COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday June 14th, 2012
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
According to Linda Hargrove, she was discovered by steel guitar picker and record producer Pete Drake during a 1971 recording session for Sandy Posey.
Linda was playing guitar on that session, in which Sandy Posey recorded one of Linda's songs.
Drake later signed Linda to write for his publishing company, and that started her on a list of hit songs, including "Olivia Newton-John's "Let it Shine," George Jones' "Tennessee Whiskey," and her first number one, "Just Get Up And Close The Door" for Johnny Rodriguez.
According to Rodriguez, he caught Linda Hargrove just at the right time in her song-writing career.
Johnny commented, "Linda was writing songs for Pete Drake and working in the control room of his studio at that time. She was just getting things going about that time and wrote "Just Get Up And Close The Door." I was lucky to get that song first – thanks to my producer Jerry Kennedy – and we had a number one record on it."
Rodriguez' Mercury single "Just Get Up And Close The Door" entered the country music charts May 24th, 1975 and was at the top of the charts on August 2nd.
It was his 9th charted song and his 5th number one.
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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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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I remember hearing a song on the radio years ago about "Laura-What's He Got That I Ain't Got?" Do you know who had that record?
A: Leon Ashley, Claude King, Marty Robbins and Kenny Rogers each scored chart records with "Laura."
Q: The Johnny Cash song "I Still Miss Someone" is one of my favorites. When was that song a hit?
A: "I Still Miss Someone" was not a hit. It was the flipside of Cash's 1959 number one, "Don't Take Your Guns To Town."
Q: I remember a song on the radio years ago by Vern Gosdin about "I Know The Way to Your Heart." Do you know who wrote that song?
A: I think the song you're referring to was "I Know The Way To You By Heart," which scored a # 35 for Vern Gosdin in 1985. The song was written by Tony Laiolo.
Q: Do you know who had the record of "Honey I'm Home" several years back?
A: "Honey I'm Home" scored a # 17 in 1969 for Stan Hitchcock.
Q: Buck Owens once had a steel player named Doyle Holly, who also sang on Buck's shows.
Do you know what happened to him?
A: Doyle Holly (real name: Doyle Hendricks) died in 2007 at the age of 70.
Q: There was a girl singer who had a record several years ago about "Crying All The Way To The Bank." Do you know her name?
A: Norma Jean scored a # 21 hit in 1965 with "I Cried All The Way To The Bank."
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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:
1949
One Kiss Too Many - Eddy Arnold
1957
Four Walls - Jim Reeves
1965
What's He Doing in My World - Eddy Arnold
1973
You Always Come Back (To Hurting Me) - Johnny Rodriguez
1981
What are We Doin' in Love - Dottie West with Kenny Rogers
1989
Better Man - Clint Black
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SOME NEW AND OLD NEWS
By: Jack Blanchard
A couple of weeks ago we recorded a new album of original songs.
The musicians, backup singers, and engineer
were as creative and professional as any we've ever recorded with. And it was done in Jacksonville, Florida.
We're going back in a week or so to overdub some vocal spots.
It's exciting to feel back in the game, after all this time.
I read that Facebook will just shut down in July.
Just disappear. I don't believe it. But if it happens to be true,
millions of people will be staggering around with a blank look, bumping into trees.
I hope not. I've invested several years in our Facebook page.
I'll have to get a paper route.
Do they still have paper routes?
When I was a kid we didn't have fast food.
We just had slow food.
No video games or computers or Ethanol or lifestyles.
We were lucky to have rocks.
Somehow I came through it unscathed.
Well, maybe a little scathed.
People are swallowing pure cinnamon
just to show they can stand it.
It could get rid of a number of dumb people.
Why not just take them up on the roof of a building,
give them a cape, and tell them they can fly.
Mayor Bloomberg of New York City put a ban
on sugary soft drinks over 16 ounces.
The New Yorkers were on the streets,
angry , grumbling, and shaking their fists.
And THEN they heard about the ban.
My aunt once posed nude for a world famous photographer.
But he never looked up from his newspaper,
and she was barred for life from the lobby of the Biltmore Hotel.
Head for the roundhouse.
They can't corner you there.
Jack Blanchard
The Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan Home Page: http://jackandmisty.com
Restoration and mastering studio: 407 330 1611.
CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/jackmisty
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
compiled by Bill Morrison
Burl Ives born Newton, IL 1909.
George Carlisle born 1911.
Lester Flatt born Overton County, TN 1914.
Fiddlin John Carson recorded his first record in Atlanta, for Okeh Records 1923.
Tex Ritter married Dorothy Fay Southworth, 1941.
Janie Black, recording artist, born 1944.
Hank Williams released "Move It On Over," 1947.
Hank Williams recorded "Honky Tonk Blues," 1950.
Patsy Cline was seriously injured in a car wreck on a Nashville street in 1961. Patsy went through the windshield and received a dislocated hip, broken wrist, and serious lacerations on her face, and cracked ribs. Patsy was unable to sing for the next eight months.
Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman, age 75, of the "Stoneman Family" died in Nashville 1968.
Johnny Rodriquez went to #1 with "You Always Come Back" 1973.
Alabama's debut album "My Home's In Alabama," charted 1980.
Bob Rolontz, age 79, record executive, originator of the platinum record, died 2000.
Willie Nelson and Dolly Parton inducted into the National Academy of Popular Music, Songwriters Hall of Fame, in New York City in 2001.
The Charlie Daniels Museum debuted in downtown Nashville, 2001.
Josh Turner and Jennifer Ford were married in 2003.
Little Jimmy Dickens interrupted Trace Adkins while he was performing on the Grand Ole Opry in 2003. Jimmy asked Trace if he would like to become a member of the Opry, Trace, tearfully said of course I would, and Jimmy said, "Come back on August 23, 2003 and you'll be inducted as a member."
Courtesy Bill Morrison: http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html
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In response to many requests, YES I am on Facebook and you are welcome to become a friend—UNLESS you are one of those that posts photos of your grandkids or your pet cat every other day. I don't have the time or interest for that. SO—if that's what you do on Facebook.. just forget me !
I'm the Doug Davis with the photos of the guitars.
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Timin' has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
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