Here June sings "I Am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes." This song could in some ways be credited with breaking up the original Carter Family. A.P. had had a mistress for years but when Sarah beg...
Here June sings "I Am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes." This song could in some ways be credited with breaking up the original Carter Family. A.P. had had a mistress for years but when Sarah began having an affair with his cousin Coy Bayes no one was impressed. It was decided that Coy should go away to California with his parents and siblings. For years Sarah wrote to Coy but he never received the letters because his mother felt that it was best if they would forget each other and kept them from him. Sarah wrote this song for him and one day on the radio out of sheer desperation dedicated the song to Coy Bayes and sang away. He heard her on the other side of the country and his mother confessed what she had done. He drove through the night to see Sarah and they never separated again after that.
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Does everyone know that "A. P." stands for Alvin Pleasant? Does anyone remember that there was another female involved with Alvin and Sarah? Maybelle!
At the insistance of Ralph Peer, A.P. Carter took old traditonal songs, changed a chord or a verse and then Ralph Peer had it copyrighted for Peer International under A.P.'s name. All Ralph Peer gave a damn about was the money. He had dollar signs for eyes. Looks like things haven't changed in the recording industry since 1927. Bucks am the bottom line. The artists are just toys to be played with.
The story behind the song here is not completely accurate. Sara did not write the song, and she and A.P. were well broken up even before her famous dedication to Coy over the radio. It's more the song that got Sara and Coy together than the one that broke her and A.P. apart. Also, no other source documents A.P. having a mistress, though I suppose it could be true.
What a pleasure to hear genuine un-amplified music sung by true talent! (And with the slim face, high cheekbones, toothiness and healthy good looks, doesn't June Carter look like one of the Kennedy women?)
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