Rite Records custom pressings Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955-1985
| Rev. Luke Hollandwsorth"The Walking Bible" |
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Amos Henry
Titus 1937-2013
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| Richard Soliday
McAlester High School choir teacher , Oklahoma public school teaching
Worked full time as a teacher in the State Prison at Boley see |
| Maggie Culver Fry 1900-1997 Oklahoma Poet Laureate, Emeritus Maggie Culver Fry was born near Vian, Oklahoma in 1900 More |
Jim "Rufus" BeldenMusician Alvia Viles, 34, of Tulsa, Okla., saved a couple from a burning truck in May 1982. He was honored in 1983 for heroism by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. The hero fund, founded by industrialist Andrew Carnegie after he witnessed a 1904 mine disaster that killed 178 men and boys, awarded medals and $2,500 each to 22 heroes and the families of four people who died in rescue attempt. [From a 1983 newspaper article]
Wrestling at KOTV was out of production when I went there in '76 but Buddy Allison said the wrestlers used to use the front bathrooms to change in and because there are no showers at KOTV, did splash baths from the sinks! Jimmy Belden - audioman and sometime announcer used to work as commentator talent on these, too. I remember seeing him in a formal light blue double knit suit - he said it was what he wore when co-anchoring wrasslin' coverage. Formal double knit!
Jimmy's claim to fame or infamy was to blow up his house one Winter while at 6. We ran all these stories on 6 about NOT crawling under your house to check for frozen pipes with a lighter or oven source of flame. Jimmy did - hit a gas pocket and blew up his house! Somehow he survived. Jimmy also played in some REAL honky tonk bands. He pestered me to shoot some band pictures while in performance - so 1 Saturday night I went to a VERY redneck club on 11th by Sheridan and started popping off pix with my flash as the band played. I was asked/no threatened to leave by folks in the audience afraid of them being captured on film WITHOUT their spouses AND by Jimmy's band. Gulp.
One of her songs "Lonely Street Light" was recorded by Barbara Foster on the song-poem label Preview (#2473).
Singer-songwriter Helen Misel (born 1923) learned to play the guitar when she was four, and has been writing her own songs for more than 45 years.
When she was growing up in Cowgill, Mo., everyone in her family played music -- all nine kids, and her father played fiddle. Her older brother William taught her the guitar sitting on his knee.
By 16 Misel said she was playing professionally, in veteran's hospitals and in political rallies.
She was 35 when wrote her first song, for her mother, who had lost her 19-year-old son -- Misel's brother -- in the battle of Iwo Jima. The song was called "She's Some Gold Star Mother, And He's Some Mother's Son."
Misel said the song that "everybody says is my best song ever" is one called "Hello, God."
She wrote it after visiting the museum of Christian artist and Precious Moments creator Sam Butcher.
In the mid-1960s she played at DJ conventions in Nashville, three years in a row. One of those years Misel visited the Grand Old Opry, where she met offstage several famous musicians, including Gene Autry, Tex Ritter and Johnny Cash.
"He was stone drunk," Misel recalls of Cash. "They were all good people."
Misel moved to Nettleton Manor in 2001, to be near her daughter, Diane Berning. She still plays music, on her electronic keyboard and guitar.
Misel's love for music is evident in her apartment, where large black musical notes decorate the wall above her keyboard.
She's not only playing music still -- in church and at the retirement residence -- Misel still writes music. Just last Sunday she performed a new one at Bonner Springs United Methodist Church, called "He's My Friend."
In Times Like TheseSide two [27940]
How Great Thou Art
My God And I
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
All The Heavens Adore Thee
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud
Go'long Noah.
Lonesome ValleyDirector: A.C. Christman
Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit
Ride The Chariot
Good News
Rockin' Jerusalem
Coming Up Lord
Climbin' Up The Mountain
Let's Work Together
Come On And Ride This Train
My Prayer
I Stood At Calvary
Old Rugged Cross Medley
Noah
The Lord's Prayer
Inside The Gates
It Matters To Him About You
I Believe In Miracles
I See Jesus
Lonely Miles
God Will Take Care Of You