During 1955 and 1956, in my junior and senior years of high school, at 9 P.M. a group of us, every night, tuned in the Hound. We were living in a little eastern North Carolina town of Aulander, some 60 miles south west of Norfolk, Virginia. At the time, Aulander was a farming town of one thousand people located in the heart of tobacco country. We only had one T.V. channel broadcasting. It was Channel 3 located in Norfolk. We thought the Hound was the coolest. From his funky slow groove theme, the dog hollowing just before he came on to say “The Hound’s Around!” He called just about everyone “A Real Cool Cat!” The man was our teacher and we were his avid, devoted students. Five of us, three boys and two girls, were serious, daily rock and roll dancers. All of us are alive and well. We will be attending a big high school reunion on Saturday, 18 April 2009. Our blog website is http://aulander.blogspot.com. We are in the process of writing up our passion for the rock and roll music that was sweeping the country. It should be posted in the next week. I can assure you that at the heart of our description, will be this “real cool cat” from Buffalo, New York who put down the goovey licks and answered to the handle of “The Hound!”
submitted: 1 March 2009