Buzz Busby

The nature of chatter in the research lab changes with the arrival of new personnel, in this case a temporary replacement on filing duty, kind of an opinionated hippie. "Hey, man, no guy named Buzz would ever say anything this, like...uh...negative," was his unwanted take on the controversy surrounding a harsh quotation that seems to have been attributed to the wrong Busby brother. The hippie had been hired because of supposed expertise on bluegrass, especially independent labels such as Pinecastle. Fond of the Busby Brothers, he had made up a marketing slogan: "Double your buzz with Busby." "It was horrible -- best I can say for it" was the exact quote in dispute following an effort by Dr. Wayne Busbice -- the Wayne Busby in the Busby Brothers -- to correct factual errors in biographical information pertaining to the family. Although there would be no argument concerning the veracity of "It was horrible -- best I can say for it" had it been said in description of the hippie assistant's slogan for the Busby Brothers, Wayne Busby denies having been the brother who actually made this comment about the family's far from idyllic rural lifestyle. This family with nine children struggled through life on a family farm, picking cotton and raising food both to eat and to sell in order to survive. "It sounds like something Buzz might have said," Dr. Busbice conjectured in 2006. "It definitely does not reflect my opinion," he concludes firmly. Savvy musicologists are moving credit for the comment over to Buzz Busby's column, alongside writer Earl Thompson and "It's a tough life if you don't weaken." "No way Buzz would have said that!" The hippie continued to stand firm although otherwise quick to accept the truthfulness of new data coming in concerning Buzz Busby, i.e., the...