DEATH and VOCAL CORDS

The "Summer of Death" has claimed another one. This time it's Brenda Joyce who played "Jane" with two different "Tarzans", one of whom was Johnny Weissmuller (the other Lex Barker).
She was also in a bunch of "B-Movies" in the 1940s. She was the seventh actress to play "Jane. Brenda Joyce was 92.

TARZAN TRIVIA: Weissmuller, the most famous Tarzan of them was actually the SIXTH actor to portray the Jungle Man... the famous trademark Tarzan yell was made by combining the voices of a soprano, an alto and a hog caller.

In Country Western Cowboy News: Sugarland has cancelled three more tour date do to Jennifer Nettles' vocal problems. The undisclosed problems will keep her sidelined for at least a week.
Meanwhile Kenny Chesney has been defending Jen's decision. Apparently some fan sites, message boards and blogs have been critical of her booking studio time the same day as a show.
Sugarland Apologizes for Missing Shows

Kathy Ross Dropped by for a visit to update us on her life and career. She left for Nashville about 7 years ago (SEVEN years!?!) and now is back in Texas where she plans to finish a new album after summer. Kathy has been working on developing her writing. She'll be opening for Aaron Watson tonight at The Texas Hall of Fame. Kathy has been singing around the area since she was 11.

ALISON AND GIDGET IN OUTER SPACE

It's another day in Paradise, although the temperatures are approaching Hell-like status again.
What slim chances of rain we had will completely evaporate over the weekend and readings will read 100 and above.

Good night for the baseball teams: Both Astros and Rangers completed 3-game sweeps of their opponents. The 'Stros defeated the feared and hated and pesky Cards to advance to 2nd in the NL Central, while the Rangers pitchers wrassled with the flu and still knocked off the BoSox.


In the news: the University Police is reporting they apprehended the evil-doer who broke into the Bright Building the other day and stole some football pads before scrawling "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" on the floor. Despite knowing it was an inside job (the perp had an access code) and being caught on surveillance camera, the suspect will not be charged nor his identity revealed. I would look for someone who favors Burnt Orange clothing. Then again, the Athletic Department has had some major cut-backs recently. I'm just saying...

Happy Birthday Alison Krauss, born this day in 1971 in Champagne, IL and still Roy Gene's Favorite Female Singer. She could sing Metallica and I'd still love it.
Alison, Brad Paisley and Charley Pride played for the President at he White Houuse this week for the world's coolest House Party.

Brian Blake from the Bush Library and Museum dropped by and we talked about the Space Program, it's past and future. All part of the Beyond the Moon: NASA's Continuing Mission exhibit. Tonights speaker is Richard Garriot, a 2nd Generation space explorer who took a trp to the International Space Station on board a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, at a personal cost of $34 million. When commercial space travel becomes available, I think I'll get my ticket through Priceline.

today on "Instant Contestant" we learned:

*The "Taco Bell Dog" has died. Her name was Gidget.
*Simon Cowell will have what is termed "a surprise party" this weekend for his 50th birthday.
The biggest surprise: 17 of his ex-girlfriends will be in attendance.
*Because so many performers have passed on this year, celebrity journalists have dubbed 1999 "The Summer of Death"

Have a happy day...

LEANN and EDDIE and BRANDI

Looks like more domestic trouble for LeAnn Rimes. Rumors had it that she was sampling the wares of her co-star Eddie Cibrian a few months back. She said then it was none of our business, he vehemently denied an affair and now his wife Brandi has split the sheets and given him the boot. She's quoted in the latest issue of US WEEKLY "Eddie and LeAnn (Rimes) deserve each other."
I don't think she meant that in a nice way...

Leann and Eddie co-starred in the Lifetime movie, "Northern Lights". Around that time, "Us Weekly" posted security video of them smooching in a restaurant. Brandi says Eddie has still been seeing LeAnn secretly and nobody sees Dean Sheremet (LeAnn's hubby) anywhere anymore with anyone.

Stay tuned for further (ultimate) developemnts....

