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[Blanche Bunnell]

Whilethe disco aesthetic, the predominant music style at the time, was all about indulging hedonism and dancing your cares away while wearing tight and/or short polyester pieces and towering shoes as painful as they were high, the Wranglers, cowboy boots, and leather accessories of Urban Cowboy provided an authentic and all-American alternative. To many, it was a refreshing change.

First off, I guess everyone knows me as Daddy Steve Strange's boy. No, we were not related in blood, but Daddy Steve did me as he and Mama Sarah did to a lot of us wayward kids there at Gilley's, they made us feel as family. I guess they took me in as part of their real family more than any other cowboy there at that time, and I took to them as well. To me, they were more family than my real family at times, and I love them as much. I was part of the Gilley family of cowboys and cowgirls from right after I got out of the Navy in 1978 till it closed down. I was also the one who called the Pasadena Fire Department when I drove by the club when it was on fire and had the unpleasant task to tell Sherwood it was burning down, but that is another story that I will not go into.

People have asked me how was it to be in a movie with John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn and all the other great people that were in Urban Cowboy. Well, I loved every minute of it. I tell them that it was the only job that ever paid me to get drunk...lol. I can tell you that I would not have missed being in it all the world. I met a lot of people there who were extras and all the great stars, and I will cherish it forever. And many of them I still consider them friends.

Well, one Saturday morning I came into Gilley's several months before they started shooting because I was going to be running the bull later that day. I wanted to make sure the bulls were in good running order and make any repairs that needed to be done. Daddy Steve was already there at the bull with some people I didn't know as of yet, but that was nothing unusual. Steve saw me come in and met me near the front bar and told me that he had some people he wanted me to meet, and they wanted to watch me do my drunk act on the bull, which was something that Gator and me could do with no problems whatsoever. I told Steve that I wasn't feeling like doing it but he insisted so I agreed. I got myself a beer and walked on over to the bull and fell right into my act of slurring my words and spilling my beer at the bull station. Steve was grinning and told the guys there with him, "See, I told he was good at it." They were all smiling and getting into the act with me which just made the act so much better. I climbed up on the bull, well maybe not so graceful, but I was damn near falling off each time I tired to get on. After finally getting on, Steve started it up throwing me all over it and making it sound like I was killing myself. Steve tossed out a rag, which was my cue to where I was to land when I was ready, which I did and landed right on the spot. When I got off the mats and walked over to Steve, he introduced me to Jim Bridges and explained to me that they were going to make a movie there at Gilley's and it was going to be called Urban Cowboy. I looked at Steve and to Jim and started to laugh because I, at the time, believed that they were trying to bullshit me and I wasn't going to fall for that. As I walked away, Steve told me that they were going to be making a movie and I had just did an audition and they wanted me to be an extra in it. I said ok, but I at the time I still had my doubts.

I am now 65 and have my own business. I am a pilot/escort owner/operator which means I am the guy who makes some of you on the roads mad because I am blocking you from killing yourself when you try to pass some of those oversize loads and block you from doing stupid stuff. I now live in Livingston, Texas, and have been back in Texas this last time since 2014. I had been living in Arizona and New Mexico, but I will not be moving again. So, these are my stories and I hope you all enjoyed them. I have many others stories about things that happened at Gilley's, and some about things that happened during the movie, but some of them I will never tell because if you weren't there, you would never believe them.

Texas Hot Country Magazine. View All Articles. URBAN COWBOY EXTRA ROBERT WRIGHT, CENTER, WITH SCOTT GLENN AND UNIDENTIFED EXTRA

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