COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday March 26th, 2015
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STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Hit songs have been written in just about every place you could imagine and some
have even been written in the studio during the recording session! And Eddie
Rabbitt's 1982 number one, "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonight" was one of the
latter!
According to songwriter/producer David Malloy - he actually started writing the
song by himself after being inspired by the Eagles recording of "Heartache
Tonight." He and co-writers Eddie Rabbitt and Even Stevens actually finished
writing the song in the studio - as it was being recorded!
Eddie Rabbitt's Elektra Records single "Someone Could Lose A Heart Tonight" was
the second single released from his "Step By Step" album and came on the country
music charts November 21st, 1981 and was at the top of the list on February
13th, 1982. It was his 20th charted song and his 10th number one.
Eddie Rabbitt placed 43 songs on the country charts between 1974 and 1991 -
including 17 number ones.
He died in 1998.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: John Conlee is my favorite singer and my daughter says the radio folks
said he had recorded some new music. Do you have any information?
A: John has just released a new single, "Walkin' Behind The Star," and a new
album titled "Classics 2."
Q: The TV news mentioned Reba McEntire doing something for Feed The Hungry. Do
you have any details/
A: Reba McEnire will be the face of the initiative that will help raise
awareness of the 49 million people struggling with hunger in America. She will
kick off the campaign with a special concert April 18th on CMT.
Q: I heard that Ray Stevens has retired. Is that true?
A: Ray Stevens has not retired and has just released his first pure comedy
album in almost ten years, titled "Here We Go Again."
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Anyone out there have contact information for these artists:
Lawanda Lindsey - raised in Georgia and had hits on the Chart and Capitol labels
in the 1970's.
R. C. Bannon (real name: Daniel Shipley) songwriter
Sherry Bryce - had hits on MGM in the 1970's - also recorded with Mel Tillis
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Q: On one of the old radio shows - Faron Young sang "San Antonio Rose." Did he
record that song?
A: Faron's version of "San Antonio Rose" is in his 1964 "Country Dance
Favorites" album
Q: I have a recording made off the radio of a guy singing "One Man's Trash Is
Another Man's Treasure." It sounds like Marty Robbins. Do you know anything
about the song?
A: The singer is Marty Robbins and the singles scored a number 72 for Marty in
1980.
Q" I still have the Dolly Parton record of "House Of The Rising Sun" that I
bought back in the early 80's. My mom says some other girl singer had a hit on
that song. Is that true?
A: Jody Miller scored a number 29 hit on the song in 1974 before Dolly's
number 14 hit in 1981
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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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NUMBER ONES ON THIS DATE
1949
Tennessee Saturday Night - Red Foley
1957
There You Go - Johnny Cash
1965
Ive Got a Tiger by the Tail - Buck Owens
1973
Teddy Bear Song - Barbara Fairchild
1981
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - Willie Nelson
1989
New Fool at an Old Game - Reba McEntire
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THE BULLY.
By: Jack Blanchard
When I was in third grade there was a tough kid named Red Webster
who was in the fourth grade and loved to bully the younger kids,
especially me.
He had bright red hair, his pie face was covered with red freckles,
and he had a tough Irish look, at least to us smaller kids.
This went on for several years,
until I was in the seventh or eighth grade.
There was a huge empty field of grass and high weeds near our house
where we played baseball in the Spring and Summer and football in the Fall.
One spring day the guys were gathering for the first game of the season,
and Red Webster showed up yelling provocative insults at me.
It was a mistake.
I was big and strong by then.
When I was up at bat he yelled from right field,
"Hey, glasses, try and hit one this far. Haha."
I turned my batting stance more to the right
and hit the ball way over his head and beyond.
By the time he found it in the weeds I had a home run.
Then I stomped out there and beat the crap out of him.
After that he wanted to be my side-kick,
so we were friends for about a year,
but occasionally I picked on him just for old times' sake.
I saw him about ten years later, and felt nothing...
no friendship, no hard feelings.
He was just a jerk who started as a bully,
and worked his way up to nothing.
Red sneaked around with my at-the-time girlfriend.
I didn't much care.
They deserved each other.
I would kinda like to see him again
just to slap the old bastard around one more time.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Compiled by Bill Morrison
1917 - Billy Wallace, singer, songwriter, born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
1928 - Bud Isaacs, inventor of the pedal steel guitar, born Bedford, Indiana.
