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Wow, I was a little choked up after reading Bob's oldest daughters post. I think I met her. I remember staying at their house during Hurricane Carla. I was three. I am Tim's youngest son. Thank you for your comments about him. He was the greatest man I have ever known. Growing up it was always told that they started the Saint Patrics Day Parade. I have always believed they did. He did drink, rarely in excess that I remember,and did care dearly for Bob. As a child I remember him spending many times at St. Joes with Bob and over hearing him discibe to my mother the horrible times Bob would have "Drying out". Those memeories are still the first thing that comes to my mind even today if I catch myself drinking a tad bit beyond moderation. I remerber the stories would scare me and I was just Bob's partners son.

I do not have statistics and have been curious as to where their show ranked in Houston's radio history as longest number one, longest runs of morning shows, (with same players), and so on. What I do know is he had many offers from another station. I can remember my mother saying "Tim, it is not about the money, Mrs. Hobby has been too good to you to leave KPRC." The other station got tired of trying and thus Hudson and Harrigan began. I wished he would have jumped at the opportunity. They were funnier than KPRC would allow them to be. They did get in trouble. All in all I was really young and it was not very fun being the son of someone that was very famous. MY DAD would do Slender Bolic commercials on TV. His pants would fall down and his white boxers with hearts on them were seen by the whole world. The Comps were great though. I WISH I COULD STILL GET TICKETS to all the sporting events like he had.

I just found out that you have commented on this site, thank you. I have also responded to Bob's daughter for her comments. In a way, Tim and Bob may have had some influence on the fact that I wound up working the Hobby's at The Houston Post from 1967 until it closed in 1995 for somewhat the same reasons that you expressed, that Mrs. Hobby was a great lady and, even though she had sold the paper, I wanted to continue working for The Post as long as I could. I wish that the St. Patrick's Day Parade was still a big event, they do have a parade on FM 1960 for St. Patrick's Day now, the Ancient Order of Hibernians has been replaced by the Irish Society and they are headquartered at the University of St. Thomas in the Irish Studies building. Best wishes to all!

I'm Bob Byron's oldest daughter. He passed away in 1997 (as did Tim about 10 years earlier), but I believe they would both be thrilled that their program is fondly remembered. My dad was a troubled soul, but I always felt he was happiest making people laugh on the radio. I've enjoyed reading the posts from you nice people, and I thought I could fill in a few blanks with what I remember.

• My dad made his debut on Houston radio about 1953. He hadn't been on the air since the 30's, since he was only born in 1926.
• Whoever said that he was "fond of the bottle" was being kind. He was a serious alcoholic, and the problem escalated the last few years Tim and Bob were on the air. He had some lengthy absences trying to dry out in whatever passed for rehab in the early 70's. He spent some time at the program at St. Joseph's hospital, and afterwards gave frequent radio hellos to his favorite nun, Sister Amelia.
• On the other hand, I never knew Tim to have any drinking issues. He was a solid church-going family man. And a saint for sticking by my father.
• I remember when Buddy Holliday was program director. He had very conservative tastes, and my dad called him Buddy Holy-day. He tried to have Johnny Cash's "Boy named Sue" banned from play because he thought it in bad taste.
• I don't doubt he left the control room messy. He blamed his chronic cough on allergies, but I feel the drinking and the 2 to 3 pack a day smoking habit didn't help either.

Thanks for the memories!

Hi,

Thanks for the info about your dad and Tim. I spent many mornings enjoying their show, they were great together and I always wondered why they did not get picked up nationally like Bob and Ray, or, Hudson and Harrigan, too bad. Best wishes. I am glad to see that Tim's son has also chimed in with his comments. I wish both of you the best.

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Tim Nolan and Bob Byron hosted KPRC radio's morning drive time slot for at least a decade, or more. They interspersed their own local talent with recorded pieces from Radio Ranch, like "Chicken Man", and the tracks from other morning duos throughout the nation as well as top 40 music from the likes of Barbra Streisand, whom they liked to introduce as "the singing Aardvark". Tim tried to come off as the responsible one and Bob was the one who would take cheap shots at local politicians and anyone else whose name came up in the news, Bob also took shots at himself with lines like "the cork just fell out of my lunch", and so on. They were great to listen to as I dragged myself out of bed and got ready for another day at the grind, they just don't make them like that anymore. Fox and Friends just doesn't quite get me there like Tim and Bob did.

I was watching the original "Hairspray" the other evening which is set in 1962 Baltimore and centers around a local dance show.

"American Bandstand" was a dance show in Philadelphia before it went national in the early/mid '60s.

For those of you old enough to remember, do you recall any local dance shows in Houston around that same time?

Just curious. I love the early/mid '60s era. In fact I'm about to download some music right now.

Hi, I just ran across your question today. Yes, there was a show on Channel 13 called the Larry Kane Dance Studio. It was on Saturday afternoon with a local host, Larry Kane, who was a local lawyer during the week and just did the Dave Clark American Bandstand knockoff on the weekend. You had to be student at the Jerry Roe Dance Studios in order to be one of the dancers on the show as they did not want to have a bunch of lumps who could not dance, or have lewd dancing, on camera. One of the cameramen was Jim Corolla, the former News Director at KILT radio, and he might have many more "behind the scenes" stories about the Larry Kane show. We started at the studios over by the University of Houston and wound up at the new KTRK studios out on the west side of town. It was a lot of fun to the dancers and we got to see and meet the recording artists who were popular at that time.