Art-- he was a very late-night radio d.j. who broadcast from Ciudad Acuna, just across the border from Del Rio, Texas, during the late 1950s and 1960s. Playing rockabilly music and rock 'n' roll. Also selling prayer cloths you could put over your radio and "soak up those good vibrations from our Lord Jesus Christ" and generally scamming the public. He started his program, which was broadcast at an obscenely high wattage, with this distinctive howl of the wolfman. And for those of us who knew to tune in (and who could somehow stay up that late)it was this clandestine thrill to listen to this funky, weird subterranean culture that was coming from over the Mexican border -- although he always said he was broadcasting from "Del Reee-yo TEXas..."

Well, sometime in the '80s, I guess, some marketing group got wind of this, dug him up and suddenly Wolfman Jack was all over the place -- sort of the same cultural development that had a bunch of animated grapes dancing on tv to the tune of "Heard it on the Grapevine."

Someone else probably can provide better details, but that's what I remember of it.