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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, you're listening to the Ralph Emery Show with our
guest star Billy Walker, the Traveling Texan, the Tall Texan. Huh,
I don't have it right yet, the tall Traveling Texan.
I guess what was that introduction the mask singer whose
parents didn't want him to sing country songs or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Uh, you know, supposed to be product or rich folks
and they didn't want their their child singing old country music.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I I just wondered if when you were billed that way,
and if you missed that story, folks, you missed a
funny story. But Billy used to be billed as a
as a rich kid who was singing country music. I
wonder if a lot of people came up and tried
to borrow money from you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No, but I tell you, I like got killed a
couple of times. Ralph, you know I would uh. I.
What I would do is when I'd get into Dallas,
I would uh ride in on a bus from Waco.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I was too poor to have a car at that
particular time. And then when I got the bus station,
I would take a cab to this sport of two,
remember the big d Jim Ree whatever you call it.
And in the meantime, before I got to the auditorium,
I was to put the mask on. And you know,
like a couple of times, these cab drivers would call
the cops. Man like, he said, help, I'm being robbed,
(01:14):
and I'd try to tell him all the time, Hey,
I'm you know, I'm the traveling text and the mass
singer country songs on the Big d Jim Bree, I'm
calling the cops.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And you'd put the mask on in the cab.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, I wasn't supposed to get it to the auditorum
without the mask.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I bet he thought you were about to whoop out
a gun.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
One time I worked the show with a nod boy
that was popular back there. His name was Art Davis,
who was a fiddle player, and so he hired me
to do.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
A bunch of shows with him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And we got out there and I walked into this
club with this mask on, and this this club operator
flips out this guns and he says, one more move
and I'll blow your head off. And it's got a
little bit shaky. I kept telling these guys, says, hurry
up and get me out of this thing. Are you
gonna get me killed. This is the only I knew
(02:01):
how the Lone Ranger felt.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The only case I've ever heard of a country singer
being presented like a wrestler. Yeah, because they used that
same gimmick.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, but they would get to the wrestling arena before
they put it on.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Out of a new album, But Charlie Pride. Charlie borrows
a recent hit from Uh Whale and Jennings.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And it's called good Hearted Woman.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
A long time forgotten odd dreams that just fell by
the way, have a good live fee promise.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Ain't what she's living today.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But she never complains all the bad times of bad
things he's done.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh, she just talks about the good times they had.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And all the good times.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Cause she's a good hearted woman and love with the
good time and man.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And she loves him.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
In spite of his ways that she don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Now through tears, talks and laughter, they'll pass for this
spird hand in hand. Oh, she's a good party walmer, loving.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Her cut timing mad.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
He likes tonight like Bride, likes in good time and friends.
And when the party is all over, she'll welcome him
back home again. Gord, No, she don't understand him, but
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she does bad that she can.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Oh, she's a good hearted Parma.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
She loves her good time and mad.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yes, she's a good hearted form.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
I'm in love with a good time and man.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
And she loves him in spite of it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We get ways that.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
She don't understand. If not through tears drops in the laughter.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
They'll patch to this, spurl hand in pad.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh she's a good hearted farm. I'm loving her good
time in man. Yes, she's a good hearted all my
she loves a good time and.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Super. Charlie Charlie Pride on our show. You know the
song well as I do, probably better than I do.
Charlie is singing good hearted woman. Our guest star this
week is Billy Walker. They call you Bill.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
At one time I used to go with Bill, but
when I started recording, they made it to Billy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I gotta ask you this, Okay, ask me about the
other Bill Walker. Isn't this confusing? Have people?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Ask you?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The other Bill Walker directed the music for the Johnny
Cash Show.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And well, and I live out there, not just the
stone's throw from Cash, out there in Hendersonville, and everybody
in Hendersonville says why does Johnny case say good night
to you every time he goes off there? And then
I have to go in this long story. Well, you know,
Bill Walker isn't a musical arranger, and he conducts his
orchestra and band and everything. And i'd do on this
(06:04):
long story, and everybody comes, you know, out on the road, says,
gee that Johnny Cashir does like he just plugs you
every time he says good night Bill Walker. And then
I have to go on this long story. It says, well,
now you know it's a different guy.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Were you ever billed as Bill Walker?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
No, not really, I've always really been Billy Walker.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, somehow I can't I can't ask you. I can't
ask you about your Billy without thinking about the mask.
