THERE WERE PLENTY OF HEROES IN THE 50'S

But maybe none like Davey Crockett, King of the wild frontier. Nobody else could have played him like Fess Parker either. Back when Disney was Disney, and Sunday night was The Wonderful World of Disney and The Ed Sullivan Show, well that was just the best.

How could you not like someone like Davy Crockett? I mean, he killed a bear when he was only three! He would look at a guy straight in the eye, and tell him the way it was. He could use an old musket like an AK 47 machine gun. He didn't care much for women, because like a lot of us back then in my 8 year old years, he just didn't have time for them. And, no, when I was 8, it lasted longer than one year. Time didn't move so fast back then

The world was black and white back then, too. All tv shows, many cars, most suits. They were all black (and white) except the suits. White belts didn't come along until later. White bucks, too.

But Davey was in politics, too. Back in Tennessee. He always tried to do right and help people. He had to fight the bad guys who were dishonest. He always won because back in the day, that's the way it was. The bad guys might have the upper hand, but in the end, they lost because they deserved it.

At the Alamo, well, he killed about a zillion of those bad guys. But it was futile. When it came time for Davey to die, Disney didn't spill his guts all over the screen, they just went to music--Davey's theme song. Kinda like Lara's Theme in Doctor Zhivago.

Maybe that's what's missing today. Theme songs. I think I'll work on some myself.