COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday December 4th, 2014
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
As the story goes - some songs succeed in spite of themselves and it seems that
Alabama's 1981 number one - "Feels So Right" - was one of those tunes!
Randy Owen actually wrote the song in about twenty minutes at his parent's home
when he was 19 years old. And for the next several years - he tried to interest
Nashville music publishers in the song but they all told him he had a good song
but it needed a bridge. But Randy refused to change the song or add to it - so
he just held on to it.
According to Owen - he wrote the song about a former girl friend and classmate.
The song wound up as the title song for Alabama's second RCA album and the
single came on the country music charts May 23rd, 1981 and was at the top of the
charts on July 18th.
The RCA single was Alabama's 7th charted song and their 4th number one.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: My daughter says she heard on TV that Shenandoah is getting back together.
Do you have any information?
A: Marty Raybon is reportedly rejoining the group Shenandoah and they will
begin a new tour in Florida in January.
Q: Do you have an update on Randy Travis?
A: Randy Travis continues his recovery and recently attended a Joe Nichols
show at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth.
Q: I heard on the radio that Ronnie Milsap was retiring from touring. I
thought he had already quit.
A: Milsap says he just kicked off what will be his farewell tour with a
concert at The Country Music Hall Of Fame.
Q: Did Jerry Reed ever record the song "Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town?" My
brother says he heard Reed sing the song on the radio years ago.
A: Jerry's version of that song is in his 1971 "When You're Hot - You're Hot"
album.
Q: I have a song recorded from the radio years ago that sounds like The Glaser
Brothers singing about "Through The Eyes Of Love." Do you know anything about
such a record?
A: "Through The Eyes Of Love" was written by Jack Clement and was a number 27
hit for The Glaser Brothers in 1967.
Q: The old Merle Haggard song "Today I Started Loving You Again" is my
favorite. My dad says that song was an instrumental hit for another artist. Do
you have any information?
A: The song scored a number 16 hit for Charlie McCoy in 1972.
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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
Make the World Go Away - Eddy Arnold
1973
The Most Beautiful Girl - Charlie Rich
1981
My Favorite Memory - Merle Haggard
1989
Its Just a Matter of Time - Randy Travis
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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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CHRISTMAS IS A TIME...
By: Jack Blanchard
Christmas is a time of sad happiness.
It gets more and more commercial,
but if the stores were closed wouldn't it take away some of the fun?
Bar rooms are lined with the lonely, clinging to each other... like family.
Bartenders are parent images.
Displaced Yankees dream of gently falling snow that never turns to slush,
and wandering romeos often come home,
at least temporarily.
Telephone wires hum with long distance calls
between people who care about each other more in December,
which is better than not caring at all.
After-shave lotion is unwrapped with oohs and ahs,
toys are getting ready to be broken,
and puppies inhabit stockings.
Trees are always the most beautiful ever
if you just turn the bare side to the wall,
and eggs flow like nog.
Roaring hearths and good fellowship are for the very lucky,
but some will settle for a bag of groceries.
For certain people, this will be the first Christmas,
for others... the last.
"Merry Christmas" will be said in shacks,
castles, prisons, airplanes, battlefronts,
and churches.
No matter what we say is wrong with it,
Christmas is a time when many people are a little nicer...
and that's something.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
Gene Autry recorded "At Mail Call Today" 1941.
Chris Hillman born Los Angeles, CA 1944.
Eddy Arnold had his first recording session in Nashville, 1944.
Rabon Delmore, age 36, died 1952.
Merle Travis recorded "Louisiana Boogie" 1952.
Brian Prout "Diamond Rio," born 1955.
The Million Dollar Quartet, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, and Jerry
Lee Lewis, recorded a session together at SUN Studio in Memphis, 1956.
Johnnie & Jack recorded their single "Stop The World And Let Me Off" 1957.
The Everly Brothers "Wake Up Little Susie" topped the charts 1957.
Connie B. Gray elected as the first president of the Country Music Association
in 1958.
Buck Owens & Susan Raye recorded "We're Gonna Get Together" 1968.
Jimmy Heap, age 55, Western Swing/bandleader/guitarist died 1977.
Lila McCann, born Steilacoom, WA 1981.
Connie B. Gay, age 75, died 1989. Inducted CMHF 1980.
The Judds gave the final concert of their "Farewell Tour," 1991.
Clint Black and wife Lisa Hartman Black,topped the charts with "When I Said I
Do" 1999.
Sawyer Brown appeared on the Grand Ole Opry for this first time in three years
2004.
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
Grandma The Chicken Killer
Winter, 1945-The OzarksMy Grandma Effie Johnson, sweet, tender, gentle woman,
maker of the best Pineapple Meringue Pie I ever tasted, a woman who never ever
raised her voice in angeryes, this same womanwas a slap-out Chicken Killer.
Grandma would order her baby chicks, every year, from the Radio. The big box
with the holes all in it for air, and about 50 chicks, would arrive by our Rural
Mail Carrier. He would pull up in front of Grandmas old farm house, honking his
horn, and she would go out and get the box and bring it in the house to a closed
in porch on the back of her house. She had fixed a circle of Chicken Wire to
hold themshe would feed themcuddle themlove them, and I, in my nine year old
logic, figgered she had them for pets. After awhile the baby chicks thought
Grandma was their Mama. After they got big enough, she moved them out to the
outside Chicken house, and every day she would let them out in the yard, take a
handful of cracked corn and feed the little rascals.
The little chicks became big roosters and hens, after so long a time. One day I
was in visiting with Grandpawell actually just continually firing questions at
him, which he answered with a grunt, a nod or a head shake, as he puffed away on
his pipe of Prince Albert Smoking Tobacco. Ysee, Grandpa was a man of few words,
and many gestures. Since I wasnt getting a whole lot out of Grandpa, I went
outside and saw Grandma with the Chickens all around her in the back yard. I
wandered over, just as she grabbed one of the roosters by the head and started
twirling it around in a circle like a whirley-gigcausing the head to come off in
her hand and the rooster to begin about a five minute headless dance while it
bled out. Finally, the rooster lay down and gave up the ghost (if chickens have
ghosts), deader than a flattened road kill.
I was horrified! Grandma killed one of her darling pets! I ran off to the barn
to try to get my mind around this startling action. All I could think about was
that Chicken dancing with no head, slinging blood everywhere.
That afternoon, Grandma and Grandpa's kids and my cousins arrived for some of
Grandmas famous fried chicken. As I sat down at the table, Grandma slipped me my
platewith my favorite piece of fried chicken on itthe drumstick! Oh man, I did
love me a drumstick. I bit into the hot, crunchy delightand I realized that life
could be mighty rough on the chicken, and Grandma had to make some hard choices
and strong actionsand at the end of those hard choices was my drumstickI
reckoned I could live with that alrightUh would you please pass some more mashed
taters and gravyand another drumstick, if you dont mind. Thank you very kindly.
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
My heart says of you, Seek his face! Your face, Lord, I will seek.
Psalm 27:8 (NIV)
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