COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday December 18th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Many hit songs have been rewritten from the original version before being
recorded but according to songwriter Mark True - Crystal Gayle's 1981 number one
"Too Many Lovers" was completely redone before being recorded.
True commented, "Ted Lindsey came up with the idea and we wrote the song. But
that was two years before the record came out. We didn't like the finished song
and didn't do anything with it. Two years later I mentioned the idea to Sam
Hogin and we completely rewrote the song.
The tune wound up as the second single release from Crystal Gayle's "These Days"
album.
Her Columbia Records single "Too Many Lovers" came on the country music charts
May 23rd, 1981 and was at the top of the list on August 8th.
It was her 28th charted song and her 9th number one. It was on the charts for
17 weeks.
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M E M O:
This our last newsletter for this year. Taking a two week holiday vacation.
Next newsletter should arrive in your e-mailbox on January 8th.
We wish you and your family a safe and Merry Christmas. Please remember the
true reason for the season !
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard that Ricky Skaggs is recording a new bluegrass album. Do you have
any information?
A: Ricky Skaggs has teamed up with bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley on his new
album "Ralph Stanley & Friends: A Man Of Constant Sorrow," which will be
available January 19th.
Q: The radio folks mentioned Reba McEntire receiving an award from a new
awards show. Any details?
A: Reba received the first ever NASH Icon Award during the recent inaugural
American Country Countdown Awards at Nashville's Music City Center.
Q: I heard on the radio that Glen Campbell is nominated for a Grammy. Do you
know anything about that?
A: Glen Campbell is nominated in the Best Country Song category for the song
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You," which appears on the "I'll Be Me" soundtrack
Q: I have heard that someone is making a new Bob Wills tribute album. Do you
know who is involved?
A: George Strait, Brad Paisley, Willie Nelson, and Merle Haggard are joining
Asleep At The Wheel on their new Bob Wills tribute album titled "Still The King:
Celebrating the Music Of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys.
Q: Does Loretta Lynn still do concerts?
A: She does. Loretta will join Jack White for his January 28th show at
Nashville's Bridgestone Arena.
Q: My daughter tells me that the radio folks said that Aaron Tippin is doing a
new tour and a new album. Do you have any information? He is my favorite singer.
A: Aaron Tippin is celebrating his 25th year in music with a 25th Anniversary
Tour (dates not yet announced) and a new commemorative album featuring some new
material as well as freshly recorded versions of his old songs.
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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:
1947
Ill Hold You in My Heart (Till I Can Hold You in My Arms) - Eddy Arnold
1955Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1963
Loves Gonna Live Here - Buck Owens
1971
Kiss an Angel Good Mornin - Charley Pride
1979
Happy Birthday Darlin - Conway Twitty
1987
The Last One to Know - Reba McEntire
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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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OLD SONGS AT CHRISTMAS.
By: Jack Blanchard
Some of my friends don't like Christmas music.
I love it.
I can understand how Christmas songs seem corny to some people,
but they have melody, harmony, and words,
which is more than a lot of today's popular music.
Anyway, I love Christmas music for completely different reasons.
This is the most emotional season of the year,
and those songs bring back powerful memories,
both happy and unhappy, but packed with emotion.
The ghosts of past Christmases often blur my vision in December.
My family was a partying bunch...
each holiday an excuse for all the relatives to get together
and have a special time.
Even my grandparents would dress in outrageous costumes on Halloween,
and on July 4th's we would drive the neighbors nuts with fireworks.
New Years Eve meant champagne and "blind robins". ..
and on and on.
Later in my life I experienced some very rough Christmases,
some even tragic,
and also some wonderful times with Misty and the small family we had left.
Every experience at this time of year is magnified and extreme
in my memory.
Hearing the old songs at Christmas makes me happily sad.
They evoke feelings I don't even understand,
and yet it's my favorite time of the year.
My steady guy cracks right down the middle,
and my sentimental guy takes over.
