COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Email: djdclassics@gmail.com
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Several recording artists have recorded songs despite protests from their record
producer or record label and according to Loretta Lynn - her 1969 hit song,
"Wings Upon Your Horns" was one of those tunes!
she commented, "We were in the studio recording that song and when I got to the
chorus: "You're the first to ever make me fall in love and not take me," my
producer Owen Bradley came out of the control room and told me that I'd never
get away with that because the song was too dirty. I asked him what was dirty
about it and he told me "Horns" and I didn't understand that. He didn't like it
a little bit but I recorded it the way I wrote it and it was a hit."
Loretta's Decca Records single "Wings Upon Your Horns" came on the country music
charts November 29th, 1969 and peaked at number eleven.
It was her 24th charted song and was on the charts for sixteen weeks.
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MORE FINDS FROM THE STOREROOM:
Original 1960 "SWEET DREAMS" vinyl album by Don Gibson on RCA Victor - 12 songs
– produced by Chet Atkins – cover is somewhat worn but vinyl album is in "like
new" condition - $20.00 and I'll pay shipping.
Paypal - Check or Money Order – reply to djdclassics@gmail.com
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: My dad tells me that Willie Nelson had a record on the charts for ten
years. Is that true?
A: On August 13th, 1988, Willie Nelson's "Stardust" album had been on the
Billboard Country Albums Charts for 540 weeks. The album has now has sold more
than 5 million copies, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015
Q: I love old cowboy songs and the radio guys were talking about Charlie
Daniels doing some of those songs. Do you know about that?
A: Charlie's newest project - "Night Hawk", will be released August 26th. The
album is classic cowboy country- featuring re-worked classics and more obscure
songs.
Q: I heard on the radio that the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame is honoring Johnny
Cash. Do you have any details?
A: Johnny Cash has been selected as the 2016 Music Masters honoree by The
Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. Each year, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Music
Masters series salutes a deserving, legendary artist with a week of talks,
workshops and a tribute concert. Cash was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame in 1992.The tribute concert is set for October 21st at Playhouse
Square's State Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio.
Q: My daughter tells me that someone named "Zandt" is going into the Hall Of
Fame. I have never heard of him. Have you?
A: Townes Van Zandt, Bob Morrison, Aaron Barker and Beth Nielsen Chapman will
be inducted into The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in October. Van Zandt,
who passed away in 1997, is best known for songs such as "No Place to Fall" and
"To Live Is to Fly;" in 2012, he was inducted into the Texas Songwriters Hall of
Fame.
Q: I remember hearing Ray Stevens sing the Don Gibson song "Oh Lonesome Me" on
the radio years ago but I can't find the recording anywhere. Do you have any
information when that record came out?
A: Ray's version of "Oh Lonesome Me" is in his 1975 "Misty" album
Q: Conway Twitty's "There's A Honky Tonk Angel Who'll Take Me Back In" is my
all-time favorite song. Did Conway write that?
A: The Twitty 1974 number one was written by Troy Seals and Denny Rice
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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 at no
charge.
For information, email me at djdclassics@gmail.com
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NUMBER ONES ON THIS DATE
1945
Oklahoma Hills - Jack Guthrie
1953
Rub-A-Dub-Dub - Hank Thompson
1961
I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
1969
Workin' Man Blues - Merle Haggard
1977
Rollin' with the Flow - Charlie Rich
1985
Highwayman - Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson/Johnny Cash/
Kris Kristofferson
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Courtesy: Bill Morrison
Hank Penny, born "Herbert Clayton Penny," Birmingham, AL 1918.
Ray Cash married Carrie Rivers in 1920. Son J. R. "Johnny," would become their
fourth, of seven children.
Allen Reynolds, record company executive/songwriter/producer, born Little Rock,
AR 1938.
Molly Bee born "Molly Beachboard" Oklahoma City, OK 1939.
Johnny Preston born 1939.
Huelyn Duvall born Garner, TX 1939.
Bryan Bowers, Bluegrass/Autoharp, born Yorktown, VA 1940.
Hank Williams topped the charts with "Hey Good Lookin' 1951.
Seven days after being fired from the Opry, at the exact time he should have
been singing at the Ryman, Hank Williams was arrested for being drunk &
disorderly in Alexander City, AL 1952.
Jody Maphis, "Earl Scruggs Revue," born 1954.
LaDonna Gayle Gatlin, sister of the Gatlin Brothers, born Abilene, TX 1954.
Steve Wilkinson of "The Wilkinson's" born Belleville, Ontario, Canada 1955.
Marty Robbins released "Singin' The Blues," 1956.
