If you watch Public TV, you know the month of March is one of those times when PBS stations are doing their on-air fundraising. For some reason (maybe because we passed fundraising buckets at all our free shows) it reminds me of the late fall of 1968 when SOS did a thirty-minute special on what was then Nashville's public TV station, WDCN-TV Channel 2.
The WDCN-TV studios were located at 15th and Compton Avenues just behind what was then Belmont College. The facilities had once been WSM-TV's broadcast facility, and later when Channel2 moved to the Fairgrounds area (and became WNPT, Channel8) the Compton Avenue site became, and still is, the location of Nashville's 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center.
If you look closely (click the photo above to enlarge it), you can see the script for the show on the telepromoter. In our SOS Archives, I have a number of really great color photos of this SOS TV taping. We can thank Alan Mayor for that. And thank goodness he took these shots. Since this was done in the days before DVRs or TiVos, a video or audio copy of the show itself has apparently not survived and so is probably gone forever I'm afraid. We have only these photos to remember our SOS Nashville Public Television "favorite."
Here are some more photos from that taping for everyone to enjoy:
The SOS Band, including on guitar (from the left) Kenny Keaton, Terry Hendrickson and Jerry Austin (I think). That's Scott Mayberry on the trumpet with Patty Mayer and Barbara Richardson in the cast next to them. Sorry, I can't identify the guy playing the sax.
Rick Jolly on the drums
My brain cells are going quick. I can't identify the singer at the microphone and I have no idea from looking at the movement of the cast what song we are singing in the photo above. If you know, or you have memories of this TV taping, please feel free to share them with us by clicking on the comments link below, or sending me an e-mail or contacting me on Facebook.
No comments:
Post a Comment