"It's a Wonderful Life" was on TV the other night.
We watched something else because we've seen it so many times.
The show we were watching ended early and Jimmy Stewart was still on,
so we decided to see the last hour of it.
We both sat there like idiots with lumps in our throats
and tears in our eyes when George Bailey got his life back.
Christmas makes me weak, I guess.
A good kind of weakness.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
Wilf Carter, a.k.a. Montana Slim, vocals/guitarist born Port Hilford, Nova
Scotia, Canada 1904.
Joe Galante, record executive, born Queens, NY 1949.
Hometown Jamboree debuted on Southern California TV 1949. The final broadcast
aired
9-12-1959.
Elvis Presley recorded "Milkcow Blues Boogie/You're A Heartbreaker" for Sun
1954.
Pee Wee King debuted his weekly TV show on WBBM Chicago 1954.
Justin Tubb recorded "I Gotta Go Get My Baby" 1954.
Cledus T. Judd "James Barry Poole," born Crowe Springs, GA 1964.
British singer/songwriter, Kristy MacColl, age 41, was run over by a speedboat
and killed in 2000. The accident occurred in Mexico
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
Anyone who knows me, knows of my love of old stuff. Old Tractors, old guitars,
old hand tools, old stone Indian Artifacts, old fishing lures...old cars and
trucks. I have rescued many an old car or truck from the Junk yards and enjoyed
rebuilding them to shine mighty fine. It gives you a real sense of
accomplishment when you finally get them done. I don't look at the stuff like
that as old junk...rather I see the workmanship that some craftsman put a lot of
work into, and created something that needs to be preserved and enjoyed. It is a
worthy adventure, I believe, preserving some part of history.
As I sit here this morning, having my coffee and letting my mind wander like it
seems to like to do early in the day, I can't help but reflect on my early life,
and how the prayers of a Godly Mother guided me through a lot of mine fields of
sin. The Scriptures say that if you raise a child up in the way of the Lord,
that in later years they will not depart from it. It's that space in between
where we tend to fall into the Devil's Traps.
I know that my Mama prayed for me everyday of my life. I know that she is the
one that taught me the Bible stories that started my Christian walk of Faith,
because of her good teaching, I was Saved one night, down on my knees by my bed
in our Farm House in the Ozarks. It was just me and God, there that Winter's
night, as i asked Him to accept my 12 year old plea for forgiveness and I
accepted His Free Gift Of Life Forever. The Sins and Temptation that a 12 year
old faces are not that much different than what a 25 year old man faces later in
life....It just dresses up a little finer, and smells a little better...but
underneath it's the same old sin of the flesh.
Some days you are strong and resist temptation....other times you are weak and
fail miserably. But through it all you have a Godly Mother's prayers. I know the
strength of a Mother's prayer...from the time in 1956, in the middle of a
Typhoon in Tokyo Bay, off the shore of Yokosuka, Japan. My crew and I out in our
boat, trying to tie up a runaway barge that was a threat to all the ships at
anchor. In the storm, I slipped and fell between the barge and my boat and was
fixing to be squashed like a Betsy Bug, when God pulled me up the rope and out
of the water just as the two vessels crashed together. As that was happening,
back in the Ozarks, my Mother was awakened from a deep sleep, she immediately
knew that I was in danger and fell to her knees by her bed and cried out to God
to Save Her Boy! Yes, a Godly Mother's prayers carries a lot of weight with the
Heavenly Father.
So, like the promise of the Scriptures....Mama's raising me up in God's
Love...has resulted in me returning, years ago, to the daily walk that is
essential to any Christian's life of Faith.
I Thank God for taking me off the Junk pile...shining me up and making me brand
new again...a testament to His Amazing Love and Grace. So, every time I look at
one of my "old" things that I have reclaimed...I am reminded...I am old, sure
enough, but inside, I am shiny brand new.
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
For God, who said, Let light shine out of darkness, made his light shine in our
hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of Gods glory displayed in the face
of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6 (NIV)
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