COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday March 2nd, 2017
Email: djdclassics@gmail.com
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
Several hit songs experienced problems being recorded because of length and
Marty Robbins 1959 hit "El Paso" was one of those tunes.
After he wrote the song, Marty played the song for his producer Don Law - who
told him the song was too long but finally agreed to allow Marty to include the
song in his "Gunfighter Ballads" album.
As the story goes - radio stations began playing "El Paso" from the album and
Columbia Records was forced to release it as a single - and the rest is country
music history!
According to Marty - - he wrote "El Paso" in his head and did not write it down
until later.
Marty commented, 'I wrote "El Paso" while driving thru the city. I didn't write
it down until I got to Phoenix the next day. But I didn't have any trouble
remembering it - it was like a movie and I did not know how it was going to end.
But once I started writing it - the song just rolled out. I didn't change a
word."
Marty Robbins Columbia Records single "El Paso" came on the country music charts
November 9th, 1959 and made it to number one where it stayed for seven weeks.
It was his 21st charted song and was on the charts for 26 weeks.
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From the storage room:
Two 45 rpm discs – the Country Music Association produced for country radio
stations – to promote Country Music Month in 1974 and 1975. Each disc contains
approximately 20 greetings by country music artists – promoting Country Music
Month – including Minnie Pearl, Roy Acuff, Kitty Wells, Johnny Rodriquez, Glen
Campbell, Faron Young, Ernest Tubb, Chet Atkins, Tompall Glaser, Ray Price and
more – plus half a dozen jingles sung by The Nashville Edition. A true
collectors item. Both Discs for $25 and I'll pay shipping. PayPal – Check or
Money Order – reply to djdclassics@gmail.com
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q: I heard on the radio that some of Glen Campbelll's music is being
re-released. Do you have any info?
A: Three of Glen Campbell's albums -"Gentle on My Mind," "Wichita Lineman" and
"Galveston"are set for reissue on vinyl on March 24th.
Q: Years ago The Kendalls had a record about "I Don't Do Like That No More" -
which is one of my favorites. Do you know who wrote that song?
A: The 1979 # 16 hit for The Kendalls was written by Sonny Throckmorton and
Rafe Van Hoy.
Q: One of my dad's friends was related to a singer named Marion Worth who was
popular years ago. My dad has a tape of a recording session that Marion Worth
gave the relative - of a song titled "Slipping Around." My dad says that
recording became a popular record but doesn't remember who the guy is on the
recording. Do you know?
A: "Slipping Around" was a # 23 hit for George Morgan and Marion Worth in
1964.
Q: My dad says that Paul Overstreet and Tommy Overstreet are the same guys. Is
that true?
A: Not true. Paul Overstreet was born in 1955 in Mississippi. Tommy
Overstreet was born in 1937 in Oklahoma.
Q: Faron Young's "Wine Me Up" is one of my favorite songs. My sister insists
that Jerry Lee Lewis sang that song on the radio several Years ago. I've tried
to find it but no luck. Did Jerry Lee record that song?
A: Jerry Lee Lewis version of "Wine Me Up" is in his 1970 "She Even Woke Me Up
To Say Goodbye" album
Q: My mom used to sing a song about "Did I Ever Tell You." She said it was on
the radio back in the 60's. Do you remember such a record?
A: "Did I Ever Tell You" was a # 15 hit for George Jones and Margie Singleton
in 1961
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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
1949
Don't Rob Another Man's Castle - Eddy Arnold
1957
There You Go - Johnny Cash
1965
I've Got a Tiger by the Tail - Buck Owens
1973
Rated "X" - Loretta Lynn
1981
Southern Rains - Mel Tillis
1989
I Sang Dixie - Dwight Yoakam
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Courtesy: Bill Morrison.
1907 - Arkie The Arkansas Woodchopper 1907-1981, singer, piano, guitarist and
member of the WLS National Barn Dance, was born Luther W. Ossenbrink near Knob
Noster, Missouri.
1923 - Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson, singer, songwriter, guitar and banjo, an
American treasure, born in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
1949 - Hank Williams recorded "Honky Tonk Blues."
1957 - Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight" hit the country chart.
1958 - The Everly Brothers appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
1959 - Larry Stewart, lead singer "Restless Heart," born in Paducah, Kentucky.
1959 - Johnny Cash left Sun Records in 1958, moved his family to the left coast
and signed with Columbia. As soon as Columbia released Cash's first single, Sun
began releasing John's songs that they had not released prior to his contract
running out. Today Sun Records released Johnny Cash's single "Luther Played The
Boogie" b/w "Thanks A Lot." Both sides of this single charted. Sun continued to
release singles by Cash into the 1970's.
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1960 - Elvis Presley flew from Germany to Scotland (for refueling) and then home
to America, after completing his military service. Elvis never appeared in
concert outside the U.S. His manager Col. Tom Parker (a former carnival
huckster) was an illegal immigrant and as a result was unable to apply for a
passport.
1964 - Jim & Jesse McReynolds became members of the Grand Ole Opry.
1967 - The 9th Annual Grammy Awards were presented this evening. Jeannie Seely
won a Grammy for "Don't Touch Me." Other Country Music Grammy winners this year
include David Houston, Billy Sherrill-Glen Sutton (songwriters), Anita Kerr
Singers, Porter Wagoner & the Blackwood Brothers, and Ray Charles.