Jimmy Dean recorded "Big Bad John" 1961. The record went to #1 on the Pop, and
Country charts.
Bobby Bare's single "Shame On Me" debuted on the Billboard Top 40 Chart 1962.
The Louvin Brothers played their last show, as a duo in Watseka, IL 1963.
Jerry Jeff Walker recorded his album "Viva Tarlingua" Live in Luckenbach, TX
1973.
Elvis Presley was buried beside his mother's grave in Forest Hill Cemetery,
Memphis, Tennessee in 1977. Both bodies would be moved to Graceland later, after
an attempt to steal Elvis' body from his grave. Attending the private ceremony
at Graceland were Caroline Kennedy, Ann Margret, Burt Reynolds, John Wayne along
with friends and family.
Columbia/Legacy released "The Essential Gene Autry" 1992.
Blue Hat released Fiddle Fire: 25 Years of the Charlie Daniels Band" 1998.
Curb released Junior Brown's "The Long Walk Back" 1998.
Vince Gill celebrated his 10th anniversary as a member the Grand Ole Opry, while
hosting his portion of the show 2001.
The Grand Ole Opry TV broadcast moved from TNN to CMT 2001.
Courtesy: <http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalendar.>
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THE DYSFUNCTIONAL BAND.
By: Jack Blanchard
An example of "Synergy"
is when a group of musicians are better together
than they are separately.
Killer Turtle was not one of those bands.
In fact they had Reverse Synergy.
They were all good musicians, but together they stank.
Chuck was a great lead guitarist, but he had one weird fault,
he always thought he was out of tune.
He spent half the time with his back to the audience
and his ear to the strings, trying to tune up.
Nobody else thought his guitar needed tuning.
They just thought he was nuts.
Matt had fine technique as a drummer, except for one problem,
during every fill, between phrases,
he would drag the tempo down a little.
You could hardly notice it at first,
but fast songs would end up slow,
and ballads almost came to a stop.
He tried to commit suicide by throwing himself behind a train.
Herbie was one of the best, as a bass player,
but after playing with the dragging drummer,
he began rushing the beat to compensate.
The other guys tried to find a middle ground to play in
somewhere between the bass and drums.
Wayne was a genius steel guitar player with a drinking problem.
The more he drank, the more vibrato came into his playing,
until it was hard to tell what key he was in.
Late in the evenings you had to take Dramamine to listen to him..
Jack, the piano man, was over-educated,
and knew too many nice chords for his own good.
He threw them into his music
in the hopes that the other guys would eventually learn them,
but they just thought he was playing wrong,
and dreamed of finding a new keyboard player.
Don was a talented lead singer,
but he constantly fiddled with the sound system dials,
causing loud squealing feedback,
and making the audience cross their eyes, cover their ears,
and do a pain dance.
One night two simultaneous miracles happened.
1. A major label talent scout came into the club,
and; 2. The band played one whole song perfectly.
It happened to be the last song of the evening,
and the agent signed them to a big bucks recording contract.
If there were any justice, Killer Turtle would have been a big flop,
but in the modern recording studio
the engineers could correct all of their faults.
Their electronically perfect recordings sounded wonderful,
and they were hits.
On personal appearances they pretended to play and sing,
but actually worked with karaoke tracks.
The moral:
You don't have to be good
if you can make people think you're good.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
Mastering & restoration studio: 352-530-2068.
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View From The Front Porch-Stan Hitchcock
Well, I'll tell you what, I'm doing one of my very favorite pastimes...I'm
sitting on the Front Porch watching a Summer Thunderstorm water my fresh cut
grass. By doggies I can take a lot of this kind of work...cool breeze cooling my
sweaty brow from being on the John Deere and cutting said grass...a tall drink
of good Tennessee limestone water with a little piece of lemon in it just to
perk it up...my John Deere baseball cap stopping the sweat from funning from my
head straight to my eyeballs, like it always tries to do. It just don't get no
better than this for a Simple Man, I don't know about them rich folks...maybe
for them there is something better....but, I'll stick with what I have and be
happy.
I always try to be Thankful for even the little blessings of Life, and to Thank
the Lord that created all. Thank you Lord for the gentle rain in the Hot Summer
that refreshes the Earth, and Lord, we Pray for those folks further South in
Louisiana that are getting torrential rain and it's hurtful to them and we pray
for relief and strength for them to get through it all. Be with all those that
are sick and in need today, we pray for Healing and Blessings on them. Thank You
Lord that you always give us Access to You, and that the weakest of us, such as
I, You listen when we call with our needs and our Thanks.
God Bless Us All.
Stan
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
– Proverbs 14:30 (NIV)
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