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'Stranger At The Funeral' was recorded Mar 1965 and released on a single May 1965 and also on the July 1966 RCA album 'Together And Alone' with some Justin Tubb recordings and some with them together (including 1965's # 23 hit 'Hurry Mr. Peters' which was an answer song for May 1965's # 1 song 'Y...

'The New Never Wore Off My Sweet Baby' # 51 in 1988. The video got a lot of play on the old (Stan Hitchcock) CMT. Dean Dillon (Larry Flynn)- born Mar 26 1955 in Lake City TN. 1976 Dillon played Hank Williams in Opryland's Country Music Show. Early 80's he released several singles for RCA, 3 made ...

Ozie Waters - born Vernon Scott Waters in Callaway County 20 miles east of Jefferson City Missouri on Dec 8 1903. 'Ozie' nickname from 'Ozark Rambler' on a KC MO radio show. He was a honorary Capt. from a Colorado Governor. Ozie (oh zee) Waters (and His Colorado Rangers) sang/acted in 16 cowboy m...

1..If your not exactly looking for it, the chances are good that you'll drive right past it. This small Texas town 60 miles east of San Antonio was once a thriving oil town. Luling Texas, also the home of Charlie Fitch and Sarg Records. The Luling Phonograph and Record Shop looks nothing like it ...

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Hank Drank by Bobby Lee Springfield...Written by Bobby Lee Springfield, Dennis Morgan & Steve Davis...Released June 1987...charted # 75.

Hank Sr drank Falstaff beer on the way to Canton...

He was the most famous singer of all-

I was born the year he died-

To me he said it all-

Even aft...

Dave Kirby moved to Albuquerque NM in 1955 when he was 17. Cantalope Jones was on Red Feather Records, a small label in Albuquerque. Released on Soma Records around Nov 1964. Cantalope Jones has a similar guitar run as Johnny Cash's 1961's Tennessee Flat Top Box..B side is 'The Old Old House' (mo...

Evangelist Allen Wingate (Page) was saved in 1963 and began to travel the United States preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. 'Miracles appear in the strangest of places'...deaf ears heard, blinded eyes saw, bad legs to bad hearts were healed. Many other wonders continued through the 60's...Decad...

Billy "Crash" Craddock, cousin of Be-Bop-A-Lula's Vincent Eugene Craddock aka Gene Vincent. 'Still Thinkin''Bout You' recorded Oct 1974, single released Jan 1975. Single went to #4 (#1 in Canada). STBY album rel Apr 1975 hit #11..Co-written by Johnny Christopher co-writer of Always On My Mind and...

In fall 1956 Al Urban recorded Run Away at Gold Star Studio in Houston at the same time he recorded Looking For Money and I Don't Want To Be Alone. Charlie Fitch released Lookin' For Money b/w I Don't Want To Be Alone on SARG Records in Nov 1956....Charlie didn't use Run Away or Back To My Old Li...

Dave Isbell And The Mission City Playboys recorded No Longer Afraid, Satisfied Or Sorry and 2 others on Aug 9 1954 at ACA(Audio Company of America) at 5520 Washington Ave Houston Tx.Dave on vocal, Willie Nelson lead guitar, Johnny Bush (Shinn III) drums, Carl Walker steel, on fiddle Cozette Holla...

B. Jeff Stone of Corsicana was born in San Antonio on April 24 1936 and died at age 75 on Aug 26 2011 in Tyler TX. When he was 18 he auditioned his songs to Charlie Fitch who owned SARG records in Luling Texas. Fitch released The Clown and Everybody Rock..In the late 1980s, ACE Records in England...

B. Jeff Stone of Corsicana was born in San Antonio on April 24 1936 and died at age 75 on Aug 26 2011 in Tyler TX. When he was 18 he auditioned his songs to Charlie Fitch who owned SARG records in Luling Texas. Fitch released The Clown and Everybody Rock..In the late 1980s, ACE Records in England...

B. Jeff Stone of Corsicana was born in San Antonio on April 24 1936 and died at age 75 on Aug 26 2011 in Tyler TX. When he was 18 he auditioned his songs to Charlie Fitch who owned SARG records in Luling Texas. Fitch released The Clown and Everybody Rock..In the late 1980s, ACE Records in England...

'Shopping For Dresses' mainly written by Little Jimmy Dickens...Hag and Jimmy were at a 'guitar pull' and Hag asked Jimmy what he had..Jimmy sang the song but it wasn't finished so Merle finished the 'britches' part...Merle recorded it July 1981 and put it on his Nov 1982 album 'Going Where The L...

Written by Henry Strzelecki when he saw Tex Ritter in his western duds, in a cafe in Birmingham Al. First recorded by Henry and bro Larry 1959 in the group 'The Four Flickers'on Lee Label from Memphis..Jerry Woodard October 1960..Murry Kellum 1963 (other side 'Gotta Leave This Town' by Kellum's b...

This is original hit version. 'Blue Blue Day' was recorded June 1957 and released as the flip side of 'Too Soon To Know' Aug 1957...Not a hit.Then Don recorded 'Oh Lonesome Me' in Dec 1957 and released it 1958...By Apr, BIG # 1 hit and flip side 'I Can't Stop Loving You' went to # 7..Then they re...

'He Took Me For A Ride' recorded summer 1974 same time as 'Get On My Love Train' (# 3 in 1974) ...'He Took Me For A Ride' charted number 10 in 1975..Norro Wilson co-wrote both songs and produced them...Tanya born Oct 10 1958....The Beautiful LaCosta (Miss Country Music- Phoenix) was born Dec 12, ...

'Come With Me' written by Chuck Howard Sr - a not too successful 1950's Rockabilly (Crazy Crazy Baby) then a country singer / guitarist...but a better songwriter (wrote Hag's 'I'm Always on a Mountain When I Fall'). From Kentucky - died heart attack August 1983 - Noted for - He played guitar on a...

'Don't Play The Game' recorded Feb 1969 for the Jan 1970 album 'Waylon'...This album had songs recorded from Feb 1967 to Oct 1969...In 1969 producers Chet and D. Davis did a lot of dubbing of strings & horns...'Don't Play The Game' was dubbed in Mar 1969...(same day as Cedartown Georgia and Days...

Freddie Hart recorded' Loose talk' at Capitol in Hollywood Ca in Dec 1953 and released it Feb 1954...He recorded it again in Jul 1961(guitarists Hank Garland & Grady Martin) and put on his 1962 Columbia album 'The Spirited Freddie Hart'...In 1966 Harmony re-released the same album as 'The Best Of...

I'm Gonna Lose b/w I Can't Go On by Jim & Johnny on FEATURE Records recorded in 1953...This is Jim and Johnny... different duo from Jimmy & Johnny...BUT...Jimmy & Johnny's big hit 'If You Don't, Somebody Else Will' was first recorded by J D Miller in Crowley Louisiana and on put on his label FEAT...

On Steve Young...."He's the only one on the scene with the possibility of becoming truly universal. If the dude gets any better, I'll kill him."...Waylon Jennings....srj

Written by one of Waylon's 'stage and studio' guitarist Billy Ray Reynolds. At this session in Jan 1972 the guitarists were the great Jimmy Capps who in the 50's played with the Louvin Bros then in the 60's with the Grand Ole Opry Band...The other guitarist was Billy Sanford who 8 years earlier p...

'Before The Next Teardrop Falls' written 1967 Ben Peters/ Vivian Kieth...Duane Dee recorded July 1967 and released it as a single...David Houston rec July 1967 rel Nov 1967 album...Jim Ed Brown rec Aug 67 rel 68 album...Dottie West rec Nov 67 rel 68 album...Charlie Pride Faron Young Jerry Lee Lew...