Celebrating 52 years of Music in 2011
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Central Texas’ Favorite 50’s & 60’s Rock and Roll Band
Central Texas’ Favorite 50’s & 60’s Rock and Roll Band
Available
for bookings for private as well as public performances, the group includes
some of the best musicians around to perform all the "Oldies" as well as
some country music just like you remember them from those wonderful, care-free
times of the old dance halls as well as the modern venues that
are popular today.
Dec. 3 Schroeder Hall
Dec. 31 New Year's Eve-Shiner KC Hall (formerly American Legion Hall)
Here's the cover.....
.....and here's the actual CD
Songs include: Satisfaction,
Cherry Pie, Soul & Inspiration, Over The Mountain, Gloria, For Your
Love, Donna, Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye, Old Time Rock 'N Roll,
Matilda, Proud Mary, Talk To Me, My Girl, and Last Song
We hope everyone enjoys the CD as much as they did the cassette...The sound is awesome!!
Members of The
Original Moods and
their instruments:
Cotton is one of the 4 original members of The Moods having started out playing during high school in Luling where he returned after retirement. He has played his left-handed Fender bass exclusively with The Moods his entire musical career. He spent 40 years in broadband communications as an engineer for several communications companies, and from 1992-2006 his company, L.H. Voigt Construction, Inc. worked all over the continental US and Hawaii upgrading cable systems to fiber optics for Time-Warner Communications. Cotton is an accomplished horseman and travels to all over Texas, Wyoming, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri to participate in trail rides and horse related activities such as the annual Appaloosa ride honoring Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indian tribe, also known as “The Trail of Tears”. Cotton is honored to have his picture hanging in Loretta Lynn’s ranch dining hall of him atop Hondo, his Buckskin, taken while he was in Tennessee during a ride. When not appearing with The Moods, Cotton is most likely somewhere on horseback enjoying the great outdoors.
Fred is also one of the 4 members of the original
group and has spent his entire musical career exclusively with The Moods,
playing rhythm guitar and singing. He
also has handled bookings for the band as well as serving as its manager for
many years. He graduated from Southwest Texas State College with a chemistry
degree and worked at various companies before he started Kooney X-Ray in Katy,
a company that specializes in industrial and pipe line x-ray services
throughout the southern states. Fred
has retired from day-to-day operations at Kooney and he and his wife, Barbara,
moved back to her hometown of Gonzales where he raises poultry.
Ross Whiteside played saxophone for The Original Moods from
1958 to 1969. After graduating from Southwest Texas State
University with a M.A.degree in 1967, he joined The Dow
Chemical Company in Freeport, Texas.
Ross developed numerous epoxy resin products and earned 13 U.S. patents from
his inventions before he took early retirement from Dow in 1995 and moved to
Kansas City to work as a Development Scientist for a paint company. In
1999, he and Terri moved back to Houston where he
now works as a coatings consultant. After leaving The Moods in
1969, Ross had an opportunity to play with several bands in the Kansas City and Houston area and opened for
Freddie Fender and Chubby Checker. One of
the best gigs of his life, was playing saxophone for Vince Vance and Valiants
for the Endemyion 25th Anniversary celebration at the Superdome in New Orleans in 1991. Vince Vance and the Valiants
shared the stage with Michael Bolton, The Four Tops, Fats Domino
and Natalie Cole. Ross' main hobby is scuba diving.
He and Terri are Dive Masters and organize dive trips to the
Carribbean and Pacific. Best dive ever, was diving right next to a
whale shark for 10 minutes at the Flower Gardens in the Gulf of
Mexico. Ross has three grandsons; Dalton, Garrett and Jake from his
daughter, Janine. Janine and Jeremy reside in Angleton. His son, Brent lives in Huntsville.
Barry lives in Refugio, TX and is
retired from teaching Technology Education after a 40 year career in the
classroom. He has a bachelors and
masters degree from what is now Texas State University. He currently has a business building Scarab
recumbent trikes which are sold all over the United States. He started playing professionally while in
the 8th
grade in Woodsboro with a band he helped form called "The Clues", along with
several of his school friends. The band
performed from 1958-1964 at various rock-and-roll shows
and dances in the South Texas area. The
band appeared with Roy Orbison, Bobby Goldsboro, Jan & Dean, T.K.
Hulin,
Ray Stevens and many others during the 6 years the group was
together. Before joining The Moods, he played with
several musicians around the San Marcos area, among those were Tommy
Bolton
(guitar player for The Traits), and Rusty Weir. Barry started
playing with The Moods in 1964 and feels that
playing with this group has been the highlight of his musical career,
and feels
like the members of the group are like his “extended family”. One
of the highlights of his career with the group is that he met his wife
of 41 years, Marilyn, at a
dance the first weekend he started playing with The Moods.
Clyde Allen (also known as “Big Foot”
due to his being related to the original Big Foot Wallace of Texas history
fame) started playing the piano for The Original Moods in 1958. As with several of the other original group,
he has played exclusively for The Moods his whole musical career. He has
written many of the groups original songs recorded in the early years such as
Lady of the Sea, Little Alice, Rocking Santa Claus, and many others that are
now considered collectors items in the US and Europe. Clyde recently retired after a career in teaching and coaching in
several schools in Central and South Texas.
He was a football, baseball, and basketball coach and his teams were
very successful under his guidance. His
passion is golf and he currently is the course manager at the beautiful Luling
Municipal course where you will likely find him either playing or making sure
the course is being take care of properly.
He currently resides in Luling with his wife, Janice.
In
1957, Clyde (a student at San Marcos High School) helped form a band called “The Traits”. Later known as Roy Head and the Traits, the group recorded
several songs, some with regional success.
Roy Head went on to record the national hit, “Treat Her Right”. In 1958,
Clyde Causey left San Marcos and his lead guitar position
with The Traits to join the Navy. While serving in the Admiral’s staff, Clyde
traveled to exotic “ports of call” like Hong
Kong,
Japan, Australia, Hawaii, and most places of interest
in the South Pacific. Upon completing
his military service, Clyde settled in the Central Texas area and went to work
as an Internal Auditor for the Treasury
Department.
During the late 60’s through 2007, Clyde was involved with several local bands,
playing lead guitar, in and around the Austin area. In 2001, he and other members of the original Traits, including
Roy Head, reunited for a short tour.
The group was called back to San Marcos in 2007 for a “final”
performance at the San Marcos High School All-Inclusive Reunion. During
that same time period in 2007, Clyde joined The Moods Reunion Tour.
Scotty began playing lead guitar and
singing with The Spades at age 16. In
1962 he graduated from Gonzales High School and joined The Moods playing bass,
piano, and singing. He recorded “High
School Dance” with The Moods which went to #9 on the Texas record charts at the
time. In 1964 he played the drums for Cecil Moore on his recording of “Diamond
Back” then in 1965, he formed The Sands and played on Bourbon Street in New
Orleans and toured 16 states with the group as well as playing for Joe Barry
and Jimmy Eldridge. From 1972-82, he
was a member of the Nashville Fire Department and organized a band called The Second
Alarms who served as back up band for such notables as Roy Clark, Grandpa
Jones, The Haggar Twins, and Buck Owens.
The group also opened for well-known performers such as Webb Pierce,
Kenny Price, Stonewall Jackson, and Justin Tub. Scotty also did studio work playing drums, guitar, and singing vocals,
and released a CD in 1997 titled “Yesterday Passed My Way Again”. In 2004, he moved back to Engle, just
outside Schulenburg, where he, his wife Candi, and son JR started “Scotty
Decker & Family” performing at area venues and releasing several CD's with
that group.
David has played with The Moods through
several stages of the group’s existence including the period that the group was
known as “The Moods of Country Music”.
He plays guitar, fiddle, sax, and sings making him a very busy
performer. He also plays for some of
the area “Jamboree” performances and benefits in the Central Texas area. He and his wife, Mary, split time between
their country home in Ezzel, and Lockhart where David owns Floors Plus, a custom
flooring company that is headquartered in Lockhart.
Dennis, and his wife Bernice, split time
between Sugar Land and Moulton (home and Pavlas' Tavern). Dennis
is recently retired from working as a manager for Waukesha-Pierce in Houston where he was employed since
graduation from Moulton High School. He
is a collector of music and perhaps has the best collection of Moods
memorabilia anywhere, from various posters of the band's many member changes
over the years, original records and tapes, and many pictures of the group throughout
it’s history. He has handled the sound system
for many years and can be found wandering throughout the venues where the band
performs, listening to make sure the sound is being mixed correctly.
J.
R. Decker was born in Nasville, Tennessee and grew up in a musical family. His interest in music begain when he was
very young, taking piano lessons then working on stereo equipment for friends and family. He moved back to Texas with his family in 2004
and began doing sound mixing work with his Dad’s musical group. He learned mixing from Jim Nickolyn who has
nearly 50 years of sound mixing experience.
Jim has worked with many icons of the music community such as Johnny
Cash, Clint Black, Jerry Lee Lewis and others.
When The Original Moods reorganized, J. R. started doing the mixing and continues in that capacity today. J.R. says that he “enjoys being part of such
a musical group” and looks forward to seeing the dance floors full in the
future. Be sure to stop by and see him
and Dennis at work at the next Moods dance.
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