November 20, 2024 • 33 mins
Randy and Robin discuss Randy's experiences with different famous people. Primarily country music stars through Randy's years at Country Station KJ97 in San Antonio but also some some others that might surprise you.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Another episode of Unfiltered with Randy and Robin. That's what
we call it now. That was the thing. You know,
you have to come up with a name for your
podcast when you when you when you publish these things.
And so I thought unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Because it's a good name. Because except I've just realized
the problem. I can't look at you while we're doing
this because you give me the giggles. I need to
turn away from you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a match made in heaven. Folks, as they say, anyway,
we're gonna we're gonna talk about me today on the show.
On the podcast, Robin said, you know, you have so
many stories. I love when you tell your stories, and
I don't. I never sat down and have I've never
said it on compiled stories. It's just when you're having
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a conversation with people, certain artists will come up and
I'll go, oh, oh, man, I got a great story
about Oilon Jennings or whoever. These different people are like that. Anyway,
that's that's going. It's it's kind of a Tell Tell
Randy tells Story's day.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How do you met George Jones? We'll start there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, I met George Jones once in the Freeman Coliseum.
He was playing the Rodeo Gala. It was George, Ray
Price and Fiddle and Frenchie Burke from Little Texas and
Uh French. He opened the show and then rape Price
was second and George was the headliner. He was closing
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the show, and he was mad because he was tired.
He's like, you know, I try to get ready to
you know, to go on after me, but they wouldn't
let me do it because I want to. I want
to go to bed. And so I'm sitting with George
Jones and Frenchie Burke and rape Price is about to
go on and Ray has I think his son Cliff
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made was Ope was warming up, you know, before he's
singing a few songs before Ray comes out. And it
was not very good. It was I don't know if
the sound mixed or what it was, but it didn't
sound good at all. And I'll never forget George. He's
kind of in a bad mood to begin with. Sounds
like it, you know, And he leans over and he says,
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if that was my son, I would kick his ass.
And I just lost my mind. And I think about
stuff like that, and I think, man, I would love
if somebody would be a video in that or you know,
because it just sounds like I'm making up a b
story when it's absolutely the truth. And I know somewhere
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in the San Antonio Rodeo Archives over there, if I
go through the pictures, the photog at the time came
by and he took a picture of myself, George Jones,
and Prince of Burgh sitting there.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is that what they called him back then, the photog.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I don't know. He's the photographer anyway. So so somewhere
in the Rodeo archives, there's got to be a picture
in there somewhere. I need to go find out.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We need to go look through there.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Hear that was when that was probably might have been
the late eighties. I don't know. I need to find
out and see if they'll let me just dig around,
because I would love to have that picture, the only
picture I would have with George Jones anyway. That's my
George Jones story.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, what about Merle Haggard. You mentioned real Haggard in
the beginning, and I love this story.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've met Haggard a couple of times, once in Vegas
and some other place at a show he was doing
and then right not long after my dad died. My
dad died in ninety three. Somewhere there about the mid nineties,
Haggard was playing the rodeo. And my mom, who was
a widow then, never she never asked for anything. She
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never asked for anything, so precious about going anywhere, see anything,
going to a concert, anything like that. And I asked her,
I said, would you like to go to the rodeo.
I see if I can get some rodeo tickets take
to the rodeo. And she said, well, you know your
dad and I always love Merle Haggard and he's going
to be at the rodeo. Let's see if we can go.
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And of course I went to check and you couldn't
hardly get a ticket. So I called Keith Martin.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, you have connections, the executive.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Director of the rodeo, and said, hey, Keith, I don't
know if you can help me out find somebody who's
selling tickets. I want to take my mom to the rodeo.
She wants to see Merle Haggard. He goes, well, I
got you taken care of. You just sit in my box.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well used to have great connections, huh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And so so I go and and I sit in
his box, and when we get there, they've left us
backstage passes. I think it was myself, my brother, and
my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's really special.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And so we end up going backstage, and my brother
and I both have been around that kind of stuff,
you know, a lot in the music business, so we're
not we don't get. But Mom hadn't been. And all
of a sudden, Mom's standing there talking to Merle Haggard
and she is being a fangirl. She's going, she's just
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like when my before my boys morning even we would
go see you and then she'd just go and just
going on and on, and we laughed and had a
great time. And I have great pictures of that too,
of Mom with Merle Haggard. That's my Merle Haggard story.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's great. I love that for your mom and you.
It's so great when you can do something for your
parents to make you know. I'm sure she was so proud.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It is. That reminds me, said of another story, so
you know, which is what happens doing stuff for your parents.
My dad was a huge Cowboys fan, and he would
still be a Cowboys fan today today. You were alive yesterday.
Well yeah, I mean he would. He would. He would
be mad and he would be, like the rest of us,
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upset about it, but he'd still be a Cowboys fan. Anyway.
He's a big Cowboys fan. And I took him to
his first Cowboys game. I got a chance taking a
big Cowboys game. And then there was the NFL was
sponsoring a or somebody was maybe it's Chump Charity was
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sponsoring a Legends flag football game. They had it out
at what was then Northeast Stadium, Blossom Athletics.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh wow, yeah, you know that. Of course I went
to Madison.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Madison High School anyway, So they were having this and
Tom Landry was coaching one of the teams, and who
was coaching the other?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Okay, I gotta think another word. I'm just wowed out
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, all of these legends.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's epic.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And so I took my dad, and my dad got
to meet his hero, Tom Landry. And this just not
long before Dad passed away, probably two years later he
was gone, but he met Tom Landry, he met Roger Staubach,
and you know, and all these other ballplayers got to
hang out with them. So that that's my that's so
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special and so wonderful story about getting to do something
for your mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, I love that. Well, I'm going to name off
a few artists that I love that I listened to. Okay,
when I was you know, little, probably should have listened
to him, because now that I listened to him, like, wow,
that's kind of crazy. I don't know why they let
me listen to that. How about Conway Twitty.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Conway Twitty, I never met Conway Twoty.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well kind of I recently.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, yeah that was that was a Conway Twoty impersonator
and where.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And Pigeon Ford, tennessee this show. Hey, I'm glad we
win because they don't have that show. I think it
ends this month. And I had a blast.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think there were eight of us watching this show.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And he looked like he walked out of the coffin.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
With the real Conway Twoty. I never met. I met
people associated with I met Conway's bass player and bus driver,
but I never met Conway Twitty and uh and I
think probably even if I had been around at a
place where I could meet Conway twoty. You probably they
probably wouldn't let me back there because I think only
women were back at backstage with Conway Twitt.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, think about all the Conway songs. Oh, I know,
I wouldn't have let my little girls sing those songs.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, you know they were on the radio. You played
them that song. But there's some of the ones you
played for me when we were on our way to
the show. I had not heard yet. Oh my gosh,
that one was. That is so scandalous. Joni, good guy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That the little neighbor girl next door, that's terrible. She
was too young.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Did y'all play that on the radio?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yes, we played that on the kidding me. Well, let's
see that may have been. That may have been over
before I started in radio.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But anyway, that is just not okay.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I never met Conway two. I wish I would have
would love to met Conway twot.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's about me. But love Conway and Loretta Lynne because
you wouldn't have met her then she's no.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I did meet Loretta's twins, twin daughters.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh you met her daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
They had a record deal and I was the program
director of kJ ninety seven. So oh, you know, all
the artists would do these radio tours across the country
to meet all the radio people. You know, so when
you get a stack of records or CDs on your desk,
you know, you start looking through. I don't know that.
