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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE: 1951 Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell 1959 The Three Bells - The Browns 1967 My Elusive Dreams - David Houston 1975 Feelins‘ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne 1983 Night Games - Charley Pride 1991 Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY compiled by Bill Morrison Hank Williams born "King Hiram Williams," in a log cabin in Mount Olive, AL 1923. Hank became the third person to be elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame 1961. Bill Black born Memphis, TN 1926. RCA debuted their first 33 1/3-rpm Long Play (LP) record in 1931. Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" topped the charts 1951. Steve Sanders, "Oak Ridge Boys," born Richland, GA 1952. Johnny Cash debuted on British television 1959. Loretta Lynn's debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, 1960. David Houston's "My Elusive Dream" was #1 in 1967. Reba McEntire debuted on the Grand Ole Opry 1977. Debbie Boone's #1 single "You Light Up My Life" debuted on Billboard's Top 40 Chart 1977. Anne Murray released her single "A Little Good News." 1983. The song went to #1, and was voted CMA Single of the Year. Kenny "Rudy" Trietsch, age 84, "Hoosier Hot Shots," died 1987. RCA Records released Alabama's album "Alabama Christmas, Vol. 2, 1996. Capitol Nashville released John Berry's album "Faces" 1996. The CMHF displayed a new bronze statue of Hank Williams Sr. on the 75th anniversary of the singers birth in 1998. Hank Williams III, Hank's grandson, was the model that posed for the artist. Varese released Johnny Bond's "The Home Recordings" 2002. Courtesy Bill Morrison: http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html THOUGHT FOR THE DAY SOMETIMES I HAVE TO SING ALONE Sometimes I have to sing alone, just like the bird in the green tree, Inside my little world I find the song God gave to only me. A butterfly with orange wings, a pebble or a little stone That sparkles like a diamond makes my heart start singing all alone. I find it in the sun that keeps its smile of gold up in the sky, I find it in each flower-face and hills that keep on climbing high. Each day there are so many things that make me feel the world‘s my own And so I‘m thankful to my God, He gives me songs when I‘m alone. Marion Schoeberlein 18
THE BOOGIE MAN. 52,000 intelligent good-looking readers. My first instrument was a ukulele. I played it and sang "Little Brown Jug" in front of my fourth grade class in my little high voice, and they clapped politely. That's how classes acted then, kids. I was ok on the uke, so a while later my dad bought me a Gibson guitar. I missed my ukulele with the four gut strings. They were easy for a kid my age to hold down. The steel strings on the guitar were painful. The Mel Bay book went in my comic book drawer, and the guitar stood in the corner... like a planter. I still listened to loud records until it killed the neighborhood real estate value, but I played no instrument for a number of years. Though I was an honor student in grammar school, I hated high school, and skipped a lot of classes. I was sneaking around the halls one day when I heard music coming from the auditorium. I looked in the door and saw a bunch of kids gathered around the piano, and somebody playing what sounded like Jimmy Durante music. (You younger folks can look up Jimmy Durante on Google.) The player was a guy a year or two ahead of me named Johnny Molay. I not only liked the music, but I liked all the girls it attracted. I thought "Hmmm." I spent my whole summer vacation at my grandparents' upright piano. I taught myself the Durante style, but boogie piano took over. There were some old boogie-woogie piano records around the house... Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson, Pinetop Smith, Freddy Slack, and other pioneers in this form of jazz. It was the beginnings of Rock & Roll. First I practiced the intricate left hand patterns, so that I wouldn't have to think about it. Then I learned the right hand licks and put them together. I started playing saloon piano when I was about sixteen... the only boogie piano guy in the area. The room would get rockin' and I might play one song for a half hour non-stop. I got a lot of attention, especially from the girls. I like attention. Isn't that why we go into the music business? It can't be the financial security. Last weekend Misty and I were listening to boogie piano players on YouTube... some of the old timers, and some of the new ones. The new boogie players seem to be mostly European. They copied the old records and then expanded on them... added their own touch. Here is one artist I recommend that you go see. His name is Johan Blohm and you can enjoy him here: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=J9b3ZZywQvg&feature=related. 19 My only recorded piano boogie sounds a little weak after Johan Blohm, but what the heck. Listen to mine here: BROADBAND: http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u? id=9526317&q=hi So, you see, I wasn't born in Country Music, but I got here as fast as I could. Jack Blanchard © 2010. -- Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan... Grammy Nominees. Billboard's Country Duet of the Year. BMI and ASCAP Awards' Home page: http://jackandmisty.com Rick Huff’s Best Of The West Reviews Review: Larry McWhorter "Cowboy Poet" What an amazing labor of love this must have been for everybody concerned! Here is a 2-CD visit with one of the all time great Cowboy Poets, and I guarantee you it's a visit you'll revisit, and revisit and revisit!! McWhorter passed away in 2003, far too young, after a grueling battle with cancer. His friends Jean Prescott and Rich O'Brien got with engineer Aaron Meador and put together this wondrous collection of poems interpreted by their author as only he could...and more! With wonderfully appropriate acoustic guitar accompaniment by O'Brien, we hear again about the tragic "Johnny Clare," we appreciate the rough-hewn cowboy proposal in "The Open Gate," we grin at McWhorter's portraits of brash hands gettin' their comeuppance in works like "The Red Cow" and "Peaches and the Twister." And thirteen more on the first CD alone! Then comes CD number two... Reading McWhorter classics are fellow poets Red Steagall, Andy Hedges, Chris Isaacs, Dennis Flynn, Oscar Auker, and included are two technical masterworks allowing McWhorter to "appear" as he'd always wanted to with Waddie Mitchell!! Lump in the throat time! The great Jesse Smith is present too, which prompts my own memory of Larry McWhorter. In a rickety announcer booth I once sat with Jesse Smith offering "color commentary" on the doin's at a ranch rodeo thrown north of Red River, New Mexico. It was held in conjunction with a Western event, and certain of the Cowboy entertainers were challenged to participate "if'n they was real by-gawd cowboys!!" The team of Rod Taylor, Larry McWhorter, Chuck Cusimano and (I think) Buster McLaury more than showed the crowd they were every bit the real deal that mud soaked day!! This double album is a stunner. Listening to these words, we can fully realize what we had...and because these fine folks cared so much, now also what we have! (All profits from sales go to benefit the Colorado non-profit equine therapy program Rein Of Glory). 2-CD set: $25 ppd through Prescott Music, PO Box 194, Ovalo, Texas 79514 by Rick Huff bestofthewest@swpc.com
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NUMBER ONE ON THIS DATE:<br />
1951<br />
Always Late (With Your Kisses) - Lefty Frizzell<br />
1959<br />
The Three Bells - The Browns<br />
1967<br />
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston<br />
1975<br />
Feelins‘ - Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynne<br />
1983<br />
Night Games - Charley Pride<br />
1991<br />
Leap of Faith - Lionel Cartwright<br />
TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY<br />
compiled by Bill Morrison<br />
Hank Williams born "King Hiram Williams," in a log cabin in Mount Olive, AL 1923. Hank became<br />
the third person to be elected to the Country Music Hall Of Fame 1961.<br />
Bill Black born Memphis, TN 1926.<br />
RCA debuted their first 33 1/3-rpm Long Play (LP) record in 1931.<br />
Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" topped the charts 1951.<br />
Steve Sanders, "Oak Ridge Boys," born Richland, GA 1952.<br />
Johnny Cash debuted on British television 1959.<br />
Loretta Lynn's debut appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, 1960.<br />
David Houston's "My Elusive Dream" was #1 in 1967.<br />
Reba McEntire debuted on the Grand Ole Opry 1977.<br />
Debbie Boone's #1 single "You Light Up My Life" debuted on Billboard's Top 40 Chart 1977.<br />
Anne Murray released her single "A Little Good News." 1983. The song went to #1, and was voted CMA Single of the Year.<br />
Kenny "Rudy" Trietsch, age 84, "Hoosier Hot Shots," died 1987.<br />
RCA Records released Alabama's album "Alabama Christmas, Vol. 2, 1996.<br />
Capitol Nashville released John Berry's album "Faces" 1996.<br />
The CMHF displayed a new bronze statue of Hank Williams Sr. on the 75th anniversary of the singers birth in 1998. Hank Williams III,<br />
Hank's grandson, was the model that posed for the artist.<br />
Varese released Johnny Bond's "The <strong>Home</strong> Recordings" 2002.<br />
Courtesy Bill Morrison: http://www.talentondisplay.com/countrycalMAR.html<br />
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY<br />
SOMETIMES I HAVE TO SING ALONE<br />
Sometimes I have to sing alone, just like the bird in the green tree,<br />
Inside my little world I find the song God gave to only me.<br />
A butterfly with orange wings, a pebble or a little stone<br />
That sparkles like a diamond makes my heart start singing all alone.<br />
I find it in the sun that keeps its smile of gold up in the sky,<br />
I find it in each flower-face and hills that keep on climbing high.<br />
Each day there are so many things that make me feel the world‘s my own<br />
And so I‘m thankful to my God, He gives me songs when I‘m alone.<br />
Marion Schoeberlein<br />
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