Will 'O Brother Radio Rock Reunion Shake the WSM Air-Castle-of-the-South tower? "It was just the sort of thing you'd expect, once you've learned to expect it," Shelby Foote Home > Disney's America > 'O Brother Still Radio > More History > Where You Are Planning the 'O Brother Still-Country "Radio-Rock" Reunion From: Chotank@aol.com [Chotank@aol.com] Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 7:39 AM To: rustywalk@aol.com Cc: aefoote@una.edu [aefoote@una.edu] Subject: Next Week with Jimmy Johnson Rusty, Thanks for contact info. I will be in touch when Jimmy chooses day for our Iuka trip next week. In the meantime, I have lots of history on you, Mark Thompson, Jimmy Johnson and my own connections with Iuka and Burnsville at: http://www.chotank.com/datamark.html Please check it to be sure I have my facts on you correct. My best, Eddie Avon Edward Foote, Ph.D., Ohio State University Professor Emeritus, University of North Alabama Florence E-mail Attachment: Proof of Johnson family roots in Iuka and Burnsville, Tishomingo County, Mississippi >MACK JOHNSON >Published In: The Vidette, Iuka, Tishomingo County, >Mississippi >Date Published: August 26, 1948 > >Mack Johnson Dies From Injuries Received In Car Wreck > Mack Johnson, age 21, died at a Clinton, Indiana >hospital early Saturday morning, August 14. > He was born near Iuka, where he had lived all his >life, until six months ago. He went to Chicago and >was employed at the Hotpoint Electric Appliance plant. > Mack was returning home for his vacation, while >riding in a car driven by Garland Steward, the car was >wrecked near Clinton, Ind. The two men were rushed >immediately to a Clinton hospital where he died on >Saturday morning. > His body was returned to Iuka where he is >survived by his mother, Mrs. Ophelia Johnson, seven >sisters; Peggy Johnson and Mrs. Earl Comer, Iuka; >Miss Louise Johnson and Mrs. Woodroe Lovelace, >Chicago; Mrs. Ruth Pate, Sheffield; Mrs. Clara Borden, >Florence, and Mrs. Alfreda Matthews, Oak Dale, Tenn.; >four brothers, Ellis Johnson, Iuka; Edgar, Dexter and >Ray Johnson, all of Sheffield. > Funeral services were conducted at Mt. Evergreen >Church Monday, August 16, by Rev. E. J. Fuller and >Rev. W. C. Hamilton, where a large crowd attended. >Burial was in Toenail Cemetery, Cutshall was in >charge. > Re: Johnson visit to Iuka, RUSTYWALKto youshow From RUSTYWALK RUSTYWALK@aol.com To Chotank Chotank@aol.com Cc Bcc Cool. Thanks for the update. Rusty Walker Rusty Walker Programming Consultants P.O. Box 417 Iuka, MS 38852 O (662)423-5003 F (662)423-**** C (662)791-**** rwpconline.com In a message dated 11/5/2010 8:31:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, Chotank@aol.com writes: Rusty, Jimmy's voice mail was full when I tried to reach him on Monday. So this week's visit to Iuka fizzled. I will try again early in December. I remain optimistic that I will bring him by to talk with you in Iuka someday. My best, Eddie Much more on Rusty Walker and station WLZY, the O Brother movie's Still-Country Radio Voice in Tishomingo County, Mississippi Jimmy Johnson on Nashville and Muscle Shoals Music History Rick Hall told my uncle "ask him if he would like to work for me?" Jimmy's Uncle Dexter Johnson of Iuka family is quoted by Jimmy at 40 seconds on counter. MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE 2012 Regular Session To: Rules By: Representative Carpenter House Concurrent Resolution 87 (As Adopted by House and Senate) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING AND CONGRATULATING MISSISSIPPI'S OWN SAMMY DARWIN UPON HIS INDUCTION INTO THE COUNTRY RADIO HALL OF FAME.      WHEREAS, known as Sammy Darwin in his hometown of Iuka, Mississippi, and as Rusty Walker in the world of country music, this Mississippi native has received the top honor in country music of being inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame; and      WHEREAS, on February 21, 2012, Sammy Darwin was paid the ultimate tribute as he sat inside the National Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee, with other country radio legends as a 2012 inductee to the Country Radio Hall of Fame; and      WHEREAS, the Country Radio Hall of Fame is dedicated to the acknowledgment of those persons who have made significant contributions to the radio industry over a twenty- year period, 15 of those years having been in the country format; and      WHEREAS, other 2012 inductees into the Country Radio Hall of Fame are Moby, Eddie Stubbs and Bill Whyte, but none so notable as Mississippian, Sammy Darwin; and     WHEREAS, since beginning his career in 1970, under his on-air personality name of Rusty Walker, Sammy Darwin has either programmed, advised, created, consulted, overseen, served as a strategic partner or performed as an on-air personality for more than 750 country radio stations throughout the nation; and      WHEREAS, Sammy Darwin has been recognized with numerous national industry and community awards from his on-air personality stints on stations such as WQYK, WQIK, WZZK and KFKF and he held an impressive seven-year consecutive run as Billboard's Consultant of the Year; and      WHEREAS, Sammy Darwin's firm, the Rusty Walker Programming Firm, remains one of the industry's most influential program consulting firms in the nation; and      WHEREAS, Sammy Darwin has been lovingly and devotedly supported by his wife, Teresa, his daughters, Nikki, Beth and Kinsley; his sons-in-law, Ryan Huntley and Nathaniel Clark; and his beautiful grandchild, McCarthy Huntley; and      WHEREAS, it is the policy of this Legislature to pay tribute to our native sons, such as Sammy Darwin, who, through their stellar talents, bring honor to themselves, their family, their community and this great state:      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That we do hereby honor and pay tribute to Mississippi's own, Sammy Darwin, of Iuka, and express heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to him for his talents that he has so graciously shared for so many years with country music aficionados throughout the nation.      BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be furnished to Sammy Darwin and to the members of the Capitol Press Corps. 1983 Broadcasting mag ad from Lucille Luongo & Rusty Walker for Katz, New York & Birmingham Reviewed  .  Revised  .  Refreshed   6 October 2015 Celebrating 20th Anniversary, November 19th