April 3, 1992

Lloyd “Arkansas Slim” Andrews, best known for film roles as a sidekick to Western stars in the 1940s through the early 1950s and, after that, as a host of children’s television programs, died in Gravette (Benton County). Among other highlights in Andrews’s career were a ten-month tour as a comedian and musician with Bob Wills in 1947; playing harmonica, accordion, and other instruments with a Wills satellite band led by Harley Huggins in 1948; nearly 10,000 television appearances; and a speaking role as the ferryman in the television miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982). He received composer credits in the 1940 Tex Ritter film Arizona Frontier for the song “Wastin’ Time.”

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