Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Memories Incorporated, a Texas 501c3 Memories Incorporated, saving our social and entertainment history, one personal story at a time ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://meminc.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Stories](https://meminc.org/stories/) - [Gruene Hall](https://meminc.org/gruene-hall/) - Gruene Hall: Texas’ Oldest Dance HallBuilt in 1878, Gruene Hall is Texas’ oldest continually operating dance hall and one of the state’s most iconic musical landmarks. Tucked in the Gruene Historic District of New Braunfels, the hall has remained remarkably unchanged in both layout and character since its 19th-century construction.19th-Century FoundationsThe surrounding area was settled - [Billy Bob Harris, Dallas Dealmaker](https://meminc.org/billy-bob-harris/) - Billy Bob Harris: The Original Texas Connectorto Dallas Deal-Maker — A Life of Speed, Serendipity, and Second Chances From Panhandle Dust Billy Bob Harris contemplating. Courtesy Channel 4 and Billy Bob HarrisIn the world of Texas networking, few names carry the legendary weight of Billy Bob Harris. Born in the tiny Panhandle town of Grover, he - [From the Streets to the Spotlight: The Unbreakable Spirit of Louis Fite](https://meminc.org/louisfite/) - In the sweltering heat of a Texas Friday night, a compact, 5’8″, 190-pound running back from Waco High took a handoff and turned the impossible into the inevitable. Defenders bounced off him like pinballs. He spun, cut, and exploded for yard after yard, breaking records and hearts along the way. To the crowd, Louis Fite - [Ed Asner](https://meminc.org/edasner/) - “Lou Grant” This is Ed Asner courtesy CBSEd Asner, he has left the building back in 2021. I did this interview with him back about 20-25 years ago. Really funny guy and very nice!What is your all time favorite movie?Ed – “Best Years of Our Lives”If you had only one book, and you were on - [Jack Mitchell and The Stycks](https://meminc.org/jackmitchell/) - "We auditioned Stevie Ray Vaughn to join Stycks as a favor to Jimmy Vaughn. I could tell he was a natural but we really needed somebody that could play the cover tunes. He was really good but we needed guys that could fit in our style, he was still a little wild. Then a couple of year later we are playing The Cellar and this band called Blackbird comes on and all of a sudden here comes Stevie. Wow. What a change. The guy was an absolute phenom. That was the week before this happened. We were up at Louann's during the day trying to work in the new guitar player that we had just hired and had left all our equipment up there. This was April 1st of 1971. I get a call from a friend of mine telling me that 'Louanns burned down last night'. I tell him 'that's not funny' thinking its a April Fools joke. Turns out it was true." - [After Tyra Heath](https://meminc.org/aftertyraheath/) - The 25th of June 1979 was a warm day in Mesquite, children were out playing, enjoying their summer vacation and it was a relatively quiet day in the city. However that all changed the afternoon of that same day when six year old Tyra Heath left apartment #1051 at Cascade Park to play outside. Ten minutes later her mother Janice Heath called for her to come back to their apartment however she did not come home and a quick search turned up that she was no longer where she had been playing earlier. - [Carter Buschardt "Rock N Roll Rebel"](https://meminc.org/carterbuschardt/) - Noblemen was my first band, then the Fantastics, Flag was also one of the early ones. Hard Rock band playing mostly cover tunes with very few originals. We opened for the Who at Dallas Memorial Auditorium June 1970, also Night Hog. We played mostly at The Cellar in Dallas and Vulcan Gas Company in Austin. Opened for Bubble Puppy at Vulcan Gas Company. I have a poster of that show that says 1970 so it was probably after Flag disbanded. Short lived band. Then Bullwinkle. Good tight cover band. We played the hot spots at the time, The Fog, Soul City, The Rickshaw Club etc. Only notable because the singer was John O'Daniels of Point Blank fame. He and I remained friends & connected until he passed away not long ago. I guess Blackbird came after that. The original line up was myself, Jack Morgan on guitar. Tom Wagoner on Bass, and Christian Plique on Vocals. We replaced bass player Wagoner with Ric Webb. This was an awesome band. Band was mostly original versions of very old blues tunes. Christian Plique was originally in Blackbird with Stevie Ray Vaughn. - [Thomas "Hollywood" Henderson](https://meminc.org/thomashenderson/) - "Tom Landry didn’t want to waste a No. 1 draft