Oh I remember them. They came out the station. You know,
maybe you would play theirs over over the other people
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in the stack. But anyway, kind uh, Loretta's twin daughters,
Peggy and Patsy, they came and, uh, we spent the
day together, come to think it, went out to eat
and did all all kinds and stuff. And I had
a blast just listening to them tell stories because I
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was I think it was Patsy was telling the story
about Uh they were out on tour. They were singing
back up from their for their mom. They were out
on tour with Conway Twooty and Merle Haggard. They said
in every night, Mom would be out there peeking out
the windows of her bus, you know, snooping and was
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a snoop. Really she's snooping out the window. And she
would see different girls going into Merle Haggard's bus. And
she was always like, I can't believe women like like
that getting on Merle Haggard's bus well one night.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And then she wrote for City.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
One night She's looking out the window and Patsy says
she sees Peggy and Peggy gets on Merle Haggard's What
no is like, Patchy, Patsy, come here, Oh my god, Peggy.
Peggy just got on uh Merle No, you know? And
she was she had been dating like somebody in Merle's
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band or something. That's that's the only reason he got
on the bus. But funny story, that's my Peggy and
Peggy and Patsy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That reminds me of that story that he told me
Elvis Presley's granddaughter. What that is wild?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah? At the at the radio station, this would have been.
This had been the two thousand sometime. My oldest was
in high school and one of her favorite singers was
a guy named Ryan Cabrera and he was on the
radio on our on mixed ninety six point one sister,
her sister station down the hall, and so my daughter calls,
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can I skip school and come by the radio station.
I really want to say hi to Ryan? Okay, okay,
come on, So she ever she skips, Yeah, I earned
dad points that day. She skipped school, and she comes
to the radio station and Ryan Cabrera is there and
he finished his interview and he comes out and he's
got a girlfriend with him, and she's like nineteen years old,
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and I don't know who she is. I don't care.
My daughter's there to see Ryan Cabrera. So we're talking
to Ryan, and a group of us are and my
daughter's talking to him, and his little girlfriend is there
and anyway, so they finally leave and we're standing there
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talking and I said something about man if I had
I told my daughter, I said, if that was you,
you were nineteen years old, I would not let you
run all over the country with a guy in a
rock band. I just would not do it. And she goes, well,
you know her, her mom is somebody famous. I said,
Ryan's girlfriend's mom is somebody famous. Who asked you somebody
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like somebody Lisa Marie somebody And it was Riley Keo,
Lisa Marie Presley's daughter. And of course all of us
older people are losing our mind. Yeah, you mean we
were standing here talking to Elvis Presley's granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I would fangirl her.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We had no idea, of course, right, But that's the
kind of stuff. I feel like I've got like two
degrees of separation and all of these odd stories from
these different people, and speaking of it leads me to
another story. This Ryan Cabrera guy. We go on vacation
to Los Angeles and my daughter Kelsey, she looks, uh,
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she goes, Dad, Ryan Cabrera is going to be playing
at this club called the Roxy down on Sunset, you know,
in Hollywood. And I'm like, all right, so I call
a friend or no, I didn't call a friend of mine.
I thought, well, I'll see if I can get some tickets. Well,
I was talking to there's a country artist named Chris Cagle,
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and my brother was playing guitar for him at the time.
And I ran into him somewhere and I and I
was telling him. I said, you know, Chris, my daughters
are begging me to get him into the Roxy. You
know it is it kind of a just a funny
you want to hear a funny dad story. I'm trying
to figure out how to take my kids to the
Roxy to see Ryan Cabrera. And Chris goes, oh man,
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my manager doc, his office is right there on Sunset
down from the Roxy. Let me call it I said, Doc,
you don't need to do that. I'll figure it out. Well,
sure enough, I'm there in La sitting on the beach.
My phone rings and I answer it and it's Chris.
He goes, hey, Docs, hooked you up. Just show up
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at the Roxy Friday night and they've got you taken
care of. And I didn't know what. I said.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, so you are the most awesome dads.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So we go down there, down there on Sunset Boulevard
and we go to the Roxy and to go up
to the door there and or the window, you know,
I said, hey, I'm not sure. I think maybe there
might be some tickets or something for me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's so humble, you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Know, And I showed my driver's license, and all of
a sudden, the girl goes, oh, yes, mister Crol, come
on right, come right in. Your VIP table is ready, right,
And so we go in and we got this nice
table and a waitress to take care of us, nice
up front, and and so I look at the the
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table next to me, and on the table next to
me there's a there's a name, and you know, each
mine had my name Randy Carroll on the on the
table and the other guy he had his name on
there and it said Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, this is Jessica Simpson.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I am loving her fashion right yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So, and I didn't realize, but he is Ryan Carbrere,
or was Ryan Carbrera's manager, and his other daughter Ashley
as she was dating Ryan.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well he gets around at the time, or it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Had or something like that. But anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Wait, Ryan was dating Lisa Marie's daughter at the station,
and now he's dating I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I'll get my stories out of the order. I don't
know which. Anyway, he was dating Ashley Simpson. Anyway, So
when the concert's over, I thought, I gotta say, how
did Joe Simpson? You know? So I said, hey, Joe,
my name is Randy Carroll. I'm from say we're from
San Antonio here, work in radio in San Antonio. And
he goes, oh, my gosh, I was born in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Joe Simpson was born in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, he goes said, are you serious? He goes, yeah,
I was born in Brackenridge Hospital. He said, my dad
was the pastor of the first Baptist church in Divine, Texas.
