Good afternoon, DFWWheelwatchers and Wheelwatchers around the world from the world headquarters of CBS11!!

Do you remember the promotional campaign that the show did a few years ago called "I'm A Wheel Watcher"? According to Harry Friedman, the Executive Producer of Wheel Of Fortune, that was one of the most successful campaign ever done to create awareness of the show.

The original song was called "I'm A Girl Watcher" and was performed by an R&B group from Wilson, North Carolina called The O'Kaysions. There were six guys in the group: Donny Weaver (vocals, organ), Wayne Pittman (guitar), Ron Turner (trumpet), Jim Speidel (sax), Jimmy Hennant (bass), and Bruce Jayner (drums).

The song was written by Pittman and Buck Trail and recorded on the ABC Records label. While it was the only hit the group had, it remains today as a staple of the Carolina/Georgia/Florida beach circuit, and categorized by people in that area as "beach music." It debuted on the Billboard Top 40 on September 7, 1968, and reached #5 on the charts (#6 on the R&B charts) and stayed in the Top 10 for 11 weeks!

And there you have it for Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Hope you are having a wonderful day and I will see you tomorrow.

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See you tomorrow and take care!

Ken