COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday November 20th, 2014
CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT www.countrymusicclassics.com -
http://www.countrymusicclassics.com
Email: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Most recording artists give credit to someone who was at least partly
responsible for their recording success.
In the case of Earl Thomas Conley - that person would be Nelson Larkin - an
insurance salesman who moonlighted as a record producer and who took a liking to
Conley after E.T. played him a tape back in 1970.
Larkin signed Conley to his own Prize Records and released several singles
before placing him with GRT Records.
Conley then signed with Warner Bros Records - who dropped him after three single
releases. By that time Larkin had formed Sunbird Records and suggested they try
another project which turned out to be the "Blue Pearl" album - which yielded
three singles: "Too Much Noise," "Silent Treatment," and "Fire And Smoke."
Earl Thomas Coley's Sunbird Records single "Fire And Smoke" entered the country
music charts April 4th, 1981 and was in the top slot on July 11th.
It was his 9th charted song and his first number one.
^^^^^^^^^^
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I have heard that Loretta Lynn has a new record deal Do you know anything
about it?
A: Loretta has signed a new record deal with Sony Legacy. The new agreement
covers several albums of new material produced by her daughter Patsy Russell and
John Carter Cash recorded over the past seven years at the Cash Cabin Studio in
Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Q: The radio guys said that a Ray Price tribute is planned for TV. Do you know
when?
A: Ray Price will be honored with a special Countrys Family Reunion, a five
DVD set of country artists performing Prices hit songs. The special will be
shown on RFD-TV sometime next year.
Q: Do you have any information concerning a Tanya Tucker project at the Hall
Of Fame?
A: Tanya Tucker: Strong Enough To Bend opened at the Country Music Hall Of
Fame November 14th and will run thru May 2015 and features stage costumes,
Cutting Horse Association Awards, a Harley Davidson 1992 Screamin Eagle
customized in Tanyas special shade of pink and many other items.
Q: I heard on the radio about a new George Strait DVD of his last tour. Do you
have any details?
A: The deluxe edition of The Cowboys Rides Away: Live From AT & T Stadium has
been released thru Walmart. It includes 28 tracks on two CDs and a DVD of the 40
song show from his final tour date in June at the Dallas, Texas AT& T Stadium.
Q: My son says he saw on TV that there is some new unreleased Waylon Jennings
recordings available. Is that true?
A: Sony Music Entertainment plans to release a Waylon Jennings project
Louisiana Man, Kentucky Woman, on vinyl in honor of Record Store Day. The album
features three previously unreleased Waylon songs from 1970.
Q: Have you ever heard of a George Jones song of A Hard Act To Follow? My wife
recorded it off the radio years ago.
A: A Hard Act To Follow was the flipside of Jones 1980 number one, He Stopped
Loving Her Today.
^^^^^^^^^
Your comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. concerning this newsletter---are
welcome. Email to: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com
^^^^^^^^^
NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:
1951
Slow Poke - Pee Wee King
1959
Country Girl - Faron Young
1967
Its the Little Things - Sonny James
1975
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way - Waylon Jennings
1983
One of a Kind Pair of Fools - Barbara Mandrell
1991
Shameless - Garth Brooks
^^^^^^^^^
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
^^^^^^^^^^
AUTUMN IS FOR WRITING SONGS.
By: Jack Blanchard
Autumn is my favorite time of year a season of moods.
The first chill after summer has worn out its welcome...
Thats when I start to feel the holidays coming on.
Not that we do any big celebrating these days
But its the remembering of celebrations past,
and those who were with us during good times.
The empty places at our table.
I write more songs during the remnants of the year
when emotions are nearer to the surface,
the past is just over our shoulder,
and old voices whisper in our ear.
Heres one of those songs...
WHEN THE BLUES COME IN FROM THE RAIN.
When the river's runnin' gray,
On a dark and cloudy day,
And the winds that bring October
Make the weeds and reeds and cattails sway...
Thinking my life over,
I see your face again
When the Blues Come In From the Rain
When the leaves are coming down
On the sidewalks wet and brown
And the cars all have their lights on
As they make their way back home from town
Time may fade your picture,
But it sure don't dull the pain
When the Blues Come In From the Rain
Don't get me wrong, I'm not sayin' I'm to blame
Just the same, I've got an empty feeling inside
Sometimes I'd like to break right down and call your name
But all that I've got left now is my pride
When the Blues Come In From the Rain
And your face appears,
The tears are only raindrops on my window pane
Still, if I could live life over,
I'd go back the way we came
When the Blues Come In From the Rain
* * *
Listen to the song here:
<https://soundcloud.com/jackandmisty/when-the-blues-come-in-from>
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
Eck Robertson, fiddler/recording artist, born Madison County, AR 1897.
