pint-sized tv star

I was a TV star when I was in grade five, or at least I thought I was. I appeared on a local after-school kids’ show called “Wynne’s Pad.” This memory came flooding back as I flipped through a stack of old vinyl and stumbled on this LP. Records usually invoke nostalgia for classic rock but this time it was vintage television –when local stations produced shows for kids during lunchtime and after school. Other examples in Calgary, Canada include Colonel Loonar, Rocket 4 Club and the Buckshot Show. Wynne Hanson was a Calgary TV host, a teenager who sang and played guitar. Very cool to a kid like me. My 15 seconds of fame came when he took his mic from kid to kid, and we said hi to our friends. I guess Hanson moved to Edmonton, put out a record and had a regular gig at a motel. It seems his TV show was his brush with fame too.