As a Memphis teen during the 1970s, I remember watching The Johnny Scott Show every week. Johnny's signature song (I don't recall the title) included the lyrics "Hello, young lover's whoever you are..." His band included Marvelle Thomas on piano. Whatever became of Johnny Scott? If anyone has information to post here, it would be great to know where his career may have taken him.

I started at 5 as an intern in 1972, hired full time in '73 as an assistant to the desk assistant. By 1977, I was 10pm news producer. Producing the # 1 newscast in the city. It was a hot August afternoon, and I had just arrived at work. We had a fire at the station in May, and the news operation was in two house trailers in the parking lot. One was full of typewriters and wire service machines, the other editing gear and cameras. Ronnie Hughes, radio name Ron Michaels, may he rest in peace, was the assignment editor. As he tells it, he heard an ambulance call on the scanner to an address on Highway 51 south that sounded familiar. He looked it up in the mapbook and sure enough, it was Graceland. He was on the radio moving crews around to Graceland and Baptist when he got a phone call from Robbie Franklin's wife. You may remember him as Nami and Poppi's insurance agent. He got sane and got out of the news photog business. Anyway, Robbie's wife was a nurse at the Baptist ER and she asked if Robbie was on the radio and Ron said what a coincidence I'm just sending him your way and she said. “Good, 'cause they just brought in Elvis and he's dead.” That's when Ron jumped up and shouted “We've got a new lead!” It was about 2 in the afternoon. At the time, we did a one hour newscast, 5 to 6, network news at 6. The first thing we did was drag Dick Hawley out of the break room to cut into programming and be the first on the planet with the story. We used our one year old live trucks, Mason Granger at Baptist Hospital. Roger Cooper at Graceland. General Manager Mori Greiner declared that the news department now owned the air, and we had better start figuring out how to be all Elvis Is Dead all the time. Associate Producer Jennifer Smith sent to the booth directing traffic. For once, the soap opera fans didn't complain. News Director Frank Gardner, Executive Producer John Haralson, 5pm Producer Jim Zarchin, Chief Photog Bernie Mintz, Ron and I all gathered around a big erasable white board, which was new, state of the art technology in those days. We wrote names of people we knew who ever had anything to do with Elvis, then places that had Elvis connections .Called back in morning and noon Producer Susan Jerkins was simultaneously looking up numbers, making calls, and setting up shoots. I grabbed a camera and ran over to Club Paradise to shoot a sound bite with Andrew “Sunbeam” Mitchell. He owned Club Handy and his wife was the Ernestine of Ernestine and Hazel's Sundry. He had a couple of good stories about underaged Elvis “sneaking in” to see the musicians on Beale Street. I think it might still be on WMC's web site in the Elvis section. We lined up two days worth of guests that afternoon, then started taking turns, 2 producers in shifts, one formatting and writing leads/transitions/sidebars, one in the booth driving the on air. The broadcast day was 6am to midnight, and we filled it the afternoon of the 16th through the day of the funeral the 18th.

Little Doris J.Williams now Dr. Doris J.Williams -Brown was on the Johnny Scott Show. She was the opening of this show, the closing of this show, and had a weekly spot on this show each and every week on Channel Three Television in 1968. The station was located in the Famous Peabody Hotel. Doris would arrive for the show after school somtimes and sit in the Peabody Hotel and occassionally would go over to Lansky Tayloring where Elvis would get all of his clothes made. She was always kind and talked about meeting and shaking the hands of all the entertainers that were on the show. Three people in America made Friday night's on Channel three the talk of the entire Midsouth. Johnny Scott, Junatia Reddick, and Doris J.Williams Brown. It would be great to see them on a Show today. That was great show that offered people happiness, and entertainment on Friday Nights. I remember Doris at the end of the show saying Thank-You after her segement. Also Doris would be walking behind the famous Ducks during the Duck walk of the Famous Peabody Hotel. I FEEL THAT Doris today would walking behind the Ducks today just as she did in the 60's, because of all of her fun and happiness. She told every person she met that Elvis really looked like ELVIS. We need more people like Doris J.W.Brown now becuase she was a part of helping millions of people on the show watch channel three television station. I heard that Dr. Doris J.W.Brown is seeking to become the Mayor Of Mobile,Alabama. I can say that if Doris is still like the Doris that we remember on Channel Three. Mobile Alabama will be know worldwide.

I SAW A PICTURE OF DORIS J.W. BROWN BEING CROWNED QUEEN OF THE BLUES IN A ROLLINGSTONE MAGAZINE WITH BB KING.