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Curcy Hendricks Andrews, Jr., known as Bud Andrews (born July 5, 1940), is a popular morning deejay
Deejay

A deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and Toasting to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with DJs from other music genres like Hip-Hop, where they select and play music....
 at Radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 KDAV
KDAV

KDAV is an AM radio station licensed to Lubbock, Texas broadcasting an oldies format....
 in Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is an United States of America city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the West Texas part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, it is the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, and the home of Texas Tech University....
, who in 1970 is said to have "discovered" the Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
-based humorist Jerry Clower
Jerry Clower

Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower was a popular country music comedian best known for his stories of the rural Southern United States.Clower began a 2-year stint in the US Navy immediately after graduating high school....
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ews (first name pronounced SER CEE) was born in Lubbock to Curcy Andrews, Sr. (1911-1993), originally from Honey Grove
Honey Grove, Texas

Honey Grove is a city in Fannin County, Texas, Texas, United States. Honey Grove is regarded as "The Sweetest Town in Texas." The population was 1,746 at the 2000 census....
 in Fannin County
Fannin County, Texas

Fannin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 31,242. It is named for James Fannin, who commanded of the group of Texans killed in the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution....
 in northeast Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
, and the former Ollie Lee Townsend (1907-1993), who grew up on a ranch
Ranch

A ranch is an area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool....
 in Plains
Plains, Texas

Plains is a town in and the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 1,450 at the 2000 United States Census....
 near Brownfield
Brownfield, Texas

Brownfield is a city in Terry County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 9,488 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Terry County, Texas near Lubbock, Texas in West Texas....
 in West Texas
West Texas

West Texas is a region in Texas that has more in common geographically with the Southwestern United States than it does with the rest of the state....
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Curcy Hendricks Andrews, Jr., known as Bud Andrews (born July 5, 1940), is a popular morning deejay
Deejay

A deejay is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and Toasting to an instrumental riddim .Deejays are not to be confused with DJs from other music genres like Hip-Hop, where they select and play music....
 at Radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 KDAV
KDAV

KDAV is an AM radio station licensed to Lubbock, Texas broadcasting an oldies format....
 in Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is an United States of America city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the West Texas part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, it is the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, and the home of Texas Tech University....
, who in 1970 is said to have "discovered" the Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
-based humorist Jerry Clower
Jerry Clower

Howard Gerald "Jerry" Clower was a popular country music comedian best known for his stories of the rural Southern United States.Clower began a 2-year stint in the US Navy immediately after graduating high school....
.

Early career

Andrews (first name pronounced SER CEE) was born in Lubbock to Curcy Andrews, Sr. (1911-1993), originally from Honey Grove
Honey Grove, Texas

Honey Grove is a city in Fannin County, Texas, Texas, United States. Honey Grove is regarded as "The Sweetest Town in Texas." The population was 1,746 at the 2000 census....
 in Fannin County
Fannin County, Texas

Fannin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 31,242. It is named for James Fannin, who commanded of the group of Texans killed in the Goliad Massacre during the Texas Revolution....
 in northeast Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
, and the former Ollie Lee Townsend (1907-1993), who grew up on a ranch
Ranch

A ranch is an area of landscape, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool....
 in Plains
Plains, Texas

Plains is a town in and the county seat of Yoakum County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 1,450 at the 2000 United States Census....
 near Brownfield
Brownfield, Texas

Brownfield is a city in Terry County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 9,488 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Terry County, Texas near Lubbock, Texas in West Texas....
 in West Texas
West Texas

West Texas is a region in Texas that has more in common geographically with the Southwestern United States than it does with the rest of the state....
. Andrews graduated in 1958 from Monterey High School
Monterey High School (Lubbock, Texas)

Monterey High School is a 5A high school located in central Lubbock, Texas, United States. Monterey is part of the Lubbock Independent School District....
, one of his classmates having been the actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin

Leonard Barrie "Barry" Corbin is an United States actor with more than one hundred credits in film and television and several in computer games....
. He attended Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University is a public university, coeducational, research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the List of largest Texas universities by enrollment student body in the state of T...
 in Lubbock but did not graduate.

He then launched his broadcasting career in October 1960. He has been affiliated with stations KSEL AM 950, KLLL AM 1460, KKAM AM 1340, KCBD AM 1590, and KFYO AM 790, where for sixteen years he was both program director and music director. He spent six years as general manager and co-host of the "Big Ed in the Morning Show" with Edwin Wilkes (1931-1998) on KRFE AM 580. In addition to his morning show, Andrews also voices many commercials
Advertising

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to Purchasing or to consume more of a particular brand of Product or Service ....
 carried on KDAV.

Producer

Andrews was the first producer ever to place Clower on a record. Originally a fertilizer
Fertilizer

Fertilizers are chemical compounds given to plants to promote growth; they are usually applied either through the soil, for uptake by plant roots, or by foliar feeding, for uptake through leaves....
 salesman, Andrews spotted Clower as he spoke to a luncheon group in Lubbock and suggested that the fledgling comedian cut a record of his monologue
Monologue

A monologue is an extended uninterrupted Oratory or poem by a single person. The person may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing other people, e.g....
. The result was Clower's "The Coon Hunt" on MCA Records, which was later awarded a platinum album for sales in excess of $1 million at the retail level. Andrews handled Clower's first five albums.

In 1975, Andrews produced "Phone Call from God" by Jerry Jordan (born 1944), a gospel
Gospel

In Christianity, a gospel is generally one of the first four books of the New Testament that describe the birth, life, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus....
 singer from Brownfield, the seat of Terry County
Terry County, Texas

Terry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. In 2000, its population was 12,761. Its county seat is Brownfield, Texas. The county is named for Benjamin Franklin Terry, a colonel in the Confederate States Army....
 west of Lubbock. This recording subsequently received a gold record from MCA, the recognition of the sale of one million records. Jordan is also an artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
, who maintains a gallery in Taos, New Mexico
Taos, New Mexico

Taos is a town in Taos County, New Mexico in the north-central region of New Mexico. In New Mexico, a municipality may call itself a village, town, or city ....
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Thereafter, through Southern Track Records of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
, Andrews produced Robert W. "Bob" Murphey (1921-2004), an attorney
Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law; as an Attorney at law, counsel or solicitor; a person licensed to practice fraud." Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain stability, and deliver justice....
 and country comedian
Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
 from Nacogdoches
Nacogdoches, Texas

Nacogdoches is a city in Nacogdoches County, Texas, Texas, in the United States. The United States Census, 2000 recorded the city's population to be 29,914, while in 2007 it was estimated to have reached 32,006....
 in east Texas. Murphey, a nephew
Nephew

Nephew is a term referring to the son of one's sibling or spouse's sibling. Sons of siblings-in-law are also informally referred to as nephews, even though there is no blood relation....
 of former Texas Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
 Coke R. Stevenson
Coke R. Stevenson

Coke Robert Stevenson was Governor of Texas of Texas from 1941 to 1947. He was the only 20th century Texas politician to serve as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, as Lieutenant Governor of Texas, and then as governor....
, was also a former sergeant-at-arms of the Texas House of Representatives
Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the Texas Legislature. The House is composed of 150 members from an equal amount of districts across the Texas, with each constituency consisting of nearly 140,000 people....
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Presidential citation

After the Lubbock Tornado
Lubbock Tornado

The 1970 Lubbock tornado was a tornado event that occurred in Lubbock, Texas on May 11, 1970. It was one of the worst tornadoes in Texas history, and occurred exactly 17 years to the day after the deadly 1953 Waco tornado outbreak....
 on May 11, 1970, Andrews, while at KFYO, was awarded a Presidential Citation from U.S. President Richard M. Nixon for outstanding public service during the disaster.

Current activities

Andrews is currently teamed with William Ralph "Bill" Clement (born 1948) in the "Bud and Billy C. Show" on KDAV on weekdays from 7 to 10 a.m. Eastern Time. The station can be obtained beyond its coverage area through the Internet
Internet

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 for a $9.95 monthly fee. The "Bud and Billy C. Show" is immediately followed by deejay Virgil Johnson
Virgil Johnson (singer)

Virgil Lewis Johnson is a popular African American deejay at radio station KDAV in Lubbock, Texas. He was formerly the lead singer of The Velvets, a vocal quintet from Odessa, Texas, also in West Texas....
, formerly a member of the doo-wop
Doo-wop

Doo-wop is a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music, which developed in African-American communities in the 1940s and which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s the 1960s....
 group The Velvets
The Velvets

The Velvets were an United States doo wop band from Odessa, Texas in Ector County, Texas in west Texas. The African American quintet was formed in 1959 by Virgil Johnson , a high school English language teacher, with four of his students....
, best known for the 1961 recording Tonight (Could Be the Night)
Tonight (Could Be the Night)

Tonight is a 1961 rock and roll song by the quintet called The Velvets. Virgil Johnson , now a deejay at Radio KDAV in Lubbock, Texas, is the lead tenor singer, with backup from Mark Prince , Clarence Rigsby , Robert Thursby , and William Solomon ....
.

On March 15, 2008, Andrews and Johnson were featured on a segment of Bob Phillips
Bob Phillips

Robert Leon Phillips is an United States television journalist best known for his long-running program Texas Country Reporter. In 2005 Phillips was inducted into the Silver Circle of the Lone Star Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the association that gives the Emmy Awards; the honor is extended to profess...
' syndicated television series Texas Country Reporter
Texas Country Reporter

Texas Country Reporter is a long-running weekly TV syndication program hosted and produced by Bob Phillips. It airs in all 22 Texas media markets, generally on weekends, and reruns are broadcast nationally on the satellite/cable channel RFD-TV....
, with the emphasis on the discovery of Jerry Clower and the recording of Tonight (Could Be the Night).

Personal life

Andrews is divorce
Divorce

Divorce or dissolution of marriage is a legal process in which a judge or other authority dissolves the bonds of matrimony existing between two persons, thus restoring them to the marital status of being single....
d from the former Shirley Herndon of Lubbock. The couple has three children: Michael Todd Andrews (born 1962), a rancher in Gill, Colorado
Gill, Colorado

Gill is an unincorporated area and a United States Postal Service in Weld County, Colorado, Colorado, United States. The Gill Post Office has the ZIP Code 80624....
; Chance Andrews (born 1964), an employee of the City of Lubbock, and Shirl A. Chidester (born 1965) of Lubbock. In 2004, Andrews married the former Carolyn Harkey.