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COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday July 17th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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Most singers are totally sold on the songs they record but according to Mickey
Gilley - his 1980 number one "That's All That Matters" was the exception.
Gilley commented "At that time I just wasn't sure that I could sing that song
but my producer Jim Ed Norman insisted that I could and so I did. But now I
think it was one of my better records."
The song was written by Hank Cochran and had previously scored a number 34 hit
for Ray Price in 1964.
Mickey Gilley's Epic Records single "That's All That Matters To Me" entered the
country music charts October 16th, 1980 and made it to the top of the list on
December 20th.
It was his 23rd charted song and his 10th number one.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Do you have any information concerning Loretta Lynn receiving some kind of
new award? My daughter says she heard it on the radio.
A: Loretta Lynn will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for
Songwriting at the 13th Annual Americana Honors and Awards ceremony September
17th at the Ryman Auditorium.
Q: I heard that John Anderson was going into the Hall Of Fame. Don't you think
there are many others who should be inducted before him?
A: John Anderson is scheduled for induction into The Nashville Songwriters's
Hall Fame in October - NOT - The Country Music Hall Of Fame.
Q: I heard something about a Hank Snow postage stamp. Do you have any
information?
A: Hank Snow is being honored with a Canadian postage stamp.
Q: The old song So Round - So Firm - So Fully Packed" is my dad's all-time
favorite. He has mentioned hearing Ricky Skaggs sing it on the radio. I have
tried to find it at several music stores. DId Skaggs record that song?
A: The tune is a track in Ricky Skaggs' 1981 "Waitin' For The Light To
Shine" album.
Q: My mom has some old 78 rpm records by a guy named Jimmy Wakely. She says he
was a big name many years ago. Is that true?
A: Wakely placed 23 songs on the country music charts - including three
number ones - between 1944 and 1951. He was a regular on The Gene Autry Melody
Ranch Radio Show in the early 1940's and starred in several western movies. He
died in 1982 at age 68.
Q: I thought the song "Sweet Dreams" was a hit by Faron Young but my dad says
it was a Don Gibson hit. Which is correct?
A: "Sweet Dreams" was a hit for Faron Young, Don Gibson, Patsy Cline, Emmylou
Harris, Troy Seals and Reba McIntire.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1950*
/Mississippi/ - Red Foley *
*1958*
/Guess Things Happen that Way/ - Johnny Cash *
*1966*
/Think of Me/ - Buck Owens *
*1974*
/He Thinks I Still Care/ - Anne Murray *
*1982*
/Youre Gone/* - Barbara Mandrell *
*1990*
/The Dance/ - Garth Brooks*
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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
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AVAILABLE TO INTERNET STATIONS)
The feature is available at *no charge*.*
For information, email me at
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A NEW COLUMN TO MAKE YOU SMILE.*
By: Jack Blanchard
On one of the all-star shows we did on the road...
Kenny Price came on stage wearing bright purple bib overalls
and said this to the audience:
"I know. I look like a 500 pound grape."
Dolly Parton was asked: "How long does it take to get your hair like that?
She said: "I don't know. I'm never there when It's being done."
When Dolly was asked if they were "real or fake",
She replied, "Of course they are fake!
You don't think fingernails just grow like this, do you ?"
I saw a Charles Schwab commercial today.
They want to manage my wealth.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha!
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life,
unless I buy something.
On CNN they showed a soccer player make an impossible goal.
The announcer said,
"It's like they're threading a needle with their feet."
Misty said, "I'd rather see that."
In the past week I've been to five doctors' offices...
Internist, pulmonary, X-ray office, and today a heart doctor.
I aced every test. I'm perfectly healthy! Didn't need a stress test.
So Misty and I went dining & dancing at MacDonald's.
A few minutes ago, I was sitting in a Lazy-Boy chair after a walk.
Misty was talking to me from over the kitchen bar,
her red glasses on top of her head, and she was smiling.
At that moment she looked to me exactly as she did in her twenties.
A time quake.
Misty just said this while watching the news,
"They can now fire you if you're trisexual."
I didn't ask any questions.
Most of our neighbors have gone north for the summer.
Even the cows across the fence seem to have left town.
But it is beautiful here...
everything you could want in a cemetery.
Looking forward to the gang coming back.
Too much serenity can drive you nuts.
Paraphrasing Will Rogers...
"The job of congress
is to wait and see what the president wants
so they know what to vote against."
In my Facebook "Settings" it says, "Who can see your stuff?"
Nobody, I hope.
"A doctor tells a guy: 'I have bad news.
You have Alzheimer's, and you have cancer.'
Guy says, 'Thank God I don't have cancer.'"
If you had a theme song
that played every time you walked into a room what would it be?
My song is "I Feel Pretty"
SHOCKING STATISTICS...
49% of the people are below average!
Almost time to floss the cat and go to bed.
