COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS*
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Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday October 9th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG*
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Several hit songs became hits because the artist heard a recording of the song
by another artist.
Conway Twitty's 1981 number one "Rest Your Love On Me" was one of those songs.
The song had previously been recorded by Johnny Rodriguez and wound up in his
"Love Me With All Your Heart" album - then was recorded by the Bee Gees and was
the flip-side of their number one pop record , "Too Much Heaven."
And it was the Bee Gees recording of the song that caught the attention of
Conway Twitty - and he recorded the tune two years later.
Conway's MCA single, "Rest Your Love On Me" came on the country music charts
February 21st, 1981 and was in the number one slot on May 2nd.
It was his 59th charted song and his 30th number one.*
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard on the radio that Ricky Skaggs and his wife are recording together.
Do you have any information?
A: Ricky Skaggs and wife Sharon (White) recently released a new album titled
"Hearts Like Ours" on their own label.
Q: Do you know anything about a song called "American Remington?" My daughter
says it was on Facebook.
A: Because of their strong feelings concerning the recent beheadings of both
Americans and other nationalities - Larry Gatlin and Billy Dean wrote a song
titled "An American With A Remington," and debuted it on Facebook. They plan to
release a studio version of the song in the near future.
Q: The TV news had a mention about Loretta Lynn on some all-time hit list.
What is that?
A: Loretta Lynn has been named number 11 on the list of "CMT All Time Top 40:
Artists Choice," - a list of the most influential artists in history chosen by
country stars themselves.
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Anyone know the whereabouts of Carol Anderson who co-wrote a Gary Stewart hit
Your Place Or Mine back in the 70s?*
Im also searching for Ray Sanders. Email me at
classics@countrymusicclassics.com*
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Q" The radio dudes played some Charlie McCoy music from what they called his
"new" CD but it had been released in 2013. How can it be new when it has already
been released?
A: "Pride: A Tribute to Charlie Pride: Deluxe Edition" contains two bonus
tracks not found on the original edition that was released in 2013. The project
contains McCoy's version of 13 songs made famous by Charley Pride and will be
released November 3rd.
Q: Do you know anything about a George Jones Museum? My daughter heard it on
the radio.
A: Jones' widow Nancy says she will soon unveil plans to open the George Jones
Museum at 128 and 130 N. Second Avenue in Nashville.
Q: My mom says that years ago during a Porter Wagoner concert Norma Jean sang
the Bill Anderson song "Still." Our local radio station says she never recorded
the song and none of the music stores know anything about it. Do you know?
A: Norma Jean's version of "Still" is in her 1966 "Pretty Miss Norma Jean"
album.*
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Your comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. concerning this newsletter---are
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* NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:*
*1949*
/Slipping Around/ - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely *
*1957*
/My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You/ - Ray Price *
*1965*
/Behind the Tear/ - Sonny James *
*1973*
/Youre the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me/ - Ray Price *
*1981*
/Midnight Hauler/ - Razzy Bailey *
*1989*
/I Got Dreams/ - Steve Wariner*
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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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*FRAMES.*
By: Jack Blanchard
(This piece was written a couple of years ago
and many readers responded with positive comments,
so here it is again.)
A famous photographer was set up on a scenic overlook
to shoot the beautiful sunset.
A stranger walked up beside him
and gazed silently at the gorgeous sky.
After a couple of minutes the stranger said this:
"It's almost like a painting."
The photographer said: "Yes. Nature's catching up."
Life is a picture without a frame.
There's too much to see to really appreciate it.
We see life best when it comes in little sections
cleverly framed so we know what to focus on.
It's easier for us to see the tree than the forest.
In olden days it was the fashion
for hikers on nature walks to carry wooden picture frames.
When they came upon a beautiful vista,
they would look at it through the frames,
blocking out the not so pretty things,
and adjusting the frame to see only the best parts,
in artistic balance...like a painting.
Frames are interesting.
On television they make a picture shorter from top to bottom
and we think we're seeing a panorama.
Hair styles are designed to frame the face.
When we "frame" somebody for a crime,
we focus suspicion upon them.
Stories and songs frame parts of life for us to understand...
showing us life with order and meaning,
and not showing us the ugly or boring parts.
People in story and song seldom sleep or go to the bathroom,
because they are not important to the plot.
Every line is written to add to the continuity,
and take the action to a satisfying ending.
Real life doesn't have many good endings.
It usually peaks somewhere around the middle,
and then just wanders off,
but the authors are smart enough to stop at a high point.
Stories give us life we can understand...in a frame.
Bite size.
I don't mean to say life can't be fun, inspiring, tragic, hilarious,
noble, evil, and interesting in every way.
It is, and I love it.
But it's often more interesting when we look back on it.
Our memory is selective.
It forgets the boring parts.
Artists, composers, and writers help us to find meaning,
or the illusion of meaning,
in a world that appears pretty random to the naked eye.
I do this kind of thing for a living. It's my life's work,
and I'm glad I didn't listen to the well-meaning people
who advised me to give up this nonsense,
and get a real job.
Music, literature, poetry, and art help us to to get a frame
around this life we find ourselves in.
Jack Blanchard*
*_http://_www.jackandmisty.net* - http://www.jackandmisty.net-UNAS
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The Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix recently unveiled exhibits
honoring the Carter Family and Johnny Cash. The exhibits provide guests with an
overview of the musical careers of the artists and their historical impact.
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Items on display in the Carter Family and Johnny Cash exhibits have never before
been displayed for the public and come to MIM on loan from John Carter Cash, son
of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, and Dale Jett, grandson of A.P. Carter. The
items will be on display through April 2016. *
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Items on display in the Carter Family and Johnny Cash exhibits include: *
A.P. Carters 1929 Martin 00-28 guitar, played by the original Carter Family
June Carter Cashs custom Orthey autoharp and fingerpicks *
Johnny Cashs black Manuel Cuevas stage suit which was worn in concert and
features embroidered acorns and oak leaves *
Johnny Cashs black Martin D-42JC signature guitar which was played in concert
and on several of his American album *
Johnny Cashs 1936 Martin 5-18 guitar which was played by Cash, family and
friends in Cashs home and inlaid in the early 1970s with acorns and oak leaves
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Johnny Cashs 2002 Grammy award for Give My Love to Rose, Best Male Country Vocal
Performance *
The exhibits also feature photographs from the Grand Ole Opry Archives and
performance footage from several sources. *
The Musical Instrument Museum is located at 4725 E. Mayo Boulevard in Phoenix
(corner of Tatum and Mayo Boulevards, just south of Loop 101). For general
museum information and a full schedule of events, visit MIM.org or call
480.478.6000. *
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T*ODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY*
Compiled by Bill Morrison*
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Gobel Reeves "The Texas Drifter," born Sherman, TX 1899.*
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Dennis "Boots" Woodall, songwriter/guitarist, founder of the "Radio Wranglers,"
born Paulding County, GA 1921.*
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The "Renfro Valley Barn Dance," debuted on WLW in Renfro Valley, KY 1937.*
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Bill Monroe debuted on the Grand Ole Opry 1938.*
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The Musicians Union strike, which began August 1, /1942/, ended in
_1943_. The Record companies began recording again after one year of
silence.*
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Elvis Presley debuted on the Louisiana Hayride 1954. *
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Buck Owens recorded "Second Fiddle" at Capitol Studios, Hollywood
_1958_. This single became Buck's first chart record in the spring of
/1959/.*
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Jimmy Dean's #1 hit "Big Bad John" debuted on the charts 1961.*
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Gary Bennett, "BR5-49," born Las Vegas, NV 1964.*
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Little Jimmy Dickens' "May the Bird of Paradise Fly up Your Nose," charted
1965.*
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Chick Hurt, age 56, "The Prarie Ramblers," died 1967.*
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Elvis Presley and Priscilla were divorced 1973.*
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The _1978_ CMA Awards Show was presented in Nashville.*
