COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday November 7th, 2013
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After 48 days of being unable to swallow I am now able to swallow liquids and
should be able to eat soft foods within a few more days. Thank you for your
messages your kind words AND for your prayers.
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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A lot of hit songs have been written when a writer had an idea for a song took
that idea to another songwriter and the two of them whacked out a hit
tune!*
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According to songwriter Max D. Barnes, such was the case with Conway Twittys
1979 number one, Dont Take It Away.*
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Barnes commented, That was the first song that Troy Seals and I ever wrote
together. And we wrote it just a short time after I met him. The song was his
idea. He brought it to me and we sat down and wrote it together.*
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But the song had been well recorded before it every reached Conway Twitty. Jody
Miller had a charted version in 1975. A New York Group known as The Meadows
Brothers also recorded the song as did Englands Don Stanton.*
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Conways version of Dont Take It Away came on the country music charts at number
52 on St. Patricks Day in 1979 and was in the number one slot on May 12th.*
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The song was written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes. The single was produced by
Conway Twitty and David Barnes.*
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It was Conways 40th charted song and was on the charts for 14 weeks. *
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard on the radio that Bill Anderson was in some kind of documentary on
country Music. Do you have any information?
A: Bill Anderson was one of several artists to appear in For the Love of
Music: The Story of Nashville -
<http://www.visitmusiccity.com/storyofnashville/>
, which aired recently on the ABC Television
Network.. Check for updates on app availability in the iTunes store at
<http://www.visitmusiccity.com/music/nashvilleapp*>
For more information about the film including full cast, photos from the shoot
and documentary trailer visit
www.visitmusiccity.com/storyofnashville -
http://www.visitmusiccity.com/storyofnashville
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Q: There was a song on the radio back in the 60s by some guy singing about
the Rive rRhine. Do you know who had that record and is he still around?*
A: Lonely River Rhine was a # 16 hit for Bobby Helms in 1960. Helms died in
1997.*
Q: Do you have any information concerning some kind of anniversary for The Oak
Ridge Boys? The radio guys were talking about it.*
A: The Oak Ridge Boys recently celebrated their 24th Anniversary of
their annual Christmas Tour with a show featuring live performances of holiday
classics and their biggest hits. The/ Christmas Times-A-Comin Tour/
kicked off November 5th-7th in Branson, MO. Additionally, Richard Sterban, Duane
Allen, William Lee Golden, and Joe Bonsall are celebrating the 40th Anniversary
of The Oak Ridge Boys. *
*Q: My dad says that Charlie Louvin was part of a group early in his
career. Do you know what that is about?*
*A: Charlie and his brother Ira placed 12 songs on the country charts
as The Louvin Brothers between 1955 and 1962. Ira died in 1965.*
*Q: I heard that one of the Bellamy Brothers is nominated for some kind
of hall of fame. Do you know what that is all about?*
*A: Eight songwriters and four artist/songwriters have been nominated
for the /Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame./ Nominees in the
songwriter category" Don Cook, Marcus Hummon, Mark James, Will Jennings, Dan
Penn, John Scott Sherrill, Jeffrey Steele and Rafe Van Hoy. The nominees in the
songwriter/artist category: David Bellamy (The Bellamy Brothers), Ronnie Dunn
(Brooks & Dunn), Toby Keith and Randy Owen (Alabama).*
*Q: My sister in law says that she has a tape of Ray Price singing the
Patsy Cline hit song I Fall To Pieces, that she recorded off the radio years
ago. Did Price record that song?*
*A: Rays version of I Fall To Pieces was a track in his 1964 Love Life
album.*
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Your comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. concerning this newsletter---are
welcome. Email *to: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com*
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1946*
/Divorce Me C.O.D./ - Merle Travis *
*1954*
/More and More/ - Webb Pierce *
*1962*
/Mama Sang a Song/ - Bill Anderson *
*1970*
/I Cant Believe That Youve Stopped Loving Me/ - Charley Pride *
*1978*
/Sleeping Single in a Double Bed/ - Barbara Mandrell *
*1986*
/Itll Be Me/ - Exile *
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A T T E N T I O N: R A D I O S T A T I O N S:*
Our short form daily radio feature, *Story Behind The Song* is
*now available to radio stations.
