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Good evening dear hearts and welcome to the show I'm Norman Johnson and I would like
for you to meet my co-host both on and off television my blushing bride Lill Johnson
good evening how are you?
I'm fine.
We've been going in such circles lately we never get to see each other until we come
down here you know.
I know it's nice to be here and be able to visit with each other.
You know if my radio shows keep going on any earlier I wouldn't have to go to bed anymore.
That's true.
So while I'm at it I would like to thank everyone for helping make our new radio station 860
KSFA truly the talk of the town.
Just astounding success in the last month and we are eternally grateful.
Yippee-yay-oh-kay-yay it's rodeo time.
It's rodeo time.
We are coming into my favorite time of the year because the rodeo always sort of seems
to kick off the spring and summer season when there's all kinds of activities right
after the rodeo we have the hot to trot chili cook off and all that sort of thing and this
year here at channel 21 we're going to be busy during the rodeo.
Yes we are.
We're going to be taping our show from the parade.
Yeah we'd like to we've got a couple of special things.
First of all the rodeo parade is one week from Saturday on the first day of spring.
The day I have been living for for six months now.
Happy day for you.
Happy day for me and we were the rodeo parade at two o'clock and we would love to have you
come by.
We're going to be set up in front of the library on main street in downtown Nacodotius doing
the rodeo parade.
We'll be doing a live rodeo broadcast before the parade and then we'll be taping the parade
which we'll bring to you the following evening you'll be able to see it right here on channel
21 at eight o'clock.
That's going to be a lot of fun.
I'm looking forward to it and don't forget well the whole shebang will be set up in front
of the library right on main street and you can come by and say hi to us and see all the
cowboys and cowgirls and horses and all that sort of thing and the floats and the bands
and everything.
Then every night of the rodeo here on channel 21 they're going to be running each night
some of the great rodeo performances from years past and be sure and check the TV listening
in the Daily Sentinel each day for the rodeo times and the special programming and I'd
like to thank the Daily Sentinel right now.
They are doing a super job of letting you know about the programming we have on 21.
Then on Saturday night the last night of the rodeo we are going to be taping this show
live from the expo center at the rodeo.
That will be fun.
That will be fun.
That'll be the last night of the rodeo and we'll be running it the following week sort
of a rodeo special grand finale.
We're going to have Don Gay, eight time world champion cowboy, Dwayne Peters, super rodeo
announcer.
I have on good authority that Ty Murray who is the all around cowboy champion right now
is going to sneak around and say hi to us.
So it's going to be a lot of fun.
It will be fun.
Do you have boots and jeans and all that sort of thing?
I don't have boots, jeans, belt.
The whole smear, huh?
Except I don't have a hat.
You don't have a hat?
You don't have a hat.
You don't need a hat because your hair is so beautiful.
Well if I had a hat it would mess up my hair.
Thank you.
You know you don't need to wear a hat.
I mean good, it's gracious and besides, don't tell her but I don't want to have to buy a
hat.
No problem.
But it's going to be a big week starting with the rodeo parade.
One week from Saturday at two o'clock downtown, come by and see us tape the show.
Great rodeo performances each night of the rodeo here on channel 21 and then we'll be
taping this show live on Saturday night, the last night of the rodeo, plus all through
the week there's going to be rodeo events and activities.
And I think that's going to be a lot of fun.
Coming up, my friend Herschel Fulmer from the Kiwanis Club is going to be talking about
the club and some upcoming events that I think you're going to be interested in right after
this word from some of the folks that make the show possible.
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Hi everybody, I'm Norman Johnson.
I'm delighted to tell you that my morning show moves to the all-new 860 KSFA this coming
Monday morning beginning at 6.30.
On KSFA you'll find the very best in talk radio, 24 hours a day, folks like Larry King,
Bruce Williams, Jack Anderson, Marion Upshaw and more, and Gary Richards will have sports
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And you'll find the kind of local news you've been wanting on the radio, all on the new
860 KSFA, the talk of the town.
I don't have just a whole gang of people that I can truly call friends but I think this
next gentleman I can probably say he's my friend and get by with it.
I think everybody in town knows him so I don't really have to introduce him but Herschel
Fulmer is with us tonight.
How are you?
I'm doing fine, Norman.
You are looking spiffy.
That is a television jacket.
That looks so good on television.
My wife picked that out.
Really?
Yeah.
That's a good thing you didn't pick.
That's why it looks good.
You didn't pick it out.
Yeah, Lil picks out all of my clothes too.
That's more.
You know, otherwise I'd be here every night in the overalls.
That's what I like to wear but nonetheless, how long have you lived in Nacogdoches?
Well, I was born and raised in Nacogdoches a little over 72 years ago that happened.
Is that right?
Yeah.
But I left.
Herschel, you don't look a day over 71 and a half, you know?
Well, I say I'm not 80 either.
I tell you what, I left and was gone for almost 20 years and then I've been back a little
over 32 years so most of my life has been in Nacogdoches.
I'm always telling people when I go out of town to do broadcasts and things like that,
I truly believe that this is one of the finest towns in Texas.
I think it's got some of the warmest, nicest people that you'll find anywhere.
I was here in the 60s in undergraduate school at SFA, left to go to graduate school at SMU
and took me forever to get back but I made it and I ain't leaving.
I mean, you're going to have to run me off people.
You know, when you're a country boy raised here, you don't realize all the beauty that
there is in Texas.
That's all I ever knew until I was grown.
That's right.
It went somewhere else and I didn't realize until then and Nacogdoches are pretty in any
other place.
Yeah, all you got to do is live in Houston for a little while and you realize just how
beautiful the pineywoods are.
You've been a Kewanian for a long time.
Your past president held all kinds of positions in you.
Yes, I was president two years ago here and 32 years ago I was president in the Baytown
Club.
Is that right?
I lived there from 1941 until 1960.
The year that I moved back here, 32 years ago last July, I was president of that club
that year.
And I've been a Kewanian for 40 years, it's coming December.
Do you get a 40-year pen or anything?
Yes, of course you get one for that.
Really?
Yeah.
Diamond in it, I don't think.
Well, you know, 40 years, what do you expect?
You know, the guy's only been in it 40 years and he wants a diamond, you know, you probably
want to get paid for doing this show.
We've got to work on you, Herschel.
You don't?
Well, let's go then, you know.
Kewana is an international organization.
It has, it's just an exceptional club and has a rich, rich, rich heritage.
When did Kewana start?
Kewana Center National was formed 78 years ago in January.
The first club was organized and chartered January the 21st, 19 and 15 in Detroit.
In Detroit.
And from that time then forward, well, of course, there have been clubs in almost every
town of any size throughout the United States.
There are over 320,000 members now in over 70 countries.
And this club is a very active club.
It has good attendance, has great programming and does just some incredible projects.
I would like to mention, by the way, that beginning tomorrow morning and every Thursday
morning on my radio show, the Kewanians are going to be calling in to tell us about their
meeting that day and what the program is going to be and all that sort of thing.
I guess if somebody just wanted to pop in and join, they couldn't, couldn't they?
Yes, actually, membership is by invitation.
But if someone wants to become a member, they let us know.
Well, then we normally don't turn them down.
But we like the Marine Corps.
We're looking for a few good men or women.
I was going to say, you better put that on there because the president this year of the
Nicaraguanas Club just happens to be a good woman.
That's right.
We have the prettiest president this year that we have had since the club was organized
39 years ago this morning.
And maybe one of the smartest members of the group.
That's probably right.
And her dad is the only charter member that's still a member of the club.
What did he pay?
I didn't know that.
I didn't know that was her dad.
You did.
I learned all kinds of things.
Anita Standridge.
Anita Standridge.
Yeah.
I think probably everybody knows Anita from MAIS and places like that.
And it's just a good organization.
Now, what is the primary purpose of Kiwanis?
Well, Kiwanis is a service club.
It's not just a civic club.
It's a service club.
We try to be a service to the community and our motto is we build and we try to build
young people.
We try to build character and young people that they can be leaders of our country tomorrow.
Our main goal for the last two, three years and for the next few years is really the young
child.
We're putting our special emphasis on the young child and trying to do more in that
line than to help with the bringing it up of the young child, the things that they should
have that they don't normally get if there's something out here that we can support and
that will help.
To bring it up of the young child, we support the Head Start.
That's a great program, yeah.
And of course we sponsor the Ki Club in high school which is made up of young men and women.
And that's good training for them.
We have people in there that are leaders today that have been Ki Club members through the
years and in their high school years.
And any worthwhile organization that we feel that we have the money to support, we don't
have a lot of money, but we do have some projects to raise money.
I thought y'all got rich off the pancakes supper.
Well we got plenty to eat, but we didn't make all that much money.
We did make a little money.
We did have plenty to eat, a lot of good pancakes and sausage.
You were talking about helping the child, I was just having an interesting conversation
out in the hall before we went on the air with a gentleman who was an assistant principal
over in the Lufkin schools.
And it's tough growing up today.
It's like he was saying, you see a child now in the back of the classroom who's asleep.
You don't know whether that child was abused all night long or even whether that child
had a place to sleep.
It's a lot different from when you and I were growing up, you know.
And for so long, I think parents, perhaps even educators, communities, service and civic
clubs really kind of neglected our kids.
And we're coming back to that, aren't we, and that's good.
The Key Club, everybody hears about the Key Club, but I don't think anybody knows what
they do.
