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WTAW Interview
Tom Turbiville | WTAW Radio Host
Laura Lee McBride | Former WTAW Disc Jockey
Daniel Hayes | Transcriber
00:00:01 Dick Bolin (DB)
College Station, Texas, April 24th, 1947.
00:00:04 Speaker 2
Now let's go to the bonfire signed where WTAW's Tom Turbi-?
00:00:07 Speaker 3
-WTAW election night coverage. All 8 voting centers in Brazos County have been counted-
[Unintelligible sports broadcaster and crowd of screaming fans]
00:00:14 Speaker 4
Today on WTAW, we're joining with businesses from across the Brazos Valley , to support our-
00:00:20 Speaker 5
16.20 WTAW.
00:00:22 Tom Turbiville (TT)
This is WTAW, the first 100 years. I'm Tom Turbiville. It was October the 14th, 1957, and
WTAW had themselves a bona fide celebrity coming to work for them to go full-time, hosting a
morning show from 8 to 10. Laura Lee McBride was 37 years old and had already become the
first female ever to sing with Bob Wills in the Texas Playboys. Her dad was Tex Owens, who
wrote the Eddie Arnold hit Cattle Call, and her aunt was Texas Ruby, who was known as Radio's
original cowgirl. In her prime, Laura Lee had cut records for Decca and MGM. She had appeared
with such Hall of Famers as Tex Ritter and Hank Thompson, and this gal was pure country.
00:01:09 Laura McBride (LB)
[Music] I am nothing but a woman loving something. Something called a man. Perhaps to him
I'm not human. But to me, why he's my man.
00:01:34 TT
Laura Lee McBride married Dickey McBride, and they recorded together and they built their
home out near Franklin. She had a 40-year career from 1940 to 1980, and she passed away at the
age of 69 in 1989. Now you know about Laura Lee McBride, disc jockey at WTAW, the first
100 years.