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Here’s what we played:

DRINKIN’ SONGS (IN THE MORNING!)

George Jones “Swingin’ Doors”

Billy Walker “There Stands the Glass”

Carl Smith “Drinking Champagne”

Charlie Rich “Sittin’ And Thinkin’”

Lynn Anderson “Stay There ‘Til I Get There”

Loretta Lynn “Don’t Come Home a-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ On Your Mind)”

BASEBALL SONGS

Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer”

Nate Gibson “The Jackie Robinson of Country Music”

Nate Gibson “The Sausage Race Is On”

Alabama “The Cheap Seats”

Del Reeves “The Philadelphia Fillies”

POTPURRI

Mel Tillis “Coca-Cola Cowboy”

The Statler Brothers “How To Be A Country Star”

Hank Thompson “Paying Off the Interest With My Tears”

Jimmy Dean “I Won’t Go Huntin’ With You Jake”

Freddie Hart “I Forgot To Remember To Forget”

Wedding Bells are ringing here at Classic Country Corner. Superfans Matt and Joanna will be tying the knot later today. So this morning we will be playing Songs of love, devotion and matrimony in their honor.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

SONGS OF DEVOTION

Buck Owens “Love’s Gonna Live Here”

Johnny Cash & June Carter “Jackson”

Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard “Forever and Ever”

Patsy Cline “Always (feat. The Jordanaires)”

Johnny Horton “I’m A One Woman Man”

SONGS OF MATRIMONY

George Jones & Tammy Wynette “The Ceremony”

Randy Travis “Forever and Ever, Amen”

George Jones “The Right Left Hand”

Buck Owens “We Were Made for Each Other”

Don Williams “It Must Be Love”

Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash “Darlin’ Companion (Live)”

SONGS FOR SLOW DANCING

George Strait “I Cross My Heart”

Anne Murray “Could I Have This Dance”

Ernest Tubb “Waltz Across Texas”

Diamond Rio “Meet In The Middle”

Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers “Islands In the Stream”

George Jones & Tammy Wynette “Golden Ring”

The theme of this week’s show, well there really isn’t one. I had a busy week. Tuesday night I saw Charley Crockett at the Sylvee and then Thursday night I popped down to Chicago to see Bob Mould and Sugar. (ashow i’d been waiting 30 years to see). So I’m a bit worn out from soo much activity on a school night.

My notes say “Shut up and play the hits” So we are going to do exactly that.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Charley Pride “Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’”

Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues”

Hank Williams “Hey Good Lookin (feat. The Drifting Cowboys)”

Jeannie C. Riley “Harper Valley P.T.A.”

Buck Owens “Above And Beyond”

Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain”

Waylon Jennings “Good Hearted Woman”

Tanya Tucker “Delta Dawn”

Conway Twitty “Hello Darlin’”

Loretta Lynn “Happy Birthday”

Connie Smith “Once A Day”

George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today”

Merle Haggard “Today I Started Loving You Again”

Tammy Wynette “Stand By Your Man”

Diamond Rio “Norma Jean Riley”

Tom T. Hall “Faster Horses (The Cowboy And The Poet)”

Dolly Parton “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind”

We are back with another all analog, all vintage all vinyl show! This morning we will be playing tracks from albums that I received for my birthday this year from my wonderful parents, who have made it their mission to rescue as many records as possible from the thrift stores and tractor auctions across Wisconsin.There really isn’t any overarching theme this week, other than the usual subjects of heartache, drinking and criminal activity.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Wynn Stewart “Playboy”

Billy Walker “I Guess Things Happen That Way”

Connie Smith & Nat Stuckey “I Got You”

Ray Price “Heartaches By the Number”

Ray Price “Crazy Arms”

Dolly Parton “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” (excerpt)

Dolly Parton “Making Believe”

Mickey Gilley “Drinking Old Memories Down”

Hank Snow “The Golden Rocket”

Eddy Arnold “Many Tears Ago”

Carl Smith “It’s Teardrop Time”

George Jones “Please Don’t Let That Woman Get Me”

Hank Locklin “She Thinks I Still Care”

Stonewall Jackson “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water”

George Morgan “I’ll Sail My Ship Alone”

Webb Pierce “Heebie Jeebie Blues”

Jimmy Dean “Gotta Travel On”

Johnny Cash “Understand Your Man (Mono)”

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In Wisconsin, Labor Day became an official state holiday in 1893. Labor Day became a national holiday in 1894. President Grover Cleveland, after breaking the American Railway Union with considerable violence and loss of life, signed a bill making the first Monday in September a national holiday for American workers. It was a blatant attempt to win back public support after using Federal Troops to break the Pullman Strike earlier that summer.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Workin’

Working Man Blues Merle Haggard

Heaven Help the Working Girl Norma Jean

Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man Travis Tritt

Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’) Alabama

9 to 5 Dolly Parton

Coal Minin’

Sixteen Tons Tennessee Ernie Ford

Coal Miner’s Daughter Loretta Lynn

Nine Pound Hammer Flatt & Scruggs

Dark As A Dungeon Merle Travis

Harlan County Jim Ford

Gettin’ Back at Your Boss

A Working Man Can’t Get Nowhere Today Merle Haggard

Sawmill Mel Tillis

They’ll Never Keep Us Down Hazel Dickens

Oney Johnny Cash

Take This Job and Shove It Johnny Paycheck

Lest We Forget

Solidarity Forever Pete Seeger

Wisconsin’s most historic and bloody labor incident occurred on May 5, 1886 on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Bay View area of Milwaukee. Some 1,500 workers marched toward the Bay View Rolling Mills (then the area’s biggest manufacturer) urging the workers there to strike, demanding an eight-hour work day. The local militia, called to the scene by Governor Jeremiah Rusk, fired on the crowd, killing seven people and ending the march. The event became known as the Bay View Massacre.

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We suffered a huge loss in Country Music this week. Dolly Parton passed away on Tuesday after a brief battle with Cancer. Dolly was 80 years old.

This morning’s show is our tribute to Dolly Parton. She was a prolific artist who wrote hundreds of songs, so we can only begin to scratch the surface of her catalog. We will be playing songs performed by Dolly, written by Dolly and made famous by Dolly.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Dolly Parton “Here I Am”

Dolly Parton “Why’d You Come In Here Lookin’ Like That”

Glen Campbell “Light of a Clear Blue Morning”

Buck Owens “Nickels and Dimes”

Emmylou Harris “Coat of Many Colors”

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton “We’ve Got Tonight”

Olivia Newton-John “Jolene”

Linda Ronstadt “I Will Always Love You”

Waylon Jennings “Waltz Me to Heaven”

Lynn Anderson “Two Doors Down”

Dolly Parton “9 To 5”

Merle Haggard “Kentucky Gambler”

Billie Jo Spears “Here You Come Again”

Tina Turner “There’ll Always Be Music”

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Sometimes you get an idea and you just have to see it through, with that in mind The theme of this week’s show is Route 66. We will be playing songs that mention the cities on that famous highway.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

SET ONE: ON THE ROAD

Wayne Hancock “Route 66”

Dolly Parton “In the Ghetto”

Jerry Reed “Saint Louis Blues”

Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Take Me Back to Tulsa”

Don Williams “Tulsa Time”

SET TWO: TEXAS HALFWAY POINT

George Strait “Amarillo By Morning”

Emmylou Harris “Amarillo”

Bobby Bare “Amarillo Highway”

Johnny Cash “New Mexico”

Linda Ronstadt “Willin’”

Dale Watson “Tucumcari, Here I Come”

SET THREE: NEW MEXICO AND THE HOME STRETCH

Asleep At The Wheel “Albuquerque”

Charley Crockett “Albuquerque Lights”

Buck Owens “Take It Easy”

Guy Clark “L.A. Freeway”

R.I.P. FRANK BEARD

Dwight Yoakam “I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide”

THIS WEEK WE HAVE ANOTHER ALL ANALOG, ALL VINTAGE, ALL VINYL SHOW! WE WILL BE HEARING SONGS FROM NOT ONE BUT TWO KTEL COMPILATIONS THAT HAVE THE EXACT SAME PICTURE ON THE COVER (THAT WOULD BE 18 ORIGINAL COUNTRY HITS AND THE SEQUEL 20 ORIGINAL COUNTRY HITS. AND IT IS JUST A GRAVEL ROAD, AND WE WILL BE PLAYING SELECTIONS SOME OTHER TREASURES RESCUED FROM THE DOLLAR BIN AS WELL.

Charlie Rich “Behind Closed Doors”

Mel Tillis “I Ain’t Never”

Tammy Wynette & George Jones “We’re Gonna Hold On”

Sonny James “Is It Wrong (For Loving You)”

Barbara Mandrell “The Midnight Oil”

Wynn Stewart “It’s Such A Pretty World Today”

Wanda Jackson “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)”

The Hagers “Your Tender Loving Care”

Charlie Louvin “Will You Visit Me On Sundays”

Melba Montgomery “Don’t Keep Me Lonely Too Long”

Johnny Russell “Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer”

Ed Bruce “Mama’s Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

Gary Stewart “She’s Actin’ Single (I’m Drinkin’ Doubles)”

Merle Haggard “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink”

Jerry Reed “(I’m Just a) Redneck In a Rock and Roll Bar”

Roy Rogers “Okie From Muskogee”

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

STONE COLD CLASSICS

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Buckaroo”

Johnny Cash “There You Go”

Buck Owens “I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail”

Loretta Lynn “Fist City”

SONGS ABOUT SOFT (?) DRINKS

George Jones “Root Beer”

Grandpa Jones “Mountain Dew”

Billie Jo Spears “The Price I Pay to Stay”

SECOND SET(AKA THE BUMMER SET)

If there was any doubt that this is a LIVE show with real vinyl records, we answered that question by cueing up the wrong song more than once.

Kenny Rogers “Don’t Fall In Love With a Dreamer”

Charley Pride “Before the next teardrop falls”

Willie Nelson “Sad Songs And Waltzes”

SONGS ABOUT MUSIC

One of our favorite themes.

Mickey Gilley “#1 Rock ‘N’ Roll C&W Boogie Blues Man”

Margo Smith “The Shuffle Song (Rerecorded)”

SONGS FROM SENIOR YEAR

In honor of my upcoming high school class reunion, we play some songs that were on the radio when I was a Senior in high school.

Alan Jackson “Don’t Rock the Jukebox”

George Strait “I’ve Come To Expect It From You”

Travis Tritt “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)”

Trisha Yearwood “She’s In Love With the Boy”

Garth Brooks “Friends In Low Places”

The theme for the first section of this week’s show comes from this video that Classic Country Corner Superfan Jenna in McFarland sent me.

I’ll be honest, there are dozens if not hundreds of songs about men killing their significant others or objects of their desire, there’s even a term for it “murder ballad”. But songs where it is the other way around? not so much. I was able to find a few female murder ballads where the roles are reversed.

After two years of hosting this show,I realized that the middle section is usually “The Bummer Set”😆 This week’s bummers are all about being left at the alter or watching your beloved marry someone else.

As per station direction, we cannot legally end the show on a maudlin note. The last set of songs is all about blissful weddings and true love.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Killin’ Your Man Because He Done You Wrong SongsWanda Jackson The Box It Came InWanda Jackson My Big Iron SkilletPatsy Montana I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded Olivia Newton-John Banks Of The OhioSierra Ferrell RosemaryAbbey Cone Don’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Babies

No Wedding Today SongsDon Rich Wham BamJimmie Davis There Won’t Be a WeddingHank Snow I Went To Your WeddingLinda Martell The Wedding Cake Lyle Lovett She’s No Lady

There is Going To Be A Wedding!!

George Jones, Tammy Wynette The CeremonyBonnie Owens, Merle Haggard Forever And EverJohnny Cash, June Carter Cash JacksonGeorge Jones The Right Left HandRandy Travis Forever and Ever, AmenJohnny Rodriguez That’s The Way Love GoesCongratulations to Mark and Jenna who were married shortly after this episode aired!

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Johnny Cash “Folsom Prison Blues”

Cowboy Copas “Flat Top”

George Jones “Why Baby Why”

David Houston “It’s Been So Long”

Stoneman Family “The Sinking of the Titanic”

Dave Dudley “Six Days On The Road”

Red Sovine “Giddy-Up-Go”

Buck Owens “Down On The Corner Of Love”

Rose Maddox “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Love Me”

Merle Kilgore “Love Has Made You Beautiful”

Flatt & Scruggs “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”

Minnie Pearl “Giddyup Go Answer”

Tammy Wynette “I Don’t Wanna Play House”

Carl Smith “Deep Water”

Wynn Stewart & The Tourists “Wishful Thinking”

Jimmy Dean “This Old House”

Tennessee Ernie Ford “Put Your Hand in the Hand”

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We are flipping over the records we played last week to find some more treasures from our recent acquisitions.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

The Willis Brothers “There Goes My Farm”

The Willis Brothers “Buying Popcorn”

Marty Robbins “Devil Woman”

Johnny Cash “Understand Your Man”

Lefty Frizzell “She’s Gone, Gone, Gone”

Dolly Parton “Muleskinner Blues”

Leon Ashley “Laura (What’s He Got That I Ain’t Got)”

Nat Stuckey “Plastic Saddle”

Jerry Reed “Amos Moses”

Charlie Rich “I Do My Swingin’ At Home”

Stonewall Jackson “Promises and Hearts (Were Made to Break)”

George Jones “Any Old Time”

Sonny James “I’ll Be There”

Johnny Horton “I’m a One Woman Man”

(FOUR SONGS IN SEVEN MINUTES!!!!!)

Glen Campbell “Wedding Bells”

Tex Ritter “I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven”

“Little” Jimmy Dickens “A-Sleepin’ At the Foot of the Bed”

Tennessee Ernie Ford “This Land Is Your Land ”

( the inspiration for playing that song this week below. Woody Guthrie’s daughter Norah takes a verse)

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ALL ANALOG ALL VINTAGE ALL VINYL SHOW!!

Sometimes when I walk into the studio there are records waiting for me. I have yet to leave a family function without a stack of records and I've been known to take a lap or two around the dollar bin. This morning we are playing some of these recent acquisitions

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Buckaroo”

Jimmy Dean “Big Bad John”

Ray Price “City Lights”

The Collins Kids (Larry & Lorrie) “Walking The Floor Over You”

The Willis Brothers “Gonna Buy Me A Jukebox”

The Willis Brothers “Somebody Knows My Dog”

STAN AND DOUG THE SWEDE-HEARTS OF SONG

More about Stan and Doug.

Stan Boreson and Doug Setterberg were a Pacific Northwest musical and comedy duo known as “The Swedehearts of Song”. Famous for their “Scandahoovian” humor, they released numerous comedy records and parodies from the late 1950s well into the 1980s

https://nafmp.csumc.wisc.edu/stan-boreson/

Stan and Doug “Is Anybody Goin’ To Michigan”

Charley Pride “Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone”

Stan and Doug “The Waitress At The Norway Hall”

Carl Smith “Wabash Cannon Ball”

Stan and Doug “Yonson From Wisconsin”

Merle Haggard “Okie from Muskogee”

WEDDING-ISH SONGSHank Williams, Sr & Jr “Wedding Bells” -singing together in a recording miracle!!!

Red Foley “Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine”

Tex Ritter “Jingle Jangle Jingle”

Wynn Stewart “Couples Only”

George Jones “Imitation Of Love”

Tennessee Ernie Ford “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings to Stauffer Country is a promotional country music compilation album. Commissioned specifically for Stauffer (the makers of Stauffer Cheese and dairy products), the exclusive 12” LP features 10 vocal performances, including re-recordings of his signature hits!!

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Buckaroo”

Johnny Cash “Paul Revere”

Johnny Horton “The Battle of New Orleans”

Tennessee Ernie Ford “Union Dixie”

Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty “God Bless America Again”

The Oak Ridge Boys “American Made”

Eddie Rabbitt “American Boy”

Hank Williams Jr. “The American Way”

Alabama “Born Country”

The Charlie Daniels Band “In America”

Waylon Jennings “America”

Loretta Lynn “Dear Uncle Sam”

Donna Fargo “U.S. Of A.”

Johnny Cash with Marty Robbins “Song of the Patriot (with Marty Robbins)”

Merle Haggard “The Fightin’ Side of Me”

John Prine “Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore”

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Summer Songs

Roger Miller “In the Summertime (You Don’t Want My Love)”

Clint Black “Summer’s Comin’”

Dolly Parton “Sweet Summer Lovin’”

George Jones “Too Cold At Home”

Alan Jackson “Summertime Blues”

Summer Contemplation

Orville Peck “Summertime”

Bobby Bare “Summer Wages”

Buck Owens “Take It Easy”

Deana Carter “Strawberry Wine ”

Summer Nights

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Fishin’ In the Dark”

Ed Bruce “Star-Studded Nights”

Alabama “Dixieland Delight”

Mel McDaniel “Louisiana Saturday Night”

Glen Campbell “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”

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Here’s What We Played

Country Songs About Country Music

Dave & Sugar “Late Nite Country Lovin’ Music”

The Statler Brothers “Do You Know You Are My Sunshine?”

Charley Pride “Country Music”

Eddy Bailes “Honky Tonk Away”

Webb Pierce “I’m Tired”

Billy Walker “Honky Tonkitis”

Story Songs

Johnny Cash “Ballad Of A Teenage Queen (feat. The Tennessee Two)”

Sonny James “Big Silver Bird”

Bobby “King” Rio “Texas Leather & Mexican Lace”

Bobby Bare “Miller’s Cave”

“Little” Jimmy Dickens “Big Sandy”

Some B-Sides

Conway Twitty “I’ll Try”

Porter Wagoner “When You’re Hot You’re Hot”

Kitty Wells “Dust On The Bible (1956 Single Version)”

Tammy Wynette “Love Is Something Good for Everybody”

Bee Gees “Country Woman”

Norman Greenbaum “Milk Cow”

Charley Pride “Oklahoma Morning”

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Johnny Cash “Wanted Man (Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969)”

Johnny Cash “Wreck of the Old 97 (Live at San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, CA - February 1969)”

Merle Haggard “Big City”

Merle Haggard & The Strangers “Silver Wings”

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “My Skips A Beat”

Buck Owens & His Buckaroos “Above and Beyond”

Loretta Lynn “Coal Miner’s Daughter”

Loretta Lynn “Rated “X”“

Carl Smith “Loose Talk”

Carl Smith “No More Loose Talkin’”

Lefty Frizzell “Look What Thoughts Will Do”

Lefty Frizzell “I Want to Be with You Always (December 1958 Version)”

Margo Smith “Tennessee Yodelers”

Margo Smith “He Don’t Love Here”

Patsy Cline “I Don’t Wanna”

Patsy Cline “Too Many Secrets”

Willie Nelson “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”

Willie Nelson “Uncloudy Day”

Train Songs

Hank Snow “Lonesome Whistle”

Johnny Cash “Blue Train”

Kenny Rogers “The Gambler”

Charley Pride “When the Trains Come In”

Merle Haggard & The Strangers “Here Comes the Freedom Train”

Grandpa Jones “Night Train to Memphis”

Story Songs

Jeannie C. Riley “The Girl Most Likely”

Billie Jo Spears “Marty Gray”

Bobbie Gentry “Ode To Billie Joe”

Switching Gears

Jerry Reed “500 Miles Away from Home”

Willie Nelson “Devil In a Sleepin’ Bag”

Buck Owens and His Buckaroos “The Kansas City Song”

Tammy Wynette “The Ways To Love a Man”

Potpurri

Lynn Anderson “That’s a No No”

Buddy Wayne “I’d Give A Whole Lot Of Me For A Little Bit Of You”

Charlie Louvin “What Are Those Things”

The Statler Brothers “Walking In the Sunshine”

Here’s what we played:

REDNECK MOTHERS

HONKY TONKIN GARY STEWART

LONG-HAIRED COUNTRY BOY CHARLIE DANIELS BAND

REDNECK VERNON OXFORD

KENNY ROGERS TULSA TURNAROUND

DON WILLIAMS TULSA TIME

CLASSIC COUNTRY FROM THE 50’S + 60’S

BUCK OWENS WAITIN’ IN YOUR WELFARE LINE

JOHNNY CASH 5 FEET HIGH AND RISING

GEORGE JONES TALL TALL TREES

BOBBY BARE I’M A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW

COWBOY COPAS FLAT ON READY

BONUS BOBBY BARE JUST TO SATISFY YOU

DUETS

PORTER WAGGONER AND DOLLY PARTON 40 MILES FROM POPLAR BLUFF

DAVE HOUSTON AND BARBARA MANDRELL A PERFECT MATCH

DAVE AND SUGAR WE’VE GOT EVERYTHING

DON GIBSON AND DOTTIE WEST FINAL EXAMINATION

CONWAY TWITTY AND LORETTA LYNN BYE-BYE LOVE

GATLIN BROTHERS ALL THE GOLD IN CALIFORNIA

We lost a legend this week.David Allan Coe passed away on Wednesday at the age of 86. Coe was considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw Country Movement and writer of many songs that went on to be hits for other artists. He put out some controversial content in the 70’s but we are going to focus on the stuff we can play at 8 o’clock in the morning.

DRINKING SONGS

Johnny Russell Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer

Gary Stewart Backsliders Wine

Willie Nelson I Gotta Get Drunk

Webb Pierce I’m Gonna Hang One On Tonight

Faron Young Wine Me Up

SOMEBODY ELSE’S SONG

Dottie West Heartaches By The Number (made famous by Ray Price)

Ray Price I Fall To Pieces (made popular by Patsy Cline)

Charley Pride Help Me Make It Through The Night (Made Famous by Sammi Smith)

JUST FOR FUN

Dave Dudley The Talk of the Town

Lynn Anderson Two Rolls of Scotch Tape

DAVID ALLAN COE

LongHaired Red Neck

Tennessee Whiskey

Willie, Waylon and Me

Tanya Tucker Would You Lay With Me In A Field of Stone

Johnny Paycheck Take This Job and Shove It

You Never Called Me By My Name

There is a quote attributed to Pablo Picasso that says something to the effect of “Good artists copy, Great artists steal”. Which upon further investigation, is probably based on a T.S. Elliot quote.

That’s a long way to get to this morning's theme. In early March, friend of the show Nate Gibson, host of Back to the Country on WORT, played 3 hours of Country Disco on his show and provided some history of the melting of Country and Disco genres in the late 70’s including playing some songs deriding the genre entirely. We do not have three hours but we are going to do our best.

The internet defines country disco as a musical fusion genre that emerged in the late 1970s. It blended the traditional instrumentation of country music—such as pedal steel guitars, fiddles, and vocal twang—with the driving, four-on-the-floor rhythms, synthesized basslines, and lush string or horn arrangements characteristic of disco.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Country Disc Bob Newkirk

When I Stop Leaving (I’ll Be Gone) Charley Pride

Get It Up Ronnie Milsap

Country Disco Lee “Shot” Williams

Baby I’m Burnin’ Dolly Parton

Friend, Lover, Wife Johnny Paycheck

I Can’t Wait Any Longer Bill Anderson

I Ain’t Got No Business Doin’ Business Today George Jones

Oh Honey - Oh Babe Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty

Ring of Fire Carlene Carter

Kaw-Liga Hank Williams, Jr.

Folsom Prison Blues Jerry Lee Lewis

I Just Want To Be Your Everything Connie Smith

I Will Survive Billie Jo Spears

The theme of this week’s show comes from what I’m calling my “Baby Boomer Spring Break” trip.

Last week, I drove down to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and spent a couple of days at the Bob Dylan Center and the Woody Guthrie Center. They had so many great artifacts and little documentaries. It is truly amazing to see the breadth of work that man created, especially when you look at the ‘63 to ‘68 era.

The rest of my time was spent driving parts of Route 66, hunting for roadside attractions, and listening to Jack Kerouac. (Jack Kerouac definitely stopped at Buc-ee’s, right?)

Anyway, one of the things they brought up at the Bob Dylan Center was just how many people covered Dylan’s songs, especially in those early days. It almost reached a point where he was getting upset that other people were having hits with his songs and he wasn’t. (The Byrds had most of their hits with Dylan songs)

So, that brings us to this week’s theme: the entire show is going to be dedicated to Bob Dylan covers.HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright Waylon Jennings

Rainy Day Women #12 & #35 Flatt & Scruggs

Wanted Man George Thorogood & The Destroyers

You Ain’t Going Nowhere Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

If Not For You Glen Campbell

Tangled up in Blue The Charlie Daniels Band

When I Paint My Masterpiece Emmylou Harris

Walkin’ Down The Line Ricky Nelson

Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You Tina Turner

The Man in Me Lonnie Mack

Maggie’s Farm Lester Flatt

It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue The Country Gentlemen

She Belongs To Me Ricky Nelson and The Stone Canyon Band

One Too Many Mornings The Highwaymen

It Ain’t Me Babe Johnny Cash

REMINDER that next week is Vinylthon at WVMO and Classic Country Corner moves two hours ahead to 6am- 8am.

From 6-7 a.m. CLASSIC COUNTRY CORNER GOES TO THE MOVIES! - We will be playing selections from the Soundtracks like True Grit, Nashville, The Electric Horseman and many more!

Then from 7-8 a.m. CLASSIC COUNTRY CORNER IS FEELIN' SINGLE - this will be an hour of 45 records.

When It’s Springtime in Alaska (It’s Forty Below) Johnny Horton

When It’s Springtime In The Rockies Gene Autry

Blossoms In The Springtime Hank Snow

Seasons Of My Heart George Jones

Spring Fever Loretta Lynn

Seasons Come, Seasons Go Bobbie Gentry

Summer, Winter, Spring And Fall Glen Campbell

Roses in the Snow Emmylou Harris

Spring Tanya Tucker

First Rose of Spring Willie Nelson

The First Whippoorwill Bill Monroe

Springtime In Heaven Don Reno, Red Smiley

Season Suite: Spring John Denver

You’re as Welcome as the Flowers in May Hank Snow

Springtime Ian Tyson

Don’t Let The Sunshine Fool Ya’ Townes Van Zandt

This week we have 14 great truckin’ hits. Songs about the open road, police slowing you down,loneliness and how a CB radio can save the day.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Merle Haggard Movin’ On

Dick Curless Long Lonesome Highway

Red Simpson I’m A Truck

CW McCall Wolf Creek Pass

Dave Dudley Six Days On The Road

CW McCall Convoy

Red Sovine Phantom 309 Freddie Hart New York Joe and Redneck Tennessee

Del Reeves Looking at the World Through a WIndshield

Dick Curless Drag Em Off The Interstate Sock It To Em Blues

Cletus Maggard and the Citizen Band The White Knight Brush Arbor Trucker and The UFO Dave Dudley Me and Ole CBRed Simpson Diesel Smoke + Dangerous Curves

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ANOTHER ALL VINTAGE, ALL ANALOG, ALL VINYL SHOW! We are on our 3rd week of Dollar Bin Discoveries and Recent Acquisitions.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

MORNING SONGS

Bobbie Gentry Morning Glory

Charley Pride Sunshiny Day

Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn

One To Ten

Bartender

I’m Biting My Fingernails and Thinking of You

DISJOINTED DOUBLE PLAY

Dottie West You Ain’t Woman Enough

Lynn Anderson Promises Promises

Dottie West Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

Lynn Anderson No Other Time

Dave Dudley Yonder Comes A Sucker

Hank Snow I’m Moving On

Jim Reeves He’ll Have To Go

Don Gibson Oh Lonesome Me

Porter Wagoner Y’all Come

Eddy Arnold Cattle CallJack & Misty Tennessee Bird Walk This song was #1 on the Country Charts for 2 weeks in 1970!!