1942 - Larry Butler award winning producer born Pensacola, Florida.
1949 - Red Foley topped the charts with "Tennessee Saturday Night."
1950 - Ronnie McDowell singer, songwriter, and guitarist was born in Fountain
Head, Tennessee, and raised in Portland.
1952 - Hank Williams, The Carter Family, and Roy Acuff, appeared on" The Kate
Smith Show."
1952 - Sun Records released their first single "Selling My Whiskey" by Jackie
Boy and Little Walter.
1953 - Michael Bonagura of "Baillie and the Boys," born Newark, New Jersey.
1955 - Dean Dillon, a.k.a. Dean Dalton, legendary songwriter, and singer born in
Lake City, Tennessee. Inducted into the NSHF in 2002.
1956 - Charly McClain was born Charlotte Denise McClain in Jackson, Tennessee,
and raised in Memphis. Charly was a cast member of the Memphis based Mid-South
Jamboree 1973-1975.
1957 - Ricky Nelson had his first recording session. His first country chart hit
was "Stood Up" released on Imperial Records. The single climbed the chart to #8.
1963 - Sheb Wooley's MGM single "Hello Wall No. 2" hit the Country chart today.
Sheb a.k.a. Ben Colder was the CMA's Comedian of the Year in 1968, and penned
the Hee Haw theme song.
1967 - Ralph Emery and Joy Kott were married. Ralph Emery was inducted into the
CMHF in 2007.
1968 - Kenny Chesney was born in Lutrell, Tennessee.
1971 - Tom T. Hall recorded his self-penned Mercury single "The Year That
Clayton Delaney Died." The song charted on July 10th, and went to #1. This was
The Story Teller's 2 nd #1.
1973 - Barbara Fairchild's "Teddy Bear Song" was the #1 song on the country
charts.
1977 - Harold John Breau 1916-1977, age 60, of "Lone Pine & Betty Cody" died in
Maine. Harold (Lone Pine) was a singer, and guitarist.
1979 - Bill Haley's last recording session was completed today.
1990 - Rodney Crowell's Columbia album "Diamonds and Dirt" was certified Gold by
the RIAA.
1992 - Trisha Yearwood's self-titled MCA album was certified Platinum by the
RIAA.
2002 - Phil Vassar and Julie Wood were married in Florida.
2003 - Toby Keith and Darryl Worley performed at the request of President George
W. Bush, at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa, Florida. The families of military
personnel were entertained as well as the president.
2004 - Jan Berry, of Jan & Dean died at the age of 62.
2005 - Grand Ole Opry Live was broadcast for the first time on American Forces
Television. The show was viewed live by U.S. troops in Iraq.
2006 - The Grand Ole Opry brings its signature blend of music and
entertainment to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, with performances by Travis
Tritt, Marty Stuart, The Del McCoury Band, Eddie Stubbs, and others.
2007 - The 15th Annual Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival was held in Nashville
the 26th-31st,
Courtesy Bill Morrison:
<http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html>
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VIEW FROM THE FRONT PORCH
By: Stan Hitchcock
I've been making music, in one form or another, since I was twelve years old, a
grand total of 66 years...seen a lot of changes...a lot of disrespect for our
music, by the big money changers that control it...but, I have also witnessed,
first hand, the dedication and loyalty of the Fans that keep the Classic Country
Music alive, still today. I've come to this conclusion: Y'know, the beginning of
the loss of understanding of this music life of ours could be when they started
calling it "music-business".
I have learned to simply go back to "music" and let other folks worry about
semantics and titles and demographics and charts and bottom lines on some CFOs
unreal projections and a New York Lawyer's idea of how to completely tie up an
Artist forever and 500 years after their death, but have the freedom to kick him
or her off the label whenever they dang well feel like it...,,,,andwell, you get
the picture. C'mon, let's just ease on down the road, enjoying the good stuff,
and let the Moguls stick it where the Sun Don't Shine. sic life of ours could be
when they started calling it "music-business".
Stan Hitchcock
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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SOUTHERN STYLE
By: Randall Franks
Randall Franks is a film and TV actor best known as: Officer Randy Goode
(1988-1993) in the television series In the Heat of the Night. He is also an
author, and a bluegrass singer and musician who was inducted into the
Independent Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013; recognized by the International
Bluegrass Music Museum in 2010 as a Bluegrass Legend; inducted into the Atlanta
Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004; and has been designated the "Appalachian
Ambassador of the Fiddle".
