Billy Walker pt2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're listening to the Ralph Emery Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Our guest is Billy Walker, and don't you forget it, You've.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Got that part right. Billy Walker is our guest. And
there before we get back to Billy's songs, I thought
we'd go with Jack Henry Green, a recent guest on
the show.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good Jack Jolly Green, giant friend has got a song
called Satisfaction.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
In our search fall what's ride or wrong? Sometimes we travel.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
And he the one.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Let's read him men for a.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Black bear and.

Speaker 6 (00:46):
Old a shame.

Speaker 7 (00:51):
Now I think I've done this pery fame.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
That the shelter.

Speaker 7 (00:57):
Now I'm caught in the rain.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
But I will write this wrong.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
I've done to love.

Speaker 7 (01:07):
If my love don't bust until I get all again.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Satisfaction search and all.

Speaker 7 (01:21):
I've even looked behind my neighbor's ball, and.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I've looked into.

Speaker 7 (01:27):
My eyes are.

Speaker 8 (01:29):
Soul and all I'm searching all.

Speaker 7 (01:36):
It's satisfaction.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Your love just may as well be all a star.

Speaker 8 (01:46):
Because my junior back is.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Almost that far.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And I hope that I.

Speaker 8 (01:54):
Can stand the tears and you can put to.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Red my urge to roll when I return.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
I wonder if.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
Iout fine, just what I pull in cloth side lepty behind.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Or will you be another empty phase? Im that empty place.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
You call.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Satisfaction I'm searching for.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
I need to look.

Speaker 7 (02:38):
Behind my neighbors, and I've looked into my eyes or soul.

Speaker 8 (02:48):
And all I'm searching for. He sat his spect show.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Satisfaction.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
That's Jack Well. For some reason, I can't say Jack
Green anymore. I've got to say Jack Henry. It's something
implanted in my mind. Jack Henry Green singing satisfaction. Now,
Billy Walker, we're going to talk about the old meal.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Oh boy, that's just dandy this, you.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Know, on this show, we're talking awful lot about cooking.
And Billy understand, when Boots, your wife got sick one
time you had to cook the old meal.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Well, actually it started out go it started, Uh, my
thirteen year old daughter was pretty sick when she was
in the first grade. In fact, she was in the
hospital about three months, and so somebody had to stay
up there with her just most all the time. And
so I and here the job of getting the kids

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up and getting them off school and cooking breakfast. Well, man,
I got to be a superb oatmeal cooker. And my wife,
my kids love my oat meal, but my wife doesn't
because she says, I cook it to gummy. What is
that gummy?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Gamy?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, gomy, that's a Texas expression, man. Uh, she says,
she likes. You know, what I do is is, you know,
I put coal water in there and uh and then
just cook it from the cook it till it, you know,
gets hot, gets hot and cooks. My wife she'll boil
the water first and then put the oatmeal in there

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and that makes it real flaky. But she says she
didn't like my gummy oat meal. So but my kids
love it, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Is that all they got though that entire time?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, no, every day, No, no, that's but I'll tell
you what you can learn how to cook when you
have to.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
You cook eggs.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Oh yeah, no, I can't cook biscuits. But I tell
you what I can make, flour gravy. I can make
flowerd gravy, and I can you know, of course I
ain't cook bacon and eggs. I don't cook old meal,
and I uh, you know other things that you fixed
for breakfast. You know, you don't have the same things
all the time, or we didn't. I tried to vary

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the diet a little bit.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Hey when you make that gravy you know what floor?

Speaker 8 (05:18):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
I sure do?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
You've been listening to this show?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Have yes?

Speaker 1 (05:22):
I have, Billy, tell me about your new records.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Well, Ralph, this is a Boodolo O'Bryant song, and Boodolo
O'Brien has written many many hits, you know. And uh,
he's right back in the vein now. And Boodlo is
really excited about this song, and of course I am too.
It's called My Mind Hangs on to You, and I'd
like the folks listen to it and see if they
like it.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Ladder Wal, I didn't all I know with through my
mind hangs on.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
To I try post everything.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Uh, the play for Lane.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Through all mind and lost it my bad hands off.

Speaker 9 (06:36):
I try to hope you're happy in your new affect,
but I can't but a miss me too, byvery.

Speaker 10 (06:58):
N play hard to Brown Daylight, but still let lading
my mind. I try to hold your happy.

