Ronnie Sando, Charlie Hodge (Elvis's Band) and Elmer Fudpucker

in front of the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tn.

 

Hollis Champion began his recording career as "Hollis Champion" in the late 1950s when he recorded "Old Red Devil." Then he moved to Nashville in the early 1960s, developed a flare for comedy and adopted his flashy stage name, Elmer Fudpucker.

Over the years appearing as Elmer Fudpucker, he has been the opening act for such diverse performers as Jerry Lee Lewis, James Brown, Kenny Rogers, the Statler Brothers and Marty Robbins. His first break in the business came when Ernest Tubb asked him to open performances at fairs for him.  Fudpucker has been a pioneer of party albums, he earned a gold record for "Elmer Fudpucker at the Nudist Colony," released in the mid 1960s.  Many of Fudpucker's party albums are geared toward truckers and one of Fudpucker's early albums, "Damn D.O.T., Volume 1" was No. 1 for 44 weeks on the trucker's Top 10 chart.

Besides comedy appearances at fairs, conventions, concerts and clubs, he does serious recordings, which include the patriotic "I Love You, America." He also operates a novelty business, called Fudpucker Fun Products, which manufactures T-shirts, bikinis, bumper stickers, country music books and magazines, fizzle glasses and "Fudpucker's famous swamp root potion."  The novelties are sold at truck stops as are Granny Fudpucker's Famous Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Johnny has been in the music business for over 48 years starting out at the age of 12 with "The McCorkel Family" who were in the gospel music industry.  He then, at age 16, joined forces with another gospel quartet named "The Green Valley Harmonairs".  After having many of the members called into military service, Johnny was looking for another band to be a part of.  This turned out to be a blessing due to it allowing him the opportunity to become a member of "Ronnie Rhodes and The Ramblers" who we performing on the rodeo circuit in the Eastern part of the U.S.    For the next several years, he worked for Country Music & Grand Ole' Opry Legends including Bob Luman, Mel Street, Don Willis, Leroy VanDyke, David Houton and Elmer Fudpucker.  He is currently under contract with M.W.R., D.O.D. and U.S.O. of the 8th Army with which he has traveled over seas numerous times performing for the U.S. Troops.  From time to time as time allows, he also performs concerts in over 43 states.

Johnny is a voting member of the "The Recording Academy" (The Grammy's).  

Bio and photo coming soon...

At age 6, Jereme started traveling around the United States with his families travel agency which was then based out of Shreveport, Louisiana.  He was almost never seen without an old 110 snapshot camera in hand snapping photographs of everything he saw.  Many people found this to be somewhat funny but his photographs were impressive enough that many of them were used in marketing materials promoting upcoming trips.  At age 14, he started playing drums in his mothers country band and once again... camera in hand.  When he wasn't traveling the U.S. or Canada,  he was performing on "The Louisiana Hayride" or on the road performing in the states as well as in Korea and Japan.  Performing right along side of many National and International entertainers gave him an appreciation for the huge demand for good photographs.   

One of the many unique features of Midwest Exposures is the ability to offer in studio sessions as well as being able to bring the studio to you.  May it be the lake, the mountains, a park, a race track or in your home, their goal is to create images that are customized to your specific desires!

 

Be sure to watch for a very exciting addition to Midwest Exposures coming early next year.