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The album cover for Horror Cult's The Texorcist depicts Big Tex on fire. The image of Big Tex and the statue's iconic stance is commonly used in regional advertising campaigns. Big Tex's image was featured prominently on a tour promotion poster for the Japanese J-Pop group " Puffy AmiYumi " on their three-city April 2017 USA "Not Lazy Concert ...
In January 2020, CBS7 reported that the show hit number one on the iTunes and Spotify charts and had stayed within the top twenty documentary podcasts. [10]Laura Jane Standley and Eric McQuade of The Atlantic included the show on their list of the "50 Best Podcasts of 2020" saying that the "show is a beautiful ride filled with levity, even as it delivers troubling forecasts for the future."
"Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" is a song composed by Joe Tex and Buddy Killen, and released by Tex as a single in December 1976, bringing the musician back to the top 40 of the US pop and R&B charts simultaneously for the first time since 1972's "I Gotcha". Tex used his aunt Bennie Lee McGinty's name as composer for tax reasons.
Big Tex has greeted State Fair of Texas visitors for 70 years, but ten years ago a fire brought the North Texas icon down to its metal frame.
Please change: "Former disc jockey Al Jones was the first voice of Big Tex, filling the role for only one season in 1953." to the new text: "Al Jones, a WRR FM 101.1 dj, was the first voice of Big Tex. Al spoke for Big Tex for three years."
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Co-writer Merle Haggard recorded the song first on his 1981 hit LP Big City but did not release it as a single. According to the Stephen L. Betts Rolling Stone article "George Jones Gets 'Lucky' with Merle Haggard Song" published online on February 13, 2015, Haggard's manager, Tex Whitson, first pitched it to Jones' producer Billy Sherrill because Jones and Haggard were on the outs at the time.
Julian Casablancas is the latest guest on the SPIN Presents Lipps Service podcast, during which he and host Scott Lipps discuss his band the Voidz’s newest album, Like All Before You, the making ...