Blog 3472 – 02.08.2026

Miscommunications & Misunderstandings

The above was posted on Facebook yesterday and I almost responded to the question: “Almost but not quite.” Due to a miscommunication and a misunderstanding, my brother after an early special supper that mom made for us including fudge iced layer cake (usually only reserved for birthdays) we sat on the front porch in our Sunday best clothes with hair slicked back with Brylcreem (a little dab will do ya) waiting for our aunt, uncle and cousins to come pick us up and take us to be guests with them on The Bob Brandy Show, but they never came. We waited and waited till it was time for the show to air and watched our cousins have the time of their lives without us.

My dad had not wanted us to be on the show at first and said so rather loudly when my mom’s two older sisters first floated the idea at a Davidson family get together of getting tickets for all of us kids to be on the show. Mom was able to convince dad to agree to let us go, but somehow there was a miscommunication or misunderstanding and my brother and we missed the opportunity of a lifetime or at least it seemed so to us at the time. My brother and I were both big Roy Rogers and Bob Brandy fans as were most if not all kids in the Chattanooga viewing area. We had even met our local king of the cowboys as he lifted us up to sit briefly in the saddle on his palomino horse named Rebel (Rebel looked a lot like Roy Roger’s horse Trigger) while hundreds of other eager children waited in a line that stretched around the block where the Roger’s Movie Theater stood. It was at a Lady MacBeth summer discount matinee where kids got in free if they presented an empty Lady Macbeth bean bag. Lady Macbeth sold a lot of beans that summer and Bob Brandy was there with Ingrid, his beautiful blond German wife, and his beloved Palomino, Rebel. Lady Macbeth was one of the sponsors of The Bob Brandy Show.

It was a terrible let down and disappointed for my brother and I that we did not get to be on TV and especially on the most watched kids show in the area. We blamed it on our dad and our aunts and uncles even though we eventually were convinced that it was just a miscommunication and misunderstanding that had cheated us out of getting to be on The Bob Brandy Show. I think the whole sad episode helped us both to be better communicators, more careful with our words.

I think our mom and dad were almost as disappointed as we were and they both tried their best to make it up to us and to make sure that nothing like that ever happened again.

Your friend, fellow traveler, and life-long Bob Brandy fan,

David James White 

Roy Rogers sings “DON’T FENCE ME IN” in “Hollywood Canteen” with TRIGGER

Roy Rogers sings “DON’T FENCE ME IN” in “Hollywood Canteen” with TRIGGER