pick on a guy from a HBCU. That’s 'historically black colleges and universities'. So, Red Hickey and Gil Brandt challenged him and said he’s the best player on the board. So, Landry went with his scouts and picked me 18th in the first round on January 29, 1975. I was in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere and the phone rang. My roommate answered and he said, hey man, it’s the Cowboys. The Cowboys are on the phone. There was no watch party. My family wasn’t dressed up like we were going to church. I got on the phone and it was Gil Brandt, and he said we just picked you in the draft, 18th, in the first round. He says can you get to the airport? This was about 10:00 in the morning. He hollered back at his secretary. Hey, what time is the nonstop coming from Oklahoma City and she goes 3:30. He said can you be there at the airport by 3:00. I go yeah, I can be there by 3:00 and that was my draft day." - [THOMAS "HOLLYWOOD" HENDERSON](https://meminc.org/t/) - Growing up in Austin was a great experience. I was loved. I was disciplined, but again I had a little thug in me, which doesn’t hurt you over your lifetime. You get to protect yourself and you have very little fear and anxiety because basically, I can’t be intimidated. There’s some value to being thuggish. - [Six Frogs Over Tango, Part 3](https://meminc.org/six-frogs-over-tango-part-3/) - Scot AubuchonThe Frog Herder of Chuy’sWhen Scot Aubuchon introduces himself, he does it with a wink toward history.“My name’s Aubuchon — A-U-B-U-C-H-O-N. It’s French and loosely translates to ‘the cork,’ so I guess I had winemakers in my past somewhere,” he told me.I laughed and offered my own: “Heckmann in old German means the guy - [Six Frogs Over Tango, Part 2](https://meminc.org/six-frogs-over-tango-part-2/) - The Travels of the Tango FrogsThree of the Tango Frogs relocated to Dallas at Chuy’s on Lowest Greenville. Courtesy Lisa WadeA Conversation with Monk WhiteIf you’ve ever driven past a taco joint on Lowest Greenville in Dallas and seen giant frogs dancing on the roof, you’ve glimpsed the strange, wonderful legacy of Bob “Daddy-O” Wade—Texas’s - [Six Frogs Over Tango, Part 1](https://meminc.org/six-frogs-over-tango-part-1/) - The Six Frogs over Tango. On top of the club. Photo courtesy Internet included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Six Frogs Over Tango: Shannon WynneShannon Wynne and the TangoIn the early 1980s, Shannon Wynne was looking to create something new in Dallas nightlife. “Video was still really new back then,” he recalled. “I - [LOUANN'S - PART 2](https://meminc.org/louanns2/) - "Ann Bovis talked to The Colonel once about booking Elvis in the late '50's but he wanted too much money. Same thing with the Beatles. She had Lawrence Welk there one New Years Eve and said she thought she had about 6,000 customers that night. She booked about every big band there was at the time like Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Gene Crupa, Harry James - big band was before my time. I was born in '48. I remember seeing The Turtles, Jimmy Reed and Ray Price." Mike Martinkus - [Jerry Rhome, Dallas Sunset, SMU and Dallas Cowboy Quarterback](https://meminc.org/jerry-rhome/) - Jerry Rhome, Dallas Sunset, SMU, Tulsa and Dallas Cowboy QB by Memories Inc Executive Director Paul Heckmann Edited by Mike Farris Paul Heckmann: Thanks for spending some time with Memories Inc. Can you tell me a little bit about growing up in Oak Cliff in the ‘40s and ‘50s. Jerry Rhome: Well, I was born in - [LOUANN'S - PART 1](https://meminc.org/louanns1/) - "My mother Ann Bovis put in a really big sound system from RCA that might have been when the club opened. That thing would blow you out. And because they had installed this really deluxe sound system, RCA gave them a free television. Of course, that didn't matter as there weren't any TV stations in Dallas. It was a conversational piece, that's all it was, Paul! It ended up just sitting back in a corner collecting dust." Tony Bovis - [PLAYBOY - PART 2](https://meminc.org/playboy2/) - I was a Display manger at Dillards in Euless. I just got home from my long drive home from work and my roommate told me that she had heard on radio that they were auditioning for Playboy Bunnies at the new club. She talked me into it, so I grabbed my maroon leotard and high heels and went on up there. There were hundreds of girls there so I really didn't think I would get the job. All we did was walk across the stage, look at judges and smile like there was no tomorrow, I think that's probably why I got it. Then we went into our Bunny training, several girls didn't even make it through that. We had to know our Bunny