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May 11, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
I'm Billy Walker. Folks, be sure and stay tuned for
more of the Ralph Emery Show.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Why because we're on it, Billy, I thought we'd take
a tune here from a motion picture called Deliverance. Have
you seen the picture?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
No, I haven't yet, but I've heard awful lot about it.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is a picture that the young set seems to enjoy.
I know that it played in my neighborhood and the
kids were all over the place trying to get in.
It's about I think it's about a trip back into
the wilds of North Georgia.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, and it actually it's kind of riding down the river.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well it is. But we don't have the motion picture,
but we have a record from the soundtrack, and this
is an old bluegrass number that's been around a long time.
It's gone under several titles feud and banjos mocking the banjo, right,
and from the motion picture Deliverance. We'll play what is
now called dueling Banjos. Did you want that? Pardon?

Speaker 3 (00:55):
No dueling? Well then you know dueling banjos. That's that's
that's good enough. It's just good.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
Let's play the records.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And that's from the soundtrack and I, you know, I
don't know who plays it. I understand it was cut
in a West Coast studio and obviously with most of

(04:14):
those soundtracks, they cut them by some unknown musician and
then the.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Actors Yeah, phonetically, well, they played guitar, they pretend to
play in the picture.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Yeah, that's from the picture of Deliverance and it's called
Dueling Banjos. Our guest is Billy Walker, and one of
my old time favorite Billy Walker stories is about the
mask singer. Oh, I know.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
That you would bring that up. I just knew that
you would bring it.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Tell us about the time you were the mask singer. Billy.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, early in my career, before I ever really got
started in this business, I was on the Big D Jamboree.
And before I started on the Big D Jamboree, the
guy that run and it says, Walker, I like the
way you sing, but nobody knows you from the Hill
of Beans. And he says, we're gonna have to do
something spectacular so people will notice you. He says, I

(05:10):
want you to wear a mask and we'll do this
for about six months we had a six months run
on it, and every week I was called the Traveling Texan,
the masked Singer of country songs, A poor little rich
boy that mother and father didn't want him singing that.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Old country music.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
That was your billing.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
That was my building, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
And so we went along, and every week I would
try to imitate somebody that was had the hit song
of the week, you know, I'd imitate Hank Williamson and
just anybody that you know, I had a hit record.
And so we went along and I actually I got
a contract out of this thing, and so my record
come out, and so they had this great, big finale,

(05:51):
We're gonna unmask the Traveling Texan, the masked Singer of
country songs.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
So, boy, there was six I was the only guest on.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
That show that well, outside the regular and so they
people show up, Oh there was six thousand people filled
the auditorium.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
Six thousand people showed up.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, we're pulling the masks
off the Traveling Texan and here he is Billy Walker.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
And they said, Billy who.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Did did people look let down?

Speaker 3 (06:23):
They launched my career?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Want did people look closi?

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, sure they didn't know Billy Walker from a hill
of beans. You know.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
How long go is this? Billy?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well, that was just about twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
You said that this got you a record career started. Yeah,
is this when you went with Capitol Records.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Now they put your name Billy Walker.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Billy Walker, the Traveling Tixan on the record.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
They left off that mask.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
And you know what, that's funny thing because I went
around all over Dallas looking for my record and they
had it on. It was called heading for Heartaches, and
they had it on all the jukebox and that said,
Eddie Arnold, What all the jukebox that says hidden for Heartaches,
Eddie Arnold?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Why would they do?

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Well?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
I was, you know, I had tried to imitate so
many people. I got stuck on Eddie Arnold about that time.
And uh, it sounded an awful lot like Eddie Arnold.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Can you sing like Eddie Arnold?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, not anymore. I used to, you know, thought I could.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
But anyway, and oh, I just just killed me because
you know a lot of times people would imitate people
and that the song was good and the singer, like
a lot of guys used to imitate Ernest Tubb and
some of them still do. But they have a song
that go start going real good, and ed just put
Ernest Tub on the jukebox.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I didn't know they'd do that, Oh they did, man, Billy.
I thought we'd reach back for one of your biggest hits,
Charlie's Shoes.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Hey, this is a brand new version of this song,
Ralph in a brand new album that's just been released
called Billy Walker's All Time Great Hits. And we've got
a brand new version of our old song called Charlie's Shoes.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
I'd like to be in Charlie's shoes.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
That's what I always said.

