COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday December 29th, 2016
Email: djdclassics@gmail.com
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Back in the days before multi-track recording when everyone heard on a record
were all in the studio at the same time - some artists preferred "closed
sessions" -
meaning only the singers and the musicians - with an engineer - were in the
studio during a recording session - while other artists preferred "the more the
merrier."
According to Chet Atkins - most Eddy Arnold recording sessions were "closed
sessions" because Arnold preferred it and did not want the songwriters in the
studio
during his sessions because they would try to tell him how to sing the song.
Atkins commented, "But I remember Eddy just seemed to sing better with a few
pretty girls around. I discovered that during the session when he recorded
"Somebody
Like Me." A couple of the office girls came into the control room to deliver
some paperwork and Eddy just seemed to perk up when they came in. So I invited
them to stay
and watch the session and Eddy sort of put on a show while they were there. He
even became a little animated and would dance around when the girls were there.
So I'd
make sure that a few girls from the office were in the control room for all his
sessions. We finished recording "Somebody Like Me" after Eddy did two or three
extra takes
after the girls came in."
Eddy Arnold's "Somebody Like Me" entered the country music charts October 15th,
1966 and made it to number one and stayed there for four weeks.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: Do you know anything about Charley Pride receiving some kind of recording
award?
A: Charley Pride is being honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The
Recording Academy, the Grammy Awards' parent organization.
Q: I heard on the radio that a guy who was a star on HeeHaw has died. Do you
have any information?
A: Gordie Tapp who was known for playing Cousin Clem on Hee Haw, has died from
complications from pneumonia. He was 94 years old. Tapp was both a writer and
performer on HeeHaw.
Q: The radio guys mentioned that the Willie Nelson family is performing in
Nashville. Do you know anything about it?
A: Nelson & Family will perform a concert at Nashville's War Memorial
Auditorium on January 7th.
Q: Do you know anything about a songwriter who wrote songs for George Strait
passing away? The radio guys were talking about it.
A: Songwriter Andrew Dorff recently passed away. His songs include Blake
Shelton's "My Eyes" and "Neon Light;" Kenny Chesney's "Save It for a Rainy
Day" and Hunter Hayes' "Somebody's Heartbreak" — all No. 1 songs. He is also one
of the writers of William Michael Morgan's recently released single,
"Missing." His father - Stephen "Steve" Dorff Sr., wrote George Strait's "I
Cross My Heart."
Q: Do you have any information on a statue of Little Jimmy Dickens? I heard it
mentioned on the radio.
A: Madame Tussauds unveiled its wax figure of Little Jimmy Dickens during a
recent Opry performance at the Ryman Auditorium.
Q: Have you heard of a song about "Ten Thousand Drums?" My dad used to talk
about it.
A: "Ten Thousand Drums" was a number 5 hit for Carl Smith in 1959
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NUMBER ONES ON THIS DATE
1950
If You've Got the Money Honey I've Got the Time - Lefty Frizzell
1958
City Lights - Ray Price
1966
There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene
1974
What a Man, My Man Is - Lynn Anderson
1982
Wild and Blue - John Anderson
1990
I've Come to Expect It from You - George Strait
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Courtesy: Bill Morrison
Rose Lee Maphis born Baltimore, MD 1922.
Ed Bruce, born "William Edwin Bruce," Keiser, AR 1940.
Gene Autry's "Don't Live A Lie' charted 1945.
Ernest Tubb recorded "I Love You Because," 1949.
Lefty Frizzell's "If You've Got The Money Honey I've Got The Time," topped the
charts 1950.
Buddy Knox released "Party Doll," 1956.
The Grand Ole Opry presented a benefit concert at Carnegie Hall, for the
Musicians Aid Society 1961.
Glen Campbell's "Kentucky Means Paradise," charted 1962.
Buck Owens recorded "Gonna Have Love," for Capitol 1964.
Jessica Andrews, singer/songwriter, born Huntingdon, TN 1983.
John Michael Montgomery broke his right leg while hunting 2000. Surgeons at a
Lexington, KY Hospital successfully operated on the compound fracture.
Alan Jackson's "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning" went to #1 2001.
Courtesy: <http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalendar.html>
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NOTHING IS OVER LIKE CHRISTMAS.
By: Jack Blanchard
Nothing is over like Christmas.
Months of anticipation, and then it's gone.
Try to hold on to it and it slides away like a morning dream.
It's Christmas Day and there are no holiday programs on TV.
Not even football in the snow.
It's hard to work up the spirit here in Florida,
but we give it a shot every year.
Misty decorates a tree, and puts Christmas stuff all over the place.
We listen to Christmas music with the air conditioning on
and with palm trees lurking in the front yard.
I get very sentimental about Christmas,
probably because I had real Christmasy holidays years ago,
with folks who are no longer with us,
and my immature subconscious thinks it will happen again.
I toss up futile prayers for snow here in the subtropics,
but this is the time of year
when we just get a cheap imitation of autumn.
A couple of trees around here have a touch of red,
and I go look at them.
Television doesn't help with reports of all night sales,
talking heads urging us to be good consumers,
stranded travelers sleeping in airports,
and carolers singing "Happy Honda Days".
The people who tell us that it's a pagan holiday,
just because it's near the winter solstice,
may not realize what an intrusion that is upon our enjoyment.
I think we can each bring our own spirituality and memories
to the season,
and make it our personal non-pagan celebration.
It's in the spirit of the beholder.
Misty is saving the day
by making an old fashioned Christmas dinner.
I'm setting our bathroom scales back ten pounds.
I think I'll write a letter to Santa,
and ask him for one more snowy Christmas in Buffalo,
where the night is silent,
the homes are warm,
and the feeling is strong in the air.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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Late Night At The Old Farm House-Stan Hitchcock
The days between Christmas and New Years are always kinda nostalgic to me…the
awareness that another year is almost through…so fast it is like a flash..and
it's gone.
The feeling makes me linger on the happenings of the year, and they are many,
marking them down in the place where memories live…so they will not be
forgotten. This
summer was a great one for my friend and partner Chuck Lowrance and I as we
fished one more time on the Upper Mississippi River, having the best time with
not a care
in the World. Three months later he was diagnosed with Stage Four Cancer. So, I
like to think on the good times, not the bad, and trust that he and I might do
it again this
coming year.
We had a new Grandaughter, Scarlett, born almost a year ago and she is a joy to
Denise and I and anyone else that is around her. Scott and Rachel have done a
marvelous job of birthin' and raisin' this young'un.
We lost our good dog Buck the Collie this year…and gained the Aussie Calamity
Jane. Alfred The Cat rides herd on the dogs, Buck when he was still with us…and
now
Calamity. We had Old Buck for 14 years and it was really hard to give him up…and
as we dug his grave, down by the creek that he loved, laid him to rest and
covered the grave…going back to the house I got a cup of coffee and went out to
sit on the Porch…I looked down to the Resting Place and there I saw Calamity
Jane and Alfred The Cat…both laying stretched out on Buck's Grave mound. They
lay there for about 30 minutes and them got up and came to the house. I believe
they were grieving for their
friend…and saying goodbye. Animals know such things.
I lost many good friends this year, and did my own grieving…but, I know we shall
meet again, and it will be A Glad Reunion Day.
Rest well tonight my friends, pray and love one another…and Thank The Master for
another year. stan
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get
up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there
until I tell you,
for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him." So he got up, took the
child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
– Matthew 2:13-14 (NIV)
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