But presently the band and its leader, Flour Salesman W. Lee (“Pass the Biscuits, Pappy”) O’Daniel, had to leave to perform before a crowd of 70,000 that packed the University of Texas stadium.

W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel born in Malta, Ohio, 1890. Jimmy Fortune of the Statler Brothers born in Williamsburg, Va., 1955. Jimmy Fortune, for years the high tenor voice for the popular cross-over ...