 | Captain Reebo from Jamaica Captain Reebo, a Rio Grande raft captain, sings a song on the veranda of a guest house in Port Antonio. |
 | Cristina Captain of the RGV Calypso Dance Team solo routine Cristina Captain of the RGV Calypso Dance Team doing her solo |
 | The Saving Force From the recent flooding disaster in the state of Tabasco, Mexico, to the people in need everywhere both during and after the holidays, there is a saving force at work, and the Salvation Army is evidence of it. Ron interviews Dan Ford, the Captain of the Salvation Army in McAllen, TX, about the work which is done by their organization to help people in need, and to ultimately show them the way to everlasting help. |
 | Wildflowers of Texas 2005 -Through ACME Eyes 2006 brought us drought ... it was not that way in 2005. These pix are from McKinney to San Angelo to where the Pecos River drains into the Rio Grande |
 | Riding My Thumb To Mexico BCB Bands sings Riding My Thumb To Mexico by Johnny Rodriguez. This is another new song uploaded a couple of months ago. Hopefully, this is a better version. A reliable country hitmaker for much of the '70s, Johnny Rodriguez was born in Sabinal, TX, in 1951, growing up 90 miles from the Mexican border. His older brother Andres, a big country music fan, bought him a guitar when he was seven, and he was playing and singing by his teens. Rodriguez was captain of his high school football team at 16, but when his father died of cancer, he spiraled out of control, racking up four arrests in two years. While Rodriguez was serving a jail term, Texas Ranger Joaquin Jackson heard him sing and introduced him to music promoter Happy Shahan, who booked Rodriguez to work as a singing stagecoach driver at the Alamo Village Amusement Park during 1970-1971. There he was discovered by Tom T. Hall and Bobby Bare, who brought him to Nashville to join Hall's Storytellers. Not long after, Rodriguez signed with Mercury, releasing his debut single, "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)," in early 1973. It climbed into the Top Ten and turned out to be the first of 14 consecutive Rodriguez singles to do so. His next two, "Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico" and "You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me)," both hit number one. 1974 brought the Top Five hits "Dance With Me (Just One More Time)" and "We're Over," plus the number one "That's the Way Love Goes." The following year was even better, as all three of his singles -- "I Just Can't Get Her Out of My Mind," "Just Get Up and Close the Door," and "Love Put a Song in My Heart" -- hit number one. More Top Five hits followed over 1976-1977 in "I Couldn't Be Me Without You," "I Wonder If I Ever Said Goodbye," and "Desperado," but he and Mercury parted ways in 1979, upon which point he signed with Epic. "Down the Rio Grande" went Top Ten that year, but Rodriguez subsequently endured a serious commercial slump. He returned to the Top Ten in 1983 with a pair of hits, "Foolin'" and "How Could I Love Her So Much," which proved to be the last of his career; his final chart single came with 1988's Top 20 hit "I Didn't (Every Chance I Had)" on Capitol. He did record a couple of honky tonk-style records during the '90s, specifically Run for the Border (Intersound, 1993) and You Can Say That Again (Hightone, 1996). Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
 | Puerto Rico: The Wrath of Double Corn In this episode, Captain Commando discusses strategies around the Doube Corn exploit in Puerto Rico! For more info see the wiki at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico_(game) |
 | STRANGER FROM THE PECOS 1943 JOHNNY MACK BROWN TRAILER Theatrical trailer for the 1943 Johnny Mack Brown western, STRANGER FROM THE PECOS. A former All-American halfback at Alabama, Johnny Mack Brown first signed with MGM and was featured in a variety of silent film including THE DIVINE WOMAN (1928) opposite Gret Garbo, OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928) with Joan Crawford and LADY OF CHANCE sharing the screen with Norma Shearer. He portrayed the infamous frontier outlaw, William H. Bonney, in King Vidor's BILLY THE KID (1930) and, though starring in numerous non-westerns until the mid-1930s, appeared in such oaters as LASCA OF THE RIO GRANDE (1931), THE VANISHING FRONTIER (1932) and FIGHTING WITH KIT CARSON (1933), a twelve episode sorial for Mascot Pictures. In 1935, he became firmly entrenched as a saddle star in the minds of the movie-going public when he signed with independent producer Sam Newfield's Supreme Pictures. Mack Brown starred in sixteen of these sturdy Supreme sagaebrush sagas between 1935 and 1937, before signing with Universal for four years, resulting in what many argue were his very best westerns. 1943 found him at Monogram in a solo series designed to take the place of the popular "Rough Riders" series starring Buck Jones, Tim McCoy and Raymond Hatton, following Jones' untimely death in the tragic Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. Mack Brown rode the trails at Monogram until 1952 and made only a handful of film and television apperances thereafter. He died November 14, 1974. To buy classic movies, vintage TV shows, westerns and serials -- plus original movie posters, celebrity autographs and collectibles -- visit Captain Bijou's website, www.captainbijou.com |
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