So Jessica Simpson's grandpa was the bast of the first
Baptist church in Divine, Texas. And so anyway we got
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to talk and and and he says, you know, Jessica's
going to do a country album. Oh, I'm like okay,
like really and so, and of course she ended up
doing the country album, but it didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Do any I think she's great.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It did about as well as her relationship with Tony Romo,
which was all about the same time.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You know, we all make bad choices him in before
you find our dream guy.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There you go, I'm the dream guy. Anyway, So that's
my See you start telling these stories and they just
kind of won weas into the next. Yeah, yeah, that's
my Jessic Simpson, Joe Simpson, Ryan Cabrera, Elvis's granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, let's go way back to the Johnny Cash story,
because I remember we went to Nashville. We were visiting,
and I was like, I you know, I'm a tourist.
I like to see all the things, and You're like,
we could skip that, and I'm like, I want I'm
here and I want to see it, you know, and
I want to do and see all the things and
have the experience, and so I wanted to go to
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the Johnny Cash Museum and the Patsy Clin Museum. And
you're like, okay, and you loved it, and you told
me that you met Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I did meet Johnny Cash. It was funny. My dad
was a huge Johnny Cash fan. That was his favorite
artist far and away. I remember when my dad would
play guitar, set around the house sing Johnny Cash songs.
He and my mom would sing Jackson.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah together, she sing that in our house.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, and so big Johnny Cash fans. My dad was
in construction, he was a brick mason and we lived
in Pleasanton. Well, one day my dad came home from work.
He had been working in Floresville, and on the back
of his business cards he had one of them was
autographed by Johnny Cash, another one was ordered autographed by
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June Carter Cash and then a couple other actors, and
we were like, what he goes, Yeah, Johnny Cash is
making a movie in Floresville. And I saw him today
and got to meet him. And so that weekend, Dad,
you know, being a stalker like he is, kind of
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like me.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He finds out that's where you get it from.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Finds out where Cash in them are filming this movie
and they're shooting the scene out on this dirt road
in Wilson County, out in the middle of nowhere, and
we drive out there and stand around and wait and
wait and wait and get to meet Johnny Cash and
take our picture with Cash. I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That is just a dream. And that's great too. What
I love about that story. You were not in radio,
you were hiding new ambush to be in radio, but
you met Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's I mean, if that ain't country, that's I'm
country for sure. But that's my that's my Johnny Cash story.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I have another favorite. I have two more favorites from
when I was little. I remember I love that song.
When I was I was country when country wasn't cool.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's Mandre.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Did you ever get to meet her?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm trying to think. I know I m seed a
show that she was on, but I don't. I'm not sure. No,
I don't have a story that at least I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
How about the Bellamie Brothers, They're like classic, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I've met the Bellamie Brothers, But I don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Any good I think we're still out there doing so.
I would love to go to a Bell brother still.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
They're playing all over Europe and all over America. They're
playing and cranking out the hits. In fact, the first
song I ever played on San Antonio radio, who Bellamy? Wow?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
There's another Wow. We need to count my wows in
this podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think it was that one.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're blowing me away? Here?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Do you love as good as you look?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well? There you go?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That was That was the first song I ever played
on San Antonio country radio.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I love the Melanie Brothers, and it made me think
of somebody else too, But it's kind of Oh Alabama
one of my all time favorite country bands. Did you
ever get to meet them? I know we got to
see meet the Rodeo a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, I've been around the Alabama boys, yeah a time
or two.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh, you have some good stories, but we won't tell
you their story.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
There's stories about Randio and then Okay that I cannot
we're unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, we're gonna filter that one though. Okay, okay, what
about Okay, let's get to just a little bit newer
but still like keep it nineties and cool. Brooks and Done.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Brooks and Done, Yeah, I'll get a great The first
time I met Brooks and Done this is before they
have had a record out. I was in Nashville for
some seminar or something and the head of their label then,
which was Arista Records, a guy named Tim Dubois, their own.
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His first artist was Alan Jackson. Allen's first album had
been out, it became a huge success. Well, he just
recorded his second album, and Tim invited me, in a
handful of other radio people over to the studio to
listen to Alan's second album. Cool that, yeah, very cool.
We get to hear an album before anybody else, so
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it's very cool. So we go to the studio and
we listened to the album. But anyway, as we pull
up into the parking lot of studio, there were two
guys out there with the hood of an old Ford truck.
The hoods up and they're under there working on it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
The car problems.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, I guess, so it's poor guys. Anyway, so we
go on and we listened to the album. Well, we
get done listen to the album and Tim says, all right,
I wanted you to meet. This is the next act. We're
going to be coming out with this couple of friends
of mine, Kicks, Brooks and ron Done. They're gonna be
called Brooks and Done and Kicks and brook and Ronnie
walk out and I'm like, hey, it's the two guys
working on the book down the broke down truck. Anyway,
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So so I got to know them pretty well because
as new artists they would they would come to town and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Oh, I love this story.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I remember the story which which one.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, the line about your truck.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oh, I bought my first new truck, first really fancy
truck i'd ever bought. And I'd done some event downtown
and as I'm driving out, I paid the parking attendant
at the parking garage and that little arm comes up
and as I'm driving out, the arm goes haywire and
they just bang and it left these things down the
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cat you know, the corner of the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Cabin, oh my gosh, of the truck.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Anyway, long story short, the city paid me for it
and fix it and all that. But later that week
Kicks and Ronnie had come to town and we went
over to Tears, No, I mean tears, what's the one
on Bess Jackson Lot forgot it. We go to lat
forgot it for lunch, and we're coming out. I'm telling
them about that, and I'm showing those beings on my
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my my cab of my truck, and they're laughing. They
think it's funny, and at that point I did too,
because it's humorous that there. Anyway, So to this day,
you know, once it been thirty years, every time I
see them, they still say the same thing. Hey, dude,
get it beating up Bunny of those arms. They still remember,
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they still remember the story. Yeah, I think I guess
I have one. I'll tell you. I'll tell you one more.
This is Ronnie Dunn. They were going to be playing
the George Strait Country Music Festival, which was on that
I think it was on a Saturday. Well, on a
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Wednesday morning, I got a call at the radio station
in the morning show. Lady said, Hey, i'd work in
a shop in River Center Mall and Ronnie Dunn and
his wife came in last night. So they're staying somewhere
down here. So they came in. We're doing a little
vacation early before the show. And so I went on
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the air and I said, look, if you can tell
me and it's correct which hotel Ronnie Dunn is staying in.
I'll give you a pair of tickets to the George
Strait Country Music Festival.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You talked them into telling you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I had a talk the audience, and so a listener
calls up as a cop. He said, I got it.
They're staying at the Hilton Palacio del Rio.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So I called, wow, we'll sell out.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I call, Like at seven in the morning, I call,
and Ronnie's wife, Jeanine answers hello. I said, yeah, is
Ronnie there? He's sleeping. Who's this? I don't wake him up, man,
This this Randy Carroll. I work at a radio station.
