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From: Randy B
Email: brown3@arn.net
Remote Name: 209.40.131.2
Date: 05-Aug-2002
Time: 09:59 PM
Your comments about Woody's song bring back a great memory for me. In 1966 the Panhandle Heritage Foundation established an amphitheatre in Palo Duro Canyon State Park 12 miles East of Canyon Tx. and just South of Pampa where Woody once lived. Now the home of the "Texas" outdoor drama In 1966 the theatre was just being completed and the Foundation wanted to try out the acoustics of the stage. They put together a makeshift show which later turned into "Thundering Sounds" and then "Texas". I ended up in that first night show as part of a trio supposed to sing "This Land is Your Land". The audience was supposed to be part of a convention that was picnicking down in the Park. It hasn't happened lately, but that night it decided to flash flood, complete with golfball size hail. Our trio rode out to the park in the storm in an old blue Volkswagen without a liner in the top of it and we were almost deaf by the time we arrived. The parking lot had not yet been paved and was ankle deep in water and mud. The conventioneers bused up on the pavement and had been drinking all afternoon. They slugged through the mud and up into the theatre. We performed to belches and upchucks for about 15 minutes with Bob, who had made us practice our verses, so as not to forget the words, forgetting the last verse himself. It was my 3rd live performance and I hoped it to be the last. Bob went on to join a group of traveling actors and toured most states for almost 25 years. Nancy the girl in the trio went on to a life of song and stage. I went on to play guitar in the Thundering Sounds production, finish college and go into the military. Oh what a night! Isn't it funny how we connect certain things to certain songs. Randy
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