Our friend, Roger C. is currently cleaning up old sound files belonging to Dallas Turner and making CDs from them. If you click on Dallas's name, you will be able to read about him. In the course of recording these, RogerC. has put together a couple of clips, one of which I've put up on my website. The clip includes Dallas singing of his life history on Border Radio, plus an excerpt of Slim Rhinehart and Patsy Montana doing Back in the saddle again. Please see below for more info on Border Radio. Please click HERE for the sound clip. PLEASE BE PATIENT AS IT TAKES SOME TIME TO DOWNLOAD. I will be changing this in the next day or two. It's worth the wait!*bg*

Dallas is about to have a 75th birthday and is tickled pink that there is so much interest in his experiences. There are a couple of really exciting things coming about which I will post about once they are ready to go public. In the meantime, I'd like to share the clip mentioned.

If you wait for the download and listen all the way through, you will also hear excerpts from a few adverts, including one about prostates, crazy water, and one of Wolfman Jack selling baby chickens!

Dallas mentions this bookBorder Radio. Here's an excerpt about it:

Before the Internet brought the world together, there was border radio. These mega-watt "border blaster" stations, set up just across the Mexican border to evade U.S. regulations, beamed programming across the United States and as far away as South America, Japan, and Western Europe.

This book traces the eventful history of border radio from its founding in the 1930s by "goat-gland doctor" J. R. Brinkley to the glory days of Wolfman Jack in the 1960s. Along the way, it shows how border broadcasters pioneered direct sales advertising, helped prove the power of electronic media as a political tool, aided in spreading the popularity of country music, rhythm and blues, and rock, and laid the foundations for today's electronic church. The authors have revised the text to include even more first-hand information and a larger selection of photographs.

Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford are freelance writers in Austin, Texas.

I will post more info about CD's available in a day or two. Thanks for listening!

kat