When I was about ten years old (67 now) I
used to listen
to the
Tennessee Jed radio show. The program would start
out
with the sound of
a rifle shot and the pwang-whee of a ricochet,
and then
the voice of his
sidekick which was sort of like the Tom Mix side
kick,
kind of an
old-geezery voice, would say, "Got 'im,
Tennessee, daiyud
cenner!!!"
Another thing I remember was that Tennessee
was always
having trouble
with this bad guy named Dalton. Oh, he was BAD!!!
Dalton
would make some
threat or promise of badness to come, and
Tennessee would
always say,
"Mebbe so, and mebbe no......Dalton!"
And you just KNEW that whatever Dalton had
promised would
be rightfully thwarted
by good old Tennessee and his accurate rifle
shooting.
Memory of Tennessee Jed popped into my head
when here
at work someone
happened to say, "Maybe so, maybe not."
Then I
said slowly with a deep
voice and a southeastern twang, "Mebbe so, and
mebbe
no, ....Dalton!"
Yes, I got a few strange looks. Everyone working
around
me is younger.
So I decided to do a google search on the web and
I found
your site.
I would love to hear some old clips of T-Jed
myself, but
this is all I
can offer to help you for now.
Jerry McMurry
And here's more from
another fan
of the show.
The announcer for the show was Cort Benson and
the harmonica
group that
played the intro and bridges to the tip top
commercials
were The Harpers.
Bear in mind that harmonica groups were very
big in those
days, The
Harmonicats etc.
The Tip Top commercials on the show that I
have, specify
their Hand Kneeded Dough,
which they claimed was infinitely better than the
automated
process. Cannot visualize workers
massaging lumps of dough in a modern mass
production
type of assembly line.
What always puzzled me was the fact that Jed
was always
extolled as a squirrel rifle expert shot
who could drill the eye out of a gnat at five
hundred
yards yet after the celebrated intro every day,"There he goes
tennessee, (ricochet) got him deayad
center", the
announcer would state it was time for Tennessee with his
great horse smokey and the two deadliest SIXGUNS
in the
west.
He was played by Johnny Thomas and Don
Macclaughlin.
Bill DeMaria
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