The station put us on staff at $35 a week... and I mean every week.

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.

Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.