manual and of course practiced the Bunny dip about a thousand times." Tonda Davis Petty - [PLAYBOY - PART 1](https://meminc.org/playboy/) - Do you know where the downtown McDonald's is on Commerce Street? That was where the Playboy club was supposed to be. It used to be the Aaron Brothers Fur and the Dorsey Building. It was a 6 story building that everyone tried to buy but nobody could get the deal done. I was friendly with them. The reason I wanted to buy it, is it is an entire city block. You could make an entire circle around the location which was highly unusual in downtown Dallas. So anyway, I knew the guys that owned it and went ahead and bought it with the idea we were going to put the Playboy Club there. - [VICKI HANKS RODGERS](https://meminc.org/vickihanksrogers/) - "I worked at some rock and roll clubs like Sneaky Petes, Mother Blues, but primarily at Sneaky Petes there in Medallion Center. Then I heard about the Bunny search in the summer of 1977. It was absolutely crazy. They had us go through all the different preliminary, sending in pictures, resumes. That was the first elimination. Then they notified us, then we all came in. You came in through this big gate, filled out your information, attached some pictures, they would look it over and then they would setup callbacks if they liked you. Then after that interview, they would let you know if they wanted you to come back in for the final group. They did a story on me when the Bunny search happened in the Scene magazine for the Dallas Morning News. I was pretty cocky back then and told them 'I may not be the best looking, or have the best body, or be #1, but I can definitely be #99!'" - [GENE COOK, 'BOOGIE MACHINE' & PLAYBOY](https://meminc.org/genecook/) - So many headliners at Playboy - Chevy Chase, Jesse Lopez, Mel Torme, Charley Pride, Professor Irwin Corey - we didn't get along so well. He was a grabber and grabbed Cathy's tush. I chased him all across the club and folks thought that it was part of the show. Luckily for him Tony Signori grabbed me and got me to settle down! The dance team that was there had moved on and were working the Playboy Club circuit. That was the 'Dance Machine'. While I was Maitre'd I spoke to our boss Tom Labella about our dance group, "The Boogie Machine" with Cathy and Rick Marshall. We auditioned for Joe Cimino and he hired us. Our time there at Playboy club is what truly validated us. It put us on the map. Before that we were working different places around Dallas, Texarkana and other small gigs. We had to work to book them, but when we got the gig at Playboy, it was really the start of something special. Doors really began to open for us, not to mention the other stuff like having a seamstress to make our costumes which we had always done ourselves. - [MICHAEL NESMITH](https://meminc.org/michaelnesmith/) - The first time I saw a show advertised in Dallas Morning News, Bo Diddley was gonna play at Louann's. Because by that time, I had heard that song, "Bo Diddley," and I had heard "Can't Judge A Book by Looking at Its Cover," and "Who Do You Love." And, well, I could recite the name of every song on that album. There was something in my mind about the way that album sounded. It went to the fact that it was on a 78 LP record, which is to say that it was thin. And I didn't feel the pulse. I thought, "There's something else going on in this rhythm that makes it so meaningful." And the more I studied it, the more I realized there is a counterpoint that's being played against what Bo Diddley has played. So, I played the record enough to wear the grooves off of it, but I also discovered in that record that there was a low drum part. - [JERRY SMITH, KASUALS, WOO BROTHERS](https://meminc.org/jerryandwoobrothers/) - We did a lot of openings too about that same time. We opened up for The Beach Boys, Sonny & Cher – God, there's so many, I don’t even remember them all. and we also played on WFAA's 'Sumpn'Else' TV show. We also opened for the Turtles at Louanns. I think we played in the big room that night. We also played the smaller room quite a bit. We were buddies with The Chessman who would play there all the time, Jimmy Vaughan was with them then. We would go over to Jimmy's house and there would be Stevie, a little gawky kid (with a laugh) hanging around. We would say 'Hey Stevie' kidding of course (in his best big brother's friend voice) and pick on him a little. but he was a good kid. - [STEVE BROOKS, ARTIST EXTRAORDINAIRE!](https://meminc.org/stevebrooks2/) - Willie had me come up to Colorado – actually, had me paint a tepee for him at his place. It was actually on the Barbara Walters special with Willie. If you look in the background, you’ll see a tepee. So, I was there painting the tepee. Then, we did the picnic in ’79. Willie had just bought the country club down there – Pedernales Country Club. So, we did that picnic – well, it was right after the picnic. So then, he wanted me to come up to Colorado to his house. He’d bought another tepee that he wanted me to paint. This thing was huge. It was in Life magazine. You should see that. - [CHARLIE WATERS & THE ALLIGATOR SHOES](https://meminc.org/charliewaters-2/) - "If I had 45 players that tried as hard and cared as much as Charlie did, we would not lose a football game." Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry - [THE LAST WORDS OF BIG TEX...](https://meminc.org/billbragg/) - Well, Guy Lombardo was at Louann's one night. I was selling popcorn table to table. They had a special table set up for them out in the middle of the club. I walked up to the table, but it was dark and I didn't recognize him. So I asked if he'd like to buy some popcorn. He looked up at me and said, "I'll make you a deal". He and his band were there with their wives. He said, "We want to go dance. If you'll sit here and keep an eye on the ladies' purses, I'll buy all the popcorn you've got." So I did, and he bought all my popcorn. I made more money that night than I ever thought I'd make in my life. Roy Orbison was there signing autographs. I wasn't selling popcorn that night. I was out picking up beer bottles off the tables. I used to like cleaning the tables. I'd sniff the beer bottles. On occasion I might have even sipped some beer out of a couple of them. Hell, when you're a kid you gotta get your beer where you can. So, Roy Orbison was over there signing autographs. He looked over at me and said, "Would you like an autograph too?" I said, "That's okay, I'll get one next time you're here". And he never came back to Louann's. - [BARRY CORBIN... EXPOSED!](https://meminc.org/barrycorbin/) - We did 'War Games'. My part was General Beringer. Apparently the Director, John Badham, thought I reminded him of his dad, who was an Air Force General and I ad-libbed the line “God damn it! I’d piss on a sparkplug if I thought it’d do any good! Let the boy in there, Major.” We had’em rolling in the aisles. As the 'Dallas' reboot was shooting, Patrick called. They brought me in to read JR's will, and I said to Patrick, ‘Well, I’m sorry to hear about Larry (Hagman passing away).' Patrick said, ‘Yeah, the SOB had nerve, didn’t he? He died in the middle of the season! - [JOURNEY TO TYME, THE MARK LEE STORY](https://meminc.org/marklee/) - My mother and dad went to some party at the Lamplighter Motel. Kenny and his band were playing poolside and Mom got a business card and that’s how it got back to me. I put it in my pocket and kind of forgot about it. I had found myself in a position of booking or helping to book a nightclub, not a nightclub in the regular sense of the word, but they had these apartment clubs back in those days. And there was an apartment complex over in Northwest Highway, off Webb Chapel. I think it is called La Fontana. A friend of mine, an older friend that worked for my father had been placed in charge of promoting and building this club up at the La Fontana Apartments, he took me along, and he said 'What do you think will work here?'. And I immediately said, 'a band'. Now my Mom had just given this card the night before while we were watching TV so I reached in my wallet and pulled out Kenny’s card and the rest is history. - [AN OAK CLIFF GIRL](https://meminc.org/oakcliffgirl/) - We had no car, and I’ll resist the story that we walked a mile to school in the snow, but yes, we walked to school, no matter the weather. If we needed to go where legs wouldn’t take us, we would ride the bus. Sometimes, we had to take a paper transfer from the driver, in order to reach our destination, but we rarely left Oak Cliff. In fact, I distinctly remember my Mother telling us, “There is no reason to go to the other side of the Trinity River.” We took the Dallas Times Herald newspaper. It was known as the paper for “our side of town.” We had paper boys who rode their bikes and we knew all their names and where they would throw our paper. Our mail was delivered by a mailman (never a woman) who would walk to the door and put the mail in a metal box by the door. - [DALLAS COWBOYS TIMELINE](https://meminc.org/cowboystimeline/) - Credit given to: Dallas Morning News, DallasCowboys.com, Pro Football Reference, Texas State Historical Society, ESPN, Wiki, a innumerable number of Cowboy fan sites, Dallas Public Library, and several hardcore Cowboy fans. This is a ‘living document’ and will be updated as