eyes of texas

Fifty years ago this month, KUT 90.5 FM first hit the airwaves with "The Eyes of Texas."

Radio-television-film professor Robert Schenkkan and a group of UT students led the effort to establish a full-power FM station for the University in 1958.

The Federal Comunications Commission issued the public radio station's call letters, KUT, on Aug.

Members of the UT band played "The Eyes of Texas" as a small but growing crowd of Student Government members swayed their horns high in the cold air around 11 p.m.

Tuesday.

Swells of a Mariachi-tinged "Eyes of Texas" rendition welcomed New York Senator Hillary Clinton to her much-anticipated South Texas campaign stop.

On Saturday, the Longhorns hope that once again they'll sing a victorious "Eyes Of Texas," and just maybe a little "New York, New York."