Speaker 11 (07:33):
You do a face, but I can't help, but hopess deep.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Play hard to brom Daylight, but still.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
My mind, but.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
My mind, Billy, that's mighty pretty. That's the debut of
Billy's new record might add here that Bluelow Bride has
written some of the prettiest songs he wrote. I think
one of the prettiest songs he ever wrote was All

(08:31):
I Have to Do Is Dream. The Everly Brothers.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Oh that's well, he wrote so many of those songs
that Everly's had.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
That's an awful pretty song.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
That's that's the new one following single love.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Sing Me a love Song to Bababy.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
This is Billy Walker's new record, My Mind Hangs on
to You. Billy, would you tell our listeners what the
most popular flower in America is?

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, I suppose it's gold metal flower, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
Realp gold medal It is because more people by gold
Medal than any other flower. Gold Medal outseells it's leading
competitor almost two to one.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I grew up on gold medal flower, you know one
as in Texas.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Well, Billy. For four generations, the cooks of America have
learned they can count on gold Medal for the best
results in baking. And they know they can depend on
gold Medal to give them recipes that go with the
seasons right in the gold medal sack. So no matter
what you bake from desserts and breds to Maine dishes
baked with gold medal flour. It's not America's most popular

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flower for nothing.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
We've got a new song here that well, actually it's
not a new song. Ralph. He's a comparatively new artist,
but gee, within the last year he's had some tremendous
hits and this thing is just about the top of
the list nationwide right now. I mean, I'm talking about
a young Louisiana lad by the name of Joe Stampley,
and he's got a song called Soul Song.

Speaker 5 (09:58):
You ma soul.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Song, my everything that I do song I pick me
up when I'm blue. Song.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
That's why I sing.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
All the time.

Speaker 5 (10:18):
You're mine soul song.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's why I call you my solid gold song.

Speaker 12 (10:27):
Nothing in the world could.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
Ever go wrong as long as you are my hind.

Speaker 13 (10:36):
Never in the world ever seen anybody like you, And
all my time.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
You give me a feel good feeling through and through,
and it's so fat.

Speaker 13 (10:50):
I'm up with the sun cause of dawn a waste
that I love you so much I can almost taste it.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I can't sit still by look up.

Speaker 13 (11:00):
And see you coming.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
I'll start coming.

Speaker 13 (11:08):
You're my soul song, my keep me safe from my
home song, my shielter from the storm.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
So that's why I sing all the time. You're my
soul song.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Am I keeping a warm one out cold song?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Nothing in the world good ever go wrong? As long
as you are my house. You're man son song.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Might have a thing that I do song.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Pick me up on a loose So that's why I
sing all the time.

Speaker 13 (11:57):
You're my song.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
That's my call.

Speaker 14 (12:03):
You're not starless.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
In the world ever goun as long.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
As you are.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
So I think that I know song give me That's
my thing all the time.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
All right, that's my friend Joe Stampley from spring Hill, Louisiana,
Old Joe doing soul song Billy. Since we've been talking
about your family, one of the most often asked questions
when people write to us is about somebody's family and

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entertainer's family. So you might tell us who makes up
your family.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, I've got a mean wife and four daughters, not
a not a boy in the bunch. I haven't got
a boy in the bunch. Man, you know that I
got nothing but girl in my house is a dog
a girl too. Well, I'll tell you what yeah, you're right.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
You grew up then with nothing but stockings hanging out.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Do you know that I got four daughters, I got
a female dog, I got two female horses. Now again,
I got some horses again and then but I tell
you what, well, I just inherited with a new male cat.
And that's the only other male in the house.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I'm glad the cat was a male. Otherwise you'd have
cats all over that golf course out there. Billy, there's Boots,
and then there's who.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Else, Judy and then Dina and then Tina and Julie.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I got to ask you, why, what's the boot's real.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Name, Sylvia Deane?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Why Boots?

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Well, she got the nickname when she's about five years
old from a you know, she got some of those
new uh white boots with the tossles on them, you know,
kind of like the band boots that they used to
wear in uh uh in in band. You know when
you go to the high schoo When she was about
five or six years old, and the white boots and

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the little tossls on them, and everybody started calling their
boots and it just kind of hung and you know,
she'll ever since. Yeah, did she like that?

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Song. These boots are made for walkin.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
She Uh, she's a Texas gal. So I presume the
two of you grew up were you? Were you childhood sweethearts?

Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, huh. I I was in the Offerings Home about
almost four years in Waco, and that's where she's from. Actually,
after I got out of the Offerings Home, I went
back to West Texas around Lubbock, and I grew up
on the ranch after el I was about fifteen or sixteen.
But I didn't meet her until, you know, about three

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or four months before we got married.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Short courtship. Yeah, how long you've been married?