You might tell us about that.
Well, I don't know that I can tell you a whole lot that they do do, but they are an organization
that does a whole lot in our community in supporting different things.
And I know one thing that they do, all during football season, well, they, at the high school,
will they take care of the drink sessions out there and then on Saturday morning after
the game, they have to go out and clean up the stadium.
And so that's no easy job, but we do have one of, if not the best Key Club in the whole
general area.
They have one top honors for the community service that they have done.
When we come back, we're going to be talking about an upcoming project that is extremely
important and is going to be a lot of fun for everybody, right after this word from
some of the folks that make the show possible.
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Hi, everybody.
I'm Norman Johnson.
I'm delighted that my morning show is now on the all new 860 KSFA every Monday through
Friday morning beginning at 6.30.
On 860, you'll find the very best in talk radio 24 hours a day, a distinguished lineup
like Larry King, Bruce Williams, Jack Anderson, Marianne Upshaw, and more.
Gary Richards has sports talk every Monday through Friday afternoon beginning at 5.
And you'll find the kind of local news you've been wanting on the radio, all on the all
new 860 KSFA, the talk of the town.
Welcome back.
I'm visiting with Herschel Fulmer from the Macadoshes Kiwanis Club, and Herschel loves
music.
Do you still lead the singing at the Kiwanis Club?
Part of the time.
Part of the time.
I've had some help this year on it.
You've been doing that a long time.
Well, I've been filling in and doing it for quite a while.
You would have been a good professional entertainer.
You love entertainment, don't you?
Yes, I do.
And you know if I had been exposed to it earlier in life, I might have tried it.
I don't know, Herschel.
I started in the entertainment industry when I was three years old, and you know I'm still
trying to get the hang of it, but I know that you like all kinds of entertainment.
And you are one of the world's biggest fans of the Foggy River Boys.
They're your friends, and you've known them for a long time.
I guess you were originally responsible for having them come to Macadoshes, weren't you?
That's correct.
In 1987, I believe, we had them the first time.
I had talked to them for the years and had seen them at different places and just suggested
to their business manager, Dale Sullins, one time that I was in hopes that somebody in
East Texas would sponsor them sometime.
So I came in home one day, and my wife said, you have a call from Branson, Missouri, so
Dale Sullins wants you to call him.
And this was long about November of 1986, I believe.
And so I got on the phone and called Dale, and he says, Herschel, we have an open date
in March.
Would you like to have us come to Macadoshes?
I said, our Kiwanis Club board meeting is this afternoon.
No, we have a regular meeting today at noon.
And I said, we'll call the board meeting following the meeting and see.
So by 2 o'clock, I'd called him back and told him that they had a date in March of 1987.
Have they played every year since then?
No, we had them 87, 88, 89, and 90.
We have not had them since 90, but they are coming back March the 19th of this year.
So a week from Friday night, they will be here at 7.30 at the TGR Middle School auditorium.
And of course, Branson, Missouri has become really not only the country music capital,
now it's becoming the entertainment capital.
You've got people like Wayne Newton and Andy Williams and John Davidson all putting in
theaters.
There is an expression that's very common for those of us who are in the music and entertainment
industry in Nashville.
Wayland Jennings was the first guy that said it was the last picker out of Nashville.
Be sure and cut the light off because they're all going to Branson.
But the Foggy River Boys was back in Branson when Branson wasn't cool.
That's right.
The first time I went to Branson was in 1977, I believe.
There weren't but three or four theaters there then.
They were there at that time, but I didn't know who they were.
I went out to Silver Dollar City.
I did exactly the same thing about that time.
And there were about four theaters, four groups there at that time.
And like you say, but since then it has really grown.
But back to the Foggy River Boys, they have had their own theater there for almost 20
years.
They have been together as an organization for about 24 years.
They've been in Branson performing each year from spring through fall for almost 20 years.
And I want to clear up a couple of things with regard to the Foggy River Boys because
they've been in all the news lately.
If you've gone to a Foggy River Boys concert before and you're saying, oh, I'm not going
to go back and see them.
I've already seen them.
Ha-ha!
But you just think you have.
They announced last year, early this year, that they were retiring.
Johnny Paycheck was going to buy their theater and it didn't work out to where Johnny could
buy the theater.
And so they regrouped.
Some of the guys did retire.
And now they have what people are calling the new Foggy River Boys that are just knocking
them out.
That's correct.
They thought that the end of last season because they thought the theater had sold.
But as you said, it turned out that it didn't sell.
But due to the fact that they thought they had sold, two of the members of the older
members did go ahead and retire.
And they picked up some others.
So actually there are three members of the quartet that are singing with them at this
time that have sung with them before.
But there's one brand new member in the quartet and they'll have a new pianist.
And maybe some of the others will be new.