Just here's the number. If he wakes up, just have
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him call. So okay anyway, So like five minutes later,
the phone lights up, the hotline lights up in the studio,
and I answered, and it's Ronnie. He's like, Randy, don't
you know us? He'll Betty Singers sleep till noon.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
The factor used his real name, though, I guess at
the hotel for you to call, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Think after that they probably didn't use their name aliases.
But anyway, he was gracious about it, and it made
a great funny bit on the radio. There might be
somebody listening to the podcast right now who actually heard
that on the radio back then. But lots of stories
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You know. I have a story about Brookston Done. I
never met him. In fact, you showed me a picture
of him, and I didn't even know who they were
because I'm not good with faces, and I'm not like
good with lots of stars, like I don't know who
keeps and stuff like that, right, I did used to
read The Star a lot back and then they got
the Express News. I'm not saying I'm totally illiterate, but anyways,
(27:11):
I think you know, you probably hadn't dated a lot.
I don't know, but we had just started talking, you know,
you were brush on the I guess out there in
the dating world, and you we were like texting or whatever,
and then like you sent me this picture and I'm like, okay,
who's that The Bellamie Brothers And You're like, uh, that's
(27:33):
Perkson Dune And I was like, oh, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Me and Brooks and Done. It's a black and white
photo from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But I'm sure you could have sent that to some
other girl and she would have been like, Oh my god,
that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You were tough to impress. I just gotta tell you
right now, you I had have worked hard to get you.
I really did well.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know what worked out in your favor is that
pop up Blake Shelton concert. Oh, Shelton show did well. Actually,
I thought I was going to get to see Steve
Warner because he was in town that night. But Blake
Shelton had a pop up concert.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We saw Blake Shelton and Cowboys, and I introduced you
to Blake. And he's cool.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
He acts like he knows you. He as like y'all
are like like good old buddies or something.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
We've been around each other an the years, a lot
of interviews and stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So that was that was very impressive.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And he's very tall.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, he's a big boy. Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Okay, well, I know you have a few more stories
in here. Let's say so you have like a story
that most of your close friends have already heard this story,
and it has to do with the king of country music.
And and you have been known to sing really good.
You do a great George Strait impersonation, and you also
(28:55):
can sing his songs like so beautiful, Like I could
just sit there and listen to you seeing every George
Straight song. You're really great at George strait. But something
happened with George was George.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Was doing the UH, the charity event he and some
of his friends did called for the Love of Kids
and Harley's. They would auction off these Harley motorcycles and
give the money to local children's charities, and George would
come out and auction the motorcycles off, and I still
(29:29):
remember the first time he did it. It's because you
know George, if you're around him a little bit, he's
kind of bashful sometimes and talks like this. And he
came out and he said, well, you know, I'm always
I've always been happy to UH to support these charities
and everything and help out and just kind of stay
(29:51):
behind the scenes. But for some reason they thought I
should come out here and auction this this auction stuff off.
And he said, I'll just be honest with you, I
don't know, Jack, you know what about auction.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Jack squat, Yeah, I don't know, he said.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know Jack Squat about auction and squat off.
But anyway, he did and sold the motorcycle for a
lot of money, raised a lot of money. But anyway,
another time we were doing that event, uh, and there
was a house band that was playing, and the singer
got sick. And so I'm sitting in the back sipping
on tequila with George straight and a few other people,
(30:29):
and somebody walk back then and goes, hey, George, Uh,
the singer out here got sick. Why don't you come
out sing a couple of songs with the band. And
George goes, huh huh, I don't sing when I've been drinking.
And and the guy said, well, Randy, why don't you
come out here and sing you know, the go sing
George's song in the chair.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, you sing that really well, and I love it
when you sing it to me.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're looking in there, that's right, baby. Anyway, So so George,
George goes, he perks up. He goes, yeah, Randy, why
don't you go up there and sing the chair? And
I said, no, king, I'm not about to go sing
the chair in front of you. And then he goes, well, ready,
if you don't go out there and sing the chair,
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you don't have a hair on your which is if
you've never heard that that's a good old South Texas
way of saying, you're a chicken, your coward.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, you're not a man.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Anyway, I did not go out there, but.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're still amazing and wonderful and very manly.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I wasn't gonna go sing in front of the King,
but anyway, that's that's my King, George straight story. You know.
I think I would probably go on with this podcast
for an hour telling telling stories.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But I don't think we have an eye. Will have
to do a part two. Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's a cool thing about this business is you meet
these artists when they're brand new, and you never know
how they're gonna do. You really don't, so you don't.
It's like you don't want to blow off anybody, you know,
you know, you know how how big they're going to be.
(32:06):
I'll remember the day that in the early nineties this uh,
this kid, he was on an independent record label, this
little record label called Capricorn, and the record promoter I
still remember his name. His name was Rick rock Hill,
and I think I don't even know if Rick's still alive.
But Rick comes in with this young kid from East
Tennessee and uh and sits down, starts telling me about him,
(32:29):
and you know, we're gonna listen to his song in
the office and all this kind of stuff. And I
would talk to the kid and he'd kind of yes, sir. Yeah,
he's kind of bashful. It's kind of almost awkward. You know.
Well it was Kenny Chesney.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What Kenny Chesney. Yeah, you guys are good friends though.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, we since became friends, but that's the first time
I met him, you know, and I thought, what's wrong
with this guy? Well, he's just scared to death. He's
just a young kid from East Tennessee and he's going
all over the country.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Look at me now, right.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, you know. And then he got on a bigger
label and things took off min and I got to
sing with him a couple of times on different shows
that he did here.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And I know, you've gotten to meet like Garth Brooks
and yeah, you've gotten to meet all the lates and greats.
I mean, we both got to meet Jelly Roll last year.
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, we spent some time around Morgan Wallen. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, and you're good buddy. Aaron Tipping.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Oh, Aaron Tipping from yeah talking about take throwing it back.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Gotta love Aaron Tipping.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, he really is good man. I will tell our
Aaron Tipping's story sometime, but I think we need to
get out of here now we're over.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's been a pleasure interviewing you, mister Carroll.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well, thank you so much for having me on your show,
and I appreciate it. It's unfiltered with Randy and Robin.
Thank you guys for listening.
Another episode of Unfiltered with Randy and Robin. That's what
we call it now. That was the thing. You know,
you have to come up with a name for your
podcast when you when you when you publish these things.
And so I thought unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Because it's a good name. Because except I've just realized
the problem. I can't look at you while we're doing
this because you give me the giggles. I need to
turn away from you.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a match made in heaven. Folks, as they say, anyway,
we're gonna we're gonna talk about me today on the show.
On the podcast, Robin said, you know, you have so
many stories. I love when you tell your stories, and
I don't. I never sat down and have I've never
said it on compiled stories. It's just when you're having
(00:55):
a conversation with people, certain artists will come up and
I'll go, oh, oh, man, I got a great story
about Oilon Jennings or whoever. These different people are like that. Anyway,
that's that's going. It's it's kind of a Tell Tell
Randy tells Story's day.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
How do you met George Jones? We'll start there.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, I met George Jones once in the Freeman Coliseum.
He was playing the Rodeo Gala. It was George, Ray
Price and Fiddle and Frenchie Burke from Little Texas and
Uh French. He opened the show and then rape Price
was second and George was the headliner. He was closing
(01:35):
the show, and he was mad because he was tired.
He's like, you know, I try to get ready to
you know, to go on after me, but they wouldn't
let me do it because I want to. I want
to go to bed. And so I'm sitting with George
Jones and Frenchie Burke and rape Price is about to
go on and Ray has I think his son Cliff
(01:59):
made was Ope was warming up, you know, before he's
singing a few songs before Ray comes out. And it
was not very good. It was I don't know if
the sound mixed or what it was, but it didn't
sound good at all. And I'll never forget George. He's
kind of in a bad mood to begin with. Sounds
like it, you know, And he leans over and he says,
(02:21):
if that was my son, I would kick his ass.
And I just lost my mind. And I think about
stuff like that, and I think, man, I would love
if somebody would be a video in that or you know,
because it just sounds like I'm making up a b
story when it's absolutely the truth. And I know somewhere
(02:42):
in the San Antonio Rodeo Archives over there, if I
go through the pictures, the photog at the time came
by and he took a picture of myself, George Jones,
and Prince of Burgh sitting there.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Is that what they called him back then, the photog.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I don't know. He's the photographer anyway. So so somewhere
in the Rodeo archives, there's got to be a picture
in there somewhere. I need to go find out.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
We need to go look through there.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Hear that was when that was probably might have been
the late eighties. I don't know. I need to find
out and see if they'll let me just dig around,
because I would love to have that picture, the only
picture I would have with George Jones anyway. That's my
George Jones story.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Okay, what about Merle Haggard. You mentioned real Haggard in
the beginning, and I love this story.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I've met Haggard a couple of times, once in Vegas
and some other place at a show he was doing
and then right not long after my dad died. My
dad died in ninety three. Somewhere there about the mid nineties,
Haggard was playing the rodeo. And my mom, who was
a widow then, never she never asked for anything. She
(03:51):
never asked for anything, so precious about going anywhere, see anything,
going to a concert, anything like that. And I asked her,
I said, would you like to go to the rodeo.
I see if I can get some rodeo tickets take
to the rodeo. And she said, well, you know your
dad and I always love Merle Haggard and he's going
to be at the rodeo. Let's see if we can go.
(04:13):
And of course I went to check and you couldn't
hardly get a ticket. So I called Keith Martin.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
No, you have connections, the executive.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Director of the rodeo, and said, hey, Keith, I don't
know if you can help me out find somebody who's
selling tickets. I want to take my mom to the rodeo.
She wants to see Merle Haggard. He goes, well, I
got you taken care of. You just sit in my box.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Well used to have great connections, huh.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
And so so I go and and I sit in
his box, and when we get there, they've left us
backstage passes. I think it was myself, my brother, and
my mom.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
That's really special.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
And so we end up going backstage, and my brother
and I both have been around that kind of stuff,
you know, a lot in the music business, so we're
not we don't get. But Mom hadn't been. And all
of a sudden, Mom's standing there talking to Merle Haggard
and she is being a fangirl. She's going, she's just
(05:09):
like when my before my boys morning even we would
go see you and then she'd just go and just
going on and on, and we laughed and had a
great time. And I have great pictures of that too,
of Mom with Merle Haggard. That's my Merle Haggard story.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's great. I love that for your mom and you.
It's so great when you can do something for your
parents to make you know. I'm sure she was so proud.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
It is. That reminds me, said of another story, so
you know, which is what happens doing stuff for your parents.
My dad was a huge Cowboys fan, and he would
still be a Cowboys fan today today. You were alive yesterday.
Well yeah, I mean he would. He would. He would
be mad and he would be, like the rest of us,
(05:57):
upset about it, but he'd still be a Cowboys fan. Anyway.
He's a big Cowboys fan. And I took him to
his first Cowboys game. I got a chance taking a
big Cowboys game. And then there was the NFL was
sponsoring a or somebody was maybe it's Chump Charity was
(06:17):
sponsoring a Legends flag football game. They had it out
at what was then Northeast Stadium, Blossom Athletics.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh wow, yeah, you know that. Of course I went
to Madison.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Madison High School anyway, So they were having this and
Tom Landry was coaching one of the teams, and who
was coaching the other?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Okay, I gotta think another word. I'm just wowed out
right now.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
But Tom Landry, Roger Staubach, Drew Pearson, all of these legends.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's epic.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And so I took my dad, and my dad got
to meet his hero, Tom Landry. And this just not
long before Dad passed away, probably two years later he
was gone, but he met Tom Landry, he met Roger Staubach,
and you know, and all these other ballplayers got to
hang out with them. So that that's my that's so
(07:09):
special and so wonderful story about getting to do something
for your mom and dad.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, I love that. Well, I'm going to name off
a few artists that I love that I listened to. Okay,
when I was you know, little, probably should have listened
to him, because now that I listened to him, like, wow,
that's kind of crazy. I don't know why they let
me listen to that. How about Conway Twitty.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Conway Twitty, I never met Conway Twoty.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well kind of I recently.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Well, yeah that was that was a Conway Twoty impersonator
and where.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
And Pigeon Ford, tennessee this show. Hey, I'm glad we
win because they don't have that show. I think it
ends this month. And I had a blast.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I think there were eight of us watching this show.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
And he looked like he walked out of the coffin.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
With the real Conway Twoty. I never met. I met
people associated with I met Conway's bass player and bus driver,
but I never met Conway Twitty and uh and I
think probably even if I had been around at a
place where I could meet Conway twoty. You probably they
probably wouldn't let me back there because I think only
women were back at backstage with Conway Twitt.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
I mean, think about all the Conway songs. Oh, I know,
I wouldn't have let my little girls sing those songs.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, you know they were on the radio. You played
them that song. But there's some of the ones you
played for me when we were on our way to
the show. I had not heard yet. Oh my gosh,
that one was. That is so scandalous. Joni, good guy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
That the little neighbor girl next door, that's terrible. She
was too young.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Did y'all play that on the radio?
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yes, we played that on the kidding me. Well, let's
see that may have been. That may have been over
before I started in radio.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
But anyway, that is just not okay.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I never met Conway two. I wish I would have
would love to met Conway twot.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's about me. But love Conway and Loretta Lynne because
you wouldn't have met her then she's no.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I did meet Loretta's twins, twin daughters.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Oh you met her daughter.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
They had a record deal and I was the program
director of kJ ninety seven. So oh, you know, all
the artists would do these radio tours across the country
to meet all the radio people. You know, so when
you get a stack of records or CDs on your desk,
you know, you start looking through. I don't know that.
Oh I remember them. They came out the station. You know,
maybe you would play theirs over over the other people
(09:46):
in the stack. But anyway, kind uh, Loretta's twin daughters,
Peggy and Patsy, they came and, uh, we spent the
day together, come to think it, went out to eat
and did all all kinds and stuff. And I had
a blast just listening to them tell stories because I
(10:08):
was I think it was Patsy was telling the story
about Uh they were out on tour. They were singing
back up from their for their mom. They were out
on tour with Conway Twooty and Merle Haggard. They said
in every night, Mom would be out there peeking out
the windows of her bus, you know, snooping and was
(10:32):
a snoop. Really she's snooping out the window. And she
would see different girls going into Merle Haggard's bus. And
she was always like, I can't believe women like like
that getting on Merle Haggard's bus well one night.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And then she wrote for City.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
One night She's looking out the window and Patsy says
she sees Peggy and Peggy gets on Merle Haggard's What
no is like, Patchy, Patsy, come here, Oh my god, Peggy.
Peggy just got on uh Merle No, you know? And
she was she had been dating like somebody in Merle's
(11:15):
band or something. That's that's the only reason he got
on the bus. But funny story, that's my Peggy and
Peggy and Patsy.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
That reminds me of that story that he told me
Elvis Presley's granddaughter. What that is wild?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah? At the at the radio station, this would have been.
This had been the two thousand sometime. My oldest was
in high school and one of her favorite singers was
a guy named Ryan Cabrera and he was on the
radio on our on mixed ninety six point one sister,
her sister station down the hall, and so my daughter calls,
(11:54):
can I skip school and come by the radio station.
I really want to say hi to Ryan? Okay, okay,
come on, So she ever she skips, Yeah, I earned
dad points that day. She skipped school, and she comes
to the radio station and Ryan Cabrera is there and
he finished his interview and he comes out and he's
got a girlfriend with him, and she's like nineteen years old,
(12:17):
and I don't know who she is. I don't care.
My daughter's there to see Ryan Cabrera. So we're talking
to Ryan, and a group of us are and my
daughter's talking to him, and his little girlfriend is there
and anyway, so they finally leave and we're standing there
(12:38):
talking and I said something about man if I had
I told my daughter, I said, if that was you,
you were nineteen years old, I would not let you
run all over the country with a guy in a
rock band. I just would not do it. And she goes, well,
you know her, her mom is somebody famous. I said,
Ryan's girlfriend's mom is somebody famous. Who asked you somebody
(13:00):
like somebody Lisa Marie somebody And it was Riley Keo,
Lisa Marie Presley's daughter. And of course all of us
older people are losing our mind. Yeah, you mean we
were standing here talking to Elvis Presley's granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I would fangirl her.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
We had no idea, of course, right, But that's the
kind of stuff. I feel like I've got like two
degrees of separation and all of these odd stories from
these different people, and speaking of it leads me to
another story. This Ryan Cabrera guy. We go on vacation
to Los Angeles and my daughter Kelsey, she looks, uh,
(13:48):
she goes, Dad, Ryan Cabrera is going to be playing
at this club called the Roxy down on Sunset, you know,
in Hollywood. And I'm like, all right, so I call
a friend or no, I didn't call a friend of mine.
I thought, well, I'll see if I can get some tickets. Well,
I was talking to there's a country artist named Chris Cagle,
(14:09):
and my brother was playing guitar for him at the time.
And I ran into him somewhere and I and I
was telling him. I said, you know, Chris, my daughters
are begging me to get him into the Roxy. You
know it is it kind of a just a funny
you want to hear a funny dad story. I'm trying
to figure out how to take my kids to the
Roxy to see Ryan Cabrera. And Chris goes, oh man,
(14:29):
my manager doc, his office is right there on Sunset
down from the Roxy. Let me call it I said, Doc,
you don't need to do that. I'll figure it out. Well,
sure enough, I'm there in La sitting on the beach.
My phone rings and I answer it and it's Chris.
He goes, hey, Docs, hooked you up. Just show up
(14:50):
at the Roxy Friday night and they've got you taken
care of. And I didn't know what. I said.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Okay, so you are the most awesome dads.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So we go down there, down there on Sunset Boulevard
and we go to the Roxy and to go up
to the door there and or the window, you know,
I said, hey, I'm not sure. I think maybe there
might be some tickets or something for me.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's so humble, you.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Know, And I showed my driver's license, and all of
a sudden, the girl goes, oh, yes, mister Crol, come
on right, come right in. Your VIP table is ready, right,
And so we go in and we got this nice
table and a waitress to take care of us, nice
up front, and and so I look at the the
(15:36):
table next to me, and on the table next to
me there's a there's a name, and you know, each
mine had my name Randy Carroll on the on the
table and the other guy he had his name on
there and it said Joe Simpson, Joe Simpson.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yeah, this is Jessica Simpson.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I am loving her fashion right yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So, and I didn't realize, but he is Ryan Carbrere,
or was Ryan Carbrera's manager, and his other daughter Ashley
as she was dating Ryan.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well he gets around at the time, or it.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Had or something like that. But anyway, so.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Wait, Ryan was dating Lisa Marie's daughter at the station,
and now he's dating I don't remember.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
I'll get my stories out of the order. I don't
know which. Anyway, he was dating Ashley Simpson. Anyway, So
when the concert's over, I thought, I gotta say, how
did Joe Simpson? You know? So I said, hey, Joe,
my name is Randy Carroll. I'm from say we're from
San Antonio here, work in radio in San Antonio. And
he goes, oh, my gosh, I was born in San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Joe Simpson was born in San Antonio.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, he goes said, are you serious? He goes, yeah,
I was born in Brackenridge Hospital. He said, my dad
was the pastor of the first Baptist church in Divine, Texas.
So Jessica Simpson's grandpa was the bast of the first
Baptist church in Divine, Texas. And so anyway we got
(17:12):
to talk and and and he says, you know, Jessica's
going to do a country album. Oh, I'm like okay,
like really and so, and of course she ended up
doing the country album, but it didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Do any I think she's great.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
It did about as well as her relationship with Tony Romo,
which was all about the same time.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
You know, we all make bad choices him in before
you find our dream guy.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
There you go, I'm the dream guy. Anyway, So that's
my See you start telling these stories and they just
kind of won weas into the next. Yeah, yeah, that's
my Jessic Simpson, Joe Simpson, Ryan Cabrera, Elvis's granddaughter.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, let's go way back to the Johnny Cash story,
because I remember we went to Nashville. We were visiting,
and I was like, I you know, I'm a tourist.
I like to see all the things, and You're like,
we could skip that, and I'm like, I want I'm
here and I want to see it, you know, and
I want to do and see all the things and
have the experience, and so I wanted to go to
(18:18):
the Johnny Cash Museum and the Patsy Clin Museum. And
you're like, okay, and you loved it, and you told
me that you met Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I did meet Johnny Cash. It was funny. My dad
was a huge Johnny Cash fan. That was his favorite
artist far and away. I remember when my dad would
play guitar, set around the house sing Johnny Cash songs.
He and my mom would sing Jackson.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Yeah together, she sing that in our house.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, and so big Johnny Cash fans. My dad was
in construction, he was a brick mason and we lived
in Pleasanton. Well, one day my dad came home from work.
He had been working in Floresville, and on the back
of his business cards he had one of them was
autographed by Johnny Cash, another one was ordered autographed by
(19:08):
June Carter Cash and then a couple other actors, and
we were like, what he goes, Yeah, Johnny Cash is
making a movie in Floresville. And I saw him today
and got to meet him. And so that weekend, Dad,
you know, being a stalker like he is, kind of
(19:29):
like me.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He finds out that's where you get it from.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Finds out where Cash in them are filming this movie
and they're shooting the scene out on this dirt road
in Wilson County, out in the middle of nowhere, and
we drive out there and stand around and wait and
wait and wait and get to meet Johnny Cash and
take our picture with Cash. I was fifteen years old.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
That is just a dream. And that's great too. What
I love about that story. You were not in radio,
you were hiding new ambush to be in radio, but
you met Johnny Cash.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's I mean, if that ain't country, that's I'm
country for sure. But that's my that's my Johnny Cash story.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I have another favorite. I have two more favorites from
when I was little. I remember I love that song.
When I was I was country when country wasn't cool.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's Mandre.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Did you ever get to meet her?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I'm trying to think. I know I m seed a
show that she was on, but I don't. I'm not sure. No,
I don't have a story that at least I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
How about the Bellamie Brothers, They're like classic, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
I've met the Bellamie Brothers, But I don't have.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Any good I think we're still out there doing so.
I would love to go to a Bell brother still.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
They're playing all over Europe and all over America. They're
playing and cranking out the hits. In fact, the first
song I ever played on San Antonio radio, who Bellamy? Wow?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
There's another Wow. We need to count my wows in
this podcast.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
I think it was that one.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You're blowing me away? Here?
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Do you love as good as you look?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well? There you go?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That was That was the first song I ever played
on San Antonio country radio.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I love the Melanie Brothers, and it made me think
of somebody else too, But it's kind of Oh Alabama
one of my all time favorite country bands. Did you
ever get to meet them? I know we got to
see meet the Rodeo a couple of times.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Yeah, I've been around the Alabama boys, yeah a time
or two.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Oh, you have some good stories, but we won't tell
you their story.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
There's stories about Randio and then Okay that I cannot
we're unfiltered.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Okay, we're gonna filter that one though. Okay, okay, what
about Okay, let's get to just a little bit newer
but still like keep it nineties and cool. Brooks and Done.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Brooks and Done, Yeah, I'll get a great The first
time I met Brooks and Done this is before they
have had a record out. I was in Nashville for
some seminar or something and the head of their label then,
which was Arista Records, a guy named Tim Dubois, their own.
(22:14):
His first artist was Alan Jackson. Allen's first album had
been out, it became a huge success. Well, he just
recorded his second album, and Tim invited me, in a
handful of other radio people over to the studio to
listen to Alan's second album. Cool that, yeah, very cool.
We get to hear an album before anybody else, so
(22:34):
it's very cool. So we go to the studio and
we listened to the album. But anyway, as we pull
up into the parking lot of studio, there were two
guys out there with the hood of an old Ford truck.
The hoods up and they're under there working on it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
The car problems.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yeah, I guess, so it's poor guys. Anyway, so we
go on and we listened to the album. Well, we
get done listen to the album and Tim says, all right,
I wanted you to meet. This is the next act. We're
going to be coming out with this couple of friends
of mine, Kicks, Brooks and ron Done. They're gonna be
called Brooks and Done and Kicks and brook and Ronnie
walk out and I'm like, hey, it's the two guys
working on the book down the broke down truck. Anyway,
(23:10):
So so I got to know them pretty well because
as new artists they would they would come to town and.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Oh, I love this story.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I remember the story which which one.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Okay, the line about your truck.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Oh, I bought my first new truck, first really fancy
truck i'd ever bought. And I'd done some event downtown
and as I'm driving out, I paid the parking attendant
at the parking garage and that little arm comes up
and as I'm driving out, the arm goes haywire and
they just bang and it left these things down the
(23:47):
cat you know, the corner of the.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Cabin, oh my gosh, of the truck.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Anyway, long story short, the city paid me for it
and fix it and all that. But later that week
Kicks and Ronnie had come to town and we went
over to Tears, No, I mean tears, what's the one
on Bess Jackson Lot forgot it. We go to lat
forgot it for lunch, and we're coming out. I'm telling
them about that, and I'm showing those beings on my
(24:14):
my my cab of my truck, and they're laughing. They
think it's funny, and at that point I did too,
because it's humorous that there. Anyway, So to this day,
you know, once it been thirty years, every time I
see them, they still say the same thing. Hey, dude,
get it beating up Bunny of those arms. They still remember,
(24:34):
they still remember the story. Yeah, I think I guess
I have one. I'll tell you. I'll tell you one more.
This is Ronnie Dunn. They were going to be playing
the George Strait Country Music Festival, which was on that
I think it was on a Saturday. Well, on a
(24:54):
Wednesday morning, I got a call at the radio station
in the morning show. Lady said, Hey, i'd work in
a shop in River Center Mall and Ronnie Dunn and
his wife came in last night. So they're staying somewhere
down here. So they came in. We're doing a little
vacation early before the show. And so I went on
(25:16):
the air and I said, look, if you can tell
me and it's correct which hotel Ronnie Dunn is staying in.
I'll give you a pair of tickets to the George
Strait Country Music Festival.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
You talked them into telling you.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I had a talk the audience, and so a listener
calls up as a cop. He said, I got it.
They're staying at the Hilton Palacio del Rio.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So I called, wow, we'll sell out.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So I call, Like at seven in the morning, I call,
and Ronnie's wife, Jeanine answers hello. I said, yeah, is
Ronnie there? He's sleeping. Who's this? I don't wake him up, man,
This this Randy Carroll. I work at a radio station.
Just here's the number. If he wakes up, just have
(26:08):
him call. So okay anyway, So like five minutes later,
the phone lights up, the hotline lights up in the studio,
and I answered, and it's Ronnie. He's like, Randy, don't
you know us? He'll Betty Singers sleep till noon.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
The factor used his real name, though, I guess at
the hotel for you to call, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Think after that they probably didn't use their name aliases.
But anyway, he was gracious about it, and it made
a great funny bit on the radio. There might be
somebody listening to the podcast right now who actually heard
that on the radio back then. But lots of stories
with those guys.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You know. I have a story about Brookston Done. I
never met him. In fact, you showed me a picture
of him, and I didn't even know who they were
because I'm not good with faces, and I'm not like
good with lots of stars, like I don't know who
keeps and stuff like that, right, I did used to
read The Star a lot back and then they got
the Express News. I'm not saying I'm totally illiterate, but anyways,
(27:11):
I think you know, you probably hadn't dated a lot.
I don't know, but we had just started talking, you know,
you were brush on the I guess out there in
the dating world, and you we were like texting or whatever,
and then like you sent me this picture and I'm like, okay,
who's that The Bellamie Brothers And You're like, uh, that's
(27:33):
Perkson Dune And I was like, oh, I'm impressed.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Me and Brooks and Done. It's a black and white
photo from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
But I'm sure you could have sent that to some
other girl and she would have been like, Oh my god,
that's so awesome.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You were tough to impress. I just gotta tell you
right now, you I had have worked hard to get you.
I really did well.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
You know what worked out in your favor is that
pop up Blake Shelton concert. Oh, Shelton show did well. Actually,
I thought I was going to get to see Steve
Warner because he was in town that night. But Blake
Shelton had a pop up concert.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
We saw Blake Shelton and Cowboys, and I introduced you
to Blake. And he's cool.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
He acts like he knows you. He as like y'all
are like like good old buddies or something.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
We've been around each other an the years, a lot
of interviews and stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
So that was that was very impressive.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
And he's very tall.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Yeah, he's a big boy. Yeah, very cool.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Okay, well, I know you have a few more stories
in here. Let's say so you have like a story
that most of your close friends have already heard this story,
and it has to do with the king of country music.
And and you have been known to sing really good.
You do a great George Strait impersonation, and you also
(28:55):
can sing his songs like so beautiful, Like I could
just sit there and listen to you seeing every George
Straight song. You're really great at George strait. But something
happened with George was George.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Was doing the UH, the charity event he and some
of his friends did called for the Love of Kids
and Harley's. They would auction off these Harley motorcycles and
give the money to local children's charities, and George would
come out and auction the motorcycles off, and I still
(29:29):
remember the first time he did it. It's because you
know George, if you're around him a little bit, he's
kind of bashful sometimes and talks like this. And he
came out and he said, well, you know, I'm always
I've always been happy to UH to support these charities
and everything and help out and just kind of stay
(29:51):
behind the scenes. But for some reason they thought I
should come out here and auction this this auction stuff off.
And he said, I'll just be honest with you, I
don't know, Jack, you know what about auction.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Jack squat, Yeah, I don't know, he said.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know Jack Squat about auction and squat off.
But anyway, he did and sold the motorcycle for a
lot of money, raised a lot of money. But anyway,
another time we were doing that event, uh, and there
was a house band that was playing, and the singer
got sick. And so I'm sitting in the back sipping
on tequila with George straight and a few other people,
(30:29):
and somebody walk back then and goes, hey, George, Uh,
the singer out here got sick. Why don't you come
out sing a couple of songs with the band. And
George goes, huh huh, I don't sing when I've been drinking.
And and the guy said, well, Randy, why don't you
come out here and sing you know, the go sing
George's song in the chair.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, you sing that really well, and I love it
when you sing it to me.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
You're looking in there, that's right, baby. Anyway, So so George,
George goes, he perks up. He goes, yeah, Randy, why
don't you go up there and sing the chair? And
I said, no, king, I'm not about to go sing
the chair in front of you. And then he goes, well, ready,
if you don't go out there and sing the chair,
(31:14):
you don't have a hair on your which is if
you've never heard that that's a good old South Texas
way of saying, you're a chicken, your coward.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, you're not a man.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Anyway, I did not go out there, but.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
You're still amazing and wonderful and very manly.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
I wasn't gonna go sing in front of the King,
but anyway, that's that's my King, George straight story. You know.
I think I would probably go on with this podcast
for an hour telling telling stories.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
But I don't think we have an eye. Will have
to do a part two. Sometimes.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
That's a cool thing about this business is you meet
these artists when they're brand new, and you never know
how they're gonna do. You really don't, so you don't.
It's like you don't want to blow off anybody, you know,
you know, you know how how big they're going to be.
(32:06):
I'll remember the day that in the early nineties this uh,
this kid, he was on an independent record label, this
little record label called Capricorn, and the record promoter I
still remember his name. His name was Rick rock Hill,
and I think I don't even know if Rick's still alive.
But Rick comes in with this young kid from East
Tennessee and uh and sits down, starts telling me about him,
(32:29):
and you know, we're gonna listen to his song in
the office and all this kind of stuff. And I
would talk to the kid and he'd kind of yes, sir. Yeah,
he's kind of bashful. It's kind of almost awkward. You know.
Well it was Kenny Chesney.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
What Kenny Chesney. Yeah, you guys are good friends though.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yeah, we since became friends, but that's the first time
I met him, you know, and I thought, what's wrong
with this guy? Well, he's just scared to death. He's
just a young kid from East Tennessee and he's going
all over the country.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Look at me now, right.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Yeah, you know. And then he got on a bigger
label and things took off min and I got to
sing with him a couple of times on different shows
that he did here.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
And I know, you've gotten to meet like Garth Brooks
and yeah, you've gotten to meet all the lates and greats.
I mean, we both got to meet Jelly Roll last year.
That was awesome.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Yeah, we spent some time around Morgan Wallen. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, and you're good buddy. Aaron Tipping.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Oh, Aaron Tipping from yeah talking about take throwing it back.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Gotta love Aaron Tipping.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Yeah, he really is good man. I will tell our
Aaron Tipping's story sometime, but I think we need to
get out of here now we're over.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
It's been a pleasure interviewing you, mister Carroll.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well, thank you so much for having me on your show,
and I appreciate it. It's unfiltered with Randy and Robin.
Thank you guys for listening.
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