Speaker 7 (08:07):
He had you and everything tied for the golden dread.
Charlie laughed and little away when I got bunnies. It
wasn't long till I was walking around then't Charlie's shoes.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Now I'm wearing out.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
The shoes Charlie over, walking back and forth across the floor.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
The troubles that don't him the way I've got part
of Bunny.

Speaker 9 (08:49):
These nights and Charlie's shoes are killing me.

Speaker 10 (09:03):
The greener grass and turned my head so swiftly, then
turned brown. Every little dream, my builches always turning down.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
I never you old Charlie's Shoes could help.

Speaker 7 (09:21):
So many times I've disapointing sorrows, and I wish he
had un bad.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
Because I'm wearing out the shoes.

Speaker 11 (09:35):
Charlie walking back and forth across the floor, dog prows
my b away.

Speaker 9 (09:49):
I've done more n These nights and charlie shoes are
getting me. These knights and Charlie's shoes are killing.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Billy. How long has it been since the original version
of that came out?

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well, this is exactly eleven years old this month. It
came out about the first week of February something like
that in nineteen sixty two, So.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
This is the eleventh anniversary Billy Walker singing Charlie's Shoes.
One of the nicest things you can do on a
cold Wednesday is stay inside and bake your favorite cake.
But one of the worst things is cleaning up all
those dirty bulls. You know, sometimes it must seem to you, Mama,
that you've used every bowl in the kitchen. Now Gold

(10:43):
Medal Flour gives you recipes to bake special caicks using
only one bowl. They're called one mixed cakes, and boy
are they good. You see, there's sour cream, spice, banana nut,
there's apple sauce, they're almost as easy he is using
a cake mix, but they taste a whole lot better.
So look for one mixed cake recipes on the back

(11:06):
of gold metal flour sacks. And next time it's too
cold to go out, stay in your warm kitchen and
bake a one mixed cake. And since you only use
one bowl, maybe you'll have time to bake two. All right, Billy,
who's next on the show?

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Well, Ralph, we've got a great new song by Bob Bloomen.
That's another old Texas boy, and it's a beautiful ballad
called neither of Us.

Speaker 12 (11:39):
It's sad to.

Speaker 8 (11:39):
Think that we not gonna make it, and it's gotten
to the point.

Speaker 13 (11:54):
That we just have bake it.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
But for someone godly reason.

Speaker 13 (12:06):
We just want let it die.

Speaker 12 (12:12):
I guess be the one of us.

Speaker 13 (12:16):
Wants to be the first to say goodbye.

Speaker 12 (12:26):
I keep wondering.

Speaker 8 (12:30):
What I'll do without you, and I.

Speaker 12 (12:36):
Guess you must be wondering that same thing too. So
we go along together, just living a lie because need

(13:00):
of us.

Speaker 13 (13:03):
Wants to be the first to say goodbye.

Speaker 11 (13:10):
Give a time up by.

Speaker 10 (13:14):
To say that I'm the They all memories.

Speaker 13 (13:24):
Seemed to get in my way.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
It's only me that I'm deceiving.

Speaker 13 (13:43):
Costly comes to say goodbye.

Speaker 12 (13:48):
That's a civil word I ever could see.

Speaker 5 (13:57):
Dar can be a way, this can how happy indeed,
but we.

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Can't go all hurry and pretending so less confess ourselves.

Speaker 12 (14:21):
To give it, give it one more try, he calls.

Speaker 13 (14:31):
Need one of us wants to be the first to
say good.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
All right, that's Bobby Glenn little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
Oh, Bobby Riddy kruoned on that he did. Yeah, I
gave those girls hearts just fluttering out away. What I
don't think I said that. I opened my mouth and it.
You know, your mind gets to work in but your
tongue don't work.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
The girl's hearts did flutter we all, Yeah, that's Bob
Loom and Bob singing. Neither one of us.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Nobody would have noticed it ahead you not said something
about it.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
That's true. They would notice a lot of things if
I didn't say something about them. Billy, like your record.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
I didn't mean that, Ralph.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Hey, Darling, what's happening to me?

