(1956) Rollercoaster ''TK Blues'' The Teen Kings (Television Broadcast) (Audio Only)

TELEVISION BROADCAST OF THE TEEN KINGS FOR KOSA-TV 1956

KOSA-TV-STATION
NORTH WHITAKER STREET, ODESSA, TEXAS
VIEWING TIME SATURDAY(S) 4:30 TO 5 PM UNKNOWN DATE(S) 1956
PRODUCER - THE TEEN KINGS
CD PRODUCER - JOHN BEEGER
RECORDING ENGINEER - UNKNOWN
AUDIO RESTORATION AND MASTERIN - BOB JONES

Published for Historical Reasons

Roy Orbison enrolled at Odessa Junior College in the fall of 1955 wanting to major in Geology but then changed to History and English. Soon, the band moved in together to a duplex in Walnut Street in Odessa. With a couple of new members they renamed themselves The Teen Kings as they were playing more and more rock and roll. They got a second weekly local TV show on Saturdays from 4:30 to 5 PM on KOSA-TV station, Odessa, Channel 7, which was part of the national CBS network. Johnny Cash and also Elvis Presley came in town to perform around this time and appeared on Roy's TV show. Roy asked Johnny for advice on how to get a record released and Cash gave him Sam Phillips telephone number in Memphis. He called Mr. Phillips who hung up the phone saying," Johnny Cash doesn't run my record company''.

According to Billy Walker, the first date on his first tour with Elvis Presley was in Odessa. Here Elvis, Scotty and Bill played a brief, forty-minute "teaser" show at the High School Auditorium in the afternoon prior to the main performance that evening. While in Odessa, Elvis and Walker also appeared on Roy Orbison's local program on KOSA-TV. No advertisement for this show has been uncovered, but a fan who has seen a kinescope of the Orbison television show confirms that it came from January 1956. Mike Lewis Moore owner of his website: Tommy's Drive-In, Odessa, Texas, says it had to be January 1956 when KOSA TV first opened.

- from Tommy’s Drive-In, Odessa, Texas, Michael Lewis Moore

''TK BLUES''
Composer: - Bill Ellis-Jack Kennelly-James Morrow-Roy Orbison
Publisher: - B.M.I. - Copyright Control
Matrix number: None - Not Originally Issued (2:21)
Recorded: - Unknown Date 1956 - TV Broadcast
Released: 1995
First appearance: Rollercoaster Records (CD) 500/200rpm RCCD 3012-14 mono digital
THE TEEN KINGS - ARE YOU READY?
Reissued: - 2001 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 16423-3/14 mono digital
ORBISON 1955 - 1965

Name (Or. No. of Instruments)
The Teen Kings consisting of
Roy Orbison - Vocal and Guitar
Johnny Wilson - Guitar
James Morrow - Electric Mandolin
Jack Kennelly - Bass
Billy Pat Ellis - Drums

KOSA-TV signed on the air on January 1 , 1956, and has been a CBS affiliate since its debut. Licensed to the corporate entity Odessa Television Corporation, the station was part of the Trigg-Vaughn Stations group, owned and operated by Cecil L. Trigg and Jack Vaughn. KOSA-TV originally operated from studios located on North Whitaker Street in Odessa. KOSA-TV is the only Big Three station in the Permian Basin to have never changed affiliation. In 1967, Trigg-Vaughn sold both KOSA-TV and KDBC-TV in El Paso, Texas, to Doubleday Broadcasting, a subsidiary of book publisher Doubleday and Company.

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