MADPOD BARRY WINSLOW INTERVIEW ROYAL GUARDSMAN
Barry Winslow The Royal Guardsmen from Ocala, FL =97 Bill Balough (bass), J= ohn Burdette (drums), Chris Nunley (vocals), Tom Richards = (guitar), Billy Taylor (organ), and Barry Winslow (vocals/guita= r) =97 enjoyed their reign of pop fame in 1966-1968 by recording a = series of songs taking off from the Peanuts cartoon character Snoopy and = his fantasy about aerial dog fighting with German World War I flying ace = Baron Von Richthofen. The million-selling “Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron” = was the first and most successful of these novelty records in the fall of = 1966, and its follow-up, “The Return of the Red Baron,” also made the Top = 40.”Snoopy’s Christmas” topped the seasonal charts at the end of = 1967, and surfaced as a recurrent to date! After a few = non-Snoopy singles, the Guardsmen released “Snoopy for President” in = the summer of 1968 at the height of the Nixon/Goldwater era. The= group scored a final Top 40 hit with its two-year-old, reissued debut = single, “Baby Let’s Wait,” in the winter of 1968-1969. The original = group split in 1969; a version with some replacement members continued for = another year. Barry and his wife Sheryl have two children living at home and are = members of the Chapel Hill Baptist Church where they are very involved in = the ministry of helps, and he of course also in singing. Barry also = has three children living in Florida, one living in Missouri, and one = living in Tennessee. Sheryl manages the Winslow Ministry office and = totally supports his music. Barry rejoins Shadoe from the Ozarks of = the “Show Me” State!
