Clarissa Lynn has strong roots in North Dakota coming from a small, family farm operation north of Stanton or just a little south of Pick City by the Lake Sakakawea area where she did more bale haulin' and cow milkin' than fishin'; however, Clarissa grew up in a musical family loving and learning to dance to old time and country music.
Happy Hour fans regularly request "The Anniversary Waltz" by the very popular musical group, The Tibor Brothers from Hebron, North Dakota.
The TIBOR musical family goes back to grandfather, Leonard Hecker, who was born in Russia and migrated to the U.S. with his parents. He started a band in the 1920's in the Dickinson, ND area and daughter Margaret played piano. For Margaret, the years brought marriage to Joseph Tibor, children, and hard times, but always enough money to buy musical instruments for the children. To supplement the family income, Margaret took the five oldest children and played for church socials. They called themselves the Rhythm Cowboys - the year, 1947.
Since that time they have also been the Country Cousins and the Mavericks. (Fans still recall the Mavericks televison show.) In 1976, a new dimension was added to their music business with the creation of JoMar Recording Studio at Hebron, ND. Their first album at JoMar was "A Special Old Time Tribute to their Grandfather", featuring all nine brothers. That treasured album is still played on KBMR Happy Hour. It features Julius & Rose Miller, Joey Schmidt, and Tony Schaaf.
* **Did you know that the vocal group of brothers from Hebron, North Dakota: Francis, Gerard, Harvey, Kurt, and Larry Tibor (THE TIBOR BROTHERS) scored a #95 hit on Billboard's Top Country Single's Chart entitled "It's So Easy Lovin' You" in 1976?
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