new information is proven and added - [Tom Landry, Saint, 'Plastic Man' or Neither](https://meminc.org/tom-landry/) - Tom Landry and The End of the Landry EraFacebook’s ‘Memories of Texas Football’by Memories Inc. Exec. Director Paul HeckmannEdited by Mike FarrisI’m going to give you the unobstructed view of Tom Landry’s history as I know it, and this one is not from 30,000 feet. There is no sugarcoating here. I will stick to the - [Troy Dungan - Weatherman Extraordinaire](https://meminc.org/troy-dungan/) - By Paul HeckmannEdited by Mike FarrisPaul Heckmann: Hello there Troy. Paul Heckmann here.Troy Dungan: Hi Paul, I just walked in the door.Paul: Glad to finally catch up with you.Troy Dungan and the crew at Channel 8, Iola Johnson, Tracy Rowlett and Verne Lundquist. Courtesy WBAPLet me kind of start out for the folks that might - [LOUANN'S - PART 4](https://meminc.org/louanns4/) - "It is somewhat odd to learn more about your parents after their deaths than while they are living, but that is exactly what happened in my case. Indeed, the first inkling of just how exceptional they were occurred at my mother’s 80th birthday party where guests were invited to bring Louann’s memorabilia in lieu of gifts, and a 1947 Newsweek magazine was among the cache. The article inside provided a surprising insight into how multi-dimensional Lou and Ann Bovis were. I say “surprising” because I had no prior knowledge of that article, and it turned out to be just one of many discoveries ahead. Shortly after the death of my mother in 1993, I uncovered a treasure trove of old photos, newspapers, and magazines from the closets and files at her ranch. There were also deeds, contracts, wills, journals, adoption papers, 16mm family movies, scrapbooks, menus, greeting and post cards. Old letters were nestled inside the books of her vast library. Most of it I had never seen before. As I struggled with grief over my mother’s death, each old piece of my parents’ past brought fresh tears along with new respect and admiration." Chelle Bovis Banks - [LOUANN'S - PART 3](https://meminc.org/louanns3/) - "I really loved working at Louann's, all those bands and people. It was really exciting! We would go in every morning, stack the chairs on the tables, sweep the floors, stock the bars. There were two, one in the front and one in the back. And Ann was really the guiding force behind Louann's. She was inventive. She added the 'To Go' place on the Lovers Lane side. We cooked hamburgers and pizzas, she added a Barbecue pit and we cooked brisket. Ann's sister, My Aunt Stella and her husband came down from Chicago where they had a pizzeria. Uncle Pete was a master pizza maker. He did everything from making the dough from scratch, ground the cheese, sliced the pepperoni. So he taught us how to do everything." Pat Martinkus - [DALLAS COWBOY'S TIMELINE](https://meminc.org/cowboytimeline/) - Clint Murchison signs Don Meredith to a 5 year personal service contract with his marine company Tecon to lock him up for the proposed Dallas Steers franchise. In November 1959, they also signed Don Perkins to a personal-services contract for a $1,500 bonus and a $10,000 salary - [Alan Kaye, Let Me Put a Smile on Your Face!](https://meminc.org/alankaye/) - When Joy Simmons opened the Comedy Corner, she wouldn’t book me, because she was booking all these LA acts with guys that had been on Carson, or this show or that. But Dallas didn’t know who they were, so they weren’t drawing very big crowds, and she finally booked me. And she said, you’re going to have to be the middle act. So, I middled for Gary Shandling, and I middled for Kevin Nealon, and next thing you know, she hired me to headline. And I put more people in there than some of their LA comics. And started headlining there. Bill Engvall was the in-house MC back then. - ['MEMORIES OF DALLAS' SPONSOR OF 'TEXAS POP 50', 2019!](https://meminc.org/texaspop50/) - Okay, okay, you meant to go to the 1969 but life got in the way… you were overseas fighting in that crazy Asian war, the wife wouldn’t let you go because of all the hippie chicks, you were not quite a hippie chick yet, your mom hid the keys to her station wagon, the dog ate your tickets or the worst excuse ever, you weren’t born yet! No more excuses friends! Labor Day Weekend 2019! - [MICHAEL NESMITH, 'HEY, HEY, HE'S A TEXAN!'](https://meminc.org/micheal-nesmith-hey-hey-hes-a-texan/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Michael Nesmith of The Monkees television show and band. In the interview, Nesmith reflects on his time growing up in Dallas and his journey to becoming the lead man for The Monkees. MP3 download link - [Earl Young - Gold Medal