From: Tom Kaufman
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COUNTRY MUSIC CLASSICS
Doug Davis
Owner/Publisher/Manager/Editor/
Writer/Gopher/Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
Thursday May 17th, 2018
Email: djdclassics@xxxxxxxxx
STORY BEHIND THE SONG
It’s been said that songwriters are a strange breed of folks – and perhaps
that’s true – when you consider some of the ideas and the lyrics that some
writers come up with.
According to Jack Clement – the idea for the George Jones 1963 top ten – “Not
What I Had In Mind” - came from his thinking that just about everybody does
things they didn’t mean to do!
Clement commented, “Well that was just another song I wrote one time – I don’t
think I had anything special in mind that day – when I sat down to write. And
it didn’t have any particular attachment to anybody or anything – I guess you
could say that song “Not What I Had In Mind” - came from the basic idea that
everybody does things they really didn’t intend to do.”
The George Jones United Artists single came on the charts February 9th, 1963
and peaked at number 7. It was his 33rd charted song and was on the charts for
18 weeks.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWER
Q: Have you ever heard of a song about “Lawyers, Guns, and Money?” My uncle
says it was on the radio years ago.
A: “Lawyers, Guns & Money” was a track in Hank Williams Jr.’s 1985 “Five-O”
album
Q: Did Tammy Wynette record an album with David Houston? My sister says she
saw one at a garage sale?
A: “My Elusive Dreams” was a 1967 album for Tammy and David
Q: My dad loved to play pool and his favorite record was Dave Dudley’s “The
Pool Shark.” Do you know who wrote it?
A: That 1970 number one for Dudley was written by Tom T. Hall
Q: Found a copy of “A-11” by Johnny Paycheck at a garage sale. When did that
record come out?
A: “A-11” was Paycheck’s first charted song and peaked at # 26 in 1965
Q: I’ve always loved “A Little Good News” by Anne Murray. My mom says the
record won some kind of award. Is that true?
A: The 1984 Anne Murray hit was the CMA’s Single Of The Year
Q: Years ago I attended a Bill Anderson concert in Georgia and he sang a song
about “Can I Come Home To You?” I’ve never heard that song since then. Did he
record it?
A: “Can I Come Home To You” was a # 24 hit for Bill Anderson in 1974
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NUMBER ONES ON THIS DATE
1945
At Mail Call Today - Gene Autry
1953
Mexican Joe - Jim Reeves
1961
Hello Walls - Faron Young
1969
My Life (Throw It Away if I Want To) - Bill Anderson
1977
Some Broken Hearts Never Mend - Don Williams
1985
Somebody Should Leave - Reba McEntire
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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY
Courtesy: Bill Morrison.
1912 - Grant Turner, Grand Ole Opry announcer for 49 years, was born in
Abilene, Texas. Grant was inducted into the CMHF in1982, and the CMDJHF in 1975.
1925 - Arthur Lee “Red” Smiley 1925~1972, guitarist for “Reno & Smiley” (formed
in 1951) was born today in Marshall, North Carolina.
1928 - Ben Smathers, founder of The Stoney Mountain Cloggers” was born in
Hendersonville, North Carolina.
1933 - Jimmie Rodgers recorded “Blue Yodel No 12" b/w I’m Free from the Chain
Gang Now."
1947 - Red Foley's recording "New Jolie Blonde" was Billboard magazine's #1
record.
1948 - Penny DeHaven, singer, actress was born Charlotte DeHaven in Winchester,
Virginia.
1948 - Eddy Arnold's RCA recordings of "Bouquet of Roses," and "Texarkana Baby"
both hit Billboard's Best Sellers chart today, and both songs went to #1.
Bouquet of Roses for 19 weeks, and Texarkana Baby for 3 weeks.
1952 - Johnny Horton 1925~1960, The Singing Fisherman debuted on the Louisiana
Hayride. John was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry, however, for personal
reasons he chose to remain in Shreveport. John was married to Hank Williams
widow Billie Jean, who hated the Opry because they fired Hank. As a result,
this very talented country music ambassador of country music, is not a member
of the CMHF.
1952 - Ray Price debuted on the charts with his Columbia single “Talk To Your
Heart." The song climbed the charts to the #3 position, and Ray joined the
Grand Ole Opry later that year.
1964 - Ralph Emery emceed four performances of a huge Country Music show held
at Madison Square Garden. The show featured Buck Owens, Ernest Tubb, Bill
Monroe, Webb Pierce, Bill Anderson, Stonewall Jackson, Skeeter Davis, Porter
Wagoner and Leon McAuliffe. The show was a huge success.
1966 - Wiley Walker, of “Wiley & Gene” died at age 54.
1980 - Merle Haggard and Clint Eastwood’s “Bar Room Buddies,” charted.
1982 - Merle Haggard and George Jones recorded “Yesterday’s Wine."
1993 - Johnny Cash recorded his album "Def American" in Hollywood, California,
between the 17th and the 20th.
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD
By: Jack Blanchard
Our family lived in Buffalo, New York,
on the north side of Bedford Avenue,
about half way between Elmwood Avenue and Lincoln Parkway.
Our house was mostly gray,
and would have been plain if not for the sun porch.
It wasn't really a porch, but more of a carpeted, furnished room,
with about a dozen windows wrapped around three walls,
letting in the summer breeze,
and providing a panoramic view of neighborhood goings-on.
We knew all the families and most of their business.
The Hamlins lived two houses up from us.
