The natural alliances of Marty, Ambitious, and the new kids versus Spin, Joe, and the returnees, brought out by the snipe hunt and the Haunted Valley incidents, gradually gives way to a united effort by all the Triple R campers to compete against the rival North Fork boys in a rodeo.
Wrangler Ollie helps Marty overcome the former, while laid-back Ambitious becomes Marty's first friend. Marty's disdain for the Triple R masks his fear of horses and alienation from the other boys. Burnett can handle the younger new kids and returnees like Spin Evans, but he's at a loss at what to do with Marty, who carries a chip on his shoulder. One in particular has him worried, a wealthy orphan named Martin Markham, who will be coming to camp for the first time. Jim Logan, owner of the Triple R ranch, has hired Bill Burnett to be a counselor for a new batch of boys arriving for the summer. It is probably no coincidence that the Spin and Marty website has now shut the corral gate after many years of operation.Ĭol.
#WHO PLAYED BIFF SERIAL#
The release of a DVD for The Adventures of Spin and Marty has satisfied a long felt need among many fans of the show, but it also has removed some of the nostalgic mystique felt for the serial when it was still just a hazy memory.
Their rocky path to friendship, and their interaction with the other boys, horses, and adults on the Triple R made a lasting impression on viewers. The two central characters were an orphaned rich boy, and a cool, lower middle-class kid with no father. In October 1980, Adam was playing with Haggard and the Strangers at California’s Anaheim Stadium when Haggard invited both Willie Nelson and Johnny Paycheck to join them onstage for an extended segment of hits “Sing Me Back Home,” “Okie From Muskogee,” and Haggard’s most recent hit at the time, “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink.”Īdam’s daughters have announced that later in the year they plan to celebrate the drummer with a gathering featuring “lots of country music, which was his passion.The most popular serial ever shown on the original Mickey Mouse Club was a low-key story about fourteen boys spending the summer on a ranch. He served as president of the Haggard-owned Silverthorn Resort on California’s Lake Shasta. In addition to being longtime bandmates, Adam and Haggard earned their pilot’s licenses at the same time, and Adam also went on to earn a commercial license. In 1980, Adam, along with Haggard and the Strangers, was featured in the Clint Eastwood film Bronco Billy. He also played with Haggard and the Strangers for President Richard Nixon at the White House. The same weekend Adams played in Fort Worth, Texas, drumming for Bob Wills on the Western swing legend’s last-ever show. After recording the 1973 Haggard album, I Love Dixie Blues, Adam received a congratulatory phone call from one of his drumming idols, big band superstar Gene Krupa. A lot of the players from Nashville, when they come by the Palomino, they say, ‘Will you show me that double shuffle?’ ” Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer, Paul English, who died last month, acknowledged his use of Adam’s double-shuffle-beat technique, telling Classic Drummer magazine, “I stole it from him.”Īs with his fellow Strangers, Adam would receive a number of “call-outs” from Haggard on record, just as Western swing pioneer Bob Wills had begun doing decades earlier. I always thought, ‘I wonder how it would sound if I shuffled with both hands?’ So, I did that it and it just sort of fell into a real good groove. After meeting Haggard there, he would replace Eddie Burris as the Strangers’ drummer in 1970.Īn innovator of the “double shuffle beat” style of drumming, Adam told Fish Creek Radio’s Scott Wikle in 2016, “All the country drummers, they played the shuffle beat with their right hand and played … backbeat with their left hand. Prior to his work with the Strangers, Adam was the session drummer on the soundtrack for the 1967 animated Disney film The Jungle Book and worked with surf-music band the Ventures, while playing six nights a week with a band called Red Rhodes and the Detours at the Palomino Club in North Hollywood.
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