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Kent and I had the privilege of attending a special Golden Boot Award ceremony last week that honored our friend, Bobby Hoy.   Bob’s Friends

The Golden Boot is the most prestigious Western genre award that recognizes the elite of that special fraternity of actors, stuntmen, writers, directors who contributed significantly to the Western in films and television.  The Golden Boot Award

It is very sad to realize that the ranks of this exclusive alliance are becoming increasingly thinned as time passes. For those of us who grew up during the 50’s and 60’s, the Western, especially on television, was an important part of our lives. We were told that it was uncertain that there even was going to be another Golden Boot ceremony. But, thanks to the Golden Boot fraternity, there was just one more to give … and it was for Bob Hoy.

For those who are not familiar with Bob’s work, he is a legendary stuntman and actor with over sixty years in films and television. Bob’s big screen credits include: A Star is Born, Man of a Thousand Faces, The Defiant Ones, Operation Petticoat and Spartacus. Beginning with Ambush in 1950, Bob performed stunts and/or acted in a plethora of westerns and appeared in just about every Western television series over the last half century, including creating the role of Joe Butler during the four year run of The High Chaparral. As Robert Fuller (Wagon Train, Laramie) said as he handed the Golden Boot Award to Bobby, “When Bobby was on the set, you knew that there was going to be no problems with the horses or the stunts.- he had your back!”

To name a few who attended the presentation: Robert Forster, Andrew Prine, Bruce Boxleitner, Robert Fuller, Peter Brown, William Smith, Rudy Ramos and many more.

Bob is a special friend who has always been there for those he loves. It was not only a joy but very moving to witness this long overdue moment of peer recognition. If you would like to hear more about Bob please go to my 2007 Archive page for Getting To Know You shows at: www.susanmccray.com or visit Bob’s website: www.bobhoy.com.

I ask that you please pray for our dear friend Bob Hoy, who is now going through the biggest and most courageous fight he has ever faced, and for his devoted Kiva always by his side.

Thank you and may God bless,

Susan McCray

TV CONFIDENTIAL will soon be moving to a new weekly time slot on KSAV.  That’s right… weekly.  Before too long, you will no longer have to wait two weeks to go behind the scenes of your favorite TV shows and favorite TV celebrities.

Beginning Feb. 26, TV CONFIDENTIAL will be heard every Friday at 10pm, 7pm PT (immediately following the DUSTY RECORDS show) on KSAV.org. The program that will air on Feb. 26 will be repeated the following Friday, Mar. 5, also at 10pm ET, 7pm PT on KSAV, with a new program airing the following Friday at the same time.

For more information, visit our website at www.tvconfidential.net.  In the meantime, thanks, as always, for listening.

Ed Robertson
Managing Editor and Co-Host
TV CONFIDENTIAL
www.tvconfidential.net
blog.tvconfidential.net
Also available as a podcast via iTunes and FeedBurner

Known to audiences for originating the title role in “Mary Poppins” on Broadway as well as for her esteemed portayals of Belle in “Beauty and the Beast” and Kristen in “On The Record”, celebrated Broadway stage star Ashley Brown catches up with me on “Getting To Know You” Tuesday, February 9th.

Ashley talks about her career, her recently released CD “Speak Low” and I will be playing a beautiful selection from it, and you really won’t want to miss the gossip about her companion, Eddie Elizabeth, a theatre fanatic, who follows her everywhere and actually sings in her dressing room with her.

Make time to get to know someone special, Ashley Brown, Tuesday, February 9th at 6:30 p.m. PT/ET right here on KSAV.org.

Ashley Brown’s new CD “Speak Low” is a KSAV featured album and you can easily purchase it via Amazon.com by clicking on Buy Featured Music listed on the Main Menu of our KSAV site.

Hope to see you Tuesday,

Susan

The Hollywood Collectors Show and a real life Hollywood mystery will be among the topics of discussion on the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL, Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 11pm ET, 8pm PT on Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org.

In our first hour, we’ll welcome David Elkouby, co-owner of the Hollywood Collectors Show, the legendary autograph show held in the Hollywood area four times a year, featuring actors, writers, performers, collectors and celebrities from the world of film and television. The next Hollywood Collectors Show is scheduled for Valentines Weekend, Feb. 12-14, in Burbank. We’ll find out which celebrities are scheduled to appear, plus a whole lot more.

Then, journalist and television historian Stephen Bowie will join us as we look back at a bizarre murder case from the early 1960s involving a man who would later become the lead writer and producer of a long-running, award-winning prime time network series. Which producer? Which show? Find out when Stephen joins us in our second hour.

TV CONFIDENTIAL with Ed Robertson and Frankie Montiforte
Every other Tuesday at 11pm ET, 8pm PT
Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org
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Hola mis Amigos…

That’s as “Bi” as I get. I’d like to point out that I have a show on KSAV every Monday night called “Rear View” with me, Claude “Hoot” Hooten. Essentially, I draw content from stuff I’ve stolen over the years and lay claim to it as if I wrote it.

Thanks for letting me blog you. Save your stub as we’ll be having a drawing for the new Buick sometime soon. Well, it’s not a new Buick, it’s a ‘77 Skylark sitting up on blocks out behind the station.

The engine DON’T work and the rear shocks are shot makin’ her look like she’s always going uphill, but the good news is, the radio works! Well, most of the time. If you bang on the dash with your fist, it comes right back on; not to the station you were listening to, but…..(we’re not giving a car away - Management)

Anyway, I’ll feature a bevy of musical greats like: Rod Stewart, Sade, Neil Sedaka, and, Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Corcovado. I took a picture of Ipanema Beach at dusk in Rio some years back, that I think you’ll like. Scroll down the drop down menu to KSAV Fotos and you’ll find Hoot’s Fotos and the picture of Rio and my Cats that I do the show with each week as well.

