He was the inspiration for the movie, Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges

Gene Autry was the original Singing Cowboy. Born in Tioga, Texas, he was king of Western movies. In addition, he wrote and made popular Christmas songs such as "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ", Frosty the Snowman " and "Here comes Santy Claus ". Later on he owned the California Angels baseball club.

And from Copeville, Texas . . . Charlie Walker

Born in Ralls, Texas and raised in the Methodist Home in Waco, Billy Walker had a big hit singing "Cross the Brazos at Waco "

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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My father is one of Ernest Tubb's biggest fans! Consequently, I'm one of his youngest. These songs are my formative years. Thanks for bringing them back!

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Hank Thompson was born in Waco, Texas and graduated from Waco, Texas. He and his Brazos Valley Boys had one of the most successful runs in the history of country music being named Country Band of the Year 14 years in a row by Billboard magazine. He was popular for decades and played his last concert in Waco just six days before he died at the age of 82.

He was the inspiration for the movie, Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges

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Talked to a guy yesterday who's working to get a street named for Hank here, over near his childhood home.

Good grief!
How could you get to three freaking pages and not mention the best Texas live band I ever saw perform, the Fabulous Thunderbirds?
This is one of the greatest songs ever written, IMO.
Never heard a better description of a hot-looking woman put to music.

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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Stranger said:

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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Thumbs up for Riverside Hall.

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Good grief!
How could you get to three freaking pages and not mention the best Texas live band I ever saw perform, the Fabulous Thunderbirds?
This is one of the greatest songs ever written, IMO.
Never heard a better description of a hot-looking woman put to music.

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dude! We've been waiting for you!

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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I saw him once at Vernon's Dine & Dance in Strawn.

As for Riverside Hall in East Barnyard (Bernard), I attended many dances there in my junior high and high school years with my cousins from Hungerford and Wharton (my Mother is from Hungerford). Great memories of Freddy Koenig and the Jades and the Master Sounds. The place was circular and had a big wooden pole right in the middle of room holding up the roof like a circus tent. Typical Bohunk dance hall.

Though I saw these two bands several times, my highlight had to be a battle dance one night between B.J. (Thomas) and his Triumphs and Roy Head and the Traits.

It was cool. The Triumphs would play a song, then the Traits would play one. Couldn't tell you who one the battle. Since I was watching, I think I did. Here they are:

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forza orsi said:

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Stranger said:

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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I saw him once at Vernon's Dine & Dance in Strawn.

As for Riverside Hall in East Barnyard (Bernard), I attended many dances there in my junior high and high school years with my cousins from Hungerford and Wharton (my Mother is from Hungerford). Great memories of Freddy Koenig and the Jades and the Master Sounds. The place was circular and had a big wooden pole right in the middle of room holding up the roof like a circus tent. Typical Bohunk dance hall.

Though I saw these two bands several times, my highlight had to be a battle dance one night between B.J. (Thomas) and his Triumphs and Roy Head and the Traits.

It was cool. The Triumphs would play a song, then the Traits would play one. Couldn't tell you who one the battle. Since I was watching, I think I did. Here they are:

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The Triumphs played there all the time. My era was after BJ Thomas had an ugly falling out with the Triumphs and Don Drachenberg was their lead singer. "Drach" was also my American History teacher. A really good teacher and really good singer. You could get him off on a BJ Thomas rant in class from time to time though. Not that we would try to do that. :-) I saw Drach at my high school reunion last year and he is still performing with the Triumphs, all these years later.

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forza orsi said:

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Stranger said:

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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I saw him once at Vernon's Dine & Dance in Strawn.

As for Riverside Hall in East Barnyard (Bernard), I attended many dances there in my junior high and high school years with my cousins from Hungerford and Wharton (my Mother is from Hungerford). Great memories of Freddy Koenig and the Jades and the Master Sounds. The place was circular and had a big wooden pole right in the middle of room holding up the roof like a circus tent. Typical Bohunk dance hall.

Though I saw these two bands several times, my highlight had to be a battle dance one night between B.J. (Thomas) and his Triumphs and Roy Head and the Traits.

It was cool. The Triumphs would play a song, then the Traits would play one. Couldn't tell you who one the battle. Since I was watching, I think I did. Here they are:

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The Triumphs played there all the time. My era was after BJ Thomas had an ugly falling out with the Triumphs and Don Drachenberg was their lead singer. "Drach" was also my American History teacher. A really good teacher and really good singer. You could get him off on a BJ Thomas rant in class from time to time though. Not that we would try to do that. :-) I saw Drach at my high school reunion last year and he is still performing with the Triumphs, all these years later.

