The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music

Contents

List of Illustrations iv Foreword by Art Greenhaw v Introduction vii Chapter 1: “The Best Show Group I’ve Ever Had” 1 Chapter 2: “The Light Crust Doughboys are on the Air!” 17 Chapter 3: “If You Take Marvin, I’ll Break up the Band” 69 Chapter 4: “Seems to Me I Heard a Piano Player” 109 Chapter 5: “I’m Going Back to Work for the Doughboys” 154 Chapter 6: “I’ll Die with Them, If They’ll Keep Me That Long” 188 Postscript 221 Appendix 1: Light Crust Doughboys Recording Sessions, 1936–1948 225 Appendix 2: Light Crust Doughboys Discography, 1969–2000 261 References 271 Index 279 Contents Illustrations following page 153 1. The original Light Crust Doughboys, 1931. 2. The Light Crust Doughboys. circa 1932. 3. The Doughboys in comic regalia. 4. Walter Cronkite. 5. The Wanderers. 6. The famous custom tour bus. 7. The Light Crust Doughboys in Hollywood. 8. Lobby card for Oh Susanna. 9. Ad for Doughboys’ recordings, 1936. 10. The Doughboys sampling the product, 1936. 11. Ramon DeArmon 12. The post-war Doughboys. 13. The Texo Hired Hands. 14. The Flying X Ranchboys. 15. Hank Thompson poster. 16. The ’50s model Doughboys. 17. Smokey Montgomery in the early 1950s. 18. One of many supermarket appearances. 19. Ronnie Dawson. 20. The Doughboys in the ’70s. 21. The Doughboys are presented with Texas Senate Resolution #463. 22. Knocky Parker. 23. The 1980s Doughboys. 24. The 1990s Doughboys in rehearsal. 25. On stage with the Southern Methodist University Mustang band. 26. The Doughboys with James Blackwood. 27. Montgomery and Greenhaw with Hank Thompson. 28. In the recording studio. 29. Walden and Baker in the recording studio. 30. The Doughboys with Nokie Edwards. 31. Displaying their Grammy nomination medallions. 32. Smokey Montgomery in the ’90s. 33. Light Crust Doughboys, 1998. ...