COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday January 22nd, 2015
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Ronnie Milsap had just finished recording his newest album and RCA was already
pressing the first copies when Tommy Brasfield played a song to Rob Galbraith in
Ronnie Milsap's office that Brasfield and Walt Aldridge had just written in
Muscle Shoals, Alabama.
The song was "There's No Gettin' Over Me" and Brasfield and Aldridge were
actually working on a Mac Davis album for producer Rick Hall at Muscle Shoals'
FAME Studios when they wrote the song.
RCA Victor had already started production on a song titled "Its All I Can Do" as
the first single to be released from the new album, but as soon as Milsap
recorded "There's No Gettin' Over Me," he called RCA's Nashville Division Chief
Jerry Bradley and convinced him to put the first single release on hold until
Bradley heard the new song - at which time Bradley did switch production to the
new song and "There's No Gettin" Over Me" was pressed and shipped to radio
stations within two weeks.
The single entered the country music charts July 4th, 1981 and was in the number
one slot on August 29th. - where it stayed for two weeks.
It was Ronnie Milsap's 32nd charted song and his 18th number one.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard on the radio that Ronnie Milsap is doing something at the hall of
fame. Do you know anything about that?
A: Ronnie will conduct a "Conversation With Ronnie Milsap" February 7th at
the museum's CMA Theatre - which will launch the "Ronnie Milsap: A Legend In My
Time" exhibit at the Hall of Fame and Museum February 6th thru the end of
August.
Q: You recently mentioned a George Jones Museum. Whatever happened to that?
A: The George Jones Museum is set to open April 24th and will feature screens
devoted to each era of Jones career - including historic performances and
interviews.
Q: Have you heard anything about Alan Jackson doing something with ocean
research? My daughter says she heard about it on the radio.
A: Marine wildlife artist Guy Harvey - who is known for his colorful and
popular depictions of marine wildlife and support for science and research - is
teaming up with Alan Jackson to raise money and awareness for ocean research.
Harvey has created a colorful logo to commemorate Jackson's 25th anniversary
tour. The logo depicts Jackson in a fishing fighting chair with leaping sports
fish and will adorn several Official 25th Anniversary merchandise items
including an official Tour T-Shirt which will be sold at every concert date.
Jackson and Harvey have agreed to donate $5 for every item sold to marine
conservation through the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.
Q: The radio guys mentioned T. G. Sheppard being in the hospital Do you have
any information?
A: T. G. Sheppard is reportedly doing well after undergoing a procedure to
correct an irregular heart rhythm.
Q: Have you heard of a song titled "I'm As Tight As Twin Fiddles?" My brother
says he heard it on the radio several years ago and I can't find any information
on it.
A: "Tight As Twin Fiddles" is a track in Vern Gosdin's 1988 "Chiseled In
Stone" album
Q: Years ago there was a song on the radio years by some gUys singing about
"picking up the mail." Do you know who the singers were?
A: "Pickin' Up The Mail" was a number 61 hit in 1966 for The Compton
Brothers. Bill and Harry Compton were actual brothers and placed 13 songs on
the country charts between 1966 and 1975.
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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:
1950
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley
1958
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
1966
Giddyup Go - Red Sovine
1974
I Love - Tom T. Hall
1982
I Wouldnt Have Missed It for the World - Ronnie Milsap
1990
Nobodys Home - Clint Black
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STUFF I WROTE IN AN OLD BOOK.
By: Jack Blanchard
Yesterday Misty was sorting through things
and found our old appointment book dated 1982.
In the back of it I had scribbled down a lot of little "life tips"
that I'd learned over the years.
Misty and I think they helped us, so I pass a few on to you.
Be careful of other people's pride, even when they are acting stupid.
Give them a graceful way out. Let them save face.
They could turn out to be friends if you get past the first collision.
ON STAGE:
Never audition for an audience.Don't put yourself on trial.
Be in gentle control. Confidence without arrogance.
Hold some of yourself back. Let your talent come as a surprise.
Be unpredictable.
Cue the audience as to what they like. Laugh tracks do this on TV.
Bring them into the process.
Tell them the story behind the song or something about your life.
