WIP: DYNAMIC DUO OF THE OZARKS

A work-in-progress by Jeff Boggs

Julie sat silently, looking at Mykel. She noticed there was a tear in his eye. “Mykel, in all the years we’ve been married, you’ve never told me about this part of your life. This was quite a little adventure. You stopped a kidnapping, dated a pretty blonde girl and was on a radio station that …

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NOTE: This is a later chapter. Mykel is asked to help with a remote at a boat show. They needed a girl to model a swimsuit and Sherry volunteers. As with many radio remotes, things go wrong. We meet Lovable Lance’s rival from country radio station K-B-U-B, Cousin Clyde. Also pay close attention to the little boy. Comment if you pick up anything about him.

In the last chapter, that I posted, the Bonner Hall gang, went to a Wolves basketball game to see Clint & Slick play & watch Grace perform a “flaming baton” routine. Her routine was successful, but she wasn’t watching where she was going & bumped into a small rack holding cold fruit drinks for the …

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I just discovered this video, which goes perfectly with the subject of my novel. Here is the original “media influencer”, Dick Clark, promoting the “new” TV show Batman on American Bandstand. Even Dick’s Top 10 & some dancing at the end of the clip.

It didn’t make the Billboard Top 40, but it was on many Top 40 radio station’s hit surveys in the early part of 1966. It is well remembered as one of the great rock anthems of the Sixties. The Who’s classic “My Generation.” Here is a great video I found on YouTube with news reel …

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