Tommy Faile was a star in his own right. Born in 1928 in Lancaster, S. C., he picked and sang and wrote songs all his life. His best known songs were "The Legend of the Brown Mountain Lights" and "Phantom 309," which he and others recorded. He remained with the Crackerjacks most of his career, although he had his own half-hour weekly prime-time show on WBTV for a couple of seasons in the early 1970s featuring country and popular tunes (also carried on WWBT in Richmond—another Jefferson station). The photo showing Tommy beside the conestoga was taken during taping of one of many Arthur Smith shows produced at Tweetsie Railroad at Boone, North Carolina. In the small photo at lower left Tommy is pickin' and grinnin' with some guy named Arthur Godfrey.