Ladies and Gentlemen… Mylo Hatzenbuhler!
On this date in 1994, came the debut of “I’m Big-Time Now!” a CD by Mylo Hatzenbuhler – who is known as the “Strasburg Superstar.”
Mylo is a “fourth-generation fictional farm-boy who lives with his fictional wife and family on a farm – as he puts it, “eight miles east of Strasburg and a half.” Mylo and wife Emma are the creations of Clyde Bauman, a professional musician and entertainer from Bismarck.
His Mylo was just a normal, humble farm kid until a fateful day at school. As Mylo tells it, “The news came over the school loudspeaker that Elvis Parsley had died. I was only 15 ... but I remember like it was yesterday; I turned to my 5th-grade teacher and said, ‘The world needs me.’”
Since that day, Mylo has, as he puts it, gone on to extinguish himself in the musical world. He successfully juggled farming, his rock star career and his marriage to Emma Schwartzenbauer-Hatzenbuhler. Mylo says they are both 100% German from Russia.
In Mylo’s words, “In the spring of 1910, my great-grandparents came to this country on a boat, went to the Statue of Liberty and got made natural, then got on another boat and sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, where they bought a covered wagon and went north with the other Germans in the group. They went as far as they could,” Mylo continues, “and when the weather turned that fall, that’s where they stopped and stayed. They turned the wagon upside-down and heaped dirt up around it for insulation (because fiberglass doesn’t grow in North Dakota), cut a hole in the floor for the stovepipe, and that was their home their first winter in North Dakota.”
Mylo met Emma at a concert he was giving in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Of their daughter, Mylo says, “We named her Beulah, because I gave a concert in Beulah the night she was born. It was good timing, because the night before, I was in Zap.”
Mylo often has a very busy schedule. He once said, “I’m so busy that wherever I go, someone wants me somewhere else.” At his last event, he said, “The promoters must be anxious to see how I did, because they said they can’t wait for me to get done.”
Dakota Datebook written by Merry Helm
