COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday October 24th, 2013
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My thanks to everyone for the emails concerning the newsletter. I have not sent
one out in a few weeks - because I suffered a stroke the night of September
18th. After four days in ICU four more in a private room and two weeks in ReHab
Hospital - I am now home and slowly getting back into the swing of things. I
hope to be able to continue writing the newsletter each week.*
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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According to songwriter Jim Weatherly, he always tried to write songs when he
visited his mother in Mississippi.*
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Jim commented, Home was just a good place to write. I just seemed to be able to
clear my head and write. And one day I was just sitting in my room, and looking
around for anything that might spark an idea for a song or something that might
help me lock into an idea. And I noticed the curtains, the pictures, the chest
of drawers all those things that you could get rid of but you could never really
get rid of a memory. And thats where Charley Prides 1979 number one, Where Do I
Put Her Memory came from.*
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According to RCA Victor Records, the song was never intended to be released as a
single but became one when Pride was not satisfied with the songs he had just
recorded at the time.*
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Where Do I Put Her Memory came on the country charts February 24th, 1979 and was
at the top of the charts on April 28th.*
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The session was produced by Pride and Jerry Bradley.*
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It was Charleys 38th charted song and was on the charts for 15 weeks.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Do you remember a song by a girl singer several years back about Ill Come
Runnin?
A: Connie Smith wrote the song and scored a number 10 hit on it in 1967.
Q: My brother has a tape of a Buck Owens song recorded from the radio years
ago and Buck is singing Loose Talk with a girl singer. I know he recorded with
Susan Raye but it doesnt sound like her. Is that Susan Raye on that record?
A: Loose Talk was a number 4 hit in 1961 for Buck Owens and Rose Maddox. The
duo charted four songs from 1961 thru 1963 before Buck began recording with
Susan Raye.
Q: My wife says she remembers hearing Jim Reeves singing the old song Scarlet
Ribbons on the radio. I cant find a radio station or music store that knows
anything about it. Do you know?
A: Jims version of Scarlet Ribbons was in his 1966 Yours Sincerely, Jim Reeves
album.
Q: Do you know if Conway Twitty ever recorded the Merle Haggard song Mama
Tried? A friend of mine says he heard on the radio years ago.
A: The Conway Twitty version of Mama Tried was in his 1968 Next In Line album.
Q: The Don Williams song I Wouldnt Want To Live If You Didnt Love Me is my
wifes favorite song. Do you know who wrote it?
A: The Don Williams 1974 number one was written by Al Turney
Q: I love the old Hank Thompson tune Wild Side Of Life. How many singers had
hit records on that song?
A: Wild Side Of Life was a hit for Hank Thompson, Burl Ives/Grady Martin,
Freddy Fender, Maury Finney, Rayburn Anthony/Kitty Wells, and Waylon
Jennings/Jessi Colter.
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Your comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. concerning this newsletter---are
welcome. Email *to: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com*
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1948*
/Just a Little Lovin (Will Go a Long, Long Way)/ - Eddy Arnold *
*1956*
/Hound Dog/Dont Be Cruel/ - Elvis Presley *
*1964*
/I Dont Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)/ - Buck Owens *
*1972*
/Funny Face/ - Donna Fargo *
*1980*
/I Believe in You/ - Don Williams *
*1988*
/Gonna Take a Lot of River/ - The Oak Ridge Boys *
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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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GRAB A LITTLE HAPPINESS.*
By: Jack Blanchard
A friend gave us a box of Krispy Kreme chocolate cream donuts last night.
I'm glad they're gone!
In downtown Sanford traffic stops for ducks to cross the street.
In Florida our idea of a nice day
is when the lightning strikes somebody else.
I admire Dr Phil but I don't have a TV show.
I just sit in the park and yell advice at squirrels.
We've been fired for reasons like this:
Youre not what our crowd is used to.
Why did they ever change bands,
if they wanted them all alike?
When I took flying lessons...
The air traffic controller said this over the radio:
"Jack Blanchard is taking off. Everybody get out of the sky."
When life goes really bad
and you don't know how to fix it,
the answer is eggnog ice cream.
