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COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
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Thursday April 3rd, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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According to co-writer Brent Maher Dottie West's 1980 number one , "A Lesson In
Leavin was outside the standard format for that type song.
Maher commented "That was the second song that Randy Goodrum and I wrote
together. The song was quite different and had a lot of charm to it. But it was
really different because all the choruses changed the lyrics. The chorus starts
off the lyric and by the second verse, we used the same word rhyme with
different lyrics. And that is outside the standard format or verse - chorus type
songs."
Dottie West's United Artists single "A Lesson In Leavin came on the country
music charts February 9th, 1980 and was at the top of the charts on April 26th.
The song was written and produced by Brent Maher and Randy Goodrum.
It was Dottie's 49th charted song and was on the charts for 15 weeks.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard that George Strait's tour had something to do with homes for wounded
soldiers. Do you have any information?
A: During a recent concert in Nashville, Tennessee, George Strait presented
the keys to a new mortgage free home to a wounded veteran and his wife - as part
of The Military Warriors Support Foundation's Homes 4 Wounded Soldiers Program.
Q: I heard on the radio that Ronnie Milsap is up for some kind of award. Do
you know anything about that?
A: Milsap will be presented with The Career Achievement Award during the
upcoming 49th Annual ACM Awards
Q: Do you know anything about a benefit concert for the Country Music Hall Of
Fame? The radio d.j.'s mentioned it.
A; The 5th annual "We're All 4 The Hall" is scheduled for Nashville's
Bridgestone Arena on May 6th and will feature Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, Ronnie
Milsap, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Proceeds go to The Hall Of Fame and Museum.
Q: Do you have any information about Charlie Daniels and a Bob Dylan album?
My daughter saw it on the TV News.
A: Charlie Daniel's CD "Off The Grid - Doin' It Dylan" features 10 Bob Dylan
songs.
Q: Have you ever heard of a Marty Robbins record about "Please Don't Blame
Me?" I heard it on the radio a few times years ago.
A: "Please Don't Blame Me" was written by Robbins and was the flip-side of
his 1957 number one, "A White Sport Coat."
Q: I still have the copy of Ned Miller's record "From A Jack To A King." that
I bought back in 1963. My sister says another singer had a big hit on that song
years later. Is that true?
A: Miller's single made it to number 2 in 1963. Ricky Van Shelton scored a
number 1 on the song in 1989.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1949*
/Candy Kisses/ - George Morgan *
*1957*
/There You Go/ - Johnny Cash *
*1965*
/King of the Road/ - Roger Miller *
*1973*
/Keep Me in Mind/ - Lynn Anderson *
*1981*
/Texas Women/ - Hank Williams, Jr. *
*1989*
/Babys Gotten Good at Goodbye/ - George Strait*
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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:*
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THE KING O' HEARTS CLUB.*
By: Jack Blanchard
A million years ago I was playing in a Rhythm and Blues band
at the King o' Hearts Club on NW 7th Avenue in Miami,
where Sam and Dave got their start.
The band was called "Donel Austin and the Rockin' Impallas".
I later made a record with them under the name
Jackie Blanchard and the Rockin' Impallas.
I won't say the guy that owned the place was a mobster.
I won't say it because he might kill me.
Let's just call him Johnny.
He had the mandatory smaller brother Pauly.
We had a great band...
Donel Austin, rhythm guitar and lead vocalist,
Doug Tarrant, lead guitar, and Frank Kennedy on drums.
I played piano, organ, and left hand bass.
The club was like an airplane hangar.
We faced the long oval shaped bar.
Donel would often jump from the bandstand and walk the top of the bar
while belting out Twenty-four Hours a Day or Stagger Lee.
The giant concrete dance floor was behind the bandstand
and held hundreds of dancers.
I worked behind the piano at the back of the stage,
with a six foot drop to my death if I stepped back.
This will be important later.
The club took ID photos of everybody who came in the door.
There were over a dozen bouncers armed with blackjacks.
At least a couple of the bouncers were nuts
and couldn't wait to beat somebody up.
There was a lot of bloodshed, but the music was good.
If you were looking for the rest room
and happened to wander toward Johnny's office,
crazy Dobermans would bounce off the inside of his door,
wanting you for lunch.
Johnny said they only attacked when annoyed.
You could annoy them by just existing.
We had a live radio show every night from the club,
and Pauly was the emcee.
One night Pauly and Donel started arguing while we were on the air.
It turned into a fistfight,
and they began wrestling around the stage, knocking things over.
My big old piano was balanced on top of whiskey cases,
so I could play standing up,
and when Donel and Pauly lurched my way
they tipped the piano off the cases.
I was straining every muscle to hold up the piano with my bare hands,
and looking at the six foot drop to the cement behind me.
This is what Pauly yelled at me: "Keep playing, kid! We're on the air!"
We got a higher paying job at The Club Seventeen,
but Johnny sent his bouncers to walk through the new club,
intimidating the customers and us.
We finally went back to work at the King o' Hearts, under duress.
A few years later Johnny did some prison time.
When he got out he was elected Mayor of Sunrise, Florida.
This all happened before Misty Morgan and I ever sang together.
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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*1905 - *Hank Newman 1905~1978, singer, guitar, and bass, member of
"The Georgia Crackers," and the "Newman Brothers.," born in Cochran,
Georgia.
*1920 - *Al Gannaway producer of music films was born
today.
*1926 - *Marshall Claiborne a one armed fiddle player made his first
/appearance on the WSM Barn Dance. He was invited to come back for two more
broadcasts that same month.
1928 - Don Gibson 1928~2003, singer, songwriter and guitarist born in Shelby,
North Carolina. Don was inducted into the NSHF in 1973, and the CMHF in
2001.
1942 - Billy Joe Royal was born in Valdosta, Georgia.
*1948 - *The Louisiana Hayride debuted/ on KWKH in Shreveport,
Louisiana. The Bailes Brothers headlined this debut performance, and Shot
Jackson was their steel guitar player. Also appearing on the show was Curly
Kinsey and the Four Deacons, Johnny and Jack and the Tennessee Boys featuring
Miss Kitty Wells, the Tennessee Ridge Runners, Harmie Smith and his Ozark
Mountaineers, the Mercer Brothers and Tex Grimsley and the Texas Playboys. The
master of ceremonies was Horace Logan. Admission to the show was 60 cents for
adults, and 30 cents for children. The price remained the same for eleven years,
when on March 28, 1959, the price of admission rose to $1 for adults and 50
cents for children. Shot Jackson met Johnnie & Jack at the Hayride, and the
following year went with them to Atlanta to record. Shot Jackson played on Kitty
Wells first/ #1 hit "It Wasn' t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," /and
Johnny & Jacks first /#1 "Oh Baby Mine,"/ in the early 1950' s.
1948 - Eddy Arnold's single "Anytime" /topped the charts for 9
weeks.
*1950 - *Curtis Stone bassist for "Highway 101," was born in North
Hollywood, California. Curtis is the son of Cliffie Stone.
*1956 - *Elvis Presley appeared on "The Milton Berle
Show."
*1959 - *Earl Taylor and his Stoney Mountain Boys became the first
/Bluegrass group to perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
*1960 - *The Everly Brothers played the /first /concert of
their debut British tour.
*1961 - *Spade Cooley murdered his wife Ella Mae. He was sentenced to
life in California' s Vacaville Prison, and died from a heart attach on November
23, 1969, two months prior to being released on parole.
1961 - Patsy Cline' s "I Fall To Pieces," hit the charts today.
1962 - Steve Grossman, of "The Gibson/Miller Band," was born in West Ipswich,
New York.
1964 - The Statler Brothers debuted their first/ single "The Wreck of the
Old 97."
1969 - Tom T. Hall recorded "Margie' s At The Lincoln Park Inn" b/w
"Flat-Footin' It.
*1972 - *Jack Drake, session bass player died in Nashville
today.
1972 - Capitol Records released Buck Owens' # 1 single "Made In Japan."
1975 - Emmylou Harris' s "Hot Band," debuted in San Francisco,
California.
1976 - Crystal Gayle' s first/ #1, "I' ll Get Over You,"
charted.
1983 - The Oak Ridge Boys MCA album "American Made" /was certified
Gold.
1992 - Billy Ray Cyrus made his first/ appearance on Ralph Emery' s
Nashville Now.
1993 - Harley "Red" Allen 1930~1993, a highly regarded bluegrass singer,
songwriter, and guitarist, died from cancer at age 63. Red began his recording
career with Kentucky Records in 1954. He partnered with the Osborne Brothers two
years later, and they joined the cast of the Wheeling Jamboree. The group signed
with MGM Records and toured and recorded at a steady pace. In 1959 in
partnership with Frank Wakefield, Allen formed the Kentuckians /in
Washington D.C. In the mid-sixties they released their classic album "Bluegrass"
/on the Smithsonian Folkways label. Allen replaced Lester Flatt in Flatt &
Scruggs /in 1967, while Lester recovered from health problems. Harley "Red"
Allen was on of the finest singers to ever sing a bluegrass song. Eight years
after his death, Smithsonian Folkways released "The Folkways Years: 1964~1983."
/By today's standards this is a compilation album, containing 28 of Red's
finest recordings from half a dozen albums, and 6 songs that had never been
released before.
2003 - Johnny Cash, recovering from a three week bout with pneumonia, learned
that his older sister, Louise, age 79, had died earlier in the day at her home
in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
2004 - Dolly Parton presided at the 19th season opening ceremony at
"Dollywood."
2005 - The Canadian Juno Awards were presented in Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
2006 - Country Songwriters in the Round was held at the Kennedy Center. From
writing lyrics to performing them, country music songwriters Guy Clark, Matraca
Berg, Shawn Camp, and Jeff Hanna lead a master class of local songwriters.
2008 - The Western Swing Music Society of the Southwest will hold their Jam &
Dance at the Clarion Hotel DFW Airport South. April 3rd~April 5th.
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Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html*>
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7th Annual Tony Booth Day* will be held in Pearland Texas at Billy's Hall
on May 3, 2014. 4070 Wells Drive, 77584 (Bailey Road Overpass) 8PM till 12 AM
BYOB, Beer, Set-ups, Snacks. Ice will be available, as will Some set-ups,
snacks.
