Cooler Weather (update)

Eddie WeldonAlso issued as the Panting Panthera.k.a. “Mr. D.J. USA,” and the “Shooting Star of North America”Cooler Weather(Is A-Comin')E. Weldon, Airlok Music (BMI)Produced by Robert TulakMarly Records 105-a1960The tiny obscure Marly label was from the West Coast Eddie Weldon* * *The following information is from a PowerPoint document found some years ago but now deleted.DIGRESSION: REST IN PEACE? o Clair E. Weldon—a.k.a. “Eddie Weldon,” “Mr. D.J. USA,” the “Panting Panther,” and the “Shooting Star of North America”—recorded and broadcasted under his various performance monikers throughout the 1950s and 1960s o Under the moniker “Panting Panther” on a song titled “Cooler Weather,” Weldon became one of the first popular musicians to cross what then was known as the “color line,” singing with the backing of an African-American blues combo o Today he continues to work in entertainment, largely under the name “Eddie Weldon” o A recording firm, having heard nothing of the “Panting…