Winning Olympic Sprinter](https://meminc.org/earl-young-gold-medal-winning-olympic-sprinter/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Earl Young – a former Californian turned Dallasite. From his days winning Olympic track gold to victory over Leukemia and subsequent nonprofit work, Young has led a life of consequence. Learn all about him in this great interview. MP3 download link - [Tommy Loy, Dallas Cowboy Trumpeter](https://meminc.org/tommyloy/) - After he performed The National Anthem for Mr. Murchison, he waited to hear if he got the job. The clock was fast approaching kickoff and he hadn’t heard if he was selected so he prepared to find a place to watch the game. Five minutes before kickoff, he got the call that Mr. Murchison wanted to go with his solo rendition, which began what would be a 22-year stint as the Dallas Cowboys solo trumpeter. - [Burton Gilliam, Fireman, Boxer and Famous Actor (1 of 2)](https://meminc.org/burton-gilliam-fireman-boxer-and-famous-actor/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Burton Gilliam an actor, fireman, boxer and much more. In this first of two interviews, Gilliam reflects on his time growing up in Dallas and the learning disability that threatened to derail any future. MP3 download link - [Burton Gilliam, (2 of 2)](https://meminc.org/burton-gilliam-2-of-2/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Burton Gilliam an actor, fireman, boxer and much more. In this second of two interviews, Gilliam reflects on his acting career, dating life and beyond. MP3 download link - [John Niland - Dallas Cowboy Pro Bowl Guard](https://meminc.org/john-niland-dallas-cowboy-pro-bowl-guard/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with John Niland - a former Iowa Hawkeye and Dallas Cowboy from the East Coast that played under Tom Landy and earned the nickname "Night Life." Learn all about him in this great interview. MP3 download link - [Kim Harmon Gatlin - Bestselling Author of GCB](https://meminc.org/kim-harmon-gatlin-bestselling-author-of-gcb/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Kim Harmon Gatlin - author of the bestselling book that became the ABC television series "GCB" based on her book. Kim grew up in Highland Park with her cousin Angie Harmon, of "Law and Order" and Elle/Cosmopolitan modeling fame. She was introduced to her future husband Rudy Gatlin of the - [Billy Bob Harris - Master of Connecting the Dots](https://meminc.org/billy-bob-harris-master-of-connecting-the-dots/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Billy Bob Harris - a roommate and biz partner with former Cowboy and Bronco BB Craig Morton. Billy Bob was quoted numerous times by Don Meredith on Monday Night Football and one of Kenny Rogers (singer) best friends. He is best known though for making connections. MP3 download link - [Saran Knight - The Longhorn Ballroom Pt 2](https://meminc.org/saran-knight-the-longhorn-ballroom-pt-2/) - Louise Keyes sat down with Saran Groom Knight – daughter of Dewey Groom of Longhorn Ballroom fame. MP3 download link - [Saran Knight - The Longhorn Ballroom Pt 1](https://meminc.org/saran-knight-the-longhorn-ballroom-pt-1/) - Louise Keyes sat down with Saran Groom Knight - daughter of Dewey Groom of Longhorn Ballroom fame. MP3 download link - [Gene Cook - Dancer](https://meminc.org/gene-cook-dancer/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Gene Cook – a longtime friend of Paul, a dancer, cruise director and a stable at the Playboy Club. produced by Lone Star Podcast Network MP3 download link - [Alan Kaye - Comedian and Celebrity Impressionist](https://meminc.org/alan-kaye-comedian-and-celebrity-impressionist/) - Paul Heckmann sat down with Alan Kayes – a comedian, celebrity impressionist and long-time opening act for the band Chicago. MP3 download link - [JOHN FITZGERALD BOOTY PART 2](https://meminc.org/johnbooty2-2/) - You end your NFL career, 102 games, 37 starts, 14 picks, 4 sacks, 6 fumble recoveries, 4 fumbles, a blocked punt, a pass reception for 48 and a kickoff return. You picked off two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Marino and Aikman. I mean, the kid that played one year of football until your junior year of high school, the kid that got cut from the JV, the kid that Mom put in a car and made go back to college because he didn't want to be there - but he stuck it out. That was John Booty. - [JOHN FITZGERALD BOOTY](https://meminc.org/johnbooty/) - Oh, I wanted to be a Carthage Bulldog soooo bad. And I remember hearing about my brother playing for Carthage. From first grade on; You’re seeing that Carthage football team, I wanna be one of those guys, wear that red uniform. I