COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday April 20th, 2017
Email: djdclassics@gmail.com
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Several country music hits were not originally written or intended for country
music but still wound up in country. Hank Williams hit "Love Sick Blues" was one
of those tunes !
Hank sang the song for his debut of the Grand Old Opry in 1949 - but the song
had actually been written half a century earlier in Tim Pan Alley by Cliff
Friend and Irving
Mills - although a lot of country fans still think the song was crafted by
Williams.
Hank's MGM recording of "Lovesick Blues" came on the country charts March 5th,
1949 and made it to number one where it stuck for sixteen weeks. It was his 5th
charted song and was on the charts for forty two weeks.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Have you heard anything about a new Glen Campbell album? My daughter says
it was mentioned on TV.
A: A new Glen Campbell album - titled "Adiós," is set for release on June 9th.
The album was reportedly recorded in Nashville soon after Campbell's diagnosis
with Alzheimer's and his subsequent Goodbye Tour.
Q: Have you heard anymore about the new Reba McEntire TV show?
A: The TV drama will be titled "Red Blooded" — and is a "Southern Gothic soap
opera." McEntire will play Ruby Adair, a sheriff in small-town Kentucky who has
her views challenged and starts to see the world differently after a young FBI
agent of Middle Eastern descent enters the picture to help with a case.
Q: The radio guys were talking about a Willie Nelson "Dog Years" movie. What
is that?
A: Willie Nelson's new song, "To Get Here," is in the movie "Dog Years."
The movie is expected to make its debut during the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival,
on April 22nd.
Q: I've heard that Loretta Lynn is recording a new album. Do you have any
information?
A: Loretta Lynn's new project, "Wouldn't It Be Great," is set for August 18th
release. The song were recorded at the Cash Cabin Studio in Hendersonville,
Tenn., and
produced by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash's son, John Carter Cash, and
Lynn's daughter, Patsy Lynn Russell — "Wouldn't It Be Great" features all songs
written or
co-written by Lynn.
Q: I heard on the radio that Johnny Cash's guitar player passed away. Do you
have any info?
A: Johnny Cash's guitar player for nearly three decades - 75 year old Robert
"Bob" Clifton Wooton passed away April 9th. He was a part of Cash's band from
September
1968 until Cash's retirement in 1997.
Q: According to my son - one of the Alabama group is seriously ill. Do you
have any details?
A: Alabama's guitarist and fiddle player Jeff Cook has revealed that he has
Parkinson's disease. Cook was reportedly diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
about four
years ago. Parkinson's disease is a chronic and progressive movement disorder
that affects nearly 1 million people in the United States and for which there is
no known
cure, only treatment options to manage the disease's symptoms, which include
tremors, impaired balance and coordination, body stiffness and slowed movements.
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NUMBER ONES ON THIS DATE
1950
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Hank Williams
1958
Oh Lonesome Me - Don Gibson
1966
I Want to Go with You - Eddy Arnold
1974
A Very Special Love Song - Charlie Rich
1982
The Clown - Conway Twitty
1990
Five Minutes - Lorrie Morgan
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Courtesy: Bill Morrison.
1910 - Van Buren "Red" Anglin 1910~1975, singer, member of the Anglin Brothers,
born in Franklin, Tennessee.
1922 - Hylo Brown 1922~2003, Bluegrass, vocals born ŒFrank Brown' in River,
Kentucky.
1929 - The Dixie Serenading Band mad their first, and last appearance on the
Grand Ole Opry.
1939 - Johnny Tillotson born Jacksonville, Florida.
1944 - Doyle Lawson, mandolin, vocalist, Traditional Bluegrass, Country Gospel,
born in Ford Town, Tennessee. Doyle founded "Quicksilver" in 1979.
1950 - Hank Williams topped the charts with "Long Gone Lonesome Blues."
1957 - Cadence Records released The Everly Brothers debut single "Bye Bye Love."
The song was written by husband & wife team Boudleaux & Felice Bryant, and it
became Don and Phil's first chart record, first #1 hit, first Gold record, and
was named a Grammy Hall of Fame recording in 1998. The Everly Brothers became
members of
the Grand Ole Opry in 1957.
1957 - Steve Kaufman, master guitarist, born New York City.
1958 - Don Gibson' s self-penned MGM single "Oh Lonesome Me" topped the charts,
and remained at #1 for two months.
1959 - Dolly Parton, age 13, released her first single "Puppy Love."
1966 - Eddy Arnold topped the charts with "I Want To Go With You."
1966 - Wanda Jackson recorded "Acting Like My Old Self Again."
1968 - Ernest Tubbs' Decca album "Ernest Tubb Sings Hank Williams" charted
today.
1974 - Mickey Gilley' s Playboy Records single "Room Full Of Roses" charted and
became his first #1 record.
1977 - Glen Campbell' s Capitol Records single "Southern Nights" was certified
Gold.
1985 - The Grand Ole Opry was shown on TNN for the first time.
1988 - The Johnny Cash Show toured Germany from the 20th through the 28th.
1988 - Reba McEntire's MCA album "The Last One to Know" was certified Gold.
1990 - The Kentucky Headhunters' Mercury album "Pickin' on Nashville" was
certified Gold.
Courtesy: <http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalendar.html>
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A STRING OF COINCIDENCES.
By: Jack Blanchard
Misty and I were both born in the Millard Fillmore Hospital,
in Buffalo New York, in different years.
We both had blue eyes and brown hair,
parents named John and Mary,
and we each had a sister named Virginia and called "Ginny".
We both played piano and sang in clubs in Western New York.
sometimes with the same musicians, but we never met.
We were both married to other people when we were young,
and lived for a while in Southern Ohio.
We finally got together in the Miami, Florida area,
and worked in music there.
We were married by a Justice of the Peace in Kingsland, Georgia,
on the way to a gig,
and lived reasonably happily ever after.
TIME QUAKE.
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.
OLD SONGS.
Mrs. Miller is singing the OLD SONGS
With the nurses at afternoon games.
She remembers the words to the OLD SONGS,
But forgotten her family's names.
The past is just over her shoulder
And the music can turn back the years.
Old times flicker by at the corner of her eye
When the OLD SONGS ring in her ears.
So bring up the band and give them a hand.
While we can, let's all sing along
And maybe we'll find lost love in the memories
That live in the heart of OLD SONGS!
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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View From The Front Porch-Stan Hitchcock
If your Life was a song…how would you sing it? Would it be a lively bluegrass
romping stomping up tempo happy song? Or would it be a cry in your beer, broken
hearted
tearjerker like the songs that the barflies used to play on the Jukejoint
jukeboxes
.
Most folks would say…aww…a little bit of both I reckon. Ya'know, it's a funny
thing about songs…no matter what the content of the lyrics might be…a singer can
choose
to change the tempo and delivery, and make a sad song happy, or a happy song
sad…it's all in the singers attitude.
Life is kinda like that also, I guess. It's a glass half full…glass half empty
kind of thing. Attitude. Yeah, I've sung my share of heartbroke songs…and
written more than I
can remember…but, I learned early on…if you want to get the crowd moving and
shakin' and happy…you gotta hit that old guitar with a rhythm that kicks it up a
notch…
get that drummer whoppin' them skins…walk that bass, man…guitar man give me a
lick that wakes the joint up…let's move these folks that paid their money to see
a Show!
If your Life was a song….how would you sing it?
stan
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can
be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how
will he
not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any
charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is
the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was
raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
–
Romans 8:31-34 (NIV
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