COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
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Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday October 30th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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According to record producer Brent Maher, he found the 1981 Dottie West and
Kenny Rogers number one, "What Are We Doin' In Love" when he stopped by the home
of co-writer Randy Goodrum.
Maher commented "We were about to leave his house when Randy told me he wanted
to play me a brand new song. I thought it was great - the melody reminded me of
"West Side Story" and I immediately thought of a duet with Dottie and Kenny.
Although the recording was a Dottie West and Kenny Rogers duet - the label on
the record does not list Kenny's name. That was reportedly at Rogers' request -
as he wanted the single to be a Dottie West record.
The Liberty Records single "What Are We Doin' In Love" came on the country music
charts April 4th, 1981 and was in the number one spot on June 13th.
It was produced by Brent Maher and Randy Goodrum and on the charts for 15
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard on the radio that Willie Nelson is now recording with his sister.
Do you have any information?
A: "December Day: Willie's Stash Vol. 1" is set for December 2nd release and
features Willie and his sister Bobbie performing songs from Willie's catalog.
Q: I have heard that Alan Jackson will perform on TV. Do you have any details?
A: Alan Jackson will perform on an ABC TV special "CMA Country Christmas"
that tapes in front of a live audience November 7th at Bridgestone Arena in
Nashville. The special will air December 1st.
Q: My dad has a song recorded from the radio years ago about an ugly woman. It
sounds like Jerry Reed. Did Reed record such a song?
A: "Ugly Woman" was a track in Reed's 1970 "Georgia Sunshine" album.
Q: I bought a George Jones 45 record at a garage sale. He's singing a song
about "Yearning" with a girl singer. Part of the label is missing. Do you know
the name of the girl singer?
A: "Yearning" was a 1957 number 10 hit for George Jones and Jeanette Hicks.
Q: I love the Mickey Gilley record of "You Don't Know Me." My mom says that
song was a hit for another singer before Gilley's record. Is that true?
A: "You Don't Know Me" was a number 10 hit for Eddy Arnold n 1956 before
scoring a number one for Gilley in 1981.
Q: I have the Mel Tillis recording of "Sawmill," that I bought in the early
70's. My dad says Mel recorded that song several years earlier. Do you have any
information?
A Tillis recorded "Sawmill" with Bill Phillips that made it to number 27 in
1959. Mel re-recorded a solo version of the song in 1973 which peaked at number
two.
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1946*
/Divorce Me C.O.D./ - Merle Travis *
*1954*
/More and More/ - Webb Pierce *
*1962*
/Mama Sang a Song/ - Bill Anderson *
*1970*
/Run, Woman, Run/ - Tammy Wynette *
*1978*
/Lets Take the Long Way Around the World/ - Ronnie Milsap *
*1986*
/Cry/ - Crystal Gayle*
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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*.*
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*RECORDING IN THE 1960'S.
By: Jack Blanchard
In the 60's we mixed almost everything down to stereo and to mono.
The mono was specifically for 45 radio singles.
We ran two tape recorders at once... one mono and one multi-track.
The mono was for AM radio play,
and was considered the more important mix.
The original master tapes sounded beautiful and rich...hi-fi.
When they were mastered for AM radio, which was mono,
they were much lower quality. Here's why:
First the singles were reduced to midrange,
where the human hearing is most efficient... like the CB radio frequencies.
This gave them what we called "apparent loudness".
Then they were run through compressors and limiters,
clipping off a lot of the sound,
in order to make your record sound louder on the air.
This became a rat race, because everybody was doing it,
so the integrity of the original music was lost...
flattened and pounded and cookie-cut into lo-fi commercial radio singles.
The LP albums were usually stereo and much better in sound quality.
Recording back then, when we started, was not so primitive.
We sang into Telefunken condenser mikes,
we had 3 or 4 track wide tape running then at 15 inches per second.
We had several kinds of reverb...including elaborate echo chambers.
These were highly engineered, shellacked rooms,
with a speaker at one end, and a movable condenser mike on a track.
No two flat surfaces were parallel to each other.
This was to prevent standing waves, and let the echo keep repeating.
They sounded as good or better than today's digital echo/verbs,
but a lot of conservative producers were afraid of them.
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So...
people made fine masters, released crappy singles,
and the public accepted the system because they were trained to.
Now people think that was the way music sounded back then.
It was better than that.
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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Patsy Montana born "Ruby Rose Blevins" in Hope, AR 1908.
Lee Gillette, musician/publisher, born Indianapolis, IN 1912.
Kitty Wells, age 18, married Johnny Wright 1937.
Ernest Tubb recorded "Walking The Floor Over You" 1941.
Timothy B. Schmidt of the "Eagles," born Sacramento, CA 1947.
T. Graham Brown born Atlanta, Ga. 1954.
Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," certified gold 1964.
Ronnie Milsap married Joyce Reeves 1965.
Tammy Wynette's "Run Woman Run" was the #1 Country song 1970.
Marty Robbins recorded "Twentieth Century Drifter" 1973.
Buck Owens recorded "It's A Monster's Holiday" 1973.
Jennifer and Heather Kinley, "The Kinleys," born 1976.
Kassidy Osborn, "SHeDAISY," born Magna, UT 1976.
The Oak Ridge Boys inducted into the Gospel Music Association Hall of Fame in
_2000_. The group was formed in /1945/ as a gospel
group.
Varese released Gene Autry's album "Goin' Back to Texas" 2001.
RCA released Clint Black's "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" 2001.
George Strait's single "I Hate Everything," and his album "50 Number Ones" were
both #1 on Billboards country chars 2004.
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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15 July, 1957on the Main Deck of the USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36), Long Beach Naval
Base.*
Im standing, with all my gear resting on the deck by my feet, saying goodbye to
my shipmate, fiddle player and best friend, Pee Wee Garrison. Standing by Pee
Wee is Smoky Rogers, another friend, shipmate and the big Dog House Bass player
and harmony singer of the Bryce Canyon Troubadors. After three years of service
on the Bryce Canyon, I had drawn Shore Duty and was leaving the ship and the
Band that I had played with on board ship and all over the Far East. It was
three great years of Naval Service and Music. As we were saying goodbye, Pee Wee
squeezed my shoulder and said, Stan, one day we will see you on the Grand Ole
Opry. I laughed at the jestand then realized that Pee Wee was not jesting. That
last comment by Pee Wee stayed in my memory for many years thereafter.*
October 3, 1967Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TNten years later. I came out to the
stage as Billy Walker introduced me and Hal Rugg and Jimmy Capps kicked off my
song. The spotlight was in my eyes so I could not see the faces of the audience,
but at the end of my song, the crowd was clapping and the spotlight got out of
my eyesthere in the third row of the old church pewsI was getting a two man
standing ovationPee Wee and Smoky were standing up and Smoky was hollering We
told you we would see you on the Opry!!! It was a heartfelt reunion, back by the
backstage stairs in the Alley, as we laughed and slapped each other on the
back.*
Pee Wee and Smoky were the first ones to believeat 21 years old at the time, I
did not even suspect that it might happen. So, my first bandmates, for those
three years of picking on board a Navy Shipthey were preparing me for what would
become my life work.*
Pee Wee and Smoky are both gone on now, but they left me with the memory of two
friends that believed.even before I believed it myself. Thank you my friends,
you saw something in a raw kid from the Ozarks. You believed at the very
beginning. *
*Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com* -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:*
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How good and pleasant it is when Gods people live together in unity! It is like
precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on
Aarons beard, down on the collar of his robe. *
* Psalm 133:1-2 (NIV)*
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