[Spotlight Post] Old Friends Rediscovered and Retiring Icons
This is NOT a memorial post – dadgumit. It’s almost Christmas and I want happier topics. I got them in the last couple of days.
I wish Terry Dorsey all the best in his retirement. Dorsey worked for KPLX when my dad started working in radio in Dallas/Fort Worth. Dad came to DFW to work for KPLX in 1986. The station was in Arlington at the time. Dorsey and KPLX split when KPLX moved its studios to Dallas. Dorsey went to work for the “competition” KSCS, where’s he’s been ever since. Dorsey is an icon in this area. His retirement will leave a hole, but we all wish him well in this new phase of his life.
Last weekend, my folks took in the Christmas show at the Arlington Music Hall, which got me thinking about an old friend. Randy Wills was the last music minister I ran sound for at McKinney Bible Church. I have thought about him off and on for several years, but in all the life changes, we’d lost track of him.
So color me surprised when I turn on the morning news (WFAA – Channel 8) and… there he is. He was (as I would always remember him) standing behind a keyboard (piano). He was playing with The Light Crust Doughboys – a Western Swing band playing Elvis-inspired Christmas music.
I was almost late getting ready for work catching the segments they played before commercials, but it was nice to see him looking well and happy on television. Hopefully we’ll have the chance to reconnect at some point. Randy’s good people.
So, hey, look! Good news this week before Christmas!