Misty just bought two because they were on sale.
Grab a little happiness while you can.
My parents, grandparents, my son, my sister, friends,
all show up nightly in my dreams,
just as naturally as though nothing had happened.
Just as though they hadn't died.
When my father died,
I kept seeing men who looked like him for several years.
A car would be ahead of me in traffic,
and I'd see the back of the driver's head.
It was him! I'd hurry to catch up and it was just a stranger. Or was it?
Maybe it was my dad for the minute before I caught up.
Sometimes I get excited and cut people off
in order to talk about me,
and I see them glance at their watch.
Apparently, to others,
my life isn't the adventure I think it is.
I hate it when Misty watches the news.
She keeps hollering things like, "GET OFF, YOU IDIOT!"
Chicken Little ran up to the Mayor and shouted,
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!"
The Mayor said, "Holy crap! A talking chicken!"
In this new radio interview I tell about the murder on music row,
another murder close to home,
the day that country music changed,
the story behind Tennessee Birdwalk, Roger Miller, Harlan Howard,
George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Jack Greens & Jeannie Sealy,
recording sessions, the Opry,
and why the music business is like dope addiction.
Click here to listen to it: http://tinyurl.com/nwdr7jb
Misty says I talk in my sleep in a German accent.
Let's all sing our Halloween song:
"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd Have Baked a Cat."
*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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Frank Walker music entertainment executive, born Fly Summit, NY
1889.
J. P. Richardson, "The Big Bopper," born Sabine Pass, TX 1930.
Whitey Shafer, master songwriter, born Whitney, TX 1934.
Glen Glenn, "Glen Troutman," born Joplin, MO _1934_. Inducted
RHOF.
Sanford Clark, singer/songwriter/guitarist, born Tulsa, OK 1935.
Mark Gray, singer/songwriter/musician, born Vicksburg, MS 1952.
Webb Pierce's "There Stands The Glass," charted 1953.
Billy Thomas "McBride & The Ride," born Ft. Myers, FL 1953.
Tom T. Hall & Patti Page recorded "Hello, We're Lonely" 1972.
Kirk McGee, age 83, died Franklin, TN 1983.
Gene Sullivan, age 69, of "Wiley & Gene" died 1984.
The Gaylord Entertainment Company came to Nashville, TN _1991_.
Traditional Country Music, was immediately exposed to a fatal disease, and
slowly died a painful death.
Clay Walker and wife Lori married in 1992.
Chess Records released Dale Hawkins Rockabilly album "Oh Suzy Q"
1995.
The Oklahoma Music Hall Of Fame inducted Roy Clark, Wanda Jackson, and Jim
Halsley, in 2000.
Razor & Tie released "The Best of Mac Davis" 2000.
Bryan White and wife Erika debuted as parents, when Justin Daniel arrived
2003.
Rosey Nix Adams, age 45, daughter of June Carter Cash, was found dead, along
with Jimmy Campbell, in a converted School Bus _2003_. Cause of death
was carbon monoxide poisoning.
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Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html*>
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View From The Front Porch*-*
Stan Hitchcock *
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*Woke up this morning with the wind howling outside, as a cold front
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moves into Middle Tennessee. It blew like that until about 6AM and then quit
and now is dead calm. A Freeze warning is in effect for our area tomorrow and
Friday as temps go down to 30 in Gallatin, and about 28 here on the creek.
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Remember how, when you were young, you used to long for the first snow of the
Winter? Well, it don't get me quite as excited as it used to...no, not by a long
shot....*
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December 1st, 1946, Route 1, Pleasant Hope, Missouri. *
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Grandmas rooster crowed again, waking me up after a night of sleeping deep in
the feather bed covered with blankets and a comforter that kept the heavy chill
away during the cold night in the Ozarks. The old farm house where Grandma and
Grandpa lived was originally a two room log cabin, but through the years it had
been covered with lap siding, extra rooms added and modernized in some small
way, but still pretty crude and rough. The only heat was from the big wood stove
in the living room, with some help from the wood cook stove in the kitchen.
