COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
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Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday June 5th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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A lot of strange things have happened to songwriters while writing a song but
few writers have actually been arrested during the songwriting process!
But according to Rodney Crowell - that did happen to him!
As the story goes - while Crowell was writing Waylon Jennings' 1980 number one,
"I Ain't Living Long Like This" at his home in Hermosa Beach, California - he
was interrupted and jailed briefly by police for non payment of a fine for not
obeying the city's leash laws. After paying the fine - he returned home and
finished the song.
"I Ain't Living Long Like This" was first released as an album cut and was five
minutes long and for the single release - the song was faded out after three and
a half minutes.
According to Waylon - the record was a one take session. He commented,"We only
did the song one time and that was it. It just came off that first time and I
knew I couldn't do it any better."
Waylon Jennings' RCA Victor single "I Ain't Living Long Like This" came on the
country music charts January 5th, 1980 and was in the top slot March 1st.
It was his 58th charted song nd was on the charts 15 weeks.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q I heard something about Kenny Rogers and a therapy organization. Do you have
any info on that?
A: Kenny recently performed a benefit concert for The Kenny Rogers Children's
Center in Sikeston, Missouri. The center provides therapy to 450 children
monthly in a number of counties in Southeast Missouri.
Q: The radio guys mentioned Alabama getting back together for a Nashville
concert. Do you know anything about that?
A: Alabama will re-group to kick off the nightly LP Field concerts at the
2014 CMA Music Festival in Nashville tonight June 5th. It's Alabama's first
full performance at that event in 19 years.
Q: Do you know what happened to Billy Joe Shaver? I haven't heard anything
about him in a long time.
A: Shaver has just announced the August 5th release of a new album titled
"Long In The Tooth." The project features guest appearances by Willie Nelson,
Leon Russell and Tony Joe White.
Q: I heard on the radio that bluegrass picker Ralph Stanley now has a doctor
of music degree, Isn't he a little old to be in college?
A: Bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley was honored with a Doctor of Music degree
from Yale University at a May 19th ceremony. Stanley received an honorary
doctorate in 1976 from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.
Q: Are you familiar with an old song about "Sweet Judy?" My mom says it was
on the radio years ago.
A: "Sweet Sweet Judy" scored a number 18 hit for David Houston in 1965.
Q: Do you know who had hit records with Hank Williams song "Kaw-Liga?"
A: Hank Williams Sr.'s original was number one in 1953, Charley Pride's
version peaked at number 3 in 1969 and Hank Jr's recording made it to number 12
in 1980.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1948*
/Texarkana Baby/ - Eddy Arnold *
*1956*
/Blue Suede Shoes/ - Carl Perkins *
*1964*
/My Heart Skips a Beat/ - Buck Owens *
*1972
/The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A./* - Donna Fargo *
*1980*
/My Heart/ - Ronnie Milsap *
*1988*
/What She Is (Is a Woman in Love)/ - Earl Thomas Conley*
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WORLD WAR TWO: IN LIVING COLOR.*
*By: Jack Blanchard
I subscribe to a couple of history groups
and Ive seen some comments by younger people about World War Two.
They go along this line:
People back then were suckers
to let the government get away with rationing things.
I would have been in a protest line.
Drafting people into the armed services... How awful!
They are appalled to hear that you couldn't get butter,
or rubber tires, or nylon hosiery, etc.,
and that the buses had plywood stand/sit seats
to carry more workers to defense plants.
At first I thought they were idiots, and Im still not sure,
but I've come to accept this:
People who weren't actually there during WW2
have no real 3-D concept of the time.
I was just a kid,
but I can tell you that you wouldn't have been in a protest line.
They didn't have protest lines.
WW 2 was not a police action or a "preemptive" strike
as you've seen in your lifetime.
It was a giant classic war between good and evil...
like a video game,
but with real torture and death.
Maniacs were committing genocide
and trying to take over the world.
Our country and way of life were in real danger.
It wasn't a matter for political discussion.
The wartime mindset didn't allow for gray areas.
You were a patriot or a traitor
because your neighbors' kids were being slaughtered defending freedom.
You could see the stars hanging in the windows
of the families who had lost a son or daughter.
Sometimes more than one star.
I can understand how all this could sound corny
to those who have never experienced anything remotely like it.
It's like trying to describe your hair color to a blind man.
He can learn the words, but he can't get the picture.
People WANTED to do what they could for the war effort.
they sacrificed because it was right,
and they wanted the damn thing to be over.
This kind of mass effort and spirit of unity
is what has left a country where we can join protest lines,
ride buses with cushioned seats
and buy all the butter and gasoline we can afford.
I've been against virtually every war since, so, I'm not a hawk.
Just trying to tell it like it was.
You had to be there.
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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William Boyd a.k.a. Hopalong Cassidy, born Cambridge, OH 1895.*
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Albert Green Hopkins, of "The Hill Billies" born Gap Creek, NC 1889.*
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Ira Stripling, of the "Stripling Brothers" born Pickens County, AL 1898.*
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Harold John Breau, of Lone Pine & Betty Cody" born Pea Cove, ME 1916.*
Al Gallico, publisher, born Brooklyn, NY 1919.*
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Jerry "Carrot Top" Dykes born 1927.*
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Yodelin' Tommy Floyd born 1935.*
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Pee Wee King debuted on the Grand Ole Opry 1937.*
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The Grand Ole Opry moved for the fourth time in nine years, leaving the "War
Memorial Auditorium" for the "Ryman Auditorium," in _1943_. The Opry
remained at the "Mother Church of Country Music," for the next thirty-one
years.*
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Don Reid "Statler Brothers," born Staunton, VA 1945.*
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The Hayloft Hoedown debuted on ABC-TV 1948.*
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Gail Davies singer/songwriter, born "Patricia Gail Dickerson," Broken Bow, OK
1948.*
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Elvis Presley appeared on Milton Berle's TV Show /Texaco Star Theatre/
1956. *
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Carl Perkins' recording of "Blue Suede Shoes" topped the charts 1956.*
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Bob Dylan "Bob Zimmerman" graduated from High School in Hibbing, MN 1959.*
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Brenda Lee's single "I'm Sorry" charted 1960.*
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John Y. "Lonzo," Sullivan, age 48, of "Lonzo and Oscar," died 1967.*
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Marla Suzanne Cox, "Cox Family," born Springhill, LA 1967.*
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Max Terhune, WLS Barn Dance/Western movies, died Cottonwood, AZ 1973.*
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"Urban Cowboy," premiered in Houston, TX in 1980.*
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Marty Robbins released "One Man's Trash/I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow" 1980.
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Alabama's #1 single "Take Me Down" debuted on Billboard's Top 40 1982.*
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Conway Twitty, age 59, died near Branson, Mo. in _1993_. Inducted NSHF
/1993/. CMHF /1999/.*
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Nashville's world famous "Bluebird Cafe" celebrated its 21st anniversary in
2001.*
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Gary Allan and Angela Forsythe were married 2001.*
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CMT presented the 32nd Annual Fan Fair, in downtown Nashville, June 5th through
June 8th, _2003_. Beginning in /2004/ this event was
renamed the CMA Music Festival.*
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Dwight Yoakam, honored with a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.*
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Tracy Lawrence's Homecoming Weekend Concert was held in his hometown of Foreman,
AR _2004_. Also appearing on the show were Rhett Atkins, David Kersh,
Daryle Singletary and Chad Brock.*
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Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html*>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock*
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Man, looks like the dry spell is over. We got a good soaker yesterday, and now,
this morning looking at the week weather forecast...thunderstorms are predicted
every day for the next week. Then I went to Springfield, Missouri weather, where
we will be going for Sam and Vickie's daughter's Wedding, and the same thing.
So, the outdoor wedding may be under umbrellas. Shoot, that ain't no hill for a
stepper...I've had my parade rained on plenty of times, you just keep on
a'marching. I've done outdooor concerts where it rained on you...and when you
got close to the mike, fire shot out and the shock put a kink in your
tail.*
Anyway, right now it is a beautiful morning in Tennessee, hope you are up and
about and having a good morning, wherever you might be. After some of the dry
spells we have had in the past few years, we'll take the rain whenever it falls
and be glad of it. It ain't the weather anyway, it is your attitude, that will
allow you to "Keep On The Sunnyside Of Life", as the Original Carter Family used
to sing. *
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*Stan Hitchcock*
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. *
* Hebrews 10:35 (NIV)*
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