On todays news/weather, we were informed by the National Weather Service that we had no "official" tornadoes on Monday. Since several funnel clouds were spotted in College Station, why don't they count? A former U.S. Marine Meteorologist called and told us if they don't touch the ground, they ain't tornadoes. My next question is who's gonna stand underneath them to inspect?

"A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending between, and in contact with, a cloud and the surface of the earth." (The Weather Channel)

James Lann (You're From The Country; Honky Tonk Two Step Queen) called this morning to talk about his show tonight at Schotzi's. He called right in the middle of an "Instant Contestant" competition. We gave him free admission to the show tonight. And he didn't even have to answer any questions!
James is genuine real cowboy stock, his Cattle Kin and Ranching Family goes back several generations. They must be so disappointed in his chosen profession. I suggested he spotlight his heritage by arriving to his shows on horseback, waving his cowboy hat in the air.
He says he'll get "His People" to look into it.

We Read It But Never Said It

A couple news items we never discussed at length today:

HOME FUNERAL is a type of funeral where everything, including building the coffin, caring for the dead body, hosting the funeral service and even BURYING THE BODY, is done at home.


CAMEL MILK CHOCOLATE The Al Nasma chocolate company in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, plans to expand the company into new markets including the U.S. According to Yahoo News Al Nasma is the world's first and only chocolate maker that uses CAMEL MILK to make its milk chocolate

A THIEF IN FLORIDA Sean "Crazy Cracker" Roberts of Riverview, Florida broke into a mobile home and robbed its owners at gunpoint.
Sean was later identified by his victims after they recognized a distinguishing mark on his FACE .

Sour Sugar

Jennifer Nettles had to cancel her shows with Kenny Chesney and Kieth Urban this past weekend.
The prognosis is not good for THIS weekend, either.
Jennifer says she blowed out her voice and doesn't want to break it:

http://www.sugarlandmusic.com/news_d.aspx?nid=4675

Country Superheros

You've seen Country performers acting on TV and movies - even on stage, like Reba.
But Trace Adkins has registered a "first" as the star of a ... comic book ("graphic novel" to you fans). 12 Gauge Comics is releasing a four-issue series titled "Trace Adkins is . . . Luke McBain".
The character looks and, presumably, behaves like the real Trace. The premise is based on Trace's life philosophy. The writers say they consulted with Trace so they could put a lot of his personality into the character.

-It's set in Louisiana, which is where Trace is from. Luke returns home after serving 14 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit (prisons are full of innocent men). The town is now controlled by bad guys, and Luke is the only man willing to set things right.

With an axe handle...

This sounds nothing at all like Walking Tall and Buford Pussor, does it?

Anyway, the first issue will escape in November, around the same time that Trace is supposed to go on tour (co-incidence?). It'll run you $3.99 a pop.

Still learning how to do this new-fangled "blog" thing. Hope to able to add Pictures, Audio, Video and Twitter soon. Real soon.
Meanwhile, we are all enjoying our first rains in the Brazos Valley from Sunday. Some Southern areas of the County experienced severe weather warnings and golf-ball sized hail. (How come they never promote "hail-sized golf balls?).
I had promised to run naked through the rain if it ever occurred. Unfortunately I was driving along Earl Rudder Freeway By Pass 6 when it happened. I was not a pretty sight.
Stopped by to see Miss Rita and staff at the Longhorn Tavern Steakhouse Saturday. I wanted to get in one final dinner at the original, classic location before operations move to the new location sometime next week. By the way, where is the new location? We've been saying it'll be in the Old Coke offices/ warehouse. I know I was here when it was operational, but can't quite remember where that was/is. That area has been rebuilt and redesigned several times since then, Oh well, I'm sure they'll provide a map for the new location. Keep ya updated.