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Where did you grow up?

My Mother and cousins saw the Triumphs a couple of years ago at a gala in Wharton. I thought BJ was with them. Maybe they patched it up. The video I posted was made fairly recently in LaGrange.

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forza orsi said:

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Stranger said:

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Born in Crisp, Texas in Ellis County, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours were the kings of the dance halls and honkey tonks.

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I'm a huge ET fan. Saw him live a couple of times at Riverside Hall in East Bernard, our regular weekend hangout in my high school days. A great old-time dance hall that burned a few years after I got out of school.

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I saw him once at Vernon's Dine & Dance in Strawn.

As for Riverside Hall in East Barnyard (Bernard), I attended many dances there in my junior high and high school years with my cousins from Hungerford and Wharton (my Mother is from Hungerford). Great memories of Freddy Koenig and the Jades and the Master Sounds. The place was circular and had a big wooden pole right in the middle of room holding up the roof like a circus tent. Typical Bohunk dance hall.

Though I saw these two bands several times, my highlight had to be a battle dance one night between B.J. (Thomas) and his Triumphs and Roy Head and the Traits.

It was cool. The Triumphs would play a song, then the Traits would play one. Couldn't tell you who one the battle. Since I was watching, I think I did. Here they are:

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The Triumphs played there all the time. My era was after BJ Thomas had an ugly falling out with the Triumphs and Don Drachenberg was their lead singer. "Drach" was also my American History teacher. A really good teacher and really good singer. You could get him off on a BJ Thomas rant in class from time to time though. Not that we would try to do that. :-) I saw Drach at my high school reunion last year and he is still performing with the Triumphs, all these years later.

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Where did you grow up?

My Mother and cousins saw the Triumphs a couple of years ago at a gala in Wharton. I thought BJ was with them. Maybe they patched it up. The video I posted was made fairly recently in LaGrange.

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Sugar Land, back when it was a little town. It was an FFA school with an on-campus rodeo arena, and a school sponsored rodeo every spring. I think that I heard that the Triumphs and BJ did patch things up. I haven't seen them perform since the late 70's. I saw Drach at my 40th reunion, but he was just there to visit, not to perform, so I don't really know if BJ is with them these days.

By the way, in the video you posted, Drachenberg is in the black t-shirt and black cap. The one yelling "what do you really feel?" at about 8:00

I always thought Roy Head's gyrations were just weird.

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As for Riverside Hall in East Barnyard (Bernard), I attended many dances there in my junior high and high school years with my cousins from Hungerford and Wharton (my Mother is from Hungerford). Great memories of Freddy Koenig and the Jades and the Master Sounds. The place was circular and had a big wooden pole right in the middle of room holding up the roof like a circus tent. Typical Bohunk dance hall.

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Here's a picture of it, the top one, that burned in 1987. It was probably quite a fire. There wasn't one thing in it that wasn't 80 year old wood. The left side in the photo that looked more like an old country church was for concessions and the round dance hall was the right side.
http://www.riversidehall.org/pics.htm

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I always thought Roy Head's gyrations were just weird.

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He was the hillbilly James Brown.

Pecos 45 said:

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Roy Rogers said:

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I always thought Roy Head's gyrations were just weird.

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He was the hillbilly James Brown.

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One of the members of my Memories of Dallas Facebook page - and Dallas WW Samuel alum - (hint, its not the brit)

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One of the members of my Memories of Dallas Facebook page - and Dallas WW Samuel alum - (hint, its not the brit)

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Actually, England Dan was no Brit. He was Dan Seals from Sidney, Texas in Comanche County. His brother, Jimmy Seals teamed up with Dash Crofts from Cisco, Texas across the county line in Eastland County to form the group Seals and Crofts.

The Seals boys were cousins with country star Johnny Duncan. Johnny was the nephew of Tommy Duncan who was the lead vocalist for Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys. Quite a few musical genes in that family.

After Dan Seals gave up the "England " charade he enjoyed a successful career as a country artist in 80's and 90's before passing away with lymphoma at age 61.

John just posted this on my page.

My story was mainly true. Jimmy Seals was, in fact, born in Sidney. Brother Dan was born in McCamey. Crofts was from Cisco. Cousin Johnny Duncan was born in nearby Dublin.

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My story was mainly true. Jimmy Seals was, in fact, born in Sidney. Brother Dan was born in McCamey. Crofts was from Cisco. Cousin Johnny Duncan was born in nearby Dublin.

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a few mor tidbits from after I went to bed last night: