Wikipedias entry on WCCW lists Gene Summers as a ring announcer. Who is he?
Summers (born in Dallas in 1939) is a legendary rockabilly singer who may have become acquainted with Fritz Von Erich via Ed McLemore during the era of the Big D Jamboree (see above). His best known recording is probably “School of Rock and Roll” (1958), which received airplay on the XM Satellite Radio network in September 2006, courtesy of a somewhat well-known chap by the name of Bob Dylan. As evidenced by the photo, Summers did indeed perform ring announcing duties briefly for the promotion before being replaced by Marc Lowrance in June 1980. This was not Summers’ only involvement with wrestling in north Texas, though: in what may have been one of the first instances of entrance music in the modern era of pro wrestling — predating even the Freebirds and Leroy Brown — Summers’ single “The Legend of Moondog Mayne”, recorded under the pseudonym Ricky Ringside, was used by Mayne for his entrances in the Dallas/Fort Worth area after his late 1976 babyface turn. Mayne was killed in a Sa