Speak more slowly that you may be used to.
Avoid precise speech. Maybe slur a little. Appear relaxed.
Don't come off as hip or intellectual.
Don't be slick. Don't be a threat.
Be likable, pleasant, earthy. Be loose.
Look like you belong wherever you are.
Good posture and walk. Natural gestures.
Develop style... the recognition factor.
Desperation shows.
Inflate the audience. Make them feel good about themselves.
No inside jokes or private laughs with the band.
Do it all over the microphone. Don't leave them out.
LIFE IN GENERAL:
Don't let the competition see you as a rival.
Learn from the past but don't feel guilty about it.
Think about your goals. Picture them.
In a negotiation, the first one to mention money loses.
Experiments have proven that children learn better and faster
surrounded by mirrors and pictures of themselves.
Many entertainers and musicians practice in front of a mirror.
Sometimes it helps to pose your material as socially relevant.
Everybody who ever does anything makes mistakes.
Stupidity is no reason not to be a success. Everybody has it.
Naturally, we couldn't think of all these things at any one time,
but we drilled them into our brains until it became automatic.
There are more suggestions in the old book,
but I'll save them for later.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
1914 - Dickie McBride 1914~1971, recording artist, Western Swing bandleader,
born New Baden, Texas. Married to Laura Lee Owens, Bob Wills first female
vocalist, daughter of Tex Owens, and Texas Ruby was her aunt.
1938 - Bill Emerson, banjo player, born Washington D.C.
1941 - Bennie Fields of The Fields Brothers born Kermit, West Virginia.
1949 - J. P. Pennington, singer, songwriter, founder of Exile born Berea,
Kentucky.
1950 - Red Foleys single Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy topped the charts.
1952 - Teddy Gentry vocals, bassist, and member of Alabama, born Teddy Wayne
Gentry in Fort Payne, Alabama. Inducted CMHF 2005.
1954 - Little Jimmy Dickens recorded Out Behind The Barn, for Columbia.
1955 - The Ozark Jubilee debuted on ABC television with Red Foley as host. The
final one-hour show was broadcast September 22, 1961. By that time the name had
changed to Jubilee U.S.A.
1955 - Porter Wagoner debuted as a guest on the Grand Ole Opry.
1958 - The Killers Great Balls of Fire topped the charts.
1965 -Regina Nicks of Regina Regina was born today.
1966 - Red Sovines Giddyup Go was at the top of the charts.
1969 - Glen Campbells Capitol single Wichita Lineman was certified Gold by the
RIAA. This was Glen's first gold record.
1969 - Elvis recorded Suspicious Minds at American Studios in Memphis.
1972 - Tammy Wynette and George Jones were featured guests on Hee Haw.
1975 - Ezra Eck Carter, Maybelles husband, and June Carter Cashs father died.
1978 - Fifty Years of Country Music, a three-hour TV special was broadcast on
NBC.
1988 - Paul Rice, age 68, of The Rice Brothers died.
1988 - Donna Fargos house was heavily damaged by fire.
1990 - The American Music Awards presented trophies to country music artists
Reba McEntire, Clint Black, Alabama, and Randy Travis received three.
1991 - The RIAA certified Shenandoahs Columbia album The Road Not Taken as a
Gold album. This was the groups first.
1994 - Hal Ketchum became a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
1999 - Hal B. Cook, age 80, former publisher of Billboard Magazine died in Palm
Desert, California.
1999 - Jimmy Day 1934~1999, age 65, died in Houston, Texas. Jimmy was a member
of the International Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of
Fame, and the Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame.
2003 - Sara Evans welcomed her second child Olivia into the world. Olivia was
born in Saras hometown Franklin, Missouri.
2005 - The 2005 Grand Ole Opry Caribbean Cruise set sail today. Featured artists
on this years cruise were; Trace Adkins, Terri Clark, and Hall of Fame members
Little Jimmy Dickens and Bill Anderson.
2006 - Janette Carter, age 82, daughter of A.P. and Sara Carter (of the Carter
Family), died at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
"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 told 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.
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears. Those
who look to him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame.
Psalm 34:4-5 (NIV)
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