COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
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Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday February 6th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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A lot of hit songs were originally recorded and released in albums - before
being released as a single, and Don Williams' 1979 number one, "It Must Be
Love," was one of those songs.
The track was produced by Williams and Garth Fundis for Don's "Expressions"
album.
Williams and Fundis also did all the harmony vocals on the record.
According to Fundis - "Anytime we were getting ready to record - we always made
a call to Bob McDill - who has written several Don Williams hits - to ask him
"Whatcha Got?"
McDill commented :"That record kind of set the cutting edge in country musiic -
musically - at that time. It's a fun song to sing. And the way that Don recorded
it - it was just a little bit funky."
Don Williams' MCA single, "It Must Be Love" came on the country music charts on
August 4th, 1979 and was at the top of the list on September 29th.
It was Williams' 20th charted song and his 9th number one.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: The radio guys mentioned a new album by Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson,
and Willie Nelson. Do you have any information?
A: The three have reportedly been in the studio - working on a new album. No
information yet on song titles or release date.
Q: I heard on TV Entertainment News that the Bellamy Brothers are going on
tour, Do you know where and when?
A: Howard and David Bellamy are planning a world tour this year which will
include 150 dates in the USA - plus shows in Brazil, Switzerland, Germany,
Norway, Denmark, and Australia. For a listing of dates - go to
www.bellamybrothers.com
Q: Our radio folks were talking about The Country Music Association involved
in a project with a music education program. What is that about?
A: The CMA Foundation has donated $1 million to benefit music education
programs for Nashville public school students thru the "Keep The Music Playing"
campaign.
Q: Do you have any information on Emmylou Harris performing at the Hall Of
Fame? My wife says it was on the radio.
A: Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill are scheduled to be part of the Country
Music Hall Of Fame and museum's "All For The Hall" concert in Los Angeles on
March 4th.
Q: Are you familiar with a Jim Reeves recording of a song titled "I'd Like To
Be?" My dad says he remembers hearing it on the radio years ago.
A: "I'd Like To Be" was a #18 hit for Reeves in 1958 and was the flip-side
of his 4th number one, "Billy Bayou."
Q: I know that Hank Williams band "The Drifting Cowboys," recorded on their
own. Did they have any hits?
A: The Drifting Cowboys version of "Lovesick Blues" made it to number 97
in 1978 and "Rag Mop" peaked at #90 that same year.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1949*
/I Love You So Much It Hurts/ - Jimmy Wakely *
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*1957*
/Young Love/ - Sonny James *
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*1965
/Youre the Only World I Know/* - Sonny James *
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*1973*
/She Needs Someone to Hold Her (When She Cries)/ - Conway Twitty
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*1981
/I Feel like Loving You Again/* - T.G. Sheppard *
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*1989*
/What Id Say/ - Earl Thomas Conley*
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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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ENTERTAINMENT CRAFT.*
By: Jack Blanchard
I received a note
saying that God is more concerned with our inner person
than the outer person that we show the public.
I wrote back:
"I have no argument against that
except as applied to the field of entertainment.
"The public attention span is short,
and you have to grab their attention
or they may never notice your work.
"Politicians have to speak in sound bites.
People correspond in Tweets of 140 characters or less.
People channel surf hundreds of stations,
and if they don't like the first minute or so,
they flip to the next one.
Only a small number of listeners will take in a one hour concerto.
Three minute songs with hooks to grab their attention get the play.
This is not new in show business.
"God looks underneath, but busy people don't take the time,
unless you hook them with something on the surface.
If they don't like the first impression, they're on to the next act.
"I've been in this line of work for many years.
I have studied it carefully, and have learned from the best.
The facade is a real part of the entertainer's self.
It's show biz know-how. Theater craft.
It is NOT a weakness, or something that needs to be overcome.
"For entertainers or actors to present their best face to the audience
is not a bad thing in any way.
It's just a more entertaining side of our self.
That's why God gave us sequins.
"Somebody told a famous entertainer to just be himself.
He asked "Which self?"
"Some times, with good entertainers,
the on-stage persona becomes the dominant side of the personality.
"Actors and entertainers work on and present facets of themselves
that will catch the public eye and ear.
That's a good thing.
"And there's the age discrimination...
The older stars out there now made it when they were younger.
There are few if any old faces on the Opry or on the CMA Awards anymore,
and even Tom Selleck has a supporting role as the father in a TV series.
Joan Rivers keeps getting face lifts.
A lot of entertainers do, but Joan talks more about it.
It's an attempt to stay in the game.
You have to give them credit for trying.
"If Misty and I hadn't done things to make ourselves interesting
on the surface,
the public would have never noticed us,
or gotten to know our more serious side.
"I'm sure God understands."
\*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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1916 - Esther "Violet" Koehler 1916-1973, of the /Coon Creek Girls/
born in Wilton, Wisconsin.
1943 - Ernest Tubb made his third guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry. This
would be E.T.'s last guest appearance. The following Saturday night, he was
scheduled to become a member of a show that he would be a huge part of for the
next four decades.
1956 - George Jones, "The Possum," became a cast member of the KWKH Louisiana
Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana. The show was nicknamed The Cradle of the
Stars, /because they lost so many members of their cast to the Grand Ole
Opry. Most people don't know that directly beneath the stage at the Louisiana
Hayride was the City Morgue.
1956 - RCA Records released Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel."
1960 - George Hamilton IV became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
1961 - Marty Robbins' Columbia single "Don't Worry" charted today. The song was
recorded in Nashville on July 12, 1960. Marty wrote the song, and Don Law and
Frank Jones produced the session. The session personnel included Marty
Robbins-vocals & guitar; Grady Martin-guitar; Jack Pruett-guitar; Floyd
Cramer-piano; Bob Moore-bass; Louis Dunn-drums.
1961 - Dale Reno, of the /Reno Brothers /was born in Roanoke,
Virginia.
1962 - Richie McDonald, lead singer of /Lonestar/ born in Lubbock,
Texas.
1967 - Anita Cochran singer, songwriter and guitarist, born in Pontiac,
Michigan.
1971 - Conway and Loretta debuted on the charts with "After the Fire Is
Gone."
1971 - Lynn Anderson's cover of Kitty Wells' 1952 hit "It Wasn't God Who Made
Honky Tonk Angels" /was released on the Chart label in 1971. The Joe Miller
penned tune charted for Lynn, and reached the Top Twenty. Jesse Colter w/Waylon
Jennings covered Kitty's hit in 1981 for RCA. Jesse's version made the Top
Ten.
1973 - Tom T. Hall recorded "Ravishing Ruby" b/w "Spokane Motel
Blues."
1974 - Buck Owens recorded "On the Cover of the Music City News" /at Buck
Owens Studios, in Bakersfield, California. The session personnel included: Buck
Owens-vocals; Don Rich-lead guitar & harmony vocal; Ron Jackson-rhythm guitar;
Jerry Brightman-Dobro; Jim Shaw-piano & harmony vocal; Doyle Curtsinger-bass &
harmony vocal; Jerry Wiggins-drums. Released as a Columbia Records single a few
weeks later, the record topped out at #9. In September Columbia released Buck's
album "It's A Monster's Holiday,"/ which included On The Cover of the Music
City News. /
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1976 - Ronnie Milsap became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
1979 - The Balfa Brothers, Rodney and Will, were killed in a car wreck in
Louisiana.
1980 - Kenny Loggins Columbia album "Keep the Fire" /was certified Gold by
the RIAA.
1980 - George Jones recorded "He Stopped Loving Her Today"/ in
Nashville.
1989 - Patty Loveless and Emory Gordy Jr. were married in Gatlinburg,
Tennessee.
1998 - Michael Peterson singer, songwriter, and guitarist made his first
/guest appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
2000 - Derroll Adams 1925-2000, age 75, singer, songwriter, banjo, and harmonica
player, died in Antwerp, Belgium.
2001 - EMI released Asleep At The Wheel's album "23 Country
Classics."
2001 - Ray Price, age 75, underwent stomach surgery at a Houston, Texas
hospital.
2001 - Arista released Diamond Rio's album "One More Day."
2005 - Sonny Day, age 80, an original member of Roy Acuff's Smokey Mountain
Boys, died in Nashville from bone cancer.
2005 - Merle Kilgore 1934-2005, age 70, singer, songwriter, and talent manager,
died in Mexico. Death was a result of complications related to cancer treatment.
Merle was laid to rest in Hendersonville Memory Gardens, Hendersonville,
Tennessee.
2007 - George Hamilton IV celebrated his 47th anniversary as a member of the
Grand Ole Opry.
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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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*I woke up to the sound of a freight train going through Prairie du Chien,
Wisconsin, as they do with great frequency on a main line following the river on
South. The sound of the train, even though it's a different sound than the old
train engines I remember from my childhood, reminds me of lying in my bed in the
attic of the old farm house in the Ozarks, listening to the trains, with their
mournful call in the night, taking passengers to the lands West and East. I've
always believed that lonesome train whistle helped shape me into the traveling
man that I later became, always wondering what was over the next hill or hollow
or around the next curve. I finally got to ride that train of my dreams, in
1954, from Chicago, Illinois to San Diego, California, going to meet my new
home, USS Bryce Canyon AD-36, when I was 18 years old, fresh out of High School,
and rarin' to go see the world. It's funny how sounds and aromas stick with you
for your whole life. The sound of a train, the sound of cattle calling to be fed
their silage early of a winter morning, the sounds of a six cylinder Chevy
engine, with a split manifold and Smitty mufflers backing off coming down a hill
near home, the smell of Grandma's cookies that always seemed to linger in her
house, the sound of my dog Laddy, as he treed a squirrel, down by the creek
almost every evening at the farm where I grew up, the sound of my Daddy, coming
in from work of an evening, "Honey, I'm Home", the sound of an old two cylinder
John Deere tractor, as it turned the cutters of the thrashing machine, that
separated the grain from the straw...blowing the straw out into the huge straw
pile and filling up the bag of grain for the neighborhood farmers that had
gathered with their shocks of grain in the wagons or trucks, the sound of the
rain on the tin roof of the barn as you went up to lay in the hay and dream of
faraway places....and the sound of Mother, as she called out the farmhouse door
to a son playing in the woods back of the house, "Come on home son, it's Supper
time"...oh, I long to hear that sound again....and when I do hear it again, I'll
know it is time to go. *
Stan Hitchcock
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was
there. Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched
him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. Jesus said to the man
with the shriveled hand, Stand up in front of everyone. Then Jesus asked them,
Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to
kill? But they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply
distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, Stretch out your hand. He
stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. Then the Pharisees went
out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus. *
* Mark 3:1-6 (NIV)*
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