1984 - The Whites became members of the Grand Ole Opry. In 2007 they remain one
of the Opry fans favorites. Two members of the group are lovely, talented
ladies. The third member is not lovely, on the outside anyway, however Buck
White is one of the best men to ever set foot on the stage of what use to be the
best showcase for country music on the planet. To know him, is to love him. God
bless you Buck.
1987 - Country Music was well represented this evening at the Grammy Awards
Show. Reba McEntire, Ronnie Milsap, The Judds, Ricky Skaggs, Jamie O'Hara
(songwriter), and Doc Watson received the highly prized Grammy Awards, and the
Hall of Fame Award went to "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins released on Sun
Records in 1956; and "Cool Water" by the Sons of the Pioneers released on Decca
in 1941. These recordings will now by referred to as Grammy Hall of Fame
recordings for all time.
1988 - Grammy Awards went to K.T. Oslin, Randy Travis, Emmylou Harris, Dolly
Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Ronnie Milsap, Kenny Rogers, Asleep At The Wheel, Don
Schlitz and Paul Overstreet (songwriters). Lifetime Achievement Awards were
presented to Roy Acuff, Hank Williams, and Ray Charles.
1990 - Keith Whitley's Video for his RCA single "I Wonder Do You Think of Me"
was certified Gold by the RIAA.
1995 - Vern Gosdin was hospitalized and underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery
in October of 1990, and suffered a stroke today. Later, while driving home from
a meeting in June of 1999, Gosdin suffered a second stroke. Columbia Records cut
him from their roster not long after he had the stroke in 1995.
1996 - Martina McBride's RCA single "Wild Angels," became her first #1 record.
1998 - Capitol Records released Steve Wariner's single "Holes In The Floor Of
Heaven." The song charted a few days later, and topped out at #2. The songs was
honored by the CMA as their Single of the Year.
1999 - Sony released Moe Bandy's album "Super Hits."
2002 - The new Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame opened in Ferriday, Louisiana.
Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley, and Jimmy Swaggart were among the first
inductees.
2004 - The Whites celebrated their 20th anniversary as members of the Grand Ole
Opry.
Courtesy: <http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalendar.html>
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REUNION.
By: Jack Blanchard
/From a recent visit to Tennessee./
We forgot to take jackets,
so we bought one and borrowed another,
for the sharp crisp days and two-blanket nights.
The day we arrived in Celina, Tennessee
we huddled in a motel basement while a tornado went by
and left dents in the roof of our car.
The rest of our visit was better.
At the spur-of-the-moment family reunion
we met some of the younger kinfolk for the very first time.
I reckon that's the first time I've ever said "kinfolk",
and I know this is my first "I reckon".
We had hugs, laughs, talks about old and new times,
and played music together on the porch by candlelight.
In the Fall,
every mountainside here is a wall of lush color,
but now in April the scenery is more transparent.
It has a three-dimensional depth.
Through the bare lacy limbs of winter,
there are leftover autumn leaves,
bright spring buds, dark evergreens,
and some delicate trees of lavender and white.
We dreaded leaving and said many goodbyes.
A lot of love was going around,
and we're hanging on to the feeling.
The first half of the homeward drive
was through spring mountains, rivers, and country towns.
We talked about our three days in Celina,
and the people we'll miss.
Misty and I like the aged weather-beaten barns.
Maybe they're a signal from our past...
fading proof that there ever was a past.
Sometimes we think we dreamed it all,
but the old leaning buildings are evidence.
The road south from the Florida border was comparatively dull.
We passed an "IHOP" sign on the highway,
and Misty sang a little song:
"I Hop Alone.
Because, to tell you the truth, I'm a rabbit.
I don't mind. It's a habit.
I Hop Alone."
Sometimes she gets deep.
Jack Blanchard
http://www.jackandmisty.net
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View From The Road-Stan Hitchcock
As we near the 1st of March tomorrow, and the coming of Spring, 19 days
later...it is difficult for me to think of anything except the return of
Fishing!
I long to move back into the far reaches of the American waterways, away from
Political Hollering and Bickering, away from the challenges of every day life,
away from an old man's aches and sit in the Freedom of Nature's beauty, the warm
Sun on my back, a fresh breeze in my face and my favorite rod in my hands, with
fresh line and new lures tied on...casting to a special pool of water, waiting
for the arm jarring strike of a game fish and the struggle of man and
fish...ahhhh yes...it is times like that which keeps a man going strong.
There were times when I felt that sense of Freedom on the Open Road, traveling
from town to town and across to other Countries, with my guitar and songs, or
when I was in the start-up phase of some Cable Television Network...the World
was my Ripe Tomato and I loved to pick it...and those adventures were good and
fulfilling, but today, at this stage of the Trail, it is the Peace Of Nature
that I crave, and the enjoyment of writing my stories about it all. I have been
much Blessed, getting to participate in adventures far more than I ever dreamed
as a boy in the Ozarks. Every morning, it is now my Prayer that God Will Use Me
For Good in some way...to use me and wear me out in following His Will. For it
is by Being Used For Good that makes Life Worth Living.
God Bless Us All Today. stan
www.hitchcockcountry.com -
http://www.hitchcockcountry.com
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set
apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. Unlike the other high priests, he
does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and
then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when
he offered himself.
– Hebrews 7:26-27 (NIV)
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