This Show this year will feature Tony Booth, Darrell McCall, Curtis Potter,
Pretty Miss Norma Jean, Mona McCall, Dottie Jack, Tracy Pitcox M.C., Tommy Reed
and The Texas Express Band with Jade Jack (2011 Academy Of Western Artist Female
Vocalist of the Year ) Matt Reed, Kenny Hoover, and David Farenthal. For good
seats get you tickets early, CALL 713-806-5791, if busy please leave a name and
number we will return your call. We now accept most credit cards.
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock*
Prince Albert And The Cane Bottom Chair *
The old man slowly came out of the woods, behind where the house he was born in
used to stand. It wasnt much of a house, really, it started out being a two room
log structure, with a dog trot between the two rooms, shingles on the roof that
his Great Grand Daddy split off of some Oak, squared up and notched Chestnut
logs, that the same Greatn cut down and squared up using nothing more than a
cross cut saw and a double bladed axe. The fireplace always smoked a bit, but it
was big and put out some heat on them cold Winter days. In more recent years,
his Grandfather and Dad had closed the old log house in and put lap siding on
it, but nobody ever seemed to get around to painting it and the siding turned
dark gray after awhile. Yeah, it wasnt muchbut it had housed four generations of
the Family, and it was still solid as a rock. Yeah solid as a rockand it took
that Bulldozer man a good bit of time to knock it downjust kept hitting it with
that big blade of hisn til it finally caved in. Yeah, made a sound almost like
the cry of a child when those old logs finally gave up and fell in*
The Federal Marshals had come for the old man, after he turned down the pittance
that the offered him for the old farm and house and barn. He had told them
Guvment men he didnt want to sellgo away and leave him be, he saidthis is our
Family landall the folks buried up on the hill behind the barnyou dont leave
your familyit just aint right. They said the River was gonna be dammed up and
the water would cover the house and his bottom landwouldnt get the barn and
graveyard cause it was on the higher groundbut they was taking the place whether
he wanted em to or nothad a Judge that said they could. *
He had only left the old farm one time, to go fight the Germans in World War 1,
and, by doggies, he wasnt gonna be told he had to leave by some City Judge.
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After the Marshals carried him out to their car, stuck him in the backseat and
hauled him to town, it took him a day and a half to walk back in, through the
woods so nobody would see him. He got back in time to watch from the hill as the
Dozer Man did his work, slept in the woods and come on in to what was left of
the home place this morning. *
Well, the Bull whackin Dozer man tore it down right goodpushed it all in a big
pile and burned itthe old Chestnut logs was still smokin and partly intact, but
most everything else was gone.most everything, but wait, sticking out of the
back end of the rubble, he saw something he reconginzedhis old Cane Bottom
Chair, made by his Great Grand pa and passed down through each generation until
it finally got to himthe last in the line. Reckon it didnt much matter anymorehe
had no porch to sit on anyway and not with the pain that he lived with every
hour of every dayfeelin about like his guts were ripping apart. The County
Doctor said it was the Cancerwasnt nothing they could do bout it no how cept
give him those horse pills that made him conk out. *
The Old man made his way over to the pile of what used to be his home, and
worked some of the debris off the chair and got it out and looked at it. One of
the legs was pretty bad burned from the fire, but it would do. He carried the
chair over to the spot that would have been where the porch of the old house
used to be. The Dozer man had scraped it nice and flat so it was no problem
finding a steady spot. The old man sat down and caught his breath, as a fresh
pain tore through his guts. From where he was sitting he could see the water
rising from what used to be the River, but was now the new Lake that they was so
proud of. As he sat there, he pulled out his old pipe and packed it full of
Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco, and drew the smoke in deepshoot, that was better
than one of them there horse pills any day. The water was rising real quick now,
since they had closed off the spillways of the new damthe old man looked up at
the hill behind the Barn where the Family all slept in the graveyard, and
thought of his Mama and how she used to like to go down to the River and catch
Catfish and fry em up for Supperyeah, Mamawell, this is 1954, and things is
different nowthey can just come and take your home whenever they want to. But,
them Marshals ain't gonna move me now*
1998a father and his son are walking along the shore of the lake, doing a little
fishing, but mostly just having a good father/son afternoon. The young boy had
been looking for Indian arrowheads, and had found a couple of stones that looked
like they could be something.when he noticed an object at the edge of the sandy,
gravel shore lineit was a piece of woodhe knelt down and took out his Boy Scout
knife and started digging around the piece. After awhile, the Father laid his
fishing pole down and came over to see what the boy had found. The boy had dug
enough of the sand and mud away to be able to tell that it was a chair buried in
the mud. His Dad looked down and tousled the boys hair, well you found something
alright, but there is no use to dig it up furtherthe leg is all messed up by
being burnedthe boy looked up at his Father and held up another object that he
had dug up by the chair.it was a rusty red tin container scratched and dented so
much that you could barely read what it said on the front of itDad, whats a
Prince Albert? *
*Stan Hitchcock*
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the
heavens: *
* Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)*
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