Crazy Water Crystals Program


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Crazy Water Crystals Program The program was broadcast from the lobby of the Crazy Water Hotel, about 1935-1940, both regionally and on the NBC networks. Crazy Water Crystals hired mostly country & hillbilly groups to play on the radio. A booming tourist industry grew in the town of Mineral Wells, Texas, Mineral Wells Radio in the early part of the 20th century, based on the alleged health benefits of the local waters. The program was broadcast from the Crazy Well Hotel in Mineral Wells Texas. The show featured a variety of early Country and Bluegrass Music. The local legend holds that an insane woman was cured after drinking from the "Crazy Spring." During the Depression era, The Crazy Water Company focused on sales of their crystals --a snowy white residue left from the evaporation of their waters. Their "Crazy Gang" explained how the elixir could be reconstituted with tap water, giving folks all the benefits without having to leave home. Weatherford, TX, native Mary Martin appeared in Crazy shows before she attained Broadway and Hollywood stardom. During the 1992 opening of the Grand Ole Opry, a large Crazy Water Crystal sign was displayed, and a photo of Hank Snow singing on a Crazy Water Crystals Radio program hangs in the museum's permanent exhibit.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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These programs contain some of the best musicianship of the known Crazy Water radio programs. Not all of the musicians are identified in the program by their real names, unfortunately. These programs also reside at the Country Music Hall of Fame website. I have added approximate timings and more identifying information below: Program 1 [2]: 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:50 - Milo Twins - Weary Lonesome Blues 2:44 - Crazy Water pitch 4:03 - Sammy - Cripple Creek 6:00 - Martha Jordan - Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds 8:30 - Crazy Water pitch 9:43 - Richie - Ragtime Annie 10:29 - Boys in Buckskin - Ragtime Cowboy Joe 11:37 - Auto slipcover pitch 13:05 - Closing theme Program 2 [5] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:49 - Richie - Freemason March 1:55 - Crazy Water Pitch 3:20 - Martha Jordan - When Mother Nature Sings Her Lullaby 5:45 - Milo Twins - Don’t Let My Ramblin’ Bother Your Mind 7:53 - Crazy Water pitch 9:02: Doc Eastwood and Julian Akins - Milenberg Joys 10:40: Boys in Buckskin: Lazy 12:11: Auto slipcover pitch 13:39 Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 3 [6] 0:00 Opening theme (Richie on fiddle) - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:43 Richie - Scalp Dance 1:56 Crazy Water pitch 3:15 Boys in Buckskin - Bring Back my Bonnie 5:27 - Milo Twins - Echoes from the Hills 7:16 - Crazy Water pitch 8:22: Martha Jordan - My Blue Ridge Mountain Home 9:59 Auto slipcover pitch 11:44 Doc Eastwood, banjo - Whispering 13:15 Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 4 [7] 0:00 Opening theme, Richie - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:42 - Richie - Wagoner 2:03 - Crazy Water pitch 3:53 - Martha Jordan - Gold Mine in the Sky 6:04 Crazy Water pitch 7:15 Milo twins - ‘Neath the Maple on the Hill 10:14 - Boys in Buckskin - Westward Ho 12:49 - Auto slipcover pitch 13:46 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 5 [8] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:41 Richie - dialogue, Jesse James 2:24 Crazy Water pitch 3:57 - Boys in Buckskin - dialogue, Song of the Pioneers 5:35 - Crazy Water pitch 6:47 - Milo Twins - When the Saints Go Marching In [On] 8:45 Announcer (Bill Karn), dialogue, Auto slipcover pitch 10:36 Martha Jordan - When It’s