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Seamus Patrick O'Hara

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Uncle Jim

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Do any recording exist anywhere of Seamus Patrick O'Hara? Playing Freeway Roulette or telling the kids to get off the roof.
 
That is him but early in his career when he was using his given name Jim. He changed his name from Norman James Lawler Jr to Seamus Patrick O'Hara.
 
Fonz the add in the paper with my Uncle Jim let to this spinoff. Lynn Fairbanks was the station manager at KFIZ. In 1927 Lynn was involved in a fatal car accident in which a passenger in his car was killed. That person was my Uncle Jim's (Shamus/Seamus) Uncle Jimmie Lawler who was a local Fond du lac performer.
 
Jimmie Lawler was the director of Fischer's Fond du Lac theater orchestra and future KFIZ station manager Lynn Fairbanks was the trap drummer in the orchestra. While on vacation in Chicago, Lawler and Fairbanks recruited Paul McNally of Kansas City, MO for the orchestra. Instead of returning by train to Fond du Lac by train they returned by car with McNally who was driving at the time of the accident. They were hit by a carload of teenagers from Kenosha on Aug 4, 1927.
 
Uncle Jim said:
Jimmie Lawler was the director of Fischer's Fond du Lac theater orchestra and future KFIZ station manager Lynn Fairbanks was the trap drummer in the orchestra. While on vacation in Chicago, Lawler and Fairbanks recruited Paul McNally of Kansas City, MO for the orchestra. Instead of returning by train to Fond du Lac by train they returned by car with McNally who was driving at the time of the accident. They were hit by a carload of teenagers from Kenosha on Aug 4, 1927.
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Wow.......................that's a great story!
 
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