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QT? Tyler IBorning Telegraph 'OUtc XTylcr (iTouricr-'Qrun Section 5JUNE 19, .1987 ET Native Shahan Courts Filmmakers WE EKEN 0 WC A Entertainment 'Leisure 'TV Listings Friday i -n i ii VfT A J-. on VV TA i i i 'lie Pholo Courtesy Pholo COUNTRY BAND ALABAMA TO BRING 'TOUCH' TOUR '87 TO TYLER RANDY OWEN Lead Singer Concert Also Will Feature John Schneider As Opening Act Alabama. Schneider To Perform At Oil Palace Supergroup Alabama will bring its 1987 "Touch" tour to Tyler next week in a concert appearance at the Oil Palace, State Highway 64 East. The band from Fort Payne, Ala. is on a national tour promoting its latest album, "You've Got the Touch," which has produced hit singles with the title cut and "Touch Me When We're Dancing." In 1986, Alabama carried away both the Entertainer of the Year and Vocal Group of the Year awards given by the Academy of Country Music.

Alabama has received more than 40 of country music's top awards during the 1980s, including the unprecedented feat of being named Entertainer of the Year five times. The group has had more than 20 number one hits including "My Home's In Alabama," "Tennessee River," "Old Flame," "Feels So Right," "Love In the First Degree." "She and and "The Closer You Get." Band members are Randy Owen, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry and Mark Herndon. Appearing as the special guest will be John Schneider, an actor who has become one of the most popular singers in country music. Schneider first gained the public eye when he played Bo Duke on the CBS television series "The Dukes of Hazzard" with Tom Wopat. Schneider's hits include "Love, You Ain't Seen the Last of Me," "Take the Long Way," "When the Right One Comes Along" and "Too Good to Stop Now." The concert is set for 8 p.m.

Thursday, June 25. Tickets are $16.50 and can be purchased at the Oil Palace and Palace ticket outlets. By DANNY MOGLE Staff Writer BRACKETTVILLE There are not many who can boast being a Sheep and Goat Raising Hall of Fame member, tourist-trade entrepreneur and pioneer of bringing the movie industry to Texas, but East Texas native James T. "Happy" Shahan fills the bill. The 71-year-old Whitehouse native is a man of diverse talents who has turned the Alamo Village western, town he owns near Brackett-ville into that area's largest tourist attraction and a magnet for movie making.

This week he is supervising refurbishing of the village's Alamo facade for "The Alamo The Price of Freedom," a documentary about the historic battle, which is set to be filmed beginning July 13, Shahan said in a phone interview. Shahan will break from his work next Saturday, June 27, to serve as parade marshal of the YesterYear celebration at Whitehouse, where his family ran Shahan Grocery many years. "We're spending a quarter of a million dollars redoing it (Alamo Shahan said. "We spent two weeks tearing it down and are going back in and rebuilding it. Each film needs something a little different." Located in Kinney County about 50 miles east of the Rio Grande River, Alamo Village frequently has been used as a movie set since Shahan coaxed filmmakers to use his sprawling cattle ranch for "Arrowhead," the 1951 western starring Charlton Heston and Jack Palance.

"I went out there to Hollywood and knocked on doors for 10 days before one opened," Shahan said of his first effort to lure the movie industry to Texas. "At first it was hard very hard. It was a little bit easier after the first film and now after 30 years I don't have to hustle. They (filmmakers) are coming to me." Studio executives at first were re-lunctant to move off Hollywood's vast backlots, he said. The turning point came in 1959 when "The Alamo," a $12 million epic starring John Wayne was shot at the ranch.

Filmmakers built an Alamo reproduction and Old San Antonio village which Shahan turned into a tourist attraction. The authentic looking frontier village complete with stagecoach line, trading post, Indian store, general store, livery stable, dance hall, cantina and army post became a sought-after site for films set in the wild West. Among more notable movies made there are Jimmy Stewart films "Two Rode To- ITALIAN Serving Fine Italian Cuisine Including Shrimp, Veal Chicken S0cialties 'HAPPY' SHAHAN Alamo Village Proprietor gether" and "Bandolero," "Bar-barosa," starring Willie Nelson and Gary Busey, and "Up Hill All of the Way," starring Burl Ives and Burt Reynolds. The village more recently was used for television movies "Houston, The Legend of Texas," with Sam Elliott and "Thirteen Days to Glory," a remake of the Alamo story with James Arness and Brian Keith. The television industry has used the village for the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans show, documentaries on Western heroes and commercials for cigarettes and the Peace Corps, to name a few.

Shahan is acknowledged as pioneer promoter of a film industry for Texas. He was appointed as one of the first members to the Texas Film Commission, organized to draw more filmmaking dollars to the state. Shahan made the jump from East Texas to Brackettville after he graduated from Baylor University in 1940, married his college sweetheart, Virginia Webb, and moved to her family's ranch. There he began raising Aberdeen-Angus cattle, sheep and goats. He created and marketed a cattle feed supplement called "Winter Garden MVP" in a company that now has a marketing base in five states.

He is a past president of Texas Cattle Association and a member of Sheep andGoat Raising Hall of Fame and American Cattle Breeds Hall of Fame. Shahan was elected mayor of Brackettville six times, serving from 1950-57. He began promoting the city as a site for western movies and then tourism after the Army moved out of nearby Fort Clark in 1944. He is a past chairman of the International Tourism Committee for South Texas Chamber of Com- Fathers Day Special S595 i Jf- 1 if -ii i I All You Can Eat Buffet 1 lam-3pm Roast Beef Candied Yams Broccoli Cheese Sauce Homemade Bread Plus: Regular Super Italian Buffet Hours Sunday llam-3pm Tuesday-Fri. (Daily Buffet llam-lpm) 5pm-10pm Saturday 5pm-lUpm A 566-4063 Phone Orders Ready in 20 Minutes Across from Chapel Hill High School On New Henderson Hwy 64E -Courtesy Photo TYLER RADIO STATION DISC JOCKEY ALEX PRICE Writes, Records Indie Bullet Top 10 Countdown Show Indie Artists Grab Spotlight On 'Bullet' Countdown Show Sundays which make up about 10 percent of the market.

Alex Price, the morning disc jockey and air personality at KNUE, is the voice of the countdown. "We try and do as much research as possible on the acts we anticipate will be getting into the countdown," he said. "We try to get the public familiar with an artist as quickly as possible." The countdown is an offspring of "Indie Bullet" Country Music Magazine and Songwriter Newsletter, a monthly publication began last year by Haws, who became concerned at the state of inde- INDIE Page 5, Sec. 5 Gel Country. FATHER'S DAY BUFFET Sunday, Uiine 21, 11 a.m.

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Q. By DANNY MOGLE Staff Writer The Indie Bullet Top 10 Countdown is billed as offering tomorrow's country stars today. Originating and syndicated out of Tyler, the radio show is part of a network promoting the cause of independent recording artists. The one-hour weekly program was created by Tyler music producer and promoter Roy Haws to showcase singers on independent music labels. It takes the top 10 songs from independent artists, as ranked by radio station music directors across the country, and presents them in a countdown format.

The idea, says Haws, is to provide a high-quality national product to get these relatively unknown singers' songs before the record-buying public. He contends the mu- 1 sic of indie artists is often as good as big-name country stars, but because they are not backed by financing of huge conglomerates with national promotion and distribution networks, their songs go unheard. "Our intention is to give the indies a showcase of their own," Haws said. "The other charts are fully dominated by the major labels' acts leaving no space for struggling independent artists," The countdown is written, recorded and produced in Tyler and is being heard on approximately 200 country radio stations including KNUE in Tyler at 9 p.m. Call 561-5800 Dock your dinshy and dive in to our frcsh-from-thc-coast LUNCH SPECIALS: it I 7 forreseyations a I llj today FRI-Fried Catfish! In our special batter.

Potato or veg. salad bar $4.95 SAT Avocado Stuffed Shrimp Salad! With our tangy dressing on bed of lettuce, boiled egg tomato $4.50 SUN Blackened Snapper! Large snapper filet cajun RAM ADA HOTEL Z14)S61-5800l-800-2-RAMADA MON Fried Oysters! Fresh! Fried to golden tan. Potato or veg. salad bar $4.95 TUES Blackened Catfish! Cajun charred to perfection Potato pr veg. salad bar 4.95 WED -Shrimp Brochette! Charbroiled with onions, peppers, tomatoes on bed of rice pilaf salad bar $4.95 THURS Popcorn Shrimpl Golden fried with potato or veg.

salad bar $4.95 spiced and charred to perfection. Potato or veg. salad bar $7.95 ii ii Serving Authentic Hunan Szechuan Cuisine Scrumptious chicken beef specialties, too. Make lunch more fun! Dine outside on our Quarter Deck. Tyler's most deliahtful sidewalk cafe.

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