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Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones inducted CMHF 1978.*
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Dolly Parton named "Entertainer of the Year," at the 1978 CMA Awards.*
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Hank Thompson, Cliffe Stone, and Jack Stapp, inducted CMHF 1989.*
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The Highwaymen kicked off their second tour 1990.*
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Joe Lubin, age 84, songwriter, died 2001.*
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Smoky Dacus, age 90, "Texas Playboys," died 2001.*
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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"THE FAMILY OF COUNTRY MUSIC"*
The common thread that runs through the Country Music family is the simple
lifestyle that most of us were raised in, and the basic goodness at the heart of
most of them, and the heartfelt love of the music. The folks we think of as
stars are just regular people that have a unique gift of expressing what all of
us have experienced some time in our lives....in their music.*
I love the story that Little Jimmy Dickens tells about the time, in the 1940s,
when after his first hit record he couldnt wait to travel back to the hills of
West Virginia to show his Grandma and Pap his new Cadillac Limousine. He got the
car down the gravel road, and through the woods and pulled up in front of the
old house. Inside, in the kitchen, Ma was fixin up some eggs and ham and Jimmy
was talking to her, when he glanced outside the window and saw Pap steppin off
the Cadillac to see how long it was. Jimmy went outside and Pap said Jim, what
kind of car is she? Well, Jimmy knew that Pap thought the only good car ever
made was a Buick....so he replied, Shes a Buick, Pap. Pap just smiled, shifted
the chaw of tobacco around in his mouth and said, Wouldnt you know. Later, Jimmy
took Pap for a ride to town and Pap sat in the back seat while Jimmy drove.
Jimmy was watching Pap in the rear view mirror and noticed that Paps chaw of
tobacco was getting mighty moist, in fact it was starting to run out the corner
of his mouth as he was trying to figure out how to roll down the back windows,
after all electric windows had not made it into that part of West Virginia.
Finally Pap hollered, Jimmy, how you get this window to roll down? Jimmy
answered, Just point your finger at it, watching in the mirror as Pap pointed
his finger at the window, at which time Jimmy hit the electric window button on
the drivers side that controls the back seat windows.....Pap spit brown tobacco
juice all down the side of Jimmys new Cadillac limousine. This went on all day
as they drove around the area, showing off Jimmys new car.....Pap pointing his
finger at the window, and Jimmy rolling it down. When Jimmy finally told him,
Pap made Jimmy swear he wouldnt tell anyone because he was afraid the people in
the white coats would come and pick him up.*
Tom T. Hall says that growing up in Kentucky his family didnt even know they
were poor until they read about it in the Saturday Evening Post. It was a real
disappointment. He also says that he was too young to go to the Korean War like
the rest of the young men in his town, so he took a job at the local radio
station when he was 15, and one of his jobs was reading the news. The first week
he ripped off the Teletype news copy and sat down in front of the mike. In
England today Winston Churchill was diagnosed with the .....(he stared down at
the copy at the word he had never heard of: Ptomaine Poisoning).......with the
FLU. After the newscast the station manager came in and said, I thought
Churchill had Ptomaine Poisoning. Oh, he does, replied Tom T., but hes also got
a small case of the flu. No wonder he turned out to be a wordsmith.*
Yes, the years when the Stars traveled in sedans and station wagons, strapping
the dog house bass on top of the car roof.....moving it inside when it was
raining....trying to catch a few minutes of sleep sitting four to the backseat
and three in the front....hardly ever stopping for a Motel, shoot, who could
afford it. One time I was on my way down to Florida to play a gig and I stopped
at a truck stop to get some coffee and get rid of some and when I walked into
the mens room an entire road show of Nashville musicians were trying to clean up
in the sinks, and change into their stage outfits for a show on down the road.
Yep, I only do this for a living cause its so glamorous.*
But, the friendships and relationships you make that last a lifetime, well, that
is the real payback. The family of Classic Country Music will last as long as
one of us is still standing to tell the stories and play the music. *
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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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Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what Gods will ishis good, pleasing and perfect will. *
* Romans 12:2 (NIV)
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