Anyone remember how Gordon Baxter got the the (barefoot Baxter) name? Well....back in the 50's he was the communator for the dirt track hot rod races outside of Beaumont on the weekends. It was quite a popular event. Being as it was hot in the summer time..he would take his shoes off and put his feet in a bucket of cold water while he called the races up in the speaker booth.
Also his sidekick at the radio staion KTRM was Slim Watts..the two guys were very funny...ahead of their times..Me and my dad would roll with laughter at some of the stuff they would come up with. And when the plane crashed that killed Buddy Holly, Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson),and Richie Valens, Gordon and Slim wrote a song called "Gold Records in the Snow". There were gold records found at the site of the crash that were thrown into the snow. It only sold a few hundred copies.. Interesting triva from the 50's and 60's