said, “I can’t wait until its my turn. The Friday pep rallies, that Friday spirit. Hardly watched the games growing up, but, man, it was something else. So, when I got in the eighth grade, I was a Bullpup at Turner Junior High. - [BURTON GILLIAM - "IT'S BUBBA!"](https://meminc.org/burtongilliam/) - I went back to the fire station after 'Paper Moon', and about three months later I got this phone call. “Fire Station number 39, Gilliam speaking”. “Hello, my name is Mel Brooks. I’m a writer, director, producer, actor, and I’m getting ready to do a big picture, and I want you to be one of my stars.” I said, 'Thank you Mr. Brooks.' Boom, I just hung up the phone. What if he hadn’t called back? I’d have those two cows and living out in East Texas, wouldn’t I? - [JOHN FITZGERALD BOOTY, PART TWO](https://meminc.org/johnbooty2/) - You end your NFL career, 102 games, 37 starts, 14 picks, 4 sacks, 6 fumble recoveries, 4 fumbles, a blocked punt, a pass reception for 48 and a kickoff return. You picked off two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Marino and Aikman. I mean, the kid that played one year of football until your junior year of high school, the kid that got cut from the JV, the kid that Mom put in a car and made go back to college because he didn't want to be there - but he stuck it out. That was John Booty. - [JOHN FITZGERALD BOOTY](https://meminc.org/johnbooty-2/) - Oh, I wanted to be a Carthage Bulldog soooo bad. And I remember hearing about my brother playing for Carthage. From first grade on; You’re seeing that Carthage football team, I wanna be one of those guys, wear that red uniform. I said, “I can’t wait until its my turn. - [MIKE RABON, THE FIVE AMERICANS](https://meminc.org/mikerabon/) - We appeared on Dick Clark’s Where the Action Is. If we were playing in Houston somewhere and Dick Clark knew about it, he’d call us and say, “Would you guys come over and tape a song?” We would come by, go out by a swimming pool or something and tape our newest tune for him. We were on that show four or five times with the Knickerbockers and Paul Revere and the Raiders, so we were hot stuff. We did a lot of work with Dick Clark's Caravan Of Stars and wherever that took us, that's where we would go. - [JAMES MILLARD CUMBY](https://meminc.org/jamesmcumby/) - James had a brilliant, shrewd mind and a boundless curiosity and he often dabbled in photography, geology, mechanics, archeology, natural history and other disciplines that piqued his interest. James was a motorcycle enthusiast and rode a Harley Davidson. According to family members he was instrumental in developing one of the first panoramic photos. Looking closely, he can be found both at the far left end and at the far right end in the same photo. Notice the Davis Millinery Co of Dallas which made the Davis hats. They can still be found from time to time in antique stores. - [WHEN DALLAS ROCKED, THE KIRBY WARNOCK STORY](https://meminc.org/kirbywarnock-2/) - I heard about Jimmie Vaughan growing up because he was in The Chessmen and I was in high school at the time. Whenever we’d come through Dallas, we’d hear about the Chessmen with KLIF or something like that. When I saw them, you understand, this was back when people played live. You didn’t watch it on YouTube. You had to go to the club and see them play in person. And they just had a presence or a skill set that was just above everybody else. It was just Jimmie and Stevie, and there was everybody else. - [THE OTHER AMBER](https://meminc.org/theotheramber/) - Amber Nichole Crum was a two-year-old Dallas girl who vanished on December 26th, 1983 from her family’s truck, parked in front of McDonald’s Grocery at 1016 Murdock Road located in Southeast Dallas County. The business was a mere two blocks from the home where the girl, her mother Stephanie and her mother’s live-in boyfriend James Britt Monroe lived. What happened next was a trial that ended in a whodunit, a possible break, and a family whose lives were ultimately destroyed. This is the story of Amber Crum - [AFTER ELIZABETH BARKLEY](https://meminc.org/afterelizabethbarclay/) - October 23 1979 - 7 year old Elizabeth Barclay, her brother and another unrelated child were walking to a grocery store when an here-to-yet unidentified black male stopped them along Community Drive and Northwest Highway. The man then grabbed Barclay and according to the two other children, threatened to drown the girl, then jumped into his car with the young girl and drove away. An investigaton began immediately. The disappearance of the girl brought up memories of the disappearance of Tyra Heath back in July and of another girl five years earlier. Dallas police launched