Buffalo Benford Productions, LLC is the production entity for Benford E. Standley

Over the years he has produced hundreds of events and shows which include names like:

Benford has produced wild west shows, rodeos, the World Chile Cook-off in Terlingua, TX, several 3-day music festivals,

five years of "digital" film film festivals, an arts and craft festival on the Vegas Strip, concerts in a Vegas casino, concerts

in Guatemala, Central America, and 5 states in the U.S.  Benford produced one of the most important symposiums in the

nation for runaway and missing children, hundreds of concerts, plus many other events & shows, and too many club dates

for one person to remember.  He tells his four children he is a carnie showman, then brings up circuses.

 

He owned a recording studio and has co produced several record projects, including the Official State Ballad of Montana,

and co-produced 2 award winning music videos, that were dedicated to runaway and missing children, a subject he has

written three books on.  He's produced and co-produced many benefits for children and youth, and written major legislation

for kids and help establish the original "Peace of Mind" Runaway Hotline in Austin, Texas, a Nation Wide program to help

runaway kids in America that is still in operation today.. 

 

Presently, he is producing a project named WAITING FOR A TRAIN with MERLE HAGGARD and JIMMIE RODGERS.

After telling Willie Nelson that he was working on a documentary on Jimmie Rodgers Willie told him, "If you want to know

more about Jimmie Rodgers you need to talk to Merle Haggard."  A few years later he got to Haggard and their friendship

and partnership last the last 12 years until Haggard passed away in 2016.  Waiting For A Train... includes his Trilogy

Memoir on those years with Merle Haggard and years on his film The Jimmie Rodgers Saga now ready for post.

Jimmie Rodgers, plus three films regarding said men.  After four years since his friend Merle Haggard's death he has

registered the copyright on two of the Chronicles of his Memoir Trilogy on his dear friend Merle and his life long ride on

the Jimmie Rodgers wild west runaway train.  Chronicle III will be released later in 2024 with a possible media release.

 

The Jimmie Rodgers Saga, is about "The man that started it all", aka "The Father of Country Music," has interviews with

Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Les Paul, Aaron Neville, Kris Kristofferson, Toby Keith, Tanya Tucker, Buck Owens, Steve

Earle, Rosanne Cash, and many greats in music history.  The book will serve as outlines for two movies on Rodgers. JimmieRodgersSaga.com  Benford Traveled to Columbia, South America to write the following two volumes on his

dozen year with Merle Haggard and is accompanied by many thousand of digital pictures and hundreds of hours of

Merle Haggard.  Standley was one of few ever allowed to film the very private Haggard. More at MEandMERLE.com

 

Standley is doing the rough edit on a online series that began working with the Eric Clapton Camp that grew to a project

with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Les Paul, Merle Haggard, Buck Page, founding member of the 1936 Riders of the Purple Sage,

Sonny Curtis from Buddy Holly's band The Crickets,  and other greats.  More online at:  PioneerTroubadours.com,

 

He's finishing a ten year writing project on the state and fate of children in the U.S. during the last quarter of a century. 

See more on his 4 decades of work for children and youth at StudioClub.com/Colorado.htm  He is also working on a

autobiography book MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH on his 4 decades in the entertainment business, and putting

his book FROM ARMADILLOS TO MASTODONS, a book about the Tonkawa Indians of the Texas Hill Country online.

You can find more on projects at:  BenfordStandley.com

 

Benford's history in the entertainment business goes back to 1967, when he started a band while he was in college in the

West Texas town of Alpine, where he went to ride bulls and rodeo.  Playing drums in a country western rock 'n roll band in

the sixties was a great beginning for a career that spans the past 5 decades. Because of his business studies in college

and being raised by a banker, he went to producing and management in 1970, after he moved to Austin, Texas about the

time the "progressive country" music scene was started.  Giving birth to Jerry Jeff Walker, Michael Martin Murphy and

the "Armadillo cosmic gonzo cowboy" scene.  Then Willie Nelson moved to town, taking  the lead in creating his special

brand of Texas Outlaw music. Through these years Benford was right in the middle of this "happening," learning the ropes

and creating some shows Austin, Texas and around the state, including one in Guatemala, Central America and many in

Montana before years of club and bar shows in Hollywood, where he created the StudioClub.com in 1998.

 

After a number of years working as a psychology intern in a number of mental hospitals, backwards, surgery wards as a

surgical tech, and working on in several clinical programs working with autistic children, and a year of politics writing

legislation and working with the U.S. Justice Dept., CIA, FBI, Texas Rangers, Texas Senate and House Sub Committees

on Human Resources concerning the state and fate of children, including work with FBI's Most Wanted John Walsh and

many others in youth care in the United States...more on the aftermath of this wild ride next paragraph.