Harvest Time Sweet Angeline 13:01 Sammy (banjoist) - dialogue, joke 13:28 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 6 [9] 0:00 Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:40 - Richie - Good Ol’ Sally Good 1:50 - Crazy Water pitch 3:30 - Martha Jordan - Texas Star 6:07 - Crazy Water pitch 7:13 - Milo twins - Fugitive’s Lament 9:34 - Doc Eastwood (“going out to Hollywood”) - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise 11:26 - Auto slipcover pitch 13:00 - Boys in Buckskin - I Still Do (uncertain title) 13:28 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 7 [10] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:42 - Richie - Soldier’s Joy 1:40 - Crazy Water pitch 3:11 - Boys in Buckskin - Darling Clementine 4:46 - Crazy Water pitch 5:44 - Sammy - cats sounds 6:09 - Martha Jordan - Goin’ Back to Texas - with Jake and Elmer (Boys in Buckskin) accompanying, Julian Akins as horse 8:39 - Milo twins - Freight Train Blues 10:46 - Auto slipcover pitch 12:27 - Julian Akins and Doc Eastwood - Green Train 14:00 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 8 [11] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:31 - Richie - Chicken Reel 1:39 - Crazy Water pitch 3:13 - Martha Jordan - My Little Buckaroo 5:18 - Crazy Water pitch 6:17 - Milo Twins - Cephas the Old Gray Mule 7:41 - Doc Eastwood - Down Home Rag 9:01 - Auto slipcover pitch 10:40 - Boys in Buckskin - The New Frontier 12:07 - Sammy - Rabbit in the Pea Patch 13:29 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 9 [12] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:30 - Richie - Goose Bird in the Haystack 1:39 - Crazy Water pitch 3:18 - Martha Jordan - On a Little Bamboo Bridge 5:01 - Crazy Water pitch 6:07 - Boys in Buckskin - A Roundup in the Sky 8:02 - Dorothy Martha Jordan (called “Dottie”) 8:30 - Doc Eastwood - Nagasaki 10:07 - Auto slipcover pitch 11:37 - Milo Twins - Corrina, Corrina 13:17 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 10 [13] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:32 - Richie - Those Golden Sleepers 2:02 - Crazy Water pitch 3:25 - Martha Jordan - Cowboy Jack” 6:02 - Crazy Water pitch 7:08 - Sammy, banjo - Wabash Cannonball 8:32 - “Plano” routine; Boys in Buckskin (“Men in Buckskin”) - My Pretty Quadroon 10:32 - Auto slipcover pitch 12:16 - Milo Twins - Brown’s Ferry Blues 13:30 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 11 [14] 0:00 - Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:44 - Richie, “Jonathan, Why Do You Not Approach the Tonsorial Emporium and Have Your Locks Shorn” (Johnny Get Your Hair Cut) 2:07 - Crazy Water pitch 3:20 - Milo Twins - Columbus Stockade Blues 5:20 - Crazy Water pitch 6:27 - Martha Jordan - I’m an Old Cowhand 8:40 - Doc Eastwood and Julian Akins - Redwing 10:20 - Auto slipcover pitch 11:51 - Boys in Buckskin - Happy Roamin’ Cowboy 13:28 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 12 [17] Opening theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain 0:30 - Richie - Little Brown Jug 1:31 - Crazy Water pitch 2:45 - Martha Jordan - Don’t Forget Me Little Darling 5:33 - Milo Twins Home in Wyoming 7:18 - Crazy Water pitch 8:23 - Doc Eastwood- China Boy 10:00 - Boys in Buckskin - Over the Santa Fe Trail 13:15 - Auto slipcover pitch 13:53 - Closing theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain Program 13 [18] 0:00 Opening theme 0:29 Richie - A Forked Deer 1:28 Crazy Water pitch 2:39 Milo Twins - Open Up Them Pearly Gates 4:35 Crazy Water pitch 5:41 Sammy - Listen to the Mockingbird 7:59 Martha Jordan - The Wheel of the Wagon Is Broken 10:10 Auto slipcover pitch 12:04 Boys in Buckskin - Press Along, Cowboy 13:22 Closing Theme - She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain