C O U N T R Y M U S I C C L A S S I C S

Doug Davis
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Email to: Classics@countrymusicclassics.com

Monday May 21st, 2007

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STORY BEHIND THE SONG

A lot of classic country hits were written as follow-up’s to another song and according to Glenn Sutton, Jerry Lee Lewis’s 1968 hit, “She Still Comes Around To Love What’s left Of Me” was just such a tune!

Glenn commented, “I wrote that song because Jerry Kennedy told me I had to write a follow-up to “Milwaukee” and that’s what I came up with. It was time for the next session on Jerry Lee and Kennedy kept telling me he needed a good song for the follow-up so on the way home that night I started thinking about it and I don’t know why but the line, “She Still Comes Around” came to my mind and I started fooling with it and added the “To Love What’s Left Of Me” to it and I wrote the song that night.”

“She Still Comes Around To Love What’s Left Of Me” made the country music charts September 28^th, 1968 and peaked at # two, where it stayed for two weeks.

It was Jerry Lee’s 12^th charted country song and was on the charts for 12 weeks.

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Read “The Story Behind The Song” on Jeanne Pruett’s `1972 hit, “Love Me,” at

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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QUESTION: I heard that Willie Nelson is into saving some horses. Do you have any information?

ANSWER: Willie Nelson is asking fans to help stop the slaughter of horses in Texas. The singer says, quote, “The last place in the world I thought would ever support horse slaughter is my home state. No other animal symbolizes the spirit of Texas better than the horse.” He adds, quote, “We are aware of the overwhelming cruelty horses face on the trip to the slaughterhouse, and we do not mistake slaughter for euthanasia." To learn more about the issue visit www.saplonline.org/horses.htm.

QUESTION: The radio folks mentioned Connie Smith hosting a gospel concert in Nashville. Do you know the date?

ANSWER: Connie Smith will host this year’s “Sunday Mornin’ Country” on June 10^th, the last day of the CMA Music Fest, along with Chris Young, Linda Davis, Jean Shepard and Hank Locklin. Others performers will include former “Hee Haw” star Lu Lu Roman, “Nashville Star” finalist Casey Rivers, Keni Thomas, and the Fox Brothers. The show will be held in the Ryman Auditorium on that Sunday afternoon.

QUESTION: I heard that Mel Tillis was joining the Grand Ole Opry. I thought he was already member?

ANSWER: Mel Tillis will become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry on June 9^th. Bill Anderson issued the invitation on stage. Mel’s son, Mel Jr. and daughter Pam Tillis were also on hand. Pam has been an Opry member since 2000.

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QUESTION: Back in the 70’s, there as a song on the radio about “will you live with me til I can live again.” I think it was Johnny Paycheck but I never heard anything about it. Do you have any information?

ANSWER: “Live With Me Til I Can Learn To Live Again” was the flipside of Paycheck’s 1976 # 34 hit, “11 Months And 29 Days.”

QUESTION: I remember a song on the radio sometime in the late 60’s or early 70’s about a wax museum. Do you know anything about that tune?

ANSWER: “Wax Museum” was a # 62 hit for Dave Peel in 1970

QUESTION: My favorite song is Eddy Arnold’s record, “Then You Can Tell me Goodbye.” Do you know who wrote that song?

ANSWER Eddy’s 1968 # one was written by John D. Loudermilk

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COUNTRY MUSIC’S TOP TUNES IN:

1948
Anytime - Eddy Arnold

1956
Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins

1964
My Heart Skips a Beat - Buck Owens

1972
Grandma Harp - Merle Haggard

1980
Gone Too Far - Eddie Rabbitt

1988
I’m Gonna Get You - Eddy Raven

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H E L P:

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TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY

By: Bill Morrison

North Carolina’s Charlie Poole, age 39, died 1931.

Jack Cash, age 14, older brother of Johnny, was buried in Bassett, AR, after dying as the result of a power saw accident in 1944.

Ernest Tubb recorded “Too Late To Worry, Too Blue To Cry” 1945.

Eddy Arnold’s “The Echo of Your Footsteps” charted 1949.

Brenda Lee was signed to her first recording contract by Paul Cohen of Decca Records in 1956.

Marty Robbins topped the charts with “A White Sport Coat” 1957.

Capitol Records released Buck Owens’ single “Save The Last Dance For Me/King Of Fools” 1962.

Del Reeves’ “Girl On The Billboard” was #1 in 1965.

Tanya Tucker’s “What’s Your Mama’s Name” was #1 in 1973.

T. G. Sheppard topped the charts with “I Loved ‘Em Every One” 1981.

Kathy Mattea’s “Eighteen Wheels and A Dozen Roses,” went to #1 in 1988, and becamethe CMA’s Single of the Year.

Trisha Yearwood, and the Mavericks Robert Reynolds, married on stage, at the Ryman Auditorium 1994.

Razor & Tie released “The Little Jimmy Dickens Collection” 1996.

Willie Nelson made a guest appearance on the Simpson’s TV show in 2000.

During the live broadcast of the ACM Awards in 2002, Alabama announced they would retire from working the road, after their upcoming farewell tour.

Bear Family released Lester Flatt “Live at Vanderbilt” 2002.

The WB Network announced that Reba McEntire’s sitcom “Reba” will be returning for it’s fourth season 2004.

by: Bill Morrison www.rockabillyhall.com/billmorrison.html

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LETTERS FROM SUBSCRIBERS:

Dear Sir: Although I enjoy your newsletter, I do find fault with it. From time to time you mention that your newsletter covers classic country music from the 1950’s thru the 1980’s, yet in a recent edition you spotlighted a 1990 Vern Gosdin song, “This Ain’t my First Rodeo.” I would like to know why you don’t follow your own guidelines and to let your know that I dislike the fact that you don’t.

Myron in California

Dear Myron:

It could be because Vern Gosdin is my favorite singer, OR because I just like that song OR because it’s my newsletter and I will include what I please.....take your pick. As for your dislike—remember that this newsletter is F R E E and if you dislike any part of it—UNSUBSCRIBE instructions are at the end of each issue. Feel free to use them at anytime.

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Doug: Just wanted to let you know that Ed Bruce, that great singer and songwriter (MAMAS DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS) will arrive in Shreveport, LA on May 21 to begin filming for the movie PARDON IN THE SAND. He will play the role of prosecutor J P Copeland in this movie based real events that occurred in Louisiana. As you know, Louisiana is housing many production companies, with the filming of five new movies in progress.

Music Row Talent Records, Inc. will release a new gospel cd on Ed in the very near future.

Thanks.

Ann M. Stuckey

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“Country Classics ~ Music From The Heart”

By: Bill Morrison

Quote: “I had a lot of trouble dealing with success. I think it was harder for me to handle than failure would have been. I had a hard time dealing with it. I had lived a simple life and life on the road as an entertainer is anything but simple. It’s very complicated, very trying, very taxing, very tiring. I had my ups and downs, as is well documented.”—Johnny Cash

Who Am I? When Skeeter Davis joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1959, she also became a member of a legends road show. Whose road show did she join?

Before he was signed by ABC-Dunhill Records in the early seventies, Jimmy Buffett was turned down by 26 record labels.

Minnie Pearl 1912~1996 was a cast member of Hee Haw from 1970~1991.

Song Of The Day: “My First Country Song: recorded by Dino Crocetti a.k.a. Dean Martin 1917~1995, and released by Warner in 1983. Conway Twitty wrote the song, and sang with Dean on the recording. The single charted in July, went to #35, and remained on the Country Charts for 12 weeks. Just for the record (pun intended) the title of this single could have been “My Last Country Song.” Both titles accurately reflect the history of Dean’s recording career.

FYI: www.BillAnderson.com has a very nice story about Bill’s two granddaughters, and their future in the entertainment business. You can contact this legend at: BillA@BillAnderson.com . (No attachments please).

Johnny Paycheck 1938~2003 a.k.a. Donald Eugene Lytle a.k.a. Donny Young was a member of the U.S. Navy in the mid-1950’s. He was court-martialed in 1956 for assaulting a superior officer, and served two years in a military prison and given a dishonorable discharge. In February of 1989 he was sentenced to prison in Ohio for shooting a man in a tavern. He was released two years later. Johnny joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1997. When he passed away on February 18, 2003, Johnny Paycheck was laid to rest in Nashville’s Woodlawn Cemetery, in a plot owned by George and Nancy Jones. At one time this very talented (and troubled) man was a member of The Jones Boys. Over the years George Jones has forgotten a lot of things, but never a friend.

Burl Ives inducted Bill Monroe and The Carter Family into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1970.

***Who Am I? Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours.

Remembering A Country Music Legend: Grant Turner 1912~1991

Jesse Granderson Turner was born in Baird, Texas on May 17, 1912. He was a singer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, newspaper writer, the Dean of the Grand Ole Opry announcers (for almost 50 years), and a friend of the stars. Grant debuted on WSM on June 6, 1944. For the younger readers…that was D Day, the day the allies invaded France during World War II, on the long march to Berlin. I believe Grant Turner was the nicest man I ever met in Music City. I loved him, and so did everyone I knew. I had know Grant for quite a while before he ever introduced me on WSM. The first time I appeared on The Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree it was Grant Turner who made the introduction. Grant charted a single “The Bible In Her Hand” on the Chart label in 1948. The song was written by Donna Veale, and found its way into the Top 50. It was George D. Hay “The Solemn Old Judge” who invited Grant to become an announcer for the Opry. He couldn’t have made a better choice. At the close of World War II Grant toured military bases overseas with a Grand Ole Opry Troupe that included Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Hank Williams, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Red Foley. Grant Turner was inducted into the Country Music DJ Hall of Fame, and in 1981 became the first announcer to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Grant Turner died October 19, 1991, and was laid to rest in Williamson Memorial Gardens, in Franklin, Tennessee.

Thought For Today: For the saint and the sinner death is a comma, never a period.

by: Bill Morrison www.rockabillyhall.com/billmorrison.html

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CHARACTERS YOU MEET IN SHOW BUSINESS.

By: Jack Blanchard

I worked in a show club in Detroit with The Dawn Breakers quartet. The emcee was a very funny comedian named Frankie Rapp.
He did an impression of a gay lighthouse. I saw him in a Jerry Lewis movie once.

There was a classy female singer on the show who was Frankie’s ex-wife.
She told me she didn’t like old comedians. She’d been married to two of them.
After comedians make us laugh we expect them to be jolly in real life.
They can be quite different from their onstage persona.

Mickey Rooney is one of our finest comedic actors, but backstage we found him grouchy, unfriendly, and rude.
Lou Costello got 60% and Bud Abbott got 40% of their income.
When asked if he thought he needed Abbott, he said this: “I could have him painted on the curtain.”
Misty and I have known hilarious comics who were serious depressives.
We got involved with one who was a tyrant.

I was producing a Starday Records artist named Rusty Diamond, who had a knack for getting rich backers.
Rusty wanted to put together a Vegas type stage show.
I knew he wasn’t ready for that, so I suggested we hire a comedy coach named Danny Rogers.

Rusty’s backer was paying for the coaching sessions, and the rent on a rehearsal hall.
Danny could be funny, lovable, humble, devious, and cruel. He could be different people at different moments.
He did so many characters, I didn’t know which was the real him. I think it was the mean one.

He’d been fired from Milton Berle’s Vegas show for being too funny.
He told me “Berle was right. It was his show.” The potential comedy group consisted of
Misty and me, Paul McLaughlin our sax player, and Rusty was to be the star.
Rogers began calling Paul “the hick” and riding him mercilessly.
I was the designated straight man, Misty was “the chick”, and it never became clear what Rusty was supposed to do.

It did become clear that Rusty was not going to be the star. Danny was getting paid to train him, but Rusty was on his way out.
It was morphing into The Danny Rogers Group. He was a terrific comedian, and I was to be his Dean Martin.
He didn’t even want Paul in the act. That’s why he made his life miserable.
But we made sure Paul stayed. To be fair, Danny did teach us a lot about stagecraft and comedy.
He taught us some hilarious routines, but he yelled at us all the time, which took the fun out of it.
Rusty’s backers pulled the plug and he left the group, Paul “the hick” was miserable,
and Misty and I were imagining fun ways to kill Danny Rogers. Misty bought an expensive new dress
and Danny commanded her to “Never wear that again.”

Then he booked our act into a famous showplace in the Caribbean. We all knew at that moment
that we were not going to be on any island with Danny Rogers. We were actually afraid to tell him.
He had become the cruel warden. But we did tell him, and he wasn’t happy
First he became the poor soul who’s been hurt, to make us feel guilty. He was good!
Finally he got mad, did a troll dance, and left. Maybe I made up the troll dance.

In the 1970’s, after we’d had several hit records, I was calling old names in our address book, for some dumb reason.
I got Rogers on the phone, and asked if he remembered us, and he said this: “Yeah. Too bad you never made it.”

Jack Blanchard
THE JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY MORGAN HOME PAGE:
http://jackandmisty.com

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“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me for I have redeemed you.” Isaiah 44:22 NIV

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