Huey Meaux Last Show 1974
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Huey Meaux Last Show 1974
Huey P. Meaux's last Friday night oldies show on KPFT right before he went large with Freddy Fenders "Before the Next Teardrop Falls". KPFT was downtown in the old Atlanta Life Building back then and legendary RAG publisher, Thorne Dreyer was the station manager. Huey did a 3 hour show every Friday, 9-midnight, playing old records (some that he produced), telling personal experience stories about them, and sometimes talking over them in a kinda 50s bebop radio style that nobody did any more. For almost an hour of every show, he also read letters from the boys in white, inmates in Texas prisons where he was once a resident.... "you betta show blieve it!" The video quality is not so good. It was shot with a Sony AV-3400 Portapak, 1/2 reel to reel black and white, 30 minute reels, high tech in its day, by me and Charles Royce. I edited it down to about 45 minutes, and this shorter version. Oh and that's Drivin' Ivan Kuper at the controls... old school. Update: At age 82, Huey died April 23, 2011 at his home in Winnie, Texas. No matter how it all ended up, no matter what you thought of him, you gotta admit he was a character, an original, a one of a kind.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll/
Huey P. Meaux's last Friday night oldies show on KPFT right before he went large with Freddy Fenders "Before the Next Teardrop Falls". KPFT was downtown in the old Atlanta Life Building back then and legendary RAG publisher, Thorne Dreyer was the station manager. Huey did a 3 hour show every Friday, 9-midnight, playing old records (some that he produced), telling personal experience stories about them, and sometimes talking over them in a kinda 50s bebop radio style that nobody did any more. For almost an hour of every show, he also read letters from the boys in white, inmates in Texas prisons where he was once a resident.... "you betta show blieve it!" The video quality is not so good. It was shot with a Sony AV-3400 Portapak, 1/2 reel to reel black and white, 30 minute reels, high tech in its day, by me and Charles Royce. I edited it down to about 45 minutes, and this shorter version. Oh and that's Drivin' Ivan Kuper at the controls... old school. Update: At age 82, Huey died April 23, 2011 at his home in Winnie, Texas. No matter how it all ended up, no matter what you thought of him, you gotta admit he was a character, an original, a one of a kind.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll/