COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Thursday September 18th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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According to Sylvia - when she first heard the demo on the song that became her
first number one, it was a ballad. But once the recording session started - her
record producer Tom Collins decided to change the song to upbeat.
Sylvia commented, "When he told me we were changing the beat - I wasn't really
sold on the idea - but after I heard the change - I really liked it.
"Drifter" became the second hit single and the title track from her debut RCA
Victor album.
"Drifter" came on the country music charts January 17th, 1981 and was the top
slot on April 4th.
The song was her 4th charted song and her first number one.
The single was produced by Tom Collins and was on the charts for 14 weeks.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Do you know anything about Willie Nelson selling his hair for charity? My
daughter says it was mentioned on the radio.
A: Years ago when Waylon decided to sober up - Willie cut off his famous
braids in support of his friend and gave them to Jennings. Those Nelson braids
and several other items from Waylons collection will be auctioned on October
5th.
Q: I heard something about a special edition of my favorite program - Austin
City Limits. Have you heard anything about it?
A: "Austin City Limits" will celebrate it's 40th anniversary with an all star
special to air October 3rd and featuring Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Kris
Kristofferson, and Lyle Lovett.
Q: The radio folks said that Vince Gill would receive an "BMI Icon." What is
that?
A: BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) is a music licensing agency and will
honor Vince Gill as a "BMI Icon" along with other song writers and publishers of
the most performed country songs of the past year.
Q: Years ago I heard a song on the radio by a group called "you don't wear
blue so well." I only heard it one time and can't find anyone who know anything
about the song. Do you know?
A: "You Don't Wear Blue So Well" was a track in The Statler Brothers 1985
"Partners In Rhyme" album.
Q: Have you heard a song about "Bird and Children Fly Away?" It was on the
radio a few times years ago.
A: It was a number 65 hit for Kenny Price in 1975.
Q: Faron Young's "Wine Me Up" is my favorite. My sister says that song was a
hit for another singer. Is that true?
A: "Wine Me Up" was a number 19 hit for Larry Boone in 1989 - after Faron's
number 2 hit in 1969.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1944*
/Soldiers Last Letter/ - Ernest Tubb *
*1952*
/Jambalaya (On the Bayou)/ - Hank Williams *
*1960*
/Alabam/ - Cowboy Copas *
*1968*
/Mama Tried/ - Merle Haggard *
*1976*
/I Dont Want to Have to Marry You/ - Jim Ed Brown/Helen Cornelius
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*1984
/Youre Getting to Me Again/ - Jim Glaser*
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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*.*
For information, email me at
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*/"How I Invented The Cheeseburger"/*
*By: Jack
Blanchard/
*Way back before I sang with Misty Morgan, before Misty recorded on
Starday*
*as Maryanne Mail, even before I was Jackie Blanchard and the Rockin'*
*Impalas, I was part of a teenage Pop vocal quartet called The
Dawnbreakers.*
*We had one single on Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca: "Boy with
the*
*Bebop Glasses" b/w "The Things I Love".*
*As a result of the airplay, an agent out of Buffalo named Harry
Ricci*
*booked us on a Canadian tour, up around the Northern Ontario mining*
*country. I remember two of the towns were Sudbury and Timmons. They
were*
*the biggest places. It's probably completely modern now, but at that
time*
*it looked more like the nineteenth century than the twentieth. It was an
adventure. *
*It seemed like every town had a theater, and that's where we put on
our*
*show. One was a long- closed movie house, and for some reason the stage
was*
*unusable. We had to do our show from the orchestra pit. At rehearsal
the*
*first day I plugged in my guitar and amp and got semi-electrocuted.
The*
*orchestra pit was the lowest point in the building and all the
dampness*
*gathered in that part of the cement floor. Plugging in my guitar was
like*
*using a toaster in the bathtub. *
*Somebody brought a flattened cardboard box for me to stand on to break
the*
*ground. It worked, and we went ahead with the rehearsal. After the
first*
*song the theater manager walked up to me and said, "Sounds great,
Jack",*
*and put his hand on my arm. We both got zapped. *
*At another theater, for the price of admission you got our show and a
Jerry*
*Lewis movie. There were no dressing rooms, so they hung a light bulb
behind*
*the movie screen and we changed there. We could see the movie in reverse
on*
*the back of the screen. We could hear the crowd laugh at Jerry Lewis,
but*
*whenever the screen dimmed down the laughter took on a different tone.
With*
*the light bulb shining on us, they could see us running around in the
buff*
*right through the screen. *
*After the first matinee, we went out to get something to eat at a
little*
*diner around the corner. I'd been on a cheeseburger kick for several*
*months, and that's all I wanted. The waitress said, "I don't think we
have*
*that". *
*I asked if they had hamburgers. She nodded, and I said, "Just melt
some*
*cheese on top of it." She looked nervous and said she'd have to go ask
the*
*owner. *
*She came back and said, "He's afraid you won't like it." *
*I said, "I'll love it! Please! Just give it a try."*
*And I did love it, even though it was on toast. *
*The owner, a Chinese gentleman, came out from the kitchen to ask me if
it*
*was okay. I told him it was the best I ever had. *
*After the evening show we headed for the same diner.*
*As we approached it we saw a large sign in the window.*
*This is what the sign said: *
*"CHEESEBURGERS". *
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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Ervin Rouse, singer/songwriter/fiddler, with the "Rouse Brothers" born Craven
County, NC 1917.
Priscilla Mitchell born in Georgia 1941.
Tennessee Ernie Ford married Betty Jean Heminger 1942.
Steve Fishell, producer/musician, born Oak Harbor, WA 1953.
Carl Jackson, singer/songwriter/banjo/guitar, born Louisville, MS
1953.
Little Jimmy Dickens released "Blacked Joe's," 1954.
Brenda Lee released "Fool #1," in 1961.
Connie Smith joined the Grand Ole Opry 1965.
Merle Haggard recorded "Sing Me Back Home," 1967.
Marty Robbins released "Buenos Dias Argentina/Ballad Of A Small Man" 1979.
Jeff Foxworthy married wife Gregg, in New York City's Central Park 1985.
Farm Aid VII was played in New Orleans 1994.
Tim McGraw's CD "Live Like You Were Dying" topped the charts 2004.
The annual Farm Aid concert was held in Auburn, WA 2004.
Jennifer Hanson served as a judge at the /Miss America Pageant /in
Atlantic City, NJ _2004_. Jennifer competed in the Pageant in 1994 as
Miss California.
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
*<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html*> -
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock*
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October 5th, 1969,,,Somewhere In South Texas*
We knew when we drove up in front of the club that this was gonna be a
challenge. When the booking came into the Booking Office, the agent told me,
"Hey, I don't know nothing about this place...but, they paid the deposit up
front, and they asked for you and your band, that they watch your tv show down
there. " Good enough for me.*
We like to have never found the place, in the age before on line maps and GPS.
Finally, by stopping and asking, we finally drove into the rough gravel parking
lot. It was a, rambling, do-it-yourself with scrap lumber type of dance hall.
It had been painted red once long ago, but had faded to a kinda sick orange
color. We went into the back door and the stale air of old cigarette smoke,
spilled beer and overflowed toilets gave that old familiar welcome that all
Honky Tonks of that era seemed to have. First thing that we noticed was the
stage...completely enclosed in chicken wire across the front of it, to keep the
beer bottles from hitting the pickers. My bass man, band leader, harmony
singer and front man, Buck Evans, turned to me and said, "Well, at least the
crowd is protected from us hurtin' them real bad." *
That night we had an overflow crowd and it kept getting more and more boisterous
as the night wore on. On our third and final show, at Midnight, a fight broke
out between two cowboysand it seemed like the crowd had just been waiting for
that fuse to be lighted. All of a sudden the whole place erupted in
turmoilfightingscreamingbottles thrown through the air and bouncing off of the
chicken wire in front of the stage. I just kept on asingin. The Band just kept
on apickin.until, one big cowboy decided he was gonna whip the band and to do
that he had to come around the side of the stage and get past Buck. Bad
mistake, cause Buck was our Texas Security System, raised up in Texas Honky
Tonks, tougher than whet leatherand as the big cowboy hollered out a cuss word
and reached to grab Buckthe long neck of that Fender Bass came up from below and
connected right on the point of the cowboys chinflipping him completely over
backwards and out in the middle of the fighting, punching, kicking screaming
mass on the dance floor. He disappeared under the legs and boots and we never
saw him re-enter the frayI reckon he was out for the night. Funny thing is,
Buck never missed a beat of that Bass line of the shuffle song we were
playingand as we kept on and on *
playingsomehow those Texas two steppers stopped fighting and started dancing
again. We did an extra long last set and as we were packing up to leave, the
owner came over and thanked us for doing a good showBuck looked at him and said,
One thing I would suggest.if you want to really protect the crowd from the
musiciansyou need to put the Chicken Wire all around to the back wall.
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*Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com* -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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Moses answered, What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, The Lord
did not appear to you? Then the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? A
staff, he replied. *
* Exodus 4:1-2 (NIV)*
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