COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday August 28th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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Some artists have been in love with the songs they recorded while others have
totally disliked the recorded material.
According to Charly McClain - her 1981 number one - "Who's Cheatin' Who" was one
of the latter.
She commented: "Larry Rogers brought that song to me and when he first played it
for me - I didn't like it. I thought the song was kind of corny. But Larry -
who was my record producer - thought the song was a hit. We recorded the song on
a rainy day and I kept my raincoat on the whole time. Of course it was my first
number one record so I stopped trying to figure out what was a hit and what was
not."
Charly McClain's Epic Records single "Who's Cheatin' Who" came on the country
charts November 29th, 1980 and was in the top slot on February 14th, 1981.
It was her 14th charted song and on the charts for 17 weeks.
The song was written by Jerry Hayes. The single was produced by Larry
Rogers.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: The radio guys were talking about a set of drums at the Johnny Cash museum.
Do you have any information?
A: The drum set used by W. S. Holland, Johnny Cash's drummer, is now on
display at The Johnny Cash Museum in Nashville. The four piece set was the first
full drum set to appear on the stage of The Grand Ole Opry and was part of
Cash's "Live At Folsom Prison" and "Live At San Quentin" albums.
Q: Have you heard any news about a George Strait "live" album? I heard about
it on the radio.
A: A 20 track live album recorded during Strait's "Cowboy Rides Away Tour"
finale at AT & T Stadium in Dallas, Texas will be available September 16th.
Q: My daughter tells me that she has heard that Alabama has a new gospel
album. Do you have any info?
A: A deluxe edition of their inspiritational album - "Angels Among Us: Hymns
And Gospel Favorites" will be available exclusively at Cracker Barrel on
September 8th.
Q: I'm searching for information about an Alan Jackson car exhibit at the Hall
Of Fame. Do you know anything about it?
A: It is not a car exhibit but the new Alan Jackson exhibit at The Hall Of
Fame includes the 1955 Ford Thunderbird he bought at age 15. He sold the car to
make the down payment on his first home but his wife Denise tracked the car down
and gave it to Alan for Christmas.
Q: I keep hearing about a Glen Campbell documentary. Do you have any details?
A: The documentary: "Glen Campbell: It'll Be Me" is set for release on October
24th in New York and Nashville. The film was made during his final tour after he
was diagnosed with advanced alzheimer's.
Q: I have heard that The Oak Ridge Boys were doing something at The Texas
Country Music Hall Of Fame. Do you have any info?
A: Lone Star State native Duane Allen was recently inducted into The Texas
Country Music Hall Of Fame and his Oak RIdge co-horts - Joe Bonsall, William Lee
Golden and Richard Sterban were named Honorary Texans at the recent event in
Carthage, Texas.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1947*
/Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)/ - Tex Williams *
*1955*
/I Dont Care/ - Webb Pierce *
*1963*
/Ring of Fire/ - Johnny Cash *
*1971*
/Good Lovin (Makes It Right)/ - Tammy Wynette *
*1979*
/The Devil Went Down to Georgia/ - Charlie Daniels Band *
*1987*
/Why Does It Have to Be (Wrong or Right)/ - Restless Heart*
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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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The feature is available at *no charge*.*
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MURPHY'S LAW IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS.*
By: Jack Blanchard
Our first Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan duet recording
recorded in Nashville, was in 1967.
It included four original songs: "No Sign of Love",
"Midnight Greyhound", "Lonely Bell",
and the main song "Bethlehem Steel".
We produced the session ourselves.
Our plan was to shop it around to labels,
or release it on our own little indie, Zodiac Records.
Tape cassettes were not around then,
so everybody got their demos made on acetate discs,
aluminum discs shaped like 78 RPM singles,
with a black plastic lacquer finish that would wear out
after a limited number of plays.
We were in a studio watching a guy make us a demo of our songs.
I asked him if thought "Bethlehem Steel" would get country airplay.
He was very enthusiastic about my lead vocal:
"Yes! Nobody up here has a voice like that!"
What he didn't know was that I had the flu during the recording session,
and was never able to get that sound again.
In January, 1969...
"Big Black Bird" was released as a Country record,
but Billboard gave it a Top 10 Pick in the Pop field.
We were on the Pick list with Aretha Franklin and other pop artists.
Our small label didn't have pop distribution,
so they made a deal with Mercury to distribute it.
They took so long to close the deal that the record lost its momentum,
and defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory.
I also heard that when our label, Wayside Records,
sent the master to Mercury Records,
they inserted gaps in the music to prevent anybody from stealing it
before negotiations were complete.
When Mercury was ready to distribute it,
they checked the master and found the gaps.
They had to call Wayside and have the real master sent.
