One Monday (08/24/81) I was having a pretty rough day, and at 8 PM I started my Jazz show by declaring it, "A Blue Monday." Then I played the bluest side of the Jazz library and a bunch of Blues tunes 'til the show ended at 11 PM. The following Monday, about 7 o'clock, somebody called me at the station and said, "I'd like to get my request in early for Blue Monday, so you'll be sure to play it." I had no idea what he was talking about and said, "What?" He replied, "Last week the show was Blue Monday, isn't that a regular show?" I though about it for a second and said, "Yes, it is. What did you want to hear?" I declared it Blue Monday again and played pretty much all Blues with just a little Blue Jazz in it. The phone rang off the hook, and the requests were all for John Lee Hooker, BB King, Albert Collins, and other solid Blues artists. Soon I was using Fats Domino's Blue Monday for the theme song. I could tell by the phone calls that the show was getting popular, and that people were telling their friends about it. At the time there were no other Blues programs on the air in Austin. After a month or two of Blue Mondays the then-Program Director, Howard Lenett, came to me early in my Monday shift and asked me, "What is this Blue Monday I'm hearing about?" I figured I was in trouble because I hadn't gone through the red tape to get Blue Monday on like I had done with Texas Radio. I explained how the show had started, and what I was up to with it. He said, "Well, if you've got enough records to do it and you want to keep doing it, go ahead. It's getting a lot of fan mail, and it's the only show on the station that's getting any mail." Then he gave me several letters that had come in recently saying nice things about Blue Monday. I beefed up my Blues library, and on the first Blue Monday fundraiser we raised $1,300 in three hours on a 4,000 watt mono station. With that successful fund-raiser Blue Monday added the fourth hour and has run in the 8 'til midnight Monday time slot ever since. It is one of the longest running Blues radio programs with the same host in the nation.