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In the mid-'70s, Don was credited as producer on three singles by George Strait, a fledgling Western Swing singer from San Marcos, for D Records, the label owned by Don's father, H.W. I don't know how he didn't break into laughter.'

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'He would pick some of the absolutely worst of the submissions to play for me and not crack a smile while he waited for me to comment on them,' Bishop recalls. Bishop says sometimes Daily would ask him to help him evaluate songs that had been sent to Glad, which still controls the rights to many of George Jones' and the Big Bopper's better-known songs.

'Don was a tremendously sweet and caring person with a truly wonderful sense of humor that was very dry in a manner not unlike Bob Newhart,' says current Cactus Music partner and general manager Quinn Bishop, who worked for the Dailys from 1987 through 'tying up loose ends' after the old store at Shepherd and Alabama closed in early 2006.ĭaily's nephew Wes of Glad Music Company remembers Don as 'very creative,' with a keen ear for music. He was 81, according to his Houston Chronicle obituary, which indicated a long struggle with Parkinson's disease but said Daily had died 'peacefully.' Don Daily, a founding partner of Cactus Records and member of Houston's legendary Daily family, passed away July 31.