COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Wednesday November 26th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
By the time Charlie Black and Rory Bourke wrote Anne Murray's 1981 number one -
"Blessed Are The Believers," they had already scored with one Anne Murray single
each year since 1979.
According to Murray, "They didn't write the songs for me - they just got
together and wrote - but it just seemed to me that a lot of times - they were
writing the song just for me."
The pair co-wrote "Blessed Are The Believers" with Sandy Pinkard.
As the story goes - Pinkard had invited Black and Bourke to his house for a home
cooked meal and after eating the three were sitting around with guitars and the
song just happened!
Anne Murray's Capitol single "Blessed Are The Believers" came on the country
charts April 4th, 1981 and was in the number one slot on June 27th.
The single was produced by Jim Ed Norman and was Murray's 29th charted song and
her 6th number one.
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BEST WISHES from our house to yours for a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: My daughter was talking about Ray Stevens giving Alan Jackson some kind of
award. Do you know anything about that?
A: Ray Stevens hosted the recent Inspirational Country Music Awards which
named Alan Jackson the Mainstream Country Male Artist Of The Year.
Q: The radio folks said that Vince Gill is working on a project with Lyle
Lovett. Do you have any information?
A: Vince and Lyle will team up for a four day tour called "Vince Gill and Lyle
Lovett: Songs And Stories" and will start January 27th.
Q: Have you heard of a song titled "Still A Little Bit Of Love?" I found it on
a tape my mom had found at a garage sale.
A: That was a track in Dan Seals' 1985 "Won't Be Blue Anymore" album.
Q: My dad used to talk about a song about "The Last Of The Sunshine Cowboys?"
He didn't know who had the record. Do you know?
A: That song was written by Eddy Raven and was his first charted song -
peaking at number 63 in 1974.
Q: I know Chet Atkins was not a singer but why isn't he in the hall of fame?
A: Chet Atkins was inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame in 1973.
Q: The Hank Williams song "I Can't Help If If I'm Still In Love With You" is
my favorite. According to my mom - some girl singer also had a hit on that song.
Is that true?
A: The song scored a number 2 for Linda Ronstadt in 1975.
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Your comments, suggestions, gripes, etc. concerning this newsletter---are
welcome. Email to: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com
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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:
1949
Slipping Around - Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely
1957
Wake Up Little Susie - The Everly Brothers
1965
May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose - "Little" Jimmy Dickens
1973
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
1981
All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) - Hank Williams, Jr.
1989
Yellow Roses - Dolly Parton
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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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A WINTER'S NIGHT ON INTERSTATE NINETY.
By: Jack Blanchard
It had been a sunny winter day, about 34 degrees in the Dakotas.
Snow from the night before had partially melted,
wetting the road surface of Interstate Ninety.
It was late afternoon and we were behind a tractor-trailer.
Then the sun dropped below the horizon and the temperature fell,
turning the asphalt into a glassy ice-skating rink.
All traffic on the road lost traction, and slowed to three miles per hour,
trying to maintain control.
The roadway was crowned and vehicles were sliding slowly off the shoulder
into the deep ditch and settling on their side,
where the passengers could freeze to death during the night.
Somehow I kept our motor home on the road,
but I could feel the pull toward the ditch.
Then the eighteen-wheeler ahead of us began to turn,
like a slow-motion ballet,
until the truck driver was looking directly at me from his windshield,
about ten feet away.
Then the big rig coasted sleepily off the shoulder
and settled into the snowy ravine, facing backward.
I was amazingly alert at that point,
hands tightly on the wheel and foot carefully off the brake.
Misty shouted, "There's an exit and a KOA sign! Try to get off!"
I said, "Okay, but all the campgrounds are closed up here in the winter."
She said, "At least we'll be off this nightmare."
With some careful sliding around and correcting,
I managed the exit ramp and found the RV park.
I couldn't believe it! They were open!
I have never found another northern campground open this time of year,
because the water freezes up.
We went inside the lighted building,
and they told us that they had ice-breakers on their water lines on each site.
The ice-breaker looked like a pump handle.
You lift it up and force it down and it cracks the underground ice,
and the water comes out.
We hooked up our water and electricity, and Misty had a good idea.
She wrapped an electric blanket around our water hose and plugged it in,
and it kept the hose from freezing up during the night.
We could see the flashing lights out on the Interstate,
where rescue vehicles were getting people out of their cars and trucks,
and taking them to shelter, some to the heated KOA building,
where they were given hot drinks and food.
There was not enough traction to pull the vehicles out of the ditch,
so they were saving the people,
and would get the cars and trucks the next day, if the ice melted.
Misty and I had food and everything we needed in the motor home,
but we went inside to be with the rescued people,
and talk about the ordeal we'd just been through.
The television news reported that hundreds of travelers were being rescued
from their stranded vehicles.
Inside the campground building it was like an impromptu winter party,
with strangers in the fellowship of being unexpectedly alive.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
Rev. Andrew Jenkins, blind preacher/singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist,
born in Jenkinsburg,
GA1885. Andrew wrote over 800 songs, and recorded over 100 records.
Shell Smith, guitarist/recording artist, born Carroll County, MS 1895.
Charles "Gabe" Ward, "Hoosier Hot Shots," born Knightstown, IN 1904
Jimmie Revard, bandleader of the "Oklahoma Playboys" born Pawhuska, OK 1909.
Bonnie Lou's single "Daddy-O" debuted on Billboard's Chart 1955.
Jerry Reed released "If The Good Lord's Willin'," 1955.
Mac Wiseman released "I Hear You Knockin'," 1955.
Hawkshaw Hawkins and Jean Shepard married on stage, in Wichita, KS 1960.
Linda Davis born Dodson, TX 1962.
A&M released Rita Coolidge's album "The Lady's Not for Sale" 1972.
Merle Haggard recorded "Always Wanting You," 1974.
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
The neighbor, up the road a ways, has got a Jackass, and the first glimmer of
Dawn he starts Hee Hawing, like a Rooster, at the rising Sun. It don't bother me
cause I'm already up before Dawn, it's just the sound of country...and I love
it. When the Jackass starts his morning call, it causes the cows to start
lowing, the birds start singing, the Deer start moving back to their resting
places in the deep woods, the little Rabbits stick their heads up out of their
nest in the tall grass of the field, the family of Squirrels down in the hollow
Sycamore by the Creek, figure it's time to get up and go nut hunting...as me and
Old Buck The Collie sit on the Porch, me with my strong coffee, he with his dog
treat, smiling as we listen to the wake up call of the Jackass...on a fine
Saturday morning.
And Deshea Creek chuckles on down to the Cumberland, the Cumberland River feeds
into the Ohio River, the Ohio collides with the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois,
and the Mississippi rushes down to replenish the Gulf Of Mexico, thereby
connecting our little creek with the whole wide world. A traveling man needs to
live on a traveling creek.
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brothers eye and pay no
attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me
take the speck out of your eye, when all the time there is a plank in your own
eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will
see clearly to remove the speck from your brothers eye.
Matthew 7:3-5 (NIV)
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