Today was the anniversary of the First Men On The Moon, Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin, 40 years ago. All three crew (including the guy they left back orbiting on the command module to do some light housekeeping and prepare dinners while the other two explored the Lunar Surface) are still alive and scheduled to visit the White House today. It's hard to believe it all happened so long ago. Also hard to believe it's been so long since we LAST went to moon.
So, naturally our question of the day dealt with the less-than-famous words from the SECOND man on the moon who said as he dropped to the Lunar Surface "That's a good last step...)
This week we'll have passes for live music from Ryan Beaver and Brett Crenshaw, Johnny Cooper, Aaron Watson plus Bart Crow Band and The Blue Brussard at the Texas State Line Friday at Harry's.

Astronauts deal with flooded toilet in orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The bathroom lines at the already crowded space shuttle and space station complex got a lot longer Sunday because of a flooded toilet.

One of two commodes aboard the international space station broke down, right in the middle of complicated robotic work being conducted by the two crews. The pump separator apparently flooded.
Mission Control advised the astronauts to hang an "out of service" sign on the toilet until it could be fixed. In the meantime, the six space station residents had to get in line to use their one good toilet. And Endeavour's seven astronauts were restricted to the shuttle bathroom.
There have never been so many people — 13 — together in space.
The toilet repair work fell to Belgian Frank De Winne and American Michael Barratt, who had to don goggles, gloves and masks. They ripped apart the compartment, working well into the evening. Mission Control finally instructed them to call it a day and resume the effort Monday morning.
Flight director Brian Smith declined to speculate whether overuse caused the toilet trouble.

What a crazy day in the studio...a power outage in Bryan last night caused mayhem with all of our equipment, even the transmitter was in low power! Thanks to everyone who called in to tell us about it, and a special thanks to the lady who said she just couldn't put on her face in the morning with Roger & Roy blasting out of the bathroom radio....a special thank you to our engineers who scrambled to the station and got us back on full blowtorch by 8am...

Catch us on Friday's show at 7:50 for the question of the day, worth the final pair of tickets to the 38th annual Bryan breakfast Lions club PRCA Rodeo....and at 9:20am tomorrow we will play Instant contestant for free admission to see Kyle Park at the Hall of Fame...stay cool ya'll!


Roger

Have you played instant contestant yet? The questions are multiple choice, and on the Roger & Roy Morning show, 'Inflection is everything." (that means we say two answers in a normal voice, and YELL the correct answer...plus the correct answer is always C. It's hard to lose, but a few people have manged to do it)

Here are the questions from today's show:

This Hip Hop star is having some tattoos removed because he is tired of covering them up when making movies...who is it?

A. Soulja Boy
B. Lay-Z
C. FIFTY CENT!

120 Kids are injured everyday across the USA by this plumbing appliance in the home...what is it?
A. Kitchen Sink
B. Bathroom plunger
C. THE BATHTUB!

Survey sez: One in Five bosses will not consider a job applicant if their resume includes this...
A. The truth
B. Ugly photo
C. A TYPO!

We usually play around 9:20am and the prize is free admission to a "live" Texas music show.


Roger

Texas music artist Granger Smith was a celebrity DJ on the Roger & Roy show Tuesday morning, the same day as the release of his new "Don't Listen To The Radio" album. Granger quickly took command, making it the Granger Smith morning show with special guests Roger & Roy! He pulled the question of the day from an app on his i-phone, and was generous in giving away free admission to catch No Justice at Schotzis tonight in our Instant Contestant contest, but made each winner promise to also come by Hastings in College Station for the Granger Smith CD release party. There was the beautiful babe from Granger's "Don't Listen to the radio" music video in the studio too. her name is Amber...you will see her listed as "girlfriend" in the liner notes of the new CD.

Roger

Friday, July 10

We had the big purple party dude on the show this morning...he gave us
little purple baseball bats as special gifts...the purple dude is Reggy
and you can see him this weekend at the Bombers baseball games with
Victoria...hey, and coming next Tuesday, Granger Smith is back in the
studio with us to celebrate the release of his new CD, 'Don't Listen To
the Radio," which, as luck would have it, is being released on Tuesday.
Granger is supposed to be the DJ and interview us...I've got my fake
answers ready to go....Taking my little one to swim lessons this
afternoon, and I'm looking forward to a rare weekend around the
house...stay cool ya'll!

Roger