Still, the bedroom where I had burrowed into the feather bed was so cold that
frost was on the inside of the windows. I had stayed the night with Grandma and
Grandpa, as I did frequently in my young years, just wanting to be around these
people who I loved and soak up the feeling of family. *
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Sleeping in your long johns in the winter cold was a matter of survival, at
Grandma's house, adding heavy wool socks for that extra edge, so I jumped out of
bed and into my clothes as quickly as I could, heading for the kitchen and the
smell of breakfast cooking on the wood cook stove. Grandpa was sitting at the
table in the kitchen, saucering his coffee, that is pouring a little hot coffee
from his cup into his saucer, holding it up and blowing on it a little and then
sipping the black liquid, smacking his lips and putting the saucer back down on
the table. This style of drinking coffee has passed with a lot of other customs
of that generation, but it seemed to be in common use in our part of the Ozarks.
Grandma had made biscuits, sausage gravy from the home made sausage they made
every year from the young hog they would raise and have a hog killing with every
late Fall when it got cold enough, scrambled eggs from her laying hens and hot
cocoa from the milk they got every morning from the milk cow up at the barn. She
was a master chef on her old iron cook stove, stoked by small split oak logs and
kindling that it was my job, as a 10 year old grandson, to split up and bring in
to the wood box sitting behind the stove. *
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I loved the warmth and companionship of their kitchen, Grandpa listening to the
early morning news and farm market reports with his coffee, Grandma busy at the
stove and me just soaking it up. Life was good for a 10 year old boy in
1946.*
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The kitchen in this old house was always the warmest spot in Winter and this
room was more the family room than the living room was. On the weekends, the
grown kids would come in to visit and they would sit at this table and play
Pitch by the hour, all the while listening to Grandmas little radio, sitting on
the kitchen counter, tuned to WSMs Grand Ole Opry. This radio, and the old
upright piano in the living room, comprised the entire outside entertainment
available in this house. The rest of the entertainment was home made. Pitch was
played, along with other card games.but, this was the era when people did a very
unusual thing.it was called conversation. I would sit and listen to the talk
about Roosevelt and Truman (Grandpa was a die hard Democrat) as it got lively on
a Saturday, over a game of cards., My Aunts and Uncles and Parents, some of them
just back from the World War, or working in Defense jobs were developing
differing views of the Political scene in America. This War was the turning
point for enlightenment of the many farm boys who came back, educated by the
horror that many witnessed, of mans inhumanity to man. Uncle Don came back from
the South Pacific Islands where he had crawled into caves and tunnels, in the
Jungle, to drive out the Jap soldiers who were hiding there, fighting hand to
hand combat in the dark of the tunnels.and the horror of the experience never
left him, I dont believe. He would never talk about his time in the Jungles, but
he suffered from bad nerves the rest of his life. *
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Times were so different in these growing up years, but the challenges of life
were just as real, whether you were seeing life through a coal oil lamp or
todays curly Q light bulbs (that seem to give out about the same amount of
light). Every generation has to face their own demons, find the strength to
follow opportunities, and secure their familys future in any way they can. My
sons and daughters face such different times, but I hope they have learned the
hard lessons of life that I have tried to pass on to them.Lesson #25 Never put
your tongue on a frozen pump handle.hmmm, course, where they gonna find a frozen
pump handle today? So, we can probably scratch that Lesson and move on to the
next one. *
Lesson #26..Don't never play tag on a gravel road, in your 1936 Pontiac,
driving with your lights out in the dark of night, holding your head out the
window to try to see where you were going and run slap dab into your buddy's
1949 Chevy, causing great pain and a lifelong scar on your forehead when it hits
the vent window support...Lesson #27 Don't take no wooden nickels cause they are
hard to spend. Lesson #28..always try to drink out of the creek, upstream of
where the cows are drinking. Lesson #29..If you drop your piece of chocolate
candy in the chicken yard...uh, just let it lie. *
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Life lessons learned the hard way. *
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Stan Hitchcock*
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in
the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and
there is nothing in them to make them stumble. *
* 1 John 2:9-10 (NIV)*
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