NOT
AVAILABLE TO INTERNET STATIONS)
The feature is available at *no charge*.*
For information, email me at
*classics@countrymusicclassics.com*
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ALPHABET SOUP.*
By: Jack Blanchard
What I like and don't like in music...
I like an interesting melody, fresh lyrics, and some chords.
I don't like one chord all the way as I hear so often today,
or an endless repetition of an inane 2 or 4 bar phrase.
It's toddlers' music with drums and bass.
Much current pop music is bland, repetitious stuff,
delivered with fake enthusiasm.
Like commercials.
I still enjoy singing "with no pants on"
after every line of every song.
"Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, with no pants on."
I wish restaurant food looked like the pictures on the menu.
A hostess asked me how everything was.
I said, "My compliments to the photographer."
I'd like to get a tattoo of a banjo on my knee.
TRUE STORY FROM THE MANCHESTER TIMES.
A passenger in a taxi tapped the driver on the shoulder
to ask him a question.
The driver screamed, lost control, and nearly hit a bus.
The driver said, "Sorry. This is my first day driving a cab.
I've been driving a hearse for 25 years."
(From Walt Johnson.)
When I was a teen, my girlfriend's phone number was 297J.
That's it. Three numbers and a letter.
It was a small town. A lot like Mayberry, only evil.
Outside Englands Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses.
For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant.
Then, after 25 years of never missing a day, he didn't show up,
so the zoo called the city council and asked it to send them another parking
agent.
The council replied that the parking lot was the zoo's responsibility.
The zoo advised the council that the attendant was a city employee.
The city said that the lot attendant had never been on the city payroll.
Sitting in his villa on the coast of Spain
is a man who had a ticket booth installed on his own
and then had simply begun to show up every day,
collecting and keeping the parking fees.
At about $560 per day for 25 years this amounts to around $7 million dollars,
and nobody even knows his name.
(Again from Walt Johnson.)
If I were a cop I'd arrest a clown and say,"Don't make any funny moves."
I'd like to be a cop and yell, "SCUM, FREEZEBAG!"
I saw a sign that said "THINK." I wrote under it "OR THWIM."
I'm still thinking about the sexy girls in my high school.
Now'days those girls are thinking about Bingo.
"Santa Claus is coming to town, with no pants on."
"There ain't no sanity clause."
Chico Marx.
The next person to say "mind boggling" to me will get their nose beeped.
When Misty was six years old
she sang "Cabin in the Sky" on a radio talent program.
That's a tough song to sing even for an adult.
The winner was a kid that tap danced. On the RADIO!
The announcer, Colin Male, later became her brother-in-law,
and he was the announcer on The Andy Griffith Show.
Alphabet soup makes no sense to me.
I'm dyslexic.
Well, pretty soon I'm going to sit back, relax, smoke a squirrel, and go to
bed.
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Jack Blanchard
*http:// - http:///www.jackandmisty.net - http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY*
compiled by Bill Morrison*
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Ernie Newton, stand-up acoustic bass player/session player, born Hartford, CT
1909.
"Archie" James Campbell, Hee Haw cast member, born Bulls Gap, TN
1914.
Red Foley recorded "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy," at Castle Studio,
1949.
Robin Lee, born Robin Lee Irwin, Nashville, TN 1953.
Pat Boone married Shirley Foley, daughter of Red Foley in 1953.
A radio station in Richmond, VA (WXGI) banned Webb Pierce's #1 single, "There
Stands The Glass," in _1953_, saying the song was not suitable for
their younger listening audience.
Wanda Jackson released "Mean Mean Man," in 1960.
Alvin Pleasant Delaney "A.P." Carter, age 68, died Kingsport, TN
_1960._ Elected CMHF 1970.
Asylum released "Eagles Live" 1980.
Marty Robbins drove in his final NASCAR race, shortly before his death in
1982.
Willie Nelson appeared in an episode of "Miami Vice," playing the part of a
Texas Ranger in 1986.
Minnie Pearl "Sarah Ophelia Colley" celebrated her 50th anniversary on the Grand
Ole Opry 1990.
Bobby Sykes, age 66, guitarist, died 1994.
