Wallowa - An Oregon Wonder 

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I ad never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear.. Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

Greg, I appreciate you responding to my video about Wallowa County. It is a marvelous place. I was born and raised in Oregon but had never visited that north eastern county. In my 20s I left the state to pursue a career in television, but in retirement I came back to live in Portland. Once back I decided with to just blindly wander into Wallowa County with camera to see what might be there. The B&Bs put me up for free if I included them in the program, and the area musicians gave me perrmisssion to use their music. So I basically did the production for gas money. I will alway have a fondness for that beautiful place. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I ad never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland. Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

This is not Seattle.

Yeah but it's basically the same beautiful part of the country besides Oregon is so close to Seattle that making that correction comes off as grumpy / funny...? PNW is a jewel for sure have a nice day all.

@@benlarson5073 I didn’t mean to come off as disrespecting Oregon. I loved living in the PNW.

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

Checkered Reactions, I cannot explain the upsurge. The show set quietly for a good year, then BOOM. It must be that RU-vid placed it on some kind off list. Thanks for the compliments. I am a retired director of live multi-camera TV music concerts. Only since retirement have I tried anything like Wallowa. I did it just for fun with my own camera. I was born and raised in Portland, but at age 27 left to seek my fortune in the wilds of television and did not come back for 40 years. Wallowa was the only part for the state I had not seen. That’s why I chose it. I just showed up there one May weekend and began shooting. Great place! My budget for this was 62.12 dollars for gas money to make two trips to Wallowa and back… that’s it! The B&Bs put me up for the publicity and a complimentary copy of the show. The local musicians pitched in with their recordings. See... doing television does not require any money. Clark Santee

@@santeevideo Thanks for your honest and authentic response Clark!!! My comment was partly in jest to your “form letter” responses. My mother really loved your video. I’m only curios now if many of those businesses and attractions are still operating post-pandemic. How many fill ups did that 62.12 get you???

@@santeevideo Is there any of your work (Live Music TV Concerts) on youtube? It would be great to see some of your past work!!

​I am not completely up to speed on the details of accessing videos on RU-vid, but I think all you have to do is enter Clark Santee or Clark Santee Video Productions and the sight should provide access to the shows I have posted. Most of them are early works because as a director the rights actually belong to someone else and I do not want to cross that line. However, I am not too worried about infringing on a shows that are 40 or 50 years old. Among the more interesting videos are four Music From the Show compilations. At age 26, The Show was my first attempt to direct live music. The site also contains videos from my travels, efforts that led to doing Wallowa. Check them out.

Donald, I made the Wallowa video ten years ago in 2013. At the time I received great cooperation from the a consortium of Wallowa musical artists.They are seen in concert near the the beginning of the video. One of them was Henry Kinsley, who wrote and performed “God’s Country” and “Paradise.” He gave me permission to use both songs as did Heidi Mulller who sings “In Wallowa” for the credits. At the time Henry was having serious issues with cancer… so it is not likely he has survived. Here is some info: Henry Kinsley Hkinsley@eonl.com 541-428-1055 Album: Songs From the Heart of Wallowa County Recorded at Song Catcher Studios Joseph, Oregon The album appears to be self produced and released. Heidi Muller Wallowasong PO Box 103 Joseph, Oregon 97846 www.wallowasong.com Heidi can bring you up to date on Henry’s status. I have his complete album and can send you a copy. Email me your address. Clark Santee santeevideo@comcast.net

The recent upsurge in viewers for my Wallow program has been of interest. The show has been sitting on RU-vid for over a year withe almost no one looking at it. Suddenly, this this past month it has had hundreds of viewer. RU-vid must have put out a directive for the program. What made you watch it? As a TV director retired back to my home state of Oregon, I did this show on a lark looking for something to do. I had never visited Wallow before. Total budget: $62.18 for gasoline to and from my home in Portland (I have my own camera gear). Wallowa B&Bs put me up and the attractions open their door to me for a copy of the show. Local musicians did the music. It was great fun. Clark Santee

@@santeevideo I'm glad you had a great time out in Wallowa. I think the uptick in viewers is because of the uptick in tourism in Oregon. As someone who lives near the john day fossil beds, I've noticed a lot more tourists of the past year or two. Thanks for supporting local music by the way! edit: I watched it because it's so close to my home, Sometimes it's neat to see what outsiders think of it.