Clyde Joy Country Music - Channels 9 and 8??

[linc45r-n@lincster.com]

Thanks so much for posting this.  I worked for WMUR in 1964 for about 6
months before going to the "big time" in Boston, I got to work with Clyde
who was doing a morning show at the time.

I remember "Clyde & Wiillie Mae and (all) the Country Folks" which we
watched, even though we wearn't country music fans, because my mom's cousin,
Bobby French, often apeared with Clyde. He played, among other instruements,
the mandolin. I have no idea if he is still among the living.

I remember Good Night Mobile Homes as a sponsor, was the owner really
Freddie Goodnight?

I remember when their house burned and Clyde said the only thing he saved
was his hat.

And sadly I remember their son was killed in Vietnam, after which Willie Mae
no longer appeared on the show.

In addition to "Out Behind the Barn" I also remember Willie Mae singing her
favorite song, "Keep on the Sunny Side." When I saw "Oh BotherWhere Art
Thou" I thought of Willie Mae, and once again I felt sad for there loss.

My big dissapointement was Googling Clyde Joy and only having one hit, an
exceprt from someone's email.

Clyde, Jerry Carney (sp?), Chris Nahatis (sp?) (Saladmaster) and others from
the erly channel 9 days deserve some recognition... now who was the lady
that did the children's show with the nautiacl theme? When I worked there in
1964 nobody could remember.  I also remember the night I was changing
channels at a friend's house and came upon the WMUR test pattern befoe they
started regular broadcasting.

Linc
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bolduc" <n1qgs@yahoo.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7:38 AM
Subject: Clyde Joy Country Music - Channels 9 and 8??


>
> My wife and I were discussing the Grandy Daddy of Country Music in New
> England, Clyde Joy, who recently passed away at age 92.
>
> My wife lived right next door to Mazzie and Clyde for about a dozen years.
> I had the pleasure of being invited over for meals on a few occasions. My
> wife was over there much more often. At times I pick here up there for a
> date, rather than at her house.
>
> I remember Clyde Joy and Willie Mae (wife #2) being on channel 9 WMUR TV
> for ages. I also remember the Circle 9 Ranch in Epsom. My wife's aunt and
> uncle lived adjacent to the ranch.
>
> According to:
> http://www.hillbilly-music.com/artists/story/index.php?id=15040
>
> "He later appeared with Clyde Joy and the Country Folks on Channel 8,
> Poland Springs, Maine, and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire."
>
> Question is:
>
> Did Clyde do a unique show for both channels 8 and 9, or was one show done
> for channel 9 and bicylced up to channel 8.  I have no recollection at all
> of the show being on Channel 8.
>
>
>
> Bonus question.
> Does anybody remember Clyde's Cadillac Camper. Last time I checked it was
> still in the yard on North Main Street in Salem NH!
>
> John B
>