 

Following this time in his life he left the country for near ten years, living and traveling every country in Central American

and Peru, Equador, Brazil and Boliva in South America some of Europe, and extensively in Mexico with his central goal

to see the world and to study how other countries treat and care for their children and youth.  It was also important for him

to visit many Aztec, Mayan and Incan ruins on earth, and escaping with his copy of Whole Earth Catalogue. Prior to the

travels he attended 3 universities and getting hours equivalent to a BA in Economics and Psychology and 30 hours

in Masters studies in Psychology. More on his kid work at: studioclub.com/Some%20Ran%20East/IRanWest1.htm

 

Standley began to study "multimedia" in 1993, while negotiating a million dollar CD-Rom deal with IBM. He was turned on

to the world of multimedia by Native American producer Dan Jones while Dan was working with Kevin Costner, and while

working with Willie Nelson on Farm Aid 1994, as co-producer of the short wave radio broadcast of Farm Aid, he began to

tinker with this new Super Informational Highway.. He saw the future and got on board the cyberspace band wagon that

day on the bus with Willie Nelson, Computer Bob, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young and others...WestMultimedia

 

In 1995, he produced one of the very first live video/audio Internet cybercast.  Wikipedia reports: "In 1995, Benford E.

Standley produced one of the first audio/video webcasts in history." The pioneering webcast was from the world

famous Troubadour in Hollywood. On the lineup were some classic LA acts including, John York from the Byrds, Greg

Harris of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Buck Page, founding member of the Riders of the Purple Sage, producer Sid Smith

(Circus of the Stars, Bob Hope's Christmas Specials for ten years, Miss Universe Pageants) was playing the cardboard

box and some other LA top acts.  The show was a benefit for Children of the Night, a program helping runaway girls in LA.

In 97, while living back in Austin, Tx, he produced a live Internet cybercast of Willie Nelson and Friends playing for the 100

year birthday of Jimmie Rodgers ( Father of Country Music). The cybercast was produced in concert with Sony/Columbia

Online and he produced  the show on a Bob Dylan website, in that he owned JimmieRodgers.com at the time. The show

was a Yahoo "Pick of  the Week," and a pick by CitySearch.com, was so successful that the Sony server system crashed

in San Francisco.  WestMultimedia

 

In 1998, Benford returned to LA to launch his new project the StudioClub.com  A  Virtual Entertainment InterNetwork on

the World Wide Web.  The site was launched on June 22, 1998, with a taped show produced on May 26, 1998.  The site

is still online lasting the wild ride of the Internet's first decade.  In 2006 and 09 the site was seeing an average of one

million visitors per month, with no advertising or marketing budget to speak of.  Using the StudioClub.com as his web

based platform, Standley has produced hundreds of shows over the past 13 years, including webcasting the taped audio

and pictures and text of the weekly Ronnie Mack Barn dance, which was from a honky-tonk at the corner of Hollywood

and Vine, the most famous street corner in the world, every Tuesday night for a year.  WestMultimedia

 

In February of 2000, he produced a 4 hour live audio-video webcast of the First American in the Arts Awards from the

Beverly Hills Hotel, which went off without a hitch and was broadcast via YAHOO!  In 2001 his company again produced

the First American In the Arts Awards show with his partners at Yahoo.com broadcast and working with Mark Cuban and

his company in Dallas, TX for the second time. WestMultimedia. During much of early 2000 he worked to manage

StudioClub.com and his documentary projects.

 

In November of 2008 Benford produced PasoDigitalFilmFestival.com, which was the frist "Digital" film festival on on

the planet Earth with more festivals to follow and in 2013 he produce the DigitalMediaFestival.com, the first of its

kind in Silicon Valley.  Prior he had posted the Malibu Film Festival online for 4 years.  Both of his film festivals has the

number one position for "digital" on Google for years.  Attending his digital festival were the likes of Clint Eastwood to

Kevin Bacon, Academy Award Editor Joel Cox, Johnny Rivers, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Luke Perry, Kathleen Quinlan,

director Mick Jackson, We Are the World creator Ken Kragen, Gary Busey, Francisco Quinn, Bobbie Carradine, and

 many other greats in music and film. 

 

His personal website is at

BenfordStandley.com

Webcast Production History and Pictures

 

 

 

Benford interview on the Paul Leslie Hour

 

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