The Life and Work of Harold W. [Pappy] Daily: Record Producer & Entrepreneur: Song by George Jones

Harold W. “Pappy” Daily was was born in Yoakum, Texas, on February 8, 1902. His mother remarried after Daily’s father died when he was a child and the family relocated to Houston. After a stint in the Marine Corps, Daly began working for the Southern Pacific Railroad as an accountant (1922). From the mid 1920s until 1931, he dabbled in baseball management and launched a new baseball team called the Freeport Tarpons. When the Great Depression forced the Southern Pacific to lay off many of its workers, Daily sought a job with more security. He found it in the amusement-machine business. He wrote to the Bally Manufacturing Company in Chicago and asked why Houston had no distributor for Bally’s Juke Boxes. The company wrote Daily back and offered him the territory. He started South Coast Amusements in 1932 to distribute Bally Jukeboxes. At first he kept his job with the railroad and worked part-time distributing jukeboxes. In 1933, he left the railroad to work full time on his distributorship and his business flourished, that is, until World War II, when the government banned jukebox manufacturing for the duration of the war. Undaunted, Daily gathered as many records as he could and opened a store in Houston and sold phonograph records. Eventually he became a wholesaler and distributed records in the Southwestern USA. In 1952, Daily founded Starday Records with Jack Starnes and it grew to become one of the most successful independent labels from Texas. Starnes was a talent …
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