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John Wooley
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Giving Mad Props
Like a lot of other nostalgic adults, Tom Biolchini – a Tulsa-based banking executive and immediate past president of the Tulsa Regional Chamber of Commerce...
Staying Gold on Broadway
In March 1943, the musical Oklahoma! – based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Claremore native Lynn Riggs – made its Broadway debut....
A Farewell to Mr. Mystery
His name was Jim Millaway, but to a generation of Oklahomans, he was Sherman Oaks, or Mr. Mystery, or even sportscaster Stan Sharpe (“It’s not...
Horror as a Safe Space
In the summer of 1953, my father died of polio. I was four years old. A few years later, I was a full-blown fanatic for...
Tulsa Terrors
Thanks to RSU TV – northeastern Oklahoma’s public-television station – and its senior producer-director, Bryan Crain, I was recently able to co-produce and direct a...
Home and Happy
Tulsa’s Cathy Venable spent five years on the road as principal keyboard player and associate conductor for the national touring companies of three major musicals:...
Part of the Tulsa Holiday Soundtrack
Twenty-five years ago, at pretty much exactly this time of the year, Davit Souders got an idea. A Tulsa-based vocalist and bandleader as well as...
To Linda, Love Don
Most music is, in some sense, a collaboration. Often, it’s a posthumous one. Anytime an artist sets out to perform a piece of music he...
The Good Kind of Tears
One of the biggest characteristics of the Stillwater-born music known as Red Dirt is its emphasis on lyrics that are honest, real and sometimes painful....
A Man of His Word
Last month in this space, I wrote about the Tulsa-based nonagenarian country-music impresario Jim Halsey, manager of the Oak Ridge Boys for the past half-century...