Speaker 2 (15:28):
That's the next thing.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, oh, I'm reading that.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Yeah. Roger Birch is another new name, and I imagine
nineteen seventy three asked seventy two brought us a lot
of new names.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
You know.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
In seventy two we had Donna Fargo, Joe Stampley, Tanya Tucker,
so many eld Street right, all new names. Don't you
imagine this year will be the same. We'll have a
lot of new faces and names.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, it seems like Ralph the longevity of records
used to last longer, like in our country music field.
But we're getting, you know, so much rapid play all
over the country that a song turns over faster than
it used to.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
In other words, doesn't stand the charges.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
It doesn't stand the charge. You took the words right
out of the mouth. Now what do you do that? Well?

Speaker 2 (16:12):
I just want to get along.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Here, darling. What's happening to me? That's why, That's what
I keep telling you.

Speaker 14 (16:20):
The crowds getting me. It's midnight again. I've made a
another life that you'll be leave. I'm still in love
with you, but not enough.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
To be true.

Speaker 15 (16:48):
What's happening to me?

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Every time she touches me? I come God, she goes
to sleep? Long it up to let.

Speaker 15 (17:05):
My heart slip off and cheap, to just defye my
rope I'll be worn when.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
I come born.

Speaker 15 (17:21):
Don what's happening to me?

Speaker 6 (17:37):
Every time she touches mom.

Speaker 14 (17:42):
My car goes to sleep, longing up to letting my
heart slip off and cheap.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
To just define my rope?

Speaker 15 (17:59):
I'll be or when I come home?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
What's happening to me?

Speaker 15 (18:14):
What's copy.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Me?

Speaker 2 (18:23):
That's a that's a new face for nineteen seventy three.
Quite a handsome face. Roger looking guys, Roger Birch with Darling.
What's happened to me? Now, let's break for a message
from Gold Metal Flower.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
They some one.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
Gold little memo reg.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
I remember years ago and County face hopefully.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Come from mile round and one school was out and
work with the spring was into here.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Lots of ip been saying.

Speaker 13 (18:59):
They healthy, contented nothing a circumstance.

Speaker 9 (19:02):
And when the afternoon I late, that's where we all
went said and.

Speaker 13 (19:07):
All of this the question, and we were really from
because I would always been a three contests.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
See you know that lot ba see you.

Speaker 9 (19:20):
She always when it gave usselves about see you know
about dollars something yet to come forgot me. And then
she went to the Countess, there's someone go and on the.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Oriday Billy, I believe you're going to sing the next one.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Yeah, it's called I'd love to leave those Darling Days again.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Let's do it.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
By over love again.

Speaker 15 (20:03):
I won't feel cheated.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
You gave me more than I you how to you
when we met? I love love jorny was completed.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Oh but now you say I Darling days.

Speaker 8 (20:31):
Are seems my gasterday we called each.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Other Darling.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Seems by gasterday you reat judge mynd. I loved to
hear you say on morn in Darling. Oh, I give

(21:05):
the side and days again.

Speaker 10 (21:29):
Today my heart survives some love Besmorrow.

Speaker 6 (21:38):
Ram on the half astradays we.

Speaker 7 (21:44):
Need if find you are sure the world more in tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
I want to spend my last day loving Saday seems
like to day touch my I love.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
You, say good one, Darlan.

Speaker 12 (22:33):
To go.

Speaker 15 (22:35):
Darling Days.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Our guest star this week, Billy Walker with Darling Days. Billy,
would you wrap up the show?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
Hey, let me wrap up the show, Ralph, all right, folks,
we got to go. We'll see you tomorrow along about
this same time, I hope you'll.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Be here for gold Metal Flower. That's it's the old
Metal Flower. I was going to say, This is Ralph
Emery and Billy Walker. Bye bye,
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