I hung around with Richard Hamlin,
who had lost his older brothers in the war.
Mrs. Hamlin kept the two gold stars in the window
long after the war stopped.
When Richie's father died I took his paper route for a week or so.
The last I heard he was pitching pro baseball,
and using the name "Luke Hamlin".
Ken Barney was the red-haired kid across the street,
with the loud foggy voice and huge freckles.
He took violin lessons, and his father owned the Gates Circle Garage.
Last time I saw Kenny he was a pale, bald psychiatrist,
with a soft voice, and a wife and kid.
He played jazz bass on the weekends.
Dr. Goldstein, a neurologist, lived next door to us.
His son Davey was a nice kid who ran with his elbows.
Sammy Becker was the neighborhood bad boy.
He wasn't really bad, but he was in constant hot water.
He often stole stuff and brought it to school for show-and-tell.
One day he brought a case of white powder in small corked bottles.
We didn't know what it was, but Sammy showed us a trick.
If you spit into a bottle, replaced the cork, and shook it up,
the cork would pop and shoot about fifty feet.
I later learned that the powder was called Eno Salts,
and it was a laxative, apparently a strong one.
One Halloween I got stupid
and soaped the windows all up and down the street.
The twelve big windows on our sun porch
were the only ones left in pristine condition.
I was never smart enough to be a criminal.
My dad had me go out and scribble soap all over our own windows,
so I wouldn't become the prime suspect.
I spent the whole next day getting all that glass clean,
and trying to look innocent.
The living room we have now has big windows and nice scenery,
but people don't seem to know their neighbors as well as they used to.
Everybody should be a kid in Buffalo and have a sun porch.
Jack Blanchard.
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan...
Home Page: http://www.jackandmisty.net
Mastering & restoration studio: 352-530-2068.
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View From The Front Porch-Stan Hitchcock
Where does a Lifetime music career begin? Does it begin in 1948, when you get
that first guitar? Twelve years old, standing with my dad, Big Stan, at the
counter of Ike Martin's Music Store in Springfield, Missouri. Behind the
counter was a wall of guitars, hanging by the headstocks on hooks set in the
wall. Mr. Martin took down a youth model Gretsch and handed it to me across the
counter. That was one beginning. As I held the guitar against my body, it felt
warm and alive, and though I had no idea where to put my fingers, yet, I felt a
deep kinship. Mr. Martin said, "Son, you take good care of that guitar now, and
it will last you a long time." Seems, like, to me, it was the other way around,
guitars have taken good care of me, and I've lasted a long time.
Or was it later, in 1954, when I was 18, and had joined the Navy and was
walking up the gangplank of the ship that would be my home, and in one hand I
had my sea bag, and the other hand I had my guitar. By this time I had upgraded
to the type guitar that I would use the rest of my life, a J45 Gibson. The Navy
provided a moveable stage for me to learn my music craft. Not long after I had
come on board ship, I met Pee Wee, a fiddle player from Georgia, and Pee Wee
had some other shipmates on board that played music. We became the Bryce Canyon
Troubadours and played in every port where the ship would come into, and when
we were at sea, we would play every night on the Main Deck, before the movies.
That was certainly another beginning.
Or was it in 1959, when I was 23, a year out of the Navy and back in
Springfield, Missouri. I had met a group of cousins, the Bilyeu family, from
down in Taney and Stone Counties, South of Springfield. They had put together a
great gospel group called the Waymakers, and were singing at churches around
the area. I first heard them at Seminole Baptist Church, where my Uncle Bob
Johnson was the Pastor, and I was drawn to them like a magnet. Soon we were
singing together all over that part of the Ozarks. That same year, 1959, Uncle
Bob asked me to help him start up a home for homeless boys, called the Good
Samaritan Boys Ranch. As part of this work, the Waymakers and I decided to cut
an album of gospel songs to benefit the Boys Ranch. My first album was recorded
in Radio Station KWTO, and that was the real beginning, I suppose.
Two years later, 1961, I was standing in front of the mike in Bradley's Quonset
Hut Studio, recording my first Epic Records single. And that was another
beginning.
My life has been a series of beginnings, endings, adventures, disasters,
successes, failures, joy, heartache....just, as everyone experiences. Life is
not static, it moves, it evolves. When one door closes, another opens up. A lot
of times, what you considered disasters at the time, turn out to be new
opportunities, that take you in a new and better direction. God's direction for
your life is marvelous to behold. Denise and I have been blessed, immeasurably,
in the 32 years we have been together. Blessed, does not mean easy. We have had
some really big hills to climb, many times wondering how in the world could we
get over. That is where the blessings come in to play. The Lord has blessed us
with just enough strength, talent, vision or whatever is needed, to make that
climb.
We are facing some hills right now, just as I am sure, many of you are also.
Life is not a level playing field. I suppose one of the benefits of age, is the
experience factor. I have experienced so many challenges, that in my younger
times might have really scared me, but now, having experienced God's blessing
of just enough of whatever you need at the time, my measure of Faith has
increased. I know that He is with me for the climb, and His hand is strong, for
that final lift to the crest.
That first beginning, in 1948, was also the year that I accepted Jesus as my
Savior. Down on my knees, by my bed, in the farm house in the Ozarks, and that
was the Real Beginning. I had no idea what life had in store for me, but even
then, I knew I did not want to face it alone. And, with Jesus, you are never
alone.
stan
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that
your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
– 1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)
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