1. “Big Beaver,” Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys 2. “I’m Gonna Wake Up,” Bob Wiles and Cowboy Jones 3. “Brown Bottle Blues,” Slim Harbert and His Boys(for DALE CLARK, JOHN HAMILL, and the GLASS LIFTERS) 4. “A Smooth One,” Rose Sinclair(in memory of JACK BENDER and RUTH… Read More »5 APRIL 2025
Although Robert A. Brown is no longer with us, his chilling imagination continues to captivate readers. On April 4, Babylon Books releases Beauty and the Bund—an action-packed supernatural thriller that takes Brown and John Wooley’s seventh-sense hero from the haunted Ozarks to pre-WWII Washington, D.C. There, he faces a… Read More »A Legacy That Lives On
Right on the heels of their highly successful cabaret show celebrating Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday, vocalist Janet Rutland and writer-narrator John Wooley return with a brand-new presentation, AROUND THE HOLLYWOOD CAMPFIRE, a musical exploration of the diverse and always-engaging music from Western movies. World-class musicians Shelby Eicher and Scott McQuade… Read More »SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: AROUND THE HOLLYWOOD CAMPFIRE
Back in 1969, my pal Bruce Shults, writing for THE DAILY O’COLLEGIAN newspaper on the Oklahoma State campus in Stillwater, did a story about me and my love for old comic books. This was, of course, decades before the rise of the nerd culture —… Read More »Join me at LexiCon – Saturday, October 26 – Stillwater
For years now, I’ve tried to get the wonderful singer Janet Rutland to devote one of her cabaret shows to the music from one of my all-time-favorite TV shows, PETER GUNN. You may recall that the setting of this trailblazing private-eye program was a jazz… Read More »JUST ANNOUNCED: Janet Rutland and John Wooley celebrate Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday
For about a decade and a half, Jim Millaway, aka Sherman Oaks, aka Mr. Mystery, etc. was a powerful force in Tulsa TV and radio. And for just about all of that time, he and I were close friends. I remember Jim in my latest… Read More »A Farewell to Mr. Mystery – Tulsa legend Jim Millaway was involved in numerous Oklahoma-based entertainment offerings.
If horror movies are your thing, you might be interested in a new documentary I co-produced with Bryan Crain for RSU TV — just in time for Halloween. It’s called TULSA TERRORS, and it’s all about the made-for-home-video explosion and how that fuse was lit… Read More »Circle Cinema hosting the theatrical debut of TULSA TERRORS
As regular readers of this newsletter know, we just held an online contest to call attention to the special 40th anniversary edition of Old Fears, the horror novel co-author Ron Wolfe and I first saw published – in hardcover, by the New York-based Franklin Watts –… Read More »OLD FEARS CONTEST STORIES HEADED YOUR WAY
Anyone who has a nodding acquaintance with classic horror movies knows the name Lon Chaney Jr. He’s the only actor ever to portray the wolfman, Dracula, Frankenstein’s creation, and the mummy — Universal Studios’ four classic movie monsters. What’s not as well… Read More »OKLAHOMA’S HORROR SUPERSTAR
I’ve known Bob Wiles since the late ‘80s, when I first began writing about the band he co-founded, the trailblazing and enduring Red Dirt Rangers. Since those days, Wiles has been cutting his own path through Oklahoma’s music scene, with a band he originally thought… Read More »THE STORY OF COWBOY JONES