Sam Edwards also took the role of Tracy Baker in the

Sam Edwards also took the role of Tracy Baker in the long-running radio soap opera One Man’s Family and appeared in films such as East Side Kids (1940) and Captain Midnight (1942).In 1942, after the US entered the Second World War, Edwards was drafted into the Army Air Corps but soon seconded to a group of entertainers who wrote and performed in a fundraising show titled Hey Rookie, starring Sterling Holloway (later the voice of Winnie the Pooh). By the time the production was entertaining troops in North Africa, then Naples and India, Edwards had established himself as the troupe vocalist.After the war, Edwards resumed his career in radio and films. His best-known role of the time was as Dexter Franklin, teenage boyfriend of the title character, in the hugely popular radio sitcom Meet Corliss Archer (1946-56) – even though he was then in his thirties.Edwards appeared in the first episode of the television police series Dragnet (1951) and 12 more (1952-70), taking different parts in each. They revived Gene Autry’s country success “I’m a Fool to Care”, on which (as Joe Barry) he created his own Domino effect, and “I Got a Feeling”, which was a tribute to Ray Charles. Barry was undecided about which should be the A-side and so he did the only logical thing: he took it to a brothel and played it to some hookers. They chose “I’m a Fool to Care”.The record was promoted by another producer, the “Crazy Cajun”, Huey P Meaux.

He recalled, “Fats Domino was riding in my car and he thought it was one of his records but he couldn’t remember doing it I can understand that. He knew the song and it was just the sort of song he recorded.”"I’m a Fool to Care” was a US hit in 1961 and also made the UK Top Fifty. Joe Barry appeared on top TV shows like American Bandstand and when the follow-up, “Teardrops in My Heart”, failed to connect, he made records for the French-speaking market and even recorded as Roosevelt Jones for a black audience.Barry often played at casinos, but he saw little of his earnings He concluded, “I wished I let the Mob take over. In 1958 he formed the Dukes of Rhythm and then, as part of the Delphis, he had regional success with “The Greatest Moment of My Life” (1960) on the Jin label.Working with the producer Floyd Soileau, he recorded at Cosimo Matassa’s studio in New Orleans. His father, a fighter who killed alligators and muskrats for food, worked on river boats and his mother cut sugar-cane. Barrios was learning guitar from the age of eight and soon playing at dances known as fais do-dos.Barrios did not want to spend his life in the swamps and he moved to New Orleans in the late Fifties. Here his cajun style was filtered with the rich sounds of Smiley Lewis and Fats Domino As well as singing, he could play guitar, piano and drums.

In 1961 Joe Barry won a gold disc for his recording of “I’m a Fool to Care”, but his career thereafter became a long anti-climax, as few promoters and record labels wanted to work with such an unstable and unreliable performer, as much given to fighting with his audience as singing to them.He was born Joseph Barrios in poverty in 1939 in the cajun swamplands of Louisiana. Joseph Barrios (Joe Barry), singer: born Cut Off, Louisiana 13 July 1939; died Cut Off 31 August 2004. This and roles in series such as I Love Lucy (1956), Gunsmoke (1958-74), Perry Mason (1959), The Andy Griffith Show (1960-66), The Virginian (1963-67), Cannon (1971-75) and Barnaby Jones (1974-77) established him as a versatile character actor.He then joined the wholesome family drama Little House on the Prairie as the bank manager, Bill Anderson, on and off (1978-83) for the second half of the show’s long run.Anthony Hayward. “The funding council should not only be accountable to parliament as proposed, but also to the students and institutions,” says Reilly, of Chess Professor King of Abertay University agrees. “There must be a greater injection from the institutions into the funding council,” he says.Just how much attention has been given to the criticism of the proposals will become apparent when the updated version of the Bill is published later this year. One sign that the Scottish Executive is listening would be the dropping of the universally unpopular “tertiary” from the title of the new council. The prospect of merger-by-directive is seen as potentially disruptive of morale and debilitating of resources.