There was no internet then, so it was snail mail. Another delay.
But later, this turned out to be a sort of a good thing.
"Bethlehem Steel" got good airplay and chart action for a first record,
but was not a big hit.
The next release on Wayside/ Mercury was "Poor Jody",
and then another, which I can't remember.
Mercury was ready to drop us. There was one release left.
They wanted to put out "Tennessee Bird Walk", and we objected.
We were afraid of getting type cast as a novelty act.
(By the way, it was written as "Tennessee Birdwalk",
but on the label it was printed as "Tennessee Bird Walk",
so it's been "Bird Walk" ever since.
We still write it the original way. We've always been stubborn.)
Looking back,
if "Big Black Bird" had not gotten everybody excited,
Birdwalk would not have been released on a major label.
We got a phone call one day. The voice on the other end said this:
"You'd better get ready to travel.
We're selling 50,000 a day, and just getting started!"
It was being promoted and distributed by Coral Records.
The indie label, Wayside Records, could not have handled it,
so "Big Black Bird" actually paved the way for "Tennessee Birdwalk",
our #1 Country record.*
Jack Blanchard*
*_http://_www.jackandmisty.net* - http://www.jackandmisty.net-UNAS
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T*ODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY*
Compiled by Bill Morrison*
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Billy Grammer, Grand Ole Opry member, born Benton, IL 1925.
Texas Bill Strength, singer/recording artist/DJ, born Bessemer, AL
1928.
Tex Owens wrote and recorded "Cattle Call" _1934_. Inducted NSHF
/1971/.
Gene Autry recorded "Here Comes Santa Clause" 1947.
Brown's Ferry Four recorded "What Shall I Do With Jesus" 1952.
Tex Williams released "This Old House" 1954.
Stringbean left the Opry, and joined the cast of Ramblin' Tommy Scott's Show,
1954.
Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper recorded "There's A Big Wheel" 1959.
Roy Acuff appeared in Las Vegas, for the first time 1960.
Shania Twain "Eileen Edwards" born Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1965.
Buck Owens recorded "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone" 1967.
Tammy Wynette recorded "Stand By Your Man," 1968. The song went to the top of
the charts, and became Tammy's fifth #1.
Sherrie Austin, singer/songwriter, born Ownsville, Queensland, Australia
1970.
Capitol Records released Buck Owens' single "You Ain't Gonna Have Ol' Buck To
Kick Around No More" 1972.
Sydney M. Kaye, BMI executive died 1979.
LeAnn Rimes, born Jackson, MS 1982.
George Strait's "Fool Hearted Memory," became his first #1 1982.
Abe Hamza promoter, died 1987.
Bob Boatman, director of Hee Haw, died 1989.
MCA released Joe Ely's "Letter to Laredo" 1995.
Kenny Chesney's #1 hit "You Had Me From Hello" charted 1999.
MTV awarded Johnny Cash's video "Hurt" the award for Best Cinematography
2003.
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Courtesy Bill Morrison:
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock*
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*58 degrees and dead calm this morning. It was a good night of sleeping
with the windows open and the cool night air filling the old farm house. The
birds seem to appreciate the cool weather, as the Robins go about searching for
the proverbial "Early Worm", and the other birds creating a noisy background
music as they search the front yard. Old Buck The Collie is enjoying his
breakfast on the porch, so busy he does not even notice the two deer grazing in
the bottom field on the clover that grows there. *
*Our early mornings are tranquil and a pleasant way to start each new day.
I have learned not to turn on the news first thing every morning like I used to,
because the World seems like it has gone crazy...I find myself shouting at the
television set when I do watch the news, and see the terrorists go about their
killing and destroying, and hear our politicians say "Oh, we can't get
involved...no boots on the ground" as Christians and other religious minorities
are hunted down like animals for extermination. It seems America has become the
"scared little kid" that the Bullies push around...the "we can't get involved
gang in Washington" has pretty well destroyed all the respect that our Country
had enjoyed, Worldwide, since we threw off the British shackles and become the
United States Of America. So, the Politicians go on another Vacation while the
World boils over, and Ferguson, Missouri turns into a war zone. *
*But, here on the Front Porch, the coffee is good, the air is cool and this
little square of land that is ours is at peace. How I wish that what we have
here could spread to the whole World and that the Persecuted, the Oppressed, the
Sick and the Hungry could find a moment of relief in a little patch of dirt in
Sumner County, Tennessee...where the birds sing, unafraid of a morning, the deer
craze contentedly and the creek chuckles on down to the Cumberland. *
*Stan Hitchcock*
www.hitchcockcountry.com* -
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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The eunuch asked Philip, Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about,
himself or someone else? Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture
and told him the good news about Jesus. *
* Acts 8:34-35 (NIV)*
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