"Dalton recalled arriving at the station one day with a terrible hangover and being pressed into the Bob Dandy role because Temple couldn't make it. Among the show's commercials was one for Bosco chocolate syrup that called for him to lick the spoon and say 'This is so-ooo good.'  Dalton said it was the closest he ever came to getting ill on the set." 

Bob Dalton in 1954
(Donated by Tom Buckley, WUSA-TV)

Pick's son, Dr. L. Parker Temple III, states: "This is the
first of his records, before he had adopted the cowboy
persona.  As I recall, it was on RCA Victor's X-Brand.
 I think it's his best record, since it includes more
of his more serious railroading and hobo songs."
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According to An Introductory Note by Duncan Emrich, Chief, Folklore Section, Library of Congress: "Pick Temple first recorded his hand-me-down traditional songs for the folklore collections of the Library of Congress in 1948."
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"He wandered into our offices with his guitar quite as casually as though he were cocking his heels on his own front porch. Said he heard about our work. Would we like to record some songs?"
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(Images Donated by Jack Maier)