Judy Canova, actress/singer born Jacksonville, FL 1916.
Tut Taylor, multi-instrumentalist session player, born Milledgeville, GA 1923.
Curly Putman, songwriter, born Princeton, AL 1930.
Joe Walsh of the "Eagles," born Wichita, KS 1947.
George Grantham of "Poco" born Cordell, OK 1947.
RCA paid SUN Records $35, 000.00 for Elvis Presley's recording contract in 1955.
Elvis signed a three-year dear with RCA Victor the same day.
Buck White wrote "Home Run Man," and Jimmy Martin recorded it 1958.
Little Jimmie Dickens returned to the charts with "The Violet and the Rose,"
1961.
Francis Craig, WSM music star, died Sewanee, TN 1966.
Dierks Bentley born Phoenix, AZ 1975.
Waylon Jennings' "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" was #1 in 1975.
Ace Cannon released his 2-album set "Tuff Sax" "Moanin' Sax" 1995.
Chet Atkins released his "RCA Country Legends" album in 2001.
Ronnie Dunn inducted into the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame 2003.
Charlie Cline, age 73, co-founder of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers, died in Jasper,
AL 2004.
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
Just sitting here drinking my coffee and thinking about sayings that people used
when I was growing up. If you were at the market, or met one of the friends and
neighbors that you hadnt seen for awhile, youd say HowsurMomnthem?, as if it
were one word. After you had caught up on their current events, you would say,
Yuns come see us , hear?...I dont know if they still talk like that in the
Ozarksbut, in my childhood, it was never Yallit was always Yunsor Usnsor Weuns.
Back in the deep hollers of the Southern Ozarks, its like they made up their own
special language. Funny thing, most of them Ozarkers came from Appalachia,
moving on when they could see the smoke of their neighbors cabin and figured it
was getting too crowded. So, they all had to have the same language origins in
the beginning. But, when they got to the Ozark hills, they dropped Yall and
started using Yuns. My Mothers people, the Wallis Clan, moved to the Arkansas
Ozarks in the 1830s, leaving a barely settled part of Tennessee, and traveling
by covered wagon to Arkansas, when it was still a wild, untamed back of beyond,
full of renegade Indians, outlaws and general desperadoes of all make and
manner. They homesteaded on top of Boat Mountain, close to the Buffalo River,
and began to breed like rabbits, building up the Clan to have enough Manpower to
defend their homesite. And that is how they talked, when I first heard them in
1941, when I was 5 years old. We had gone down to Valley Springs, and then up
the old logging road to the top where Great Great Grand Daddy had first built
his log cabin, when he arrived from Tennessee. As I stood there in the Smoky,
dim light from the fireplace, and listened to my kinfolks talk, it was like
being in a foreign country where you do not understand the language.
Through the years of growing up, on a farm 14 miles North of Springfield, out by
Pleasant Hope, I continued to listen to the Native Ozarker, with their dialect
and rhythm of speaking. They were, and Im sure still are, some of the finest
people that ever lived. They were fiercely Independent, with a Makin Do outlook
on life.
Through the long years, the Ozarks became more settled, and a lot of the old
language went away and fell out of use. But, if you go deep enough down into
Taney or Stone Counties, or on down into Arkansas, along the Buffalo River, you
will still find some small remote areas where the old ways are still practiced.
They still ask, Hey, howsurMomnthem?
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
^^^^^^^^^
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:2-3 (NIV)
^^^^^^^^
To unsubscribe from this newsletter: send an email to:
country-music-classics-off@mail-list.com
^^^^^^^^^^^
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To subscribe, send a blank message to country-music-classics-on@mail-list.com
To unsubscribe, send a blank message to country-music-classics-off@mail-list.com
To change your email address, send a message to country-music-classics-change@mail-list.com
with your old address in the Subject: line
To contact the list owner, send your message to
country-music-classics-list-owner@mail-list.com
Doug Davis-Country Music Classics-3702 Pleasant Grove Rd-Texarkana, Texas 75503
To unsubscribe or change your email address, click here.
<http://cgi.mail-list.com/u?ln=country-music-classics&nm=thegblogindy%40gmail.com>
No comments:
Post a Comment