How do you get started in television?
That is a question that I have probably answered two or three times a week over
the past 30 years. Wow, it wasnt until this year that I really got to thinking
about how long my entertainment career and that of the television medium have
intersected.
While I personally do not start the clock on my first comedy appearance as a
six-year-old on the set of Atlantas childrens TV show - Tubby and Lester. That
was the beginning though. From there I moved to appearances in school plays,
choral and music productions and performances, helping to entertain the mass of
parents who wanted each of their little darlins to excel and be something
special. One of my favorite roles was a pint size Harold Hill in The Music Man.
I still joyously remember singing and dancing or lets say moving to 76 Trombones
over and over again as I prepared. I am sure my loving parents got their fill
long before the ultimate performance.
As I grew and my musical talents expanded, I chose a variation in the
conventional path of community dramatic and musical productions to organizing my
own band.
Rather than Rock and Roll, I chose country and rather than mainstream country I
leaned towards the then growing genres of bluegrass and gospel. Within a short
period of time, our fledgling childrens novelty act with its comedy routines,
musical numbers and cute just flowing in every direction was becoming a favorite
at fairs, festivals and churches.
That opened the doors for me once again to television. Television stations and
producers loved to have uplifting things to show on news, variety and
entertainment shows. What is more uplifting than a bunch of youth musicians
ranging in age from 8 to 13? Well, before long my Peachtree Pickers were doing
news features for our concerts and festival appearances and then we began
appearances on variety programs and musical productions for PBS. After a trip to
Nashville in 1983 to appear at Country Music Fan Fair, I landed a regular role
for the group on The Country Kids TV Series, a childrens Hee-Haw which was an
early cable TV offering that aired internationally. Guest starring regularly for
the Grand Ole Opry came within the year. So began a regular presence on cable
and television that has now lasted for 30 years. With each year that passed, I
continued doing special music, variety and guest appearances for various
entertainment shows on PBS, TNN, CMT, and local network affiliates throughout
the South and mid west.
With popularity in the music field, I was able to cross over into acting, in a
way exactly where I started years before but now on a larger scale, this time in
front of millions on silver theatre screens and on network television. My
initial roles were small and probably unnoticed by the masses except for the
country music fan base that I had accumulated. A choral singing role as a teen
in the 1988 film Desperate for Love with Christian Slater, Brian Bloom and Tammy
Lauren was really what I consider my movie start.
After that it was the producers, directors, writers and a couple of actors
Carroll OConnor and Alan Autry of In the Heat of the Night which helped to forge
my next five years on network television as Officer Randy Goode.
Since then, more movies, more entertainment shows, more news shows and another
TV series.
I have not missed a week and in some periods a day without being on someones TV
screen somewhere in the world acting, talking, sharing comedy or performing
musically.
With 30 years now behind me as people ask me that question How do you get
started in television? I reflect and wonder how exactly to answer it. If they
are wishing to act, I tell them study their craft, participate in school and
local play productions and then seek out opportunities to show what they can do
in front of those who can help them. If they want to be a musical performer, the
answer is much the same although the locales where they can excel at a
professional level are different depending on the genre. Today, we also have
reality shows and celebrities created simply by being on television in these
types of shows. I can offer no advice there except just being famous is no
reason to do or be seen doing the absurd or the unusual, just to be on
television. Dont give up your morals or whom you are in your soul to get such a
chance.
As a kid, I often thought I would be a weatherman and even took a trip to a
local station to visit with Atlanta weatherman Guy Sharpe to learn about it. As
my TV career began to take off, my father, then my manager, called on Guy again
to gain some needed advice about my future. So, TV news is another avenue for
those who have the knack and talent and the integrity to be a good journalist.
How do you get started in television? the answer today with the advent of the
web is just start. When I started, you couldnt produce a video segment that
showed your talent and put it anywhere that millions of people might find it,
see it, like it. Today, you can.
Thats where you start once you have found your talent, studied and can compete
toe-to-toe with other people with similar talents, maybe then the doors will
open. Even after 30 years, I am knocking on doors every day trying to get
another opportunity to share mine. You can see some of my knocks on Randall
Franks TV on YouTube. Break a leg in what you do!
Randall Franks
http://www.randallfranks.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There
are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of
working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 (NIV)
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