They have a lady vocalist with them, too, that's been with them for a couple of years.
A lot of people don't realize how groups work, for example, Lil and I were talking to the
day and she didn't realize that the group that's called the Oak Ridge Boys, that's
such a hot, hot country act, has been around since the 40s.
And there have been many, many, many members of the Oak Ridge Boys.
They started back in the 40s, a dear friend of mine, Wally Fowler, he's called Mr. Gospel
Music, started that group.
He sold it and it sold a few other times and the members changed and then DeWayne Allen
bought it and they are now what they are, the Old Stamps Quartet, formed by a couple
of good Gilmore Texas boys, Virgil and Frank Stamps, has gone through many changes.
They were JD Sumner and the Stamps and were Elvis Presley's backup group in Vegas, which
is a far cry from country.
Then JD got out of the group and they became the Stamps and now he's back with the group
and...
And JD Sumner and the Stamps Quartet.
Oh yeah, JD Sumner is my favorite bass singer, you know.
He gets way down.
I keep trying every night to get rid down there.
My goal would be able to hit some of those notes that JD hits, but the Foggy River Boy
is kind of the same way.
Now, I want to come back and talk about their music if we have time, but I want people to
know first of all, if you like entertainment, go see this show.
It's not just country music, it's gospel music, it's pop music, it's a little comedy, it's
a great comedy act.
It's a variety of music that some of it's going to suit different ones there.
It might not be the...everything that you do might not be the favorite for every one
of us, but they're going to do enough things you like so much.
I wouldn't miss it.
Now, in the interest of time before we run out of time, I want to let people know where
they can get tickets to this because believe me, it fills up.
You know, if you wait until the last day or two and try to get a ticket, you may be out
of luck.
Can I have them right here?
No.
Okay, listen, Herschel and I are going to go out here on South Street, if I want to
come by and pick up some tickets, we'll sell them to you.
Tickets are available.
All the Kwanians have tickets, and they are at all the banks, they are at a nice department
store, Smith's, Lone Star Farming Home Center, Encore Music, and at the Daystar Bookstore,
and at the Recreation Center, City Recreation Center, downtown, and they are available.
We want you to come and enjoy an evening with us of good entertainment with the Fogger River
Boys and support the Kwanians because the money that we make from this goes right back
into the community for our projects that we support, and they are all worthwhile.
Yeah, and as I say, please, if you want to go, and you should go, because whoever you
are, there is something they are going to do that you will like, don't wait until the
last minute, you know, go somewhere and get some tickets now.
The Fogger River Boys have about, I don't know how many albums out, probably 12, 14
albums, with just about every kind of music, they've got a great Christmas album, just
all sorts of things, and as I say, I was listening to an album the other night of theirs, and
they were doing songs like The Big Country Hit, if you want to play in Texas, you've
got to have Fiddler in the Band, Lee Greenwood's, God Bless the USA, and people are always
fussing about the fact that there's not any good family entertainment comes to town.
Well people, you're wrong, there's a lot of good family entertainment comes to town,
you just don't go see it, and by coming out and supporting shows like this, you have to
ensure the fact that this group and other groups will want to bring more and more family
entertainment in.
This is a good, clean family show, and you will enjoy something that they do, if you
don't enjoy, all of it will be enough that you'll enjoy that it'll be worth your price,
and the tickets are $8 advance, $10 at the door, children 12 and under a half price.
And these folks prove that, number one, you can be funny without using all of the four
letter words, you can have good music without all of the sexual overtones and things like
that, you can have just good entertaining programs.
Down to earth, good, clean, show, and fun.
And I guarantee you, I'm going to be there stompin' my feet and just generally havin'
a good time.
I hope you have a lot, I don't even have to tell you, I hope you have success, because
this is always successful, but I do hope everybody will come out, and-
So, and I want to thank you for what you're doing for it on radio too.
Oh yeah, we're telling folks about it every day.
In fact, if everybody will be real nice, I might give away some tickets on the air next
week on the radio show every day, so keep listening, you never know.
Yeah, everybody listen to Norm and see what he had.
That's right.
Next week, we will be talking about Crime Stoppers, a great, great organization.
Mr. Greg Sal will be with us, and it's a program that has been quite successful, and we'll
tell you how you can be a part of it.
That'll be next Wednesday night.
Don't forget, a week from Saturday at 2 p.m., Lil and I will be broadcasting or taping the
rodeo parade for rebroadcast the following evening, and all in all, we're just going
to have a super good time.
Herschel, we are smack dab at a time.
My thanks to all the crew here at Channel 21, to Lil, Herschel, everybody here.
We'll see you tomorrow morning at 6.30 a.m. on 8.60 KSFA, the talk of the town.
Until then, bless your house, dear hearts.
Bye.
