Billy Walker pt10

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Folks, this is Billy Walker reminding you you're listening to
the Ralph Emery Show. And here is mel Tillis with
a great new song called neon Rows.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
She's a rows.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Spare roses never grow behind the swing window.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
She pours wine and blue.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
She keeps song, pretending that she's having fun.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
But it's blooe new roads. It grows beneath the knee
on song.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
She's my sunshine lady, maybe just a little bit shady
sun Mail.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Take her where real roots grow.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
But until then she'll be by Christian.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Precious be On rods.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Oorlds full of roses, the bloom in the screen. But
to me, there's just one road that means anything. I
guess it's no secret, whateverybody knows just how much I

(01:26):
love my precious Precious be On rolls.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
She's a road phaar roses never roll behind the swing indoors.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
She pours the wine the flow.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
She keeps on, pretending that she's having.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
But it's a blue new roads grows beneath the knee
on sun.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
She's my son and shy lady, maybe just a little
bit shady sound mail.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
I'll take her where.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Real bombs grow. Boi, then Sue be.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
By Precious Precious yon Row one till then Sue be
by Precious Precious yon Row.

Speaker 7 (02:31):
Mister mel mel till Us on the show with Neon Rose.
Billy Walker has been our guest this week, and during
this part of the show, I usually wrap up all
the loose ends.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Billy, Okay, I don't know, have we got any loose ends?

Speaker 7 (02:54):
Well, we might have. Well, I was going to ask
you about your form of dress. It seems like today's
country singer is phasing out the Ryan Stones. You still
wear them, don't you.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Well, no, I haven't really worn any rhyinstones for about
five or six years.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Roll.

Speaker 7 (03:07):
I was thinking i'd seen like you mentioned the blue
suit the night you were flipped off.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, well see, you know the contracts especially stated that,
of course I've got a closet full of rhyinestone suits.
This particular thing. He stated that we you know, they
wanted some flashy Western outfits.

Speaker 7 (03:23):
I mean promoters do that they Oh, yeah, everyone specify
the dress.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, in fact, I've got some of them. Now says
entertainer must sing country songs, not rock and roll songs.

Speaker 7 (03:35):
Do you have anything against the Ryanstones?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Oh? No, I don't. In fact, I'm thinking about getting
some new different kind of things. Rhyinestone's kind of a
not a it's kind of a shirt coat type of
a thing with a little rhyinestone things on it.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
You're gonna wear them, though, but a lot of country
singers have phased them outel their acting.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well, you know, like fringes are big with a rock
crowd now, and I remember we used to wear fringes
all the time, and then the not only fringes, but
they're going into the rhinestone suits, and of course we
went through the rhyinestone craze. Maybe well to go back
to it, I don't know. You think you think that,
I think people like to see that on the stage,
But you know, I got to wear them so much

(04:23):
that I couldn't tell if people like to look at
me or look like to hear me sing. Besides all that,
those rhying stone suits cost a lot of money.

Speaker 7 (04:33):
Billy, We're gonna play a song which you have done
now three times.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah. I wrote this song for my wife back in
nineteen fifty and it was her birthday and I was broke.
I couldn't pay attention, and so I wrote this song
for her.

Speaker 7 (04:51):
How did she react to this? That's pretty story.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
It really, it's true story. And so, yeah, she liked
the song and it's been it's really it's hit three times.
I recorded it twice for Columbia, once in nineteen fifty two,
which it got up the highest at reach was number ten,
and then again in nineteen and fifty eight. Columbia wanted

(05:14):
me to do it again because fifty two they didn't
have forty fives, and so they want me to do
it again, you know, for the forty five buying public,
and it got up to about number twelve. And then
I did it again in nineteen sixty eight and got
in the top ten again.

Speaker 7 (05:27):
I must tell I must comment that it seems kind
of funny for a boy that's broke to write a
song for his wife called anything your heart desires as
long as a dream can't you, as long as it's
not expensive. Yeah, here's the song.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Your heart desires. I would get to you by love
all the world.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
I'd lie to give.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
And hand to you.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
The stars about.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
I don't on the world.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Are the stars in the blue, and no I.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Can give me my love to your heart desires, I

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would give.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
To you, my love, I go down the worm are

(07:59):
thet ours in the blue?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
I can give it to you here, desire, I would

(08:33):
give to you.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
Our guest star, Billy Walker, with anything your heart desires.
Did you know that every Betty Crocker recipe prepared for
Gold Metal Flower has been thoroughly tested before you ever
get a chance to use it. That's right, Every recipe
you get in Gold Medal Sacks is tested first in
the Betty Crocker kitchens. Then it's sent out to women

(09:07):
across the country who tested in their own homes. They
send their test results to us, and if there are
any problems with the recipe, we work them out. Only
when the recipe is fully satisfactory is it put in
Gold Medal Sacks. So no matter what you bake, from
desserts and breads to man dishes, you know it'll come
out right when it's a Betty Crocker recipe from Gold

(09:30):
Medal Flour. After all, who knows more about baking than
the Betty Crocker kitchens. Billy, Who's next?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, I'll tell you what. Let's do. Let's go to
Anne Murray. You want to go Dan Murray? Yes, I do,
all right, let's go. Dan Murray all right, AND's got
a great song here, and it's called Danny's Song. Of course,
it's a great song for Danny. And it's called Danny's Song,
and it's by Anne Murray.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
You don't know how you're gonna get out?

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Would somebody just start the record?

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Must go?

Speaker 1 (10:04):
People smile and tell me I'm the lucky one.

Speaker 7 (10:10):
Can we just beg.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
I think I'm gonna have a son.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
He will be he like him and be as free
as a dove.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Conceived in love.

Speaker 7 (10:26):
The sun is gonna shine above.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
And even though we ain't got money, I'm so in
love with your honey.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
Everything, Bring a chain of love, lo love, And in
the morning.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
When I rise, bring a tear and joy to my
eyes and tell me every thing. He's gonna be all right.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Love the guy who hopes.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Were getting paper up, drink it up, love, and then he'll.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Bring your love.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
And if you find the hell your mind, better take
him home more.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
If don't, you're living all, try to do. My love
is all.

Speaker 10 (11:25):
And even though we need that money, I'm so.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
In love with your honey. Everything, bring cheat and.

Speaker 11 (11:35):
Love, love, and in the wall, and when I ride,
bring it to a joy to my eyes, and tell
me every thing it's gonna be all right.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
And even though we.

Speaker 9 (12:08):
Ain't got money, I'm so.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
In love with your honey everything. Bring the chamber.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Her.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
And in the morning, when I'll ride ring, a dear
joy to my eyes, you tell me e son't be all.

Speaker 7 (12:32):
Right, Miss Annan murrayus Billy told you several times singing

(13:05):
Danny's Son. Now we've got a record with Kyle Smith.
Here is a song I presume you wouldn't sing.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well, you know, I first heard this song and I
thought that there's going to be a hit. Then well, no,
see this, the person vindicates himself because here he's he
says a little well, you know, he meets his gallon
uh in the bar, and she's a sunny school teacher
and they're batting things back and forth and he's she's

(13:38):
he's calling her hypocrite and all that kind of stuff.
But then he says, he says that he's going to
have a good talk with the Lord tonight and patch
everything up. So it has so he vindicates himself.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
It has redeeming values.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, it does. I'm glad you said that, because that
just brought out what I said he vindicates himself.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
Here's Kyle Smith.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
Hello, missus Johnson, you self righteous woman, Sunday school teacher?

Speaker 1 (14:16):
What brings you out slumming? Do you reckon a preacher?

Speaker 10 (14:23):
What a proof?

Speaker 5 (14:24):
Where you are.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Standing here busiting.

Speaker 5 (14:29):
With a backslide and Christian in a neighborhood bar. Well,
yes that's my bottle, and yes that's my glass, and
I see your eye falling this pretty young glass. It

(14:50):
ain't not off your business. But yes, she's with me,
and we don't need no sermon, you self righteous woman.
Just let us be.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
The Lord nose.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
I'm breaking and running around, and he don't need your
loud out.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
And forming the town.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
The Lord knows I'm sinning, and sinning ain't right. Letting
me and the good Lord. I'm gonna have us a
good talk later tonight. Goodbye, missus Johnson, you self righteous pity.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I don't need your preaching and I don't need your pity,
So go back to whatever.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
You hippo prince do.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
And when I'm talking to Heaven, be nice and I'll
put in a good word for you. The Lord knows
I'm drinking, I'm running around and don't need your loud
bow informing the time. The Lord knows I'm sinning. Lord,

(16:34):
I'm sinning, ain't right, But me and the Good Lord
want to have us a good talk later tonight.

