It's All Your Vault

This morning on the Roger and Roy Show, we were trying to play a Friday round of "If We Got It, You Got It" request time. The songs asked for are usually kind of goofy and usually several decades old. Today we had a request for "Bird of Paradise" by Little Jimmy Dickens. It wasn't much a surprise to discover that was not in the vault. It was a matter of concern that we didn't have "Fraulein" or "Good Night Irene"! Now, before you jump to unnecessary conclusions and accuse us of lax security at our oldies collection at best or not being Good Texans at the worst, remember the modern technology we have to work with, without and around. I'm sure 47 years ago when we were first broadcasting we had pristine, fresh, newly minted editions of those songs. But they were recorded to vinyl 45rpm records or maybe 78s(ask your grandpa). Since then we've converted to tape, CDs and -now - computers and hard drives. Each time the library needs to be transferred and updated. Invariably some songs get lost in the transition. Both Roger and I have held the mantel of KORA "Music Director" at one time or another, so we each blame the other for any holes in the inventory. Today we decided to call a truce. We will no longer accuse one another for missing music. Now it's all Chris Austin's fault.

A Morning Show Pie in the Sky is awarded to kid's broadcaster Soupy Sales who died at age 83 in New Jersey after a long illness. Maybe U-Tube will have some clips of him in his hey-day in the 50s and 60s. For a time he was the goofiest guy on TV (click photo for links)