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

FARON YOUNG -COUNTRY GIRL

KENNY ROGERS - LUCILLE

BOB LUMAN - LONELY WOMEN MAKE GOOD LOVERS

BOBBY LEWIS - HELLO MARY LOU

CLAUDE KING - TIGER WOMAN

CHARLIE WALKER - DON’T SQUEEZE MY SHARMON

JIMMY SKINNER - I FOUND MY GIRL IN THE USA

DONNA FARGO - THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WHOLE USA

GEORGE HAMILTON IV - ABELINE

SPUR - DON’T EVER TRUST A WOMAN

MARTY ROBBINS - DEVIL WOMAN

FARON YOUNG - SWEET DREAMS

THE COMPTON BROTHERS - CLAUDETTE

BUCK OWENS- SWEET ROSIE JONES

JOHNNY DARRELL - RUBY, DON’T TAKE YOUR LOVE TO TOWN

JEANIE C. RILEY - THE PRICE I PAY TO STAY

GEORGE JONES - THE KING IS GONE AND SO ARE YOU

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a very special all digital, all compact discs show

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

SOME GREATEST HITS

Kenny Rogers “That Crazy Feeling”

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Is In)”

Kenny Rogers “Reuben James”

Tanya Tucker “My Arms Stay Open All Night”

Tanya Tucker “If It Don’t Come Easy”

THE SONGS OF GEORGE JONES PERFORMED BY GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD

George Jones “A Picture of Me (Without You)”

George Jones “What My Woman Can’t Do”

George Jones “The Grand Tour (Single Version)”

Merle Haggard “She Thinks I Still Care”

Merle Haggard “The Window Up Above”

NEW CLASSIC COUNTRY FROM THE LAST 30 YEARS

Dwight Yoakam “Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose”

Dwight Yoakam “I’ll Go Back to Her”

Dwight Yoakam “It Only Hurts When I Cry”

Lyle Lovett “San Antonio Girl”

Lyle Lovett “On Saturday Night”

What is Classic Country Corner?

Classic Country Corner is a radio show that airs every Saturday Morning at 8 on 98.7 WVMO, a 100 watt community radio station in Monona, Wisconsin. The show is a mix of vinyl and digital music. Dollar bins, estate sales and thrift stores are the bedrock of the show’s musical library.

Our Motto

On Classic Country Corner, we play Classic Country Music from the likes of Waylon, Willie, Johnny, Dolly, Tammy, and Merle. Plus some one-hit wonders and songs that should’ve been hits.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

I’m Movin’ On Tina Turner -made famous by Hank Snow

Don’t Talk Now Tina Turner -written by James Taylor

Stand by Your Man Candi Staton (Made famous by Tammy Wynette)

Almost Persuaded Etta James (David Houston’s “Almost Persuaded” spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart starting in August 1966)

Hello Walls Esther Phillips (Faron Young Hit written by Willie Nelson)

Cold Heart Big Maybelle (Written by Hank Williams)

Bad Case of the Blues Linda Martell (First Black woman to sing at the Grand Ole Opry)

Don’t You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me) Bettye Swann (Written by Hank Cochran and a hit for Ray Price in 1965)

Night Life Aretha Franklin (Written by Willie Nelson and a hit for Ray Price)

You Can’t Lie to a Liar Ketty Lester (from her first album in 1962- Ketty went on to release 5 more records in the 60s but you may know her as Hester-Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie )

Fairytale The Pointer Sisters -“Fairytale” went on to win the Pointer Sisters the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the year 1974, marking the first awarding of a Grammy to an all-female vocal group and making the Pointer Sisters the only black women to win a Grammy in a country music category until Beyoncé took home the Grammy Award for Best Country Album in 2025.

Jolene Candi Staton (Written by Dolly Parton)

You Can Have Him Jolene Chapel Hart (an answer song )

All My Heroes Played Guitars Petrella (name checks a ton of c+ w artists)

You Must Think My Heart Has Swinging Doors Vicki Vann

Direct inspiration for this show was from DJ Action Slacks and the Respected Lady Land Radio Show Respected Lady Land

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

My Heart Skips a Beat Buck Owens

Heartaches And Hangovers - George Jones

Why Don’t You Love Me - Hank Williams

MORNING SONGS

Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’ Charley Pride

I’ll Be Here in the Morning Townes Van Zandt

GEN X DOUBLE PLAY (AND ONE OTHER SONG)

Love’s Where Life Begins Arthur Alexander

Step By Step Eddie Rabbitt

Love Will Turn You Around Kenny Rogers

The Hinges on the Door Connie Smith

She’s Gone, Gone, Gone Lefty Frizzell

IT’S KIND OF ON YOU FOR FALLING IN LOVE WITH ME

Heard It in a Love Song The Marshall Tucker Band

(That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me Waylon Jennings

Pretend I Never Happened Willie Nelson

Someone To Give My Love To Johnny Paycheck

That’s The Way Love Goes Johnny Rodriguez

Love is Strange Buck Owens, Susan Raye

…AND HOW COULD WE NOT PLAY

I Will Always Love You (Live on the Grand Ole Opry, May 19th, 2007) Dolly Parton, Patty Loveless, Marty Stuart

Another all analog, all vinyl, all 45s show.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Ray Pennington (with Buddy Emmons & The Swing Shift Band) “Good Old Country Mood”

Johnny Cash “What Is Truth”

Johnny Cash “The One On the Right Is On the Left”

Deanna Marie “Whole Lot of Walking”

Tony Douglas “Walking Over Yonder”

George Jones & Tammy Wynette “Interview”

Loretta Lynn “Wine, Women and Song”

Conway Twitty “You’ve Never Been This Far Before”

Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty “The Bed I’m Dreaming On”

Charley Pride “I’m Learning to Love Her”

Merle Travis “That Tennessee Beat”

The Wilburn Brothers “Knoxville Girl”

Roy Drusky “Pick Of The Week”

Roy Drusky “White Lightnin’ Express”

Johnny Booth “Wishful Thinking”

At 8:00 am on Saturday January 27,2024 , Classic Country Corner hit the airwaves on WVMO for the first time.🤠

Over the course of 2 years, we have played hundreds of songs about trucks, mama, trains, prison and getting drunk. We have played songs about falling in love, falling out of love, falling in love with someone you should and some songs about murder.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED THIS WEEK

HAPPY BIRTHDAY/HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Conway Twitty Happy Birthday Darlin’

Loretta Lynn Happy Birthday

Hank Locklin Happy Birthday to Me

Ray Price Sweetheart of the Year

Johnny Cash Joe Bean

SONGS WITH THE NUMBER 2 IN THE TITLE

Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner Two of a Kind

Emmylou Harris Two More Bottles of Wine

Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard That Makes Two of Us

George Jones & Tammy Wynette Two Story House

George Jones Stand On My Own Two Knees

Jean Shepard Two Whoops And A Holler

FARM AID FOLKS

Waylon Jennings Are You Ready for the Country

Neil Young Get Back to the Country

Willie Nelson It’s Not Supposed to Be That Way

Neil Young Are There Any More Real Cowboys?

Bob Dylan Country Pie

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

TOP O THE MORNING

Hello Trouble Buck OwensDon Williams In The Mornin’Sammi Smith Sunday Morning Coming DownBOB WEIR RIP

Grateful Dead The Race is OnGrateful Dead El PasoSOMEBODY ELSE’S SONG

Jeannie C. Riley One Toke Over the LineWillie Nelson Both Sides NowLoretta Lynn Rhinestone Cowboy

Lyle Lovett Stand By Your ManThe Kendalls You Think I Still CareDwight Yoakam Train In VainGAMBLING

Frankie Laine Roving GamblerDolly Parton Kentucky GamblerJerry Reed When You're Hot,You’re Hot

Emmy Lou Harris Ooh Las VegasKenny Rogers The Gambler

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

HIGHWAYMEN AND OUTLAWS

WAYLON JENNINGS WAYMORE BLUES

WILLIE NELSON SHOTGUN WILLIE

WILLIE AND WAYLON Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)

MERLE HAGGARD BIG CITY

ERNEST TUBB BIG CITY

THE KING AND QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC

GEORGE JONES THE RACE IS ON

TAMMY WYNETTE D I V O R C E

GEORGE AND TAMMY GOLDEN RING

LOVE SONGS

BUCK OWENS LOVES GONNA LIVE HERE

DOLLY PARTON LOVE AND LEARN

2 CHARLIES AND A FREDDY

CHARLEY PRIDE A GOOD CHANCE OF TEAR FALL TONIGHT

CHARLIE RICH THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD

FREDDY FENDER BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS

CONNIE SMITH ONCE A DAY

EDDIE RABBIT TWO DOLLARS IN THE JUKE BOX

DOLLY PARTON GAMES THAT PEOPLE PLAY

ROGER MILLER YOU CAN’T ROLLER SKATE IN A BUFFALO HERD

ROGER MILLER DO-WAKA-DO

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

HANK WILLIAMS 🤠🍾🛣️

Hank Williams Lost Highway

Hank Williams Your Cheatin’ Heart

Hank Williams Hey Good Lookin’

IN REMEMBRANCE 🪦

The Flatlanders Hello StrangerJohnny Rodriguez Dance With Me

HOUSE AND HOME 🏠🏘️

Bobby Bare Detroit CityStuart Hamblen This Old HouseSonny James Baltimore

DRINKING SONGS (IN THE MORNING!)🌞🍻

Jim Ed Brown Pop A TopWebb Pierce Here I am Drunk AgainMerle Haggard I Think I Just Sit Here and Drink

CLASSIC COUNTRY COVERS:SMOOTH SOUNDS OF THE 70s EDITION 🕺🪩

Johnny Carver Tie a Yellow Ribbon Billy “Crash” Craddock Knock Three Times Tennessee Ernie Ford Take Me Home Country Roads Kenny Rogers and Dottie West Baby I’m A Want You Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn Let Your Love Flow

A CREEPY WINTER “CLASSIC”Homer and Jethro and June Carter Baby, It’s Cold Outside

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Mickey Gilley How I Love Them Old Songs

Tammy Wynette You Can’t Hang On

Ray Price Little Green Apples

Marty Robbins Five Brothers

Marty Robbins The Cowboy in The Continental Suit

Hank Locklin Born To Ramble

Johnny Horton I’m Ready If You’re Willing

Roy Clark She’s All I Got (side 1)

Mel Tillis I Ain’t Ever

Tammy Wynette Good Lovin Makes It Right

Janie Fricke What’re You Doing Tonight ?

Ronnie Milsap He Got You

Crystal Gayle Why Have You Left The One You Left Me For

Roy Clark Jesus Is A Soul Man

The Oak Ridge Boys Y’all Come Back Saloon

Happy Holidays! This is a special Classic Country Christmas show, highlighting lesser played Christmas songs by your favorite Classic Country Artists.I tried to use instrumentals from A Merry Hee Haw Christmas from Buck Owens and His Buckaroos as underbed music to switch things up. I was mildly successful.Learn how an on air flub turned into a Radio Industry Term. (Salads).

Here’s what we played.

Loretta Lynn Happy Birthday

Tom T. Hall Christmas Is Buck Owens Christmas Shopping Hank Snow The Reindeer Boogie

Tennessee Ernie Ford Rootin Tootin Santa Claus

George Jones and Tammy Wynette Mr & Mrs. Santa Claus

Buck Owens Santa Looked A Lot Daddy

Marty Robbins One of You in Every Size

Charley Pride Santa and the Kids

Ernest Tubb Merry Texas Christmas ,You All

Jim Reeves Senor Santa Claus

Johnny Horton They Shined Up Rudolph’s Nose

Tammy Wynette One Happy Christmas

Glen Campbell Pretty Paper Dolly Parton Hard Candy Christmas

Lowell Shyette Santa Drives A Peterbilt Sherwin Linton Santa Got A DWI Charlie Stewart Santa CLaus Ain’t a Hippie (John Denver Please Daddy,Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas

Here’s what we played

She Loves You Homer & Jethro

What Goes On Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Lady Madonna - Buck Owens

Norwegian Wood Waylon Jennings

Don’t Let Me Down Dillard & Clark

Help! Dolly Parton

Yesterday Tammy Wynette

Eleanor Rigby Bobbie Gentry

You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away Waylon Jennings, The Waylors

I’ve Just Seen a Face The Dillards

She Came In through The Bathroom Window Ray Stevens

Eight Days A Week Lorrie Morgan

Yellow Submarine The Charles River Valley Boys

Get Back Jessi Colter

In My Life Johnny Cash

Yesterday - Live Willie Nelson

Twist and Shout Buck Owens

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jimmy Martin Grand Ole Opry Song

Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton Milwaukee, Here I Come

Ferlin Husky Country Music is Here to Stay

Red Sovine The Greatest Grand Ole Opry

Johnny Cash All I Do Is Drive

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY VOL 3 (SIDE 2)

LORETTA LYNN ACT NATURALLY

THE WILBURN BROTHERS I’LL TAKE WHAT’S LEFT

BILL MONROE AND HIS BLUE GRASS BOYS Mary At The Home Place

STARS OF THE GRAND OLE OPRY 1926-1974(SIDE D)

CONNIE SMITH RIBBONS OF DARKNESS

DOLLY PARTON MULE SKINNER BLUES

JEANNIE PRUETT JUST A LITTLE AFTER HEARTACHES

George Morgan The Ballad of the Grand Ole Opry (SINGLE)

THE BEST OF THE GRAND OLE OPRY PRESENTED BY SHUR FINE FOODS

MARION WORTH CRAZY ARMS

JIMMY DEAN ANY TIME

GRAND OLE COUNTRY HITS

DON GIBSON SEA OF HEARTBREAK

HANK LOCKLIN WHO AM I TO CAST THE FIRST STONE

HOMER AND JETHRO I’M MY OWN GRANDPA

POPURRI LEFTOVER STUFFING SHOW

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

LOVIN’T.G. Sheppard I Loved ‘Em Every One

Johnny Lee Lookin’ for Love

John Anderson Makin’ Love and Makin’ Out

Gene Watson Love In The Hot Afternoon

Ronnie Milsap Daydreams About Night Things

ANSWER SONGS

Bobby Helms Fraulein - Single Version

Kitty Wells I’ll Always Be Your Fraulein

Faron Young Hello Walls

Ralph Emery Hello Fool

Merle Haggard Okie From Muskogee

The Youngbloods Hippie from Olema No. 5

THE PUNS KEEP COMING

Jeannie Seely Welcome Home to Nothing

Jerry Jeff Walker Pot Can’t Call The Kettle Black

*Wanda Jackson I Already Know (What I’m Getting For My Birthday)

*Liz Anderson Husband Hunting

*Bobby Edwards I’m Sorry To See Me Go

*Lynn Anderson Ride, Ride, Ride

Those were songs all written by Liz Anderson. I am indebted to WVMO’s DJ Shotski who hipped me to the Respected LadyLand Radio show which an entire episode dedicated to the work of Liz Anderson and I highly recommend you check it out at djactionslacks.com

The spark for this week’s theme was my desire to start the show with Johnny Cash “Big River”. I remembered that the Grateful Dead had covered that song and a few Merle Haggard songs came to mind. Initially I thought it would just be one segment in a show, but then I got down the rabbit hole of the Grateful Dead and found soo many more songs that I could play.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Big River Johnny Cash

Sing Me Back Home Merle Haggard & The Strangers

El Paso Marty Robbins

Seasons Of My Heart George Jones

You Win Again Hank Williams

Mama Tried Merle Haggard

Big Iron Marty Robbins

Big Boss Man Bobbie Gentry

Deep Elem Blues Shelton Brothers

Saw Mill Buck Owens

Dark Hollow Tom T. Hall

Stagger Lee Charley Pride

Silver Threads And Golden Needles Wanda Jackson

C.C. Rider - Charlie Rich

I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water Stonewall Jackson

Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins

Not Fade Away Tanya Tucker

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

70’S SINGING SENSATIONS

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS COME ON IN

THE STATLER BROTHERS THE OFFICIAL HISTORIAN OF SHIRLEY JEAN BERRELL

DAVE AND SUGAR GOT LEAVIN ON HER MIND

LEFTY FRIZZELL GONE, GONE, GONE

RAY PRICE THE SAME OLD ME

OTHER PEOPLE’S HITS

CHARLEY PRIDE ME + BOBBY MCGEE

DAVID HOUSTON I’VE GOT A TIGER BY THE TAIL

MERLE HAGGARD THE RACE IS ON

KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

LORETTA LYNN MAMA, WHY?

DOTTIE WEST MOMMY, CAN I STILL CALL HIM DADDY?

TAMMY WYNETTE KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

DON WILLIAMS TULSA TIME

KENNY ROGERS LUCILLE

NEW CLASSIC COUNTRY FROM THE 90’S +2000’S

DWIGHT YOAKAM SORRY YOU ASKED

GEORGE JONES AND GARTH BROOKS B DOUBLE E ARE YOU IN?

LYLE LOVETT THE TRUCK SONG

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HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

BACK TO JESUS

WANDA JACKSON TURN YOUR RADIO ON

ROGER MILLER I KNOW WHO IT IS AND I’M GONNA TELL ON HIM

JOHNNY CASH AMEN

GEORGE JONES FAMILY BIBLE

JOHNNY PAYCHECK I’M BETTER OFF

THE STATLER BROTHERS OH HAPPY DAY

A WOMAN SCORNED

TAMMY WYNETTE SALLY TRASH

LORETTA LYNN FIST CITY

SAMMI SMITH FINE AS WINE

BUCK OWENS LET THE SAD TIMES ROLL ON

MERLE HAGGARD THAT’S THE WAY LOVE GOES

PICKIN’ AND GRINNIN’

GRANDPA JONES OLD RATTLERFLATT AND SCRUGGS FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN

CHET ATKINS OH LONESOME MEROY CLARK RIDERS IN THE SKYLYNN ANDERSON ROCKY TOP

WILLIE NELSON UNCLOUDY DAY

HERES WHAT WE PLAYED

New Classic Country

A Lesson In Leavin Sierra Ferrell, Nikki Lane

(Lying Here With) Linda on My Mind Carson McHone

I Can’t Shake the Stranger Out of You A. Savage

The Cowboy (Small Texas Town) Waylon Jennings

Workin’ Man Blues Willie Nelson

Let’s Duet

Let’s Duet John C. Reilly, Angela Correa

We Go Together Tammy Wynette, George Jones

Are You Mine Loretta Lynn, Ernest Tubb

Her and the Car and the Mobile Home Porter Wagoner, Dolly Parton

I’ll Take a Chance Merle Haggard and Bonnie Owens

Potpourri

Games People Play Lynn Anderson

Rocky Mountain Music Eddie Rabbitt

Fancy Bobbie Gentry

Wabash Cannonball Roy Acuff

Mama Says It’s Naughty Maddox Brothers and Rose

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Inside Baseball Corrections Department

* It was NOT a close game. The Brewers got blown out of the water.

* The Cue Button was NOT broken. Turns out there is a separate volume knob that was turned all the way down. You will hear the left and right channels cut out briefly as I tried troubleshooting on the fly . (aka unplugging cables and pluggin them back in)

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Songs by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

Buck Owens - I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail

Don Rich - Wham Bam

Wayne Wilson - You’ll Never Miss The Water Till The Well Runs Dry

Let’s Duet

Johnny Cash And June Carter Cash Long Legged Guitar Picking ManThe Kendells - Heaven’s Just A Sin A WayConway And Loretta Hey Good Looking

Beg Your Parton? Dolly Parton Twin Spin

Love Is Like ButterflyCoat Of Many Colors

Waylon Jennings Twin Spin

Lucille

Sweet CarolineSoft 70’s Side of Classic Country Corner (I tried to use my NPR/ Quiet Storm voice when announcing these songs)

Kenny Rogers- Daytime Friends

Freddy Fender - Before The Next Teardrop Falls

Don Williams - I Believe In YouPotpourri

George Jones- The Race Is OnMerle Haggard-Rainbow StewFlatt and Scruggs- Foggy Mountain BreakdownMerceese- New York Groove

A potpourri/radio improv show. A bunch of scratchy records that were picked up at an antique tractor show. I pulled them out of the stack and put them on the air!

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Lynn Anderson “Okie From Muskogee”

Lynn Anderson “Once A Day”

Lynn Anderson “Stand By Your Man”

David Houston & Barbara Mandrell “Perfect Match”

David Houston & Barbara Mandrell “We’re Gonna Make It All The Way”

Conway Twitty “You’ve Never Been This Far Before”

Charlie Rich “I Can’t Even Drink It Away”

Tammy Wynette “Hardly A Day Goes By”

Bobby G. Rice “You Lay So Easy On My Mind”

Tex Ritter “I Dreamed of a Hill-Billy Heaven”

Crystal Gayle “Talking In Your Sleep”

Joe Stampey “Put Your Clothes Back On”

I thought I could play “Games People Play → Stand By Your Man → Okie From Muskogee but they were in a different order on the album. :(LOOK AT THOSE LAPELS!!!!LOOK AT THOSE SIDEBURNS!!!

Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer”

Nate Gibson “The Sausage Race Is On”

Nate Gibson “Road to the World Series”READ MORE ABOUT NATE GIBSON’S FEAR THE BEER PROJECT.

https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-country-musician-fear-the-beer-milwaukee-brewers

https://milwaukeerecord.com/music/nate-gibsons-fear-the-beer-gives-the-brewers-a-country-tinged-playoff-soundtrack/

Today’s show featured Songs About Hank Williams, Songs Written by Hank Williams, Songs Made Famous by Hank Williams and Songs performed by Hank Williams.

Hiram “Hank” Williams was born September 17, 1923 and died on new years day January 1, 1953 at the age of 29 During his short lifetime, Williams placed 30 songs on Billboard’s Top C&W Records, with 11 being number one hits.

I had a lot of Tribute Records to choose from.

Charley Pride “There’s a Little Bit of Hank In Me”

Merle Haggard “The Way It Was in ‘51”

Johnny Cash “The Night Hank Williams Came to Town”

Waylon Jennings “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”

Moe Bandy “I’ve Done Everything Hank Williams Did, But Die”

George Jones “Why Don’t You Love Me”

George Jones “Honky Tonkin’”

George Jones “I Can’t Help It”

Merle Haggard & The Strangers “Moanin’ the Blues”

Merle Haggard “My Heart Would Know”

Merle Haggard And The Strangers “Love Sick Blues”

Johnny Cash “Hey Good Lookin’”

Johnny Cash “I Could Never Be Ashamed of You”

Charley Pride “Honky Tonk Blues”

Charley Pride “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”

Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart”

Hank Williams “Jambalaya”

Hank Williams “Move It on Over”

….And because The Milwaukee Brewers are in the Playoffs.

Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer”

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Johnny Cash Ring of Fire

Jim Reeves Welcome to My World

Ray Price For the Good Times (Single Version)

Willie Nelson If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time

George Jones & Tammy Wynette Golden Ring

Hank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys Lovesick Blues

Delmore Brothers Blues Stay Away from Me

Hank Snow I'm Movin' On

Dottie West Country Girl

Bobby Bare Four Strong Winds

Tex Williams Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)

Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely Slippin' Around

Merle Travis Divorce Me C.O.D

Frankie Laine Mule Train

Jerry Lee Lewis One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)

Songs about not settling down (or not settling for someone).Songs about lost loveSongs about meeting up with your Ex.Songs of devoted love. and of course some cheating songs, it is a Country Show after all.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Tex Ritter "(I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"

Dottie West "Country Sunshine"

Conway Twitty "(Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind"

Don Gibson "Woman (Sensuous Woman)"

Bob Luman "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers"

Porter Wagoner "I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand"

George Jones "The Grand Tour (Single Version)"

Lefty Frizzell "She's Gone, Gone, Gone"

The Statler Brothers "Susan When She Tried"

Charley Pride "Just Between You and Me"

Ronnie Milsap "(I'm a) Stand by My Woman Man"

Johnny Duncan "She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed (Anytime)"

Barbara Mandrell "Crackers (Single Version)"

Mel Street "Borrowed Angel (Original Gusto Recording)"

Warren Smith "I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today"

The Sir Douglas Band "I'll Be There"

Ray Pillow "Thank You Ma'am"

I think this was recorded in August and I just forgot to hit the Publish button.

We start of the show by getting confused about which country star has recently passed away.Things get back on track with some Country Songs That Don’t Sound Like Country Songs and we nearly beat the theme of ‘Lonesome’ into the ground.

Pretty solid show IMHO.

HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED

Jean Shepard "Slippin' Away"

Jeannie Seely "Don't Touch Me"

Jeannie C. Riley "Shed Me No Tears"

Charlie Rich "Nice 'N' Easy"

Sonny James "A Little Bit South Of Saskatoon"

Henson Cargill "Skip a Rope"

Ray Price "The Lonesomest Lonesome"

Don Gibson "Oh Lonesome Me (Rerecorded)"

Wynn Stewart and the Tourists "It's Too Much Like Lonesome"

Sammi Smith "The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me"

Charley Pride "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"

Hank Williams "Long Gone Loneseome Blues"

George Jones "White Lightnin'"

Barbara Mandrell "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed"

Gary Stewart "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)"

Johnny Cash "I Walk The Line"

Conway Twitty "I've Just Destroyed The World"

Tammy Wynette "Stand By Your Man"

When I was in the studio on Saturday morning I was in a panic as no sound was coming out of one of the stations turntables. I had another stack of Uncle Boyd’s records and was unsure if I was going to be able to play them or if it would be an mish mash of Uncle Boyd’s records and what was available in the media library on the station’s computer.Engineer Paul came to the rescue and got everything up and running.The first two songs (David Alan Coe and Willie Nelson) are us literally filling time while Paul was reconnecting lose cables and making sure our sounds were going out on the airwaves.

Here’s What We Played

David Allan Coe "You Never Even Call Me by My Name"

Willie Nelson "City of New Orleans"

UNCLE BOYD’S RECORDS

Roger Miller "I Get Up Early In the Morning"

Ray Price "Letters Have No Arms"

Ray Price "Crazy Arms"

Waylon Jennings "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)"

Merle Haggard & The Strangers "Honky Tonk Night Time Man"

Dolly Parton "Jolene (Remastered)"

Bobby Bare "Detroit City"

Nancy Sinatra "Jackson"

Emmylou Harris "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double"

Marty Robbins "You Only Want Me When You Are Lonely"

Larry Gatlin "Statues Without Hearts"

Sonny James "The Cat Came Back (Remastered)"

Hank Locklin "Foreign Car"

Waylon & Jessi "Suspicious Minds"Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM.