While switching channels on the TV last night, the Grammys Award Show was putting on a picture of famous music people who died in 2008 and they played a brief soundtrack of their work. I stopped changing the channel as I recognized a few of the music themes being played and some were very noteable. Then they played The Fishin' Hole with a picture of Earl Hagen for his work as one of the creators.That was nice to see. Even my wife noticed that Mayberry is everywhere! I was fortunate to get Earl to autograph a copy of the Fishin' Hole music score when he attended the Mayberry Days Celebration in Mt. Airy a few years ago and also his book - Memories of a Famous Composer Nobody Ever heard Of. Earl had a great career, starting out with the Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey bands and later wrote the themes and backgrounds for over 3,000 TV shows. That is not a typo - over 3,000. All of them were really great works and it is certainly hard to say one was better than any other but obviously The Fishin' Hole stands out as one of the best. Earl was a very talented man who shared some of his work with us.- The Gollywobbler _______________________________________________ WBMUTBB mailing list WBMUTBB@wbmutbb.com http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/wbmutbb/
