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So far, the only commentaries on this secondary tape was LK making an announcement of Jeanette Bishop's leaving the show to return home to Ireland. You weren't by chance her partner, where you?

I am concerned that possibly 30+ years ago, I may have compiled these performances to get rid of (what seemed at the time) meanlessly jabber. !!!%&*#@##!!!!!!

I had many partners over 8 years of dancing on the LKS but I didn't know her. There were many people on the show over it's 14 year duration and I couldn't know all of them. As for the meanless jabber, one man's trash is another man's treasure but I understand... lol.

If you locate you complete tape I would really like to hear it. I danced on the LKS for years and was present when J. Frank Wilson appeared at least on one occasion and probably another. I did take a photograph of him sitting on a stool performing on the LKS but he was not accompanied by anyone on that date.

Thanks for posting this old relic. Enjoyed it very much. Do you have any of the interview?

Dredging up an old thread here to see if anybody has anything to add. I've discovered a lot of material about the show in a trade magazine archive and I'm doing a piece on Larry Kane for my History blog and need some more personal information. I was away from Houston for all of the 1960s except for occasional visits and I had no idea how big a phenomenon he was. At one time the show produced by KTRK was aired in as many as 100 markets.

Anyone know when he graduated from San Jac, what station he worked at it high school, when/where born and raised? Any more personal tales of being on the show or specific information? One source gives Jan 1, 1959 for the launch of the show but numerous other sources indicate it was on in 1958.

Kane died in 1998 at the age of 62. He was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame last year.

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.

Have you seen the You Tube post on the Larry Kane Show which is actually late 62 or early 63?