Wrestling Giant's Daughter Wants Father Remembered

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[adam stevens]

I say stick Brock on Saddam, ARafat, and Ossamma!

[OKSooner]

Oh, yes indeed, Mary Hart played a better-looking Ed McMahon to Danny Williams in his noontime show "Dannysday". And yes, Danny Williams played a role on the "Foreman Scotty" children's show at 4:00 pm on channel 4 as 3-D Danny (Dan D Dynamo), the spaceship captain who got into all kinds of adventures and time travels. (Remember those evil, sinister, dog-man robots?) And they worked it all into a 30-minute kiddie show where they had birthday parties and stuff for kids! I just found out lately that 3-D's sidekick "Cannonball" was played by Bob Barry!

Plus Danny had the DJ gig on WKY radio playing motown tunes and stuff in the morning. Marrying into the Gaylord family did well for ol' Danny, didn't it?

He was at his very fun-loving best, though, IMO, as the host and co-announcer of "Championship Wrestling".

Oh, yeah, one other thing: Freestyle wrestling is the sport/martial art called "wrestling", the theatric art of Pro wrestling is "Rassling", or "Rasslin'", which in Danny Hodge's case was an example of a hooligan sport played by a gentleman.

[OKSooner]

And yes, it was a simpler time of virtue and grace.

[VOA]

Plus Danny had the DJ gig on WKY radio playing motown tunes and stuff in the morning.

Ah yes. That was a great time. I'll never forget my folks springing the bucks for a
technologically advanced combination cassette recorder and AM-FM receiver.
I spent plenty of time tuned into that great mix of rock/MoTown on WKY with
Danny Williams, Ron Kaye and the other cool DJs of the day.

And occassionally being able to (at night) pick up John "Records" Lansdecker (sp?)
doing his DJ gig at WLS in Chicago. I might as well have been picking up
chatter from another planet!

Marrying into the Gaylord family did well for ol' Danny, didn't it?
In retrospect I did think of Danny Williams as a bit "too hip for the room"
given the conservative flavor of Oklahoma. Marrying into the Gaylords does explain
how he got his gig!
But in many ways I liked Williams...he was hip enough to give me a bit of
a subversive buzz even while being what would be called a fly-over country redneck conservative
by anyone else on the coasts!
In some ways he gave us Okies a media star that had the comic edge of say, a Richard Belzer,
without being a social anarchist from Hollywood.

[OKSooner]

Yeah, Danny Williams was a cool guy in his own right who only occasionally got into trouble with his bosses @ Gaylord broadcasting. He still works, doing an oldies show on (believe it or not) KOMA radio. Talk about a blast from the past.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Nearly 6 feet tall herself and bearing a striking resemblance to her father,

I guess that means she has a great personality.

[OKSooner]

After all that nostalgia, I got to looking around and LOOK WHAT I FOUND by doing a google search:

http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/bios/halloffame/hodgebio.html Also this:

http://www.dddynamo.com/

VOA, this will be of more interest to you - the dddynamo.com page has some pictures and stuff of an aged Danny Williams and a very well-preserved Danny Hodge with some character called "The Godfather".

[VOA]

thanks for the links...nice to take a bit of a nostalgia trip, as well as seeing
how some of the local stars of my youth still have a gig.
I noticed Ronnie Kay is over at KOMA as well. I got a "brush with fame" when I ran into
him at the Sears auto shop at Shepard Mall while getting a new battery for my Opel GT.
Mr. Kay had a very nice car in for some work and we exchanged a few pleasantries
while waiting for our cars; he seemed like at least a decent sort.
I like Kay as a DJ at WKY, almost as much as Williams. I guess I just
liked Williams "edgier" personna.

[FRMAG]

Back when I was on active duty as a First Sergeant I was doing room inspections and one of my troops had a poster of ole George The Animal on his wall.

Asked him why and he responded that he knew him quite well as George had been his wood shop teacher in high school.

[hergus]

George the Animal Steel worked a very small independent event in Mt. Airy, NC within the last year.

He was no different than he was years ago.

I hate he's lowerd to the indie circuit. He was more entertaining than what is on TV now.