For your listening pleasurel, I’ll replay an odd phone call I took just before Valentine’s Day in Santa Fe, New Mexico some years back… and I’ll have an appropriate song for that special day as well.

Tune me in - KSAV.org 7:PM Monday for Rear View with Claude “Hoot” Hooten.

I appreciate it and my brothers and sisters on the station, especially the devilish Susan McCray, appreciate it as well. We’re all in it for the love.

Warmest regards,

“Hoot” Author of Drunk & Disorderly, Again
www.mynameishoot.com

The Son Of Harpo Speaks, literally, on the upcoming edition of Dave White Presents.  Bill Marx, eldest son of Harpo Marx, discusses his book appropriately titled Son Of Harpo Speaks.  The interview, conducted by co-host Wes Britton, includes a lot of inside details concerning all 5 of the famous Marx Brothers as well as covering Bill’s own career.  Bill is quite a comedian in his own right as listeners will learn from the interview.  A brand new Poor David’s Almanac along with some political humor is a part of this program as well.  The program now previews twice on KSAV radio www.ksav.org at 7:30PM Eastern and 7:30 PM Pacific Tuesday, February 2.  The program becomes available 24/7 beginning Wednesday February 3 at www.audioentertainment.org/dwp .
Dave White; Host                           Dave White Presents
www.AUDIOENTERTAINMENT.ORG/dwp

Hi,

I’m hoping you’ll join us for Rear View this evening at 7 O’Clock. I’ll feature, the Eagles, Babyface, Keely Smith and Diana Krall just to mention a few great artists.

We’ll provide a few tidbits of information I’ll bet you didn’t know about, and we’ll have a “see who sends Hoot the largest check contest” as well. Don’t worry folks, the money goes to pay for my frequent trips to the Hawaiin Islands where I have an active hand in converting heathens.

It’s on “Rear View” and I’ll look forward to you hearing from me. Huh?

Muchas garcias,

Hooooooooooooot

As you may know February is Black History Month. Mostly Music with host David Cummings (that’s me) will celebrate this month with special programming that honors some of the African-American artists who have entertained and educated many of us for so many years. Thursday February 4^th’s program will be the first part of a two-part show that features many of the entertainers who performed on stage at the 125^th Street Apollo Theater. You might recognize some of them. How about Ella Fitzgerald who got her big break at the Apollo or Billie Holiday as a young inexperienced singer had the audience on their feet shouting for more.  Unfortunately she only knew two songs, so she sang them again much to the audiences’ delight.  Every Wednesday night was amateur night in Harlem at the Apollo.  The list of amateur night winners is a who’s-who of Jazz, R&B and Rock & Rolls stars. Here are just a few of the amateur night winners Jackie Wilson, Clyde McPhatter, Sonny Til and the Orioles, Sara Vaughn, and Ben E. King, well the list goes on.  Later in the month I will showcase some of the Black Indie record label owners. Guys like Lummie Fowler from Lumtone records, Bobby Robinson Fire & Fury records, Paul Winley from Winley records, Don Roby the Duke/Peacock label and Hiram Johnson from Johnson records to name just a few. And there will be more. One week it will be the voices of some of those African-American actors and actresses who paved the way for so many to follow on radio. How about those early Black Disc Jockeys Tommy”Dr. Jive” Smalls, Jockey Jack Gibson, Hal Jackson, Jocko Henderson and all those dj’s from the first all Black programmed station WDIA “The Goodwill Station” in Memphis. All this and more coming in February on Mostly Music Thursday night here on KSAV radio. Be there or be square.

David Cummings

Lou Christie will talk about his career as a chart topping, multi-million selling songwriter, recording artist, and performer Tuesday evening, February 2nd on “Getting To Know You,” at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT

Lou’s first million selling song, “The Gypsy Cried”, turned him into a national teen idol, while still a teenager himself. Hear Lou talk about how he went from teen idol to Rock ‘n’ Roll legend.

Over the decade of the 1960’s Lou followed success with greater success. “Two Faces Have I,” followed by his number 1 multi-million selling success “Lightning Strikes.” and two more million selling hits, “Rhapsody In The Rain” and “I’m Gonna Make You Mine.”

Over the past decade, Lou has led the resurgence of Rock ‘n’ Roll heroes performing throughout the world. His records are still selling today!

I guarantee you’ll enjoy getting to know singer/songwriter Lou Christie and hear music Tuesday evening, February 2nd at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT on “Getting To Know You” right here on Share-A-Vision radio - KSAV.org.

Enjoy this day and take time to get to know someone,

Susan McCray

I knew the Glenn Miller Birthplace Society (Glenn Miller’s kids) existed for quite a few years, but 2005 was the first year I dared to attend. I felt removed, uncomfortable, a bit out of place … but not for long. I met 50 year old Pete Cruz, knower of all things Miller. I always thought I was an aficionado of all things Glenn Miller, but this young man spent a large part of his adult life studying and learning about his idol, Glenn Miller.

He died in his home last Saturday. He left a legacy of knowledge, humor and humbleness in its wake. Shock … for he is my contemporary. Pete knew dates, solos, technicalities and the like and I was so grateful for what he had graciously filled in. He filled in part of Glenn’s history, part of my father, Ray’s, history and much more and yet, he is gone so young.

Yes, there are history books that talk about Glenn, my father and all those related to Glenn, but Pete offered a thought … a pause for what was and what might have been. I thought about you, Pete, last week, but alas, a week too late.

I wish to celebrate those whose knowledge and contributions slip under our rugs and into oblivion. A tribute to those who wander into a time period … too late. Thank you Pete Cruz, wherever you are … thanks for the dance … Eberle