{"id":370,"date":"2010-10-14T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T13:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/10\/14\/101014_lightcrustdoughboys\/"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:44:29","slug":"101014_lightcrustdoughboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/14\/101014_lightcrustdoughboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Crust Doughboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie was going through some of her mom&#8217;s memorabilia a couple of weeks ago, and ran across a flyer for &#8220;Parker Willson and the Light Crust Doughboys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect that most people in Texas have at least heard of the LCDs, which, according to Wikipedia (the font of all human knowledge, or at least semi-informed opinion and\/or conjecture) bills itself as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light_Crust_Doughboys\">&#8220;the longest-running country band in the world.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp; The group was created in 1931 to promote the products of Burrus Mill and Elevator Company of Fort Worth, Texas, back when radio advertising was in its infancy. That company&#8217;s president, Pappy O&#8217;Daniel, was parodied in the movie, <i>O Brother, Where Art Thou?<\/i> The LCDs had a very popular live radio show that ran more than twenty years. For a comprehensive history of the group, check out a book entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=vUlMJrFzH6EC&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><i>The Light Crust Doughboys are on the air: celebrating seventy years of Texas music<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Near as I can tell, Parker Willson fronted the band as emcee during the period around 1939-41. The photos below are scans of the flyer, and the reference to Vocalion Records on the reverse side seems to indicate that this was a promotional piece put out by that studio. The Vocalion label was discontinued in 1940 (again, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vocalion_Records\">according to Wikipedia<\/a>), which further narrows down the age of the flyer.<\/p>\n<p>Click on each thumbnail to see a larger version of the image.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/doughboys1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/doughboys1-t.jpg\" alt=\"Scan of flyer\" hspace=\"3\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/doughboys2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #cccccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/doughboys2-t.jpg\" alt=\"Scan of flyer\" hspace=\"3\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie was going through some of her mom&#8217;s memorabilia a couple of weeks ago, and ran across a flyer for &#8220;Parker Willson and the Light Crust Doughboys.&#8221; I suspect that most people in Texas have at least heard of the LCDs, which, according to Wikipedia (the font of all human knowledge, or at least semi-informed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/10\/14\/101014_lightcrustdoughboys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Light Crust Doughboys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,23,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9067,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}