john ellis-allen

I remember listening to The Hound Show about 1955 or so. I was living in a tent just beside Algonquin Park in central Ontario, called the Halburton Highlands. I had an old Phillips portable radio, and strung copper wire all around the trees and plugged it in to the radio as an extra antenna. Picked up WKBW on clear nights. The hound’s around! I’m rockin on record daddy-o/ from the Zanzibar tavern in Buffalo…. Then I got to hear Elvis Presley for the first time singing Blue Suede Shoes. I’ll never forget that night, it was so beautiful outside, and WKBW music floating over the quiet lake breaking the stillness with ROCK AND ROLL. Party on George.