COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday August 7th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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According to Dolly Parton, she wrote her 1981 number one "9 To 5" while she was
bored working on the movie of the same title!
Dolly commented "The hardest part of making the movie was the long wait between
shots. It was very hard on me because it was the first time I've ever had to
just sit around doin nothin. So I thought I'd try writing songs to pass the time
and it worked. And that's how I wrote "9 To 5."
Dolly Parton's RCA Victor single "9 To 5" came on the country music charts
November 29th, 1980 and was in the number one slot on January 24th.
The single also made it to the top of the pop charts and earned Dolly a Grammy.
"9 To 5" was Dolly's 59th charted song and her second million selling single and
was on the country charts for 14 weeks.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I have a tape of a song my dad recorded from the radio years ago about "The
Lonely River Rhine." Do you know the name of the singer and whatever happened to
him?
A: "Lonely River Rhine" was a number 16 hit for Bobby Helms in 1960. Helms
died in 1997.
Q: Whatever happened to the big boy on Hee Haw that they called the round
mound of sound?
A: The "round mound of sound" was Kenny Price who died in 1987.
Q: Do you remember a song from years ago about "Big Girls Don't Cry?"
A: "Big Girls Don't Cry" was written by Liz Anderson and was a 1968 number 12
hit for her daughter Lynn.
Q: I've heard the old saying "may the force be with you" for many years but my
mom says there was a hit song with that title. Is that true?
A: "May The Force Be With You" was a number 13 hit for Tom T. Hall in 1977
Q: I heard a great song on the radio that I'd never heard before but they
didn't say who the singer was. The song was "You Ought To Hear Me Cry." Do you
know who had that record?
A: The original version was by Johnny Bush and was a number 69 hit in 1967.
Carl Smith scored a number 43 hit with the song in 1968 and Willie Nelson's
version made it to number 16 in 1977
Q: Whatever happened to the guy who had those recitation records of "Giddy Up
Go" and Phantom 309?"
A: Woodrow Wilson (Red) Sovine died in 1980.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1950*
/Mississippi/ - Red Foley *
*1958*
/Alone with You/ - Faron Young *
*1966*
/Think of Me/ - Buck Owens *
*1974*
/Rub It In/ - Billy "Crash" Craddock *
*1982*
/Honky Tonkin/ - Hank Williams, Jr. *
*1990*
/Good Times/ - Dan Seals*
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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
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NOT AVAILABLE TO INTERNET STATIONS)
The feature is available at *no charge*.*
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ONE FINE DAY IN MILLVILLE.*
By: Jack Blanchard
Millville, Pennsylvania, has never been the same
since my wife ran through the firehouse
in that shocking condition.
We had just come from one of our better bookings
at a large Midwestern fair,
and we were looking for the next town on our contract:
We bought three different maps looking for Millville.
Two of them showed no Millvilles,
and the third showed two of them several hundred miles apart.
When we finally saw a sign pointing to our Millville
we were skidding around in the sea of mud.
that led to the town.
We learned that we were to play at the Annual Firemen's Picnic.
At the picnic grounds, a gentleman showed us to our stage
a pile of logs with plywood laid on top.
The spotlight was a bulb hung on a pole.
There was no tent or cover of any kind,
and the sky threatened rain.
We agreed to do the show only on the condition
that someone stand by with tarps
to throw over our instruments in case of a storm.
Everyone seemed surprised when we asked
where our dressing rooms were.
They opened up the firehouse for us,
about a mile down the road,
and said we could use the back room.
It was hot and humid
and we had to leave the doors and windows open to survive.
This meant dressing in the dark
because the sun was already dimming.
That didn't keep the mosquitoes from finding us.
There were hot dog stands, games, a merry-go-round,
and a few other amusements on the lawn,
and a bunch of people were having fun.
A crowd gathered around the makeshift stage
as a metallic loudspeaker barked about "show time".
An elderly dwarf who called himself "Shorty "
jumped up and down in front of the bandstand,
ordering the audience to "Shut up" and "Stand back, there!"
He had no official capacity but nobody knew that
He kept it up throughout our show.
You could look into Shortys eyes
and see that nobody was driving.
The audience made up for the rest of the day
and after the first show they gathered for autographs.
We sold completely out of records and pictures.
We were eating a chili dog when I felt a drop of rain.
I looked up and got a bucketful!
We ran to the stage
and tried to get all of the equipment under the canvas.
The rain never let up
and we had to load everything into our trailer in the rain.
The firemen tried to help
and everyone was running into everyone else.
We were all soaking wet and in ankle-deep mud,
It was like a Three Stooges mud wrestling movie.
The second show was canceled.
Misty was wearing a brand new dress
which she was trying to protect with a small plastic umbrella.
To her embarrassment the dress began to shrink fast.
The long ruffled sleeves were creeping up past her elbows.
The mini skirt was now getting X rated!
She held the umbrella with one hand
and tugged at her hemline with the other.
She wanted me to stand in front of her,
because the crowd was gathering for a new kind of show.
We made a mad dash for our car, not looking back.
Meanwhile, back at the firehouse,
the troops had gathered and were already drinking beer,
playing cards, and counting the day's take.
I went in and explained the situation
and all present agreed to turn their backs
as Misty ran the length of the meeting hall
to the back room where she had her other clothes.
Firemen are real gentlemen.
Later, when they offered us a beer we accepted.
We stood in the doorway by the big fire engine,
looked out into the dark,
and waited for the rain to stop.
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Jack Blanchard*
*_http://_www.jackandmisty.net* - http://www.jackandmisty.net-UNAS
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T*ODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY*
compiled by Bill Morrison*
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Dave Kapp, songwriter/publisher/founder of Kapp Records, born Chicago, IL
1904.*
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Felice Bryant, born "Matilda Genevieve Scaduto," Milwaukee, WI 1925.*
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B. J. Thomas born Hugo, OK 1942.*
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Hank Williams joined the Louisiana Hayride _1948_, after six months of
proving to management that he could stay sober.*
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Rodney Crowell, singer/songwriter/producer/father of Johnny Cash's
grandchildren, born Houston, TX 1950.*
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Elvis Presley released "Blue Moon of Kentucky," and "That's Alright,"
1954.*
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Johnny Cash and Vivian Liberto were married in San Antonio, TX _1954_.
The best man was John's brother Roy. Marshall Grant, bass player for the
/Tennessee Two,/ loaned John the money to get to San Antonio for the
wedding.*
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The final episode of "The Gene Autry Show," aired on CBS-TV 1956.*
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Michael Peterson born Tucson, AZ 1959.*
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Patsy Cline's "I Fall To Pieces," went to #1 1961.*
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Alison Brown, record label executive/banjoist, born 1962.*
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Raul Malo of the "Mavericks" born 1965.*
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Capitol Records released Buck Owens' album "Your Tender Loving Care" 1967.
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Buck Owens recorded "I've Got You On My Mind Again" 1968. *
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Armadillo World Headquarters opened in Austin, TX 1970.*
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Homer Haynes of "Homer & Jethro" died Hammond, IN 1971.*
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Marty Robbins released "I've Got A Woman's Love/A Little Spot In Heaven" 1972.
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George & Tammy's duet "Golden Ring" topped the charts 1976.*
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B. J. Thomas joined the Grand Ole Opry 1981.*
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Ester Phillips recording artist, died 1984.*
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T. C. Lansford of "The Texas Playboys" died 1989.*
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Garth Brooks performed a free concert in Central Park in New York City,
_1997_. The crowd was estimated at 250,000. The mayor of NYC
proclaimed this to be "Garth Brooks Day."*
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"Porter Wagoner Day" was proclaimed by Porter's home state of Missouri
1999.*
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William Lewis "Billy" Byrd, age 81, "Texas Troubadours," died Nashville, TN
2001.*
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Bill Anderson released his album "A Lot of Things Different" 2001. *
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William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys suffered a heart attack 2004. His son
will take his place until Golden is well enough to return to the group.*
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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Well, School started in Tennessee yesterday. All the young folks streaming back
to the super-modern, high tech schools...passing through the metal detectors to
make sure they don't bring in their semi-automatic weapons....
Hmmmmm....a picture of the Apple cheeked Innocence of America? If I was to ask
one of my Grandchildren, or neighbor kids to sit down and talk to me about
alternative entertainment devices that do not require some digital
electronics...they would probably look at me like I am crazy..."Ya'mean
something besides gaming?" Uh huh, you know like just making something up out of
our own heads. "Like what, Gran'pa?"*
Okay, let's see...how about a game of MumblyPeg? "Mumlie...what?" Oh, you know
we take our pocket knives and we flip them into the dirt to make them stick and
we do it from all different points of our fingers and hands...you know..."Uh,
Gran'pa, we don't have pocket knives, they are not allowed..." Oh, no pocket
knives...well, then that takes care of number two...whittling on a stick...guess
that's out. Well, grab your Daisy BB Gun and let's go do some target
shooting..."Oh, we can't mention guns...or draw pictures of them...or even use
our fingers like a gun when we play at recess...it's against the rules!" Well, I
guess that let's out building a fort down by those fallen trees by the creek and
playing like we are fighting Indians and..."Uh Grand'pa, we don't call them
Indians anymore...they are Native Americans." Uh huh, yeah, I knew that, I just
slipped up there for a second...And I guess taking a couple of empty Campbell
Soup cans, poking a hole in the ends and tying a string to em and....no, I
reckon not...that would seem pretty silly to you kids when you can have World
War Three right there in your hands on the whatever that thing is that has all
the games...and...and...okay, you kids go ahead and do what it is you do...I'll
just sit over here and vegetate and try not to drool on myself...come on Buck
let's go out on the Front Porch and talk...did I ever tell you about the rope we
boys put up on the high limb of the big Sycamore Tree down by the creek? Got an
old burlap feed sack and stuffed it full of straw and leaves and tied it on the
rope...Buck? Wake up Buck, I ain't through with my story. Awww..what difference
do it make? No pocket knives...no whittlin'...no cowboys and indians....no
running and chasin' and shooting with your finger...no fort buildin'....okay,
okay...got to remember to not bring them things up...makes me seem out of
touch...shoot, I wonder if I could learn to pack a pipe with Prince Albert
Smoking Tobacco, get it goin' and learn to smoke it like my Gran'pa did*
What? They don't make it anymore like that in the red tin can with the picture
of the Prince on it?*
hmmm...I should have said, "Cowpersons and Native Americans", then I would have
been "cool"...(another word that is seldom used anymore)...ok, I would be "with
it"..(nope not used either)..."Up Tight, And Outa' Sight?" (so far gone you
sound like an idiot)...Smooth as Warts On A Frogs Back?" (Get outa here). stan
(man, you sure you want to put your name on this?)*
*Stan Hitchcock*
www.hitchcockcountry.com* -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: The Lord has sworn and
will not change his mind: You are a priest forever. Because of this oath, Jesus
has become the guarantor of a better covenant. *
* Hebrews 7:21-22 (NIV)*
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