Columbia records released Rosanne Cash's album "Retrospective" 1995.
Vince Gill's 11th annual Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert, was held in
_2000_, at Belmont University. Money raised was used for
scholarships.
Buddha Records released Eddy Arnold's "RCA Country Legends" album in
2000.
Gene Wooten, age 49, Dobro virtuoso, died in 2001.
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Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html*>
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View From The Front Porch*-*
Stan Hitchcock *
*People are always asking me what about this artist, or that singer, or
that musician...what are they really like. And some folks came by the office to
see Reno and I this morning, and here is what they asked...what about? Well,
let's see....*
*The McCarter Sisters, as sweet and talented folks as I have ever met. They
are real...solid...unaffected...and prettier than speckled pups. I really
enjoyed the Heart to Heart that we did together in '93. *
*Tom T. Hall...who I have known since the early 60's when he first came to
town...the man is so talented and full of songs, that if you shook him a new one
would probably fall out. He's a man to love and honor, full of mischief, humor
and good sense. One of my favorite Heart to Hearts...in '94.*
*Keith Whitley...some folks, that are fans of Heart to Heart, just left my
office, and that is the question that they wanted to know...what about Keith? My
answer...I knew Keith very well, and loved him and his talent, he would come up
to my office on Music Row, in the 80's, when I was running CMT, and sit and talk
for hours. He always brought me his videos, before anyone else had heard them,
and I always World Premiered them on CMT...In all that time together, I never
saw Keith take a drink, or mess with drugs, or even act like he wanted to. He
was totally devoted to Lorrie and his young son Jesse Keith, and devoted to his
music. I loved him as a friend, I love him as an artist. I don't know what
happened, but whatever it was took one of the special ones. The Heart to Heart
that he and I did at the old Ryman, in 89, was a time I shall never forget.
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*Ferlin Husky....what can you say about a man who is a Legend that has not
already been said. He and I worked a lot of shows, including the Opry, in the
60's and 70's, and he was as good as I've ever seen on that stage. First time I
worked with him was on the Opry, in 1964, he had on a brilliant white suit,
white custom boots, a purple shirt, his curly hair swept back in a pompadour,
and a smile that just made you want to smile with him, and that is the memory of
a complete entertainer to always remember. The fan that was here in the office,
and asking about Ferlin, liked it when I said, "That chair you are sitting in
was where Ferlin always sat when he would come in here to my office in
Hendersonville to visit." And I told about the last time I saw Ferlin, when he
was still in pretty fair health. Ferlin came into my office one day, sat down in
my chair, and we started talking. He had on a great looking pair of Jeans,
starched and pressed, and coming down just the right length to the boots he
wore. "Ferlin, man, those are great looking jeans you got on." "Oh", he said, "I
get them at a store I found up in Missouri. Only place I been able to find
them."..."well, they sure look good on you, brother." And we went on visiting.
About a month later, I came into my office, and there were two pair of the
jeans, starched and pressed, hanging next to my desk. My secretary said, "Oh,
yes, Mr. Husky brought those by, before you got in, said to tell you he loved
you." Nuff said, I reckon. Heart to Heart in 1994.*
*In short, all the artists that I have been blessed to have as friends and
fellow travelers in a business of music and performance, have been as real and
down to earth as your next door neighbors. Our music does not put us up on a
pedestal, nor do we want it to, it is a gift that we were born with, some use it
and go far, others use it and go part of the way and turn around, others use it
and are content to use it as a means of self enjoyment. No matter, music is what
you make of it, the man or woman makes the music, the music does not make the
person...when they walk off stage and are alone again, they have to face the
same loneliness and demons that all the rest of the world has to face. They are
special because they have a special talent...a talent that other people get
pleasure from. That is a good thing. I love them all, my music family. *
* By the way, the group of fans and friends that come to see Reno and I
here at the office a little while ago...included a one armed guitar player, by
the name of Kenny Johnson, from West Virginia. He was pretty amazing. That's
what music people do, they share their talent.*
Stan Hitchcock*
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered,
he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. He
himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and
live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed. For you were like
sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of
your souls. *
* 1 Peter 2:23-25 (NIV)*
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