an all points bulletin and called in Dallas Police helicopters to aid in a wider search in hopes of finding the girl. - [A FALSTAFF AND A GLOBE](https://meminc.org/afalstaffandaglobe/) - Long before the idea of Louann's came around Lou and Ann Bovis were running the Falstaff Tavern in the English Village. Not too long after the Centennial kicked off, Ann's brother Anton Martinkus joined them. Anton was an old warhorse, serving under George C Patton long before he became General Patton. He knew him better at Major Patton back at Fort Sheridan. He stayed with Lou and Ann until WWII broke and he went back to kicking butt and taking names at places like the beachhead at Leyte. - [DROWNING IN A WHISKEY RIVER](https://meminc.org/philweir/) - So Whiskey River opens. Gatemouth Brown, Rusty Wier, Gary P. Nunn. We also had Ray Wylie Hubbard and Michael Martin Murphy. I had dinner with Michael at The Pawn Shop and he came over to Whiskey River and we really hit it off. B.W. Stevenson was there. Hoyt Axton. Delbert McClinton, Bees Knees, Shake Russell, Bugs Henderson all played there I’ll tell you one story - Paul McCartney from The Beatles came in one night. I think he was with Wings then. He was sitting with the Five Americans, I think Freddie King was playing that night. - [BUD BUSCHARDT, HE'S SUMP'N ELSE!](https://meminc.org/budbuschardt/) - The second weekend that I was at WFAA, things really changed. That was the weekend of November 22, 1963. I was still in school that day and they let us out early which was something they never did. So, I asked my professor “Dan, what do we do in a case like this?" He said, “There's my desk. There's my phone. You call RIverside 8-9631 right now.” So, I called, and actually got through the switchboard, and asked for Mr. Turner. And as luck had it, he happened to be on his way to lunch and ran into Jay Watson (WFAA Program Director) and Jerry Haynes in the lobby. Jay said, “I need studio quickly and camera live, whatever you can do.” And Turner said, “Well, what’s the big deal?” Jay said “The President’s just been shot.” And then it was absolutely crazy. I was running from studio to studio. Don said, “Strike all the studios you can." - [A STARCK REALITY, THE GREG McCONE STORY](https://meminc.org/gregmccone/) - "Well, I am bringing up issues of concern but at the same time, I'm being hired to implement what it is they want to do." So, I said to them, "I don't know how you're gonna get a $10.00 cover charge or how six toilets are gonna take care of 2,000 people on a Saturday night, I've alerted them to my concerns. Now it's my job to figure out how to make it work." Now, Phillipe Starck's answer was, "This will be no problem. The men will use the ladies, the ladies will use the men's" and that's exactly what happened. - [KIRBY ST. ROMAIN](https://meminc.org/kirbystromain/) - I was playing with The Roadrunnners at some school and they had a special guest, Scotty McKay. And we backed him up. After the gig, he came over and asked me if I wanted to play a job with him. I thought he was asking about the whole band. He wasn't. To make a long story short, I had borrowed money from my dad to buy a bass guitar as we didn't have a bass in the band. And I was quite literally new to it, but Scotty liked the way I played and ended up leaving the band and playing with Scotty for a long time. As a matter of fact Scotty is the one who got me into the recording studio to do my own stuff. It turned out to be "Summers Coming" which I wrote in the back seat of his car on the way to the studio. We already recorded the A side of the record with a tune called 'Walk On' and needed a B for the release. Two DJs from KLIF heard it, Chuck Dunaway and Bill Enis and they played it for Diamond Records in NYC and they agreed to distribute it. Made it to the Top 50 nationally that year. The next time I walked into KLIF, they said 'You want to be on American Bandstand in Philadelphia?' I says 'sure, I guess...' So I went on the Dick Clark tours. - [CHARLIE WATERS & THE ALLIGATOR SHOES](https://meminc.org/charliewaters/) - "If I had 45 players that tried as hard and cared as much as Charlie did, we would not lose a football game." Dallas Cowboys Coach Tom Landry - [MEMORIES OF DALLAS PARTY AT OZONA WITH THE WOO BROTHERS!](https://meminc.org/aug3ozona/) - August 3rd, 2019 7pm at Ozona for our next Extravaganza. Jerry Smith and The Legendary Woo Brothers are our headliners! Sponsored by Buddy Magazine! The Legendary Woo Brothers, Jackie Don Loe, Billy King on bass, Peter Kaplan on drums and Jerry Smith as the Grand Woo-in-Charge! Some of you may know Angus Wynne III. 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