Speaker 7 (16:48):
That's Karl Smith singing The Lord knows I'm drinking and
I'm a friends. It's fair time at gold Medals. So
listen there someone.

Speaker 9 (17:05):
I remember years old.

Speaker 11 (17:07):
That's county. Books would come from.

Speaker 10 (17:10):
My ground and what was the school was out and workless,
though the spring was indeed, lots of happen saying answer
about the county.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
They held a and contested off and a circumstance, and when.

Speaker 11 (17:26):
The afternoon got late, that's where we all went and.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
And all that's here's the question.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
And we were really proud because Mom would always be
a break contest out.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
She don't know Barack Gee, so she always win.

Speaker 8 (17:45):
It came and.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Knows about it.

Speaker 10 (17:47):
She don't know.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Yet to come.

Speaker 10 (17:52):
And then she make the contests. There's on my goal
on the Weday.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
Billy. Ten years ago this March, one of the worst
tragedies in country music show business ever occurred when the
plane crashed that killed Hawkshaw Hawkins, Patsy Clyde and Cowboy
Copus And uh, you were supposed to be on that airplane,
weren't you.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (18:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
The only reason I wasn't is my father in law
had a heart attacked. He lived in Waco, Texas, And
so my wife called me real early in the morning
and UH said that, uh it, could I come home
right away because she had to fly to Texas cause
they wasn't expecting her father to live. And so I

(18:45):
then contacted Hank, and uh, of course, Hulk, I had
a open end ticket that we know. Uh, I was
riding on the plane with Patsy and Randy and them,
and then he gave me his ticket. And that's the
only reason I wasn't on it.

Speaker 7 (18:58):
He gave you his airline.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
He gave me his open end airline ticket, and I
called the airlines and and got out about all about
six o'clock in the morning. So I get back to
Nashville and they weren't leaving until about noon or something
like that.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
So actually, Hawkshaw took your seat on that ill fated plane.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 7 (19:16):
You ever, do you have any funny feelings about that?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Well, yes, you know, Ralph, I've looked back on it
several times. Uh, there's just something that uh that wasn't
meant to be. And that's all it was, you know, uh,
because uh several times, uh I started not to I
just uh I started to, you know, see if she
could get a flight al because I almost I didn't

(19:40):
make it home but about two hours really before we'd
have made it home anyway, or maybe two and a
half hours something like that. But I had the most
uneasy feeling all that day because I called uh Randy
Hughes's uh wife and I sat about seven o'clock, that's
really when it happened. I says, I've got the dog

(20:00):
going this feeling. Have they got in yet? And she says,
he just called me from Darsburg. He'll be home in
an hour. They're turning on the lights and be home
in an hour. And they never made it back.

Speaker 7 (20:12):
Billy. We're going to close the show with your new
record My Mind hangs on to you, and I want
to thank you very much for being on our show.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Well, it's been a real pleasure this week, Ralph. I've
really enjoyed being here and uh talking with you and
reminiscing a lot of old times and kind of cutting
up and having a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
No mad Wall, I do.

Speaker 9 (20:45):
All on no we're through.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
My mind has on to you the bomb the play
for things.

Speaker 11 (21:06):
Bru all mind and lost my mind hands on. I
try to hope you're happy in your new affect, but

(21:29):
I can't help but.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
Miss me too.

Speaker 11 (21:37):
Byevery time, play hard to brown daylight.

Speaker 9 (21:48):
But still and all light my mind hands on the.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
I try to hold you're happy you do a face,
but I can't help for home.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
Miss details, I don't lay hard you brown the light.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
Much still lit a lighting my badds on much feel
lit all lighting, my bis on.

Speaker 7 (23:04):
Our guest star, Billy Walker, with my mind hangs on
to you. That's our show for Gold Metal Flower again,
Billy Our thanks to you for being our guest star.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Thank you Ralph for having me, and I hope you'll
invit me back real soon.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
I sure will now. This is Ralph Emery thanking you
for listening to my friends, and we'll say so long
till we see you again