Speaker 2 (14:49):
About twenty years?

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Lord duck didn't. Yeah, let me bring out a pretty
song here by Len Anderson.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Well, everything rights seems to go.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Your heart waits to sing.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
But it can't find a So.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
When it seems that the world has a Levey be high,
keep me in the hide. When you think thelive is
just passing, you find you love, but you can't find

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a time to try. When it seems that a crown
is so hard, too fine, keep me in my.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Keep me in mind, because I'll never stop not being you.
And I have loved and I love I have loved
to and I'll give it all to me.

Speaker 14 (16:40):
Just when the dreams that you've chased have all gotten away,
and standing at the end.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Of a long lonely day, you will never before from
these arms of mine.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
Keep me in my when the dreams that you've.

Speaker 11 (17:17):
Chased have all that away.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
And just stand let the hand of a long lonely name.
You will never be fall from these.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Arms of mine. Keep men.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's sweet singing Lynn Land with a pretty song. I
think one of the prettiest records from the standpoint of
pretty melody that she's done. Lenn Anderson, will keep me
in mind. Cold outside, here's a suggestion makes some mona.

Speaker 4 (18:06):
Gold medal never read.

Speaker 12 (18:09):
Today in the snow on a winter afternoon, bundle up
against the winds, feeling pretty good because I know the
very soon Mama's gonna call me in, because today's the day.
Live gonna bank a great, big, delicious golf metal.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
Cake, gold metal bower. Lets you turn out place, Carli, I.

Speaker 8 (18:36):
Can hardly wait.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
Mama always lets me lick the ball and thanksy.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
I think too, and I can hardly wait a minute more.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
I don't know what's gonna do.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
Today's the day We're gonna thanks.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
A great, big, delicious golf medals bank got.

Speaker 12 (19:00):
I got to turn out Golly, I can hardly lady.

Speaker 6 (19:06):
Hide this.

Speaker 8 (19:18):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
You know, I've interviewed Billy Walker for many years, and
this is the first time I'd ever been aware that
you were raised in an orphans abey.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yeah, my mother died when I was four, and then
my father tried to keep us all together. There was
eight of us in our original family, and I was
the youngest boy, and so he put uh, myself and
two of my brothers in the Methodist offering home in Waco,
and I was there for just run it four years.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Then he came and got you.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, he got married again. Uh, and then he married
a woman with three children, and then they had one
together and that made an even dozen. So you know
why we had to live on a farming ranch.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
They're not cheaper, but oh they're not cheaper.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Brother does and it was good.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
But that story has a happy ending that all of
you could get back together.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, it worked out, It worked out pretty good. You
were a baby, Yeah, I was the baby boy. Now
there was a girl just a little younger than I was.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Billy, we're gonna close the show with the song I
have picked because this was a big pop hit at
one time. But I thought you handled this very well.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I like this song. It's called Elusive Butterfly.

Speaker 15 (20:32):
You might wake up some morning to the sound of
something movie past joe window in the wind, and if
you quick enough to vise, you'll catch the fleeting glimpse
of someone's.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
Bathing shadow out on new horizon. You may see the
floating motion off but this a pair of wings. And
if the sleep has left your ears, you might hear
footsteps running through an open meadow. Don't be concerned.

Speaker 9 (21:15):
It will not harm you.

Speaker 8 (21:17):
It's only me pursuing something.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
I'm not your love.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Across my dream with nets of wonder, I chase the
vriety Lucy's.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
Butterfly of love.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
You might have heard my footsteps, they go softly in
the distance through the canyons all your mind. I might
have even called your name, because I've been searching after
something to be leaving. You might have seen you gonned

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through the long abandon ruin, so the dreams you left behind.
If you remember something there and then glad it passed,
you followed close by handy dreaming. Don't be concerned. It
will not harm you. Consultingly be pursuing something I'm not

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sure of. Across my dream with Lents of Wonder, I
changed the Briet Elusive Butterfly.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
That's kind of unusual for Billy Walker, and I thought
he handled very well. Billy singing Elusive Butterfly. Hey Billy,
thank you very much for being aboard.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Thank you very much, Ralph, and hey folks, we'll move
back tomorrow. Don't forget to be here with us.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Thank you, sir.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gold Medal Flower has brought you our show. This is
Ralph Emery saying so long til we see you tomorrow.