Jack Blanchard
*http:// - http:///www.jackandmisty.net - http://www.jackandmisty.net
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T*ODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY*
compiled by Bill Morrison*
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Red Sovine born Charleston, WV 1918.
Harry Choates, age 29, Cajun fiddler/songwriter, died in jail 1951.
Nicolette Larson, recording artist, born Helena, MT 1952.
The Ozark Jubilee debuted on radio 1954.
Eddy Arnold released "Hep Cat Baby,"/"This Is The Thanks I Get,"
1954.
Joe Dowell's #1 hit "Wooden Heart" debuted on the charts 1961.
Waylon Jennings released "Another Blue Day," on the TREND label
1961.
George York, age 64, of "The York Brothers" died 1974.
Don Rich, age 33, of the "Buckaroos" died in a motorcycle accident in California
1974.
George Cooper Jr., president Nashville Local 257 (1937-1973,) died in Nashville,
1974.
Wynn Stewart, age 51, died from a heart attack in Hendersonville, TN
1985.
Alan Jackson's "Chattahoochee" went to #1 1993.
Billy Currington debuted on the CBS /Early Show/ 2004.
Linda Ronstadt was fired, and removed from the Aladdin Resort & Casino in Las
Vegas, by security guards _2004_. Prior to the incident Ronstadt
angered guests of the Casino by praising Michael Moore and his Fahrenheit 9/11
movie.
The Grand Ole Opry celebrated "Dukes of Hazzard" Night _2004_.
Catherine Bock a.k.a. Daisy Duke, Sonny Shroyer a.k.a. Deputy Enos Strate, Rick
Hurst a.k.a. Cletus Hogg, and Ben Jones who played Cooter Davenport appeared on
stage at the Opry House.
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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This time of morning, right before the dawn, is my time of day. Its when I feel
the strongest, the most positiveand it has always been that way. Getting up
before dawn to go do the chores and take care of the farm animals at our farm in
the Ozarks growing up, standing on the deck of my Ship in the Navy, as the dawn
brightened up the Pacific Ocean, and I watched a school of Flying Fish sailing
over the wake of the ship, or getting up to fix breakfast for the Boys Ranch
boys before school, all early morning memories.
However, the most memorable of all those times was in the 60s, getting up at
three oclock of a morning to drive to the television station in Nashville, where
we would go on the air, five days a week, live at 6 oclock with our morning show
with Eddie Hill and Country Junction. The reason that is such a memory, is the
time of our lives that the show represented. All the members of the show, except
for Eddie Hill and Lightnin Chance, were in the late twenties or early thirties,
including all the television technicians and crew that made the show possible.
We were all living in a dream time and didnt even know it, I guess. First of
alllook at the musicians that were involved: Pete Wade and Jimmy Capps on
electric guitar, Hal Rugg on steel guitar, Willie Ackerman on drums, David Reece
on Piano and vocal and comedy, and of course, the bandleader, the legendary
Lightnin Chance on his big stand up bass. I played rhythm on my big Jumbo J-200
Gibson and sang my little songs. We did the show like this from 1964 to about
1968, when Eddie Hill had a stroke and we stopped doing the show. On any
morning, the guest list would look like todays Whos Who, but then most of them
were just getting started. A morning guest might be a young and beautiful Dolly,
18 and trying to get her foot in the door, Tammy Lynette, when she had maybe one
record out, Sammi Smith, just arriving in town, Roger Miller, still going after
being up all night, or maybe Chill Wills would come by when he was in town, or
Louis LAmour to talk about one of his adventuresor Merle Travis, with Jimmy
Capps and myself playing beside him doing some of his incredible thumb pickin.
Or, sitting on a stool, singing Early Morning Rain, and Hal Rugg, crawling on
the concrete floor of the studio with a cup of ice water, coming up on me, as I
was singing, heartfelt with my eyes closed, and throwing the ice water in my
facea shocker for live television. Luckily I did not come out with some loud
expletive, as the band all fell out laughing and whoopingand I blubbered a
moment and then finished the song, water dripping off my chin. Hal Rugg would
rather come up with a practical joke than to hit a nice note on his steelhe was
one funny picker and I loved him and the rest of the crew, that spent a couple
hours together each morning and then all went to breakfast. We were a band of
music brothers in a special time of music.
In those early 60s, Channel 5, where we worked and Channel 4, where Ralph Emery
was the Host, were going neck to neck in the Morning Show ratings. Guests would
go from one Show to the other, and we were all friends and just having a heck of
a time. A whole generation of kids grew up, watching the show as they got ready
for school.
We were a band of music brothers, living in a time when great music was being
made and artists were creating careers that would make them heroes in years to
come. Today, Jimmy Capps, Pete Wade and I are the survivors of that crew that
made mornings just a little bit better for a lot of people. The Rest have all
gone Home, but they left behind a legacy of touching people with their
personalities and their music. I missem all this morning. *
*Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our
salvation in time of distress. *
* Isaiah 33:2 (NIV*
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