You get what?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Hey, just play a record?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You get what?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I get mailed? We get each other's mail, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Uh, somebody will write Bill Walker music roll and then
they'll send it to me thinking it's me, and then
I'll have to send it back to him. And then, uh,
he's gotten some of my checks in which he's had
to forward to me, and and I've gotten some of
his checks, but I had to forward to him.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You guys, know about what each other's.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you know what things you work and you know
you kind of if a big fat check comes up
from a recording company you're not affiliated with you, you know,
I'll check with him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Billy, We're gonna play across the Brazis at Guaco. I understand.
I was told one time I was mispronouncing this. I
used to say, Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys,
and somebody from Texas said, you're not pronouncing it right.
It's Brasis.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well yeah, they they slur it with a U down there,
like it's b r a z us instead of Os.
It's I've always called it the Brasis River.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
How far we're how far back we're going for this?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, this is in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This time we worked together with Yeah, yeah, all right,
let's listen all.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
The Chisholm trail.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
It was midnight.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Prmelo was strong on his mind because of variety he
had chosen. Harmela had left him behind too long. It
been el Bandito. Harmelo had left him alone. But to
days someone brought a message she had been seen in
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old Samon told.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Cross the Rasles.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Said, Waco right hard, now make it by doll.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Cross the rizal said, Waco, I'm safe.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Why he said tom He glanced back over his shoulder.
The posse was nowhere in sight. He had sent for
Carmela to meet him on the banks of the Brassas tonight.
She was waiting, and he kept the promise he had
(08:45):
made such a long time ago. As he drunk the
guns that she hated and the bloody grasses below cross
the rasles said, Waco, right hard.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Now make it by doll.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Across the ridles said, wavecoat.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm safe? Why said it?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Then the night came alive with gunfire. He knew that
at last had been found. As the ranger spands shone brightly,
hell bandied old lay on the ground. Carmela knew he
was dyne, that all of her dreams.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Were in vain.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
As she kissed his lips for the last time, she
heard him whisper again. Across the risles said, wavecoat right hard,
Now make.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It by doll across It sets away dogs.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
I'm safe when I read Sad and toll, I'm safe
when I read Sad.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's our guest star this week, Billy Walker with cross
the prizes at Waco.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I have a riddle for our audience, Ralph. Oh Yeah,
what do a rich silver white cake and a chewy
Filbert nutcake, and a light Lady Baltimore cake and a
pretty pink checkerboard cake have in common? They're all made
from the same basic Betty Crocker recipe. That's right, the
same basic recipe. Because Betty Crocker basic recipes, like the
(10:43):
ones you often find in Gold Metal Flour, give you
more than just a set of directions. You'll find suggested variations,
helpful cooking hints, and time saving shortcuts. So go ahead,
add your favorite ingredients are put in your special flavors.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Up a sack of gold Metal Flour and look for
the Betty Crocker recipes inside and be creative, because creativity
is what counts when you want to serve your best.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Now, here's a cute country record by a couple of
friends of our Billy Charlie Luban and Elbowment.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
She comes in and pulls the covers off of me
and wakes me to the smell of hot coffee.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
And the man.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Sometimes he reads for the covers.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
I say, get up there, And the man likes things
like that.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
She looks on while I pick my ties and says
that one brings.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Out the flu in your eye. Lord of man love
things like that.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Well, he'll pretend he hasn't heard, but doesn't mass one
scene the work god.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Man likes things like that.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
She can do such silly things like showing everyone herring
com account.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Of days until the baby is due, and if it's
a fine will name it are you? And a man
likes things like that.
Speaker 11 (12:45):
If she thinks I've got plans far laugh, she's gonna
come crosed up.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
And my laughing Lord of man.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Are you sleep?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Here's a little.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Kids who can sleep at a time like their side.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
It's a man.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I say.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
She can do such shoot city things like showing every
one ring some accounting of days, and while the baby
is due, and if it's a boy.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Well name it for you. And a man ducks things
like that. A man.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's Charlie Lvin Melvine Montgomery, And a man likes things
like that, Billy, have you ever heard records like Ajax
Liquor Store and Ajax Airlines?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
By Hudson and Landry. They're great, great comedian, two.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Of the funniest people I know. They're back on this show,
and I think one of our heroes is just entering
the pet store.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's this is a dog pounds?
Speaker 12 (14:13):
I know this is a Jack's Pet Store, pet star, Hey,
Jax pet store.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, he's it? Fred? Who's Fred? That's my card? Aren't
you losing? He right away to man? What did he
look like?
Speaker 12 (14:26):
Liken ten ten? Excepting a tail hotel? No, I haven't
seen a dog like that all day verd. No, he's
not here, sir, Fred, No, he's not here. Believe me,
he's not here.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And don't lean on that bird cage. I'm sorry. That's
a nice little birdie. That's a nice bird, isn't it.
I love berdies, So do you like birds? Hey? T
bird calls? Hire me a call? Okay, okay, that's sensatial.
What kind of bird was that? Is it? What pecker? Okay? Okay,
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don't pet that snape? That's a diamond back rapley. That
cost me one hundred and fifty dollars. Why they say
you coming to the pounce?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Look at the tongue on that sucker split.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right out in the middle.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Say, did you steal one of my white mice?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
S Hey, well, there's a white mouse crawling out of
your pocket right now.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's my mouse, your mouse. Conrad, Conrad lam, what's like
a bird? I'd like to hear that stampye conrect? What's
like a bird? For the man? Conrad? Now you can't
pull me. I saw your lips move. Hey, hey, it's
getting away. That's my son. I'm sorry, you're sorry. I
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hope you of my leg. Now he's going out back.
He's gonna feed the hawk. Nice, nice, it's all right,
it's all right. The hawk is in a in a cage.
Don't Fred.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Fred is not here.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
He's not in the pet store. They have a pound
of us fish.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Fish are deadly, their South American piranha.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
This camera half a pound. Here comes a dog. Now
is that your dog? Hey? He's a beauty and he's
smarter than last. He him some tricks? Can he do
some tricks? Roll over and play that? Look at that?
Who's rolling over? That's beautiful. That's how it was there.
(16:53):
Shut up, Look at that right up on the hind legs.
That's beautiful. What else can you do. Can he speak?
Are you kidding me? You right? Ready? Friend speak?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Fad well you think, Billy, Oh, that's great, that's funny.
That's Hudson and Landry. And the title of that selection
is the Ajax Pet Store. A final word now from
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Speaker 9 (17:25):
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Speaker 2 (17:37):
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Speaker 4 (18:01):
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Speaker 7 (18:11):
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Speaker 1 (18:33):
Billy, you used to be on the Ozark Jubilee with
Porter Wagoner, did you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Porter, in course Red Folding was uh the the principal
head of the thing.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What'd you do to Porter Wagoner?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I was telling you well to go about you know,
we s was all playing kind of poker. We we
planted a thing called Black Daddy, where uh nines and
three was well, and every time a three turn up,
you'd have to match the pott. And you know, he
got four or five dollars and you got to match
the pot. But the three was a wild card, and
so was the nine. So we they'll these threes to Porter,
and then we dealt the nines to somebody else. And
(19:04):
then Porter matched the pot and he had, you know,
a whole bunch of money in there. And then he
finally wound up loosing the hand with all the wild
cards because the other guy had all the cards.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What'd you do this to Porter? When he had to
get up and leave and go around, he had.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
To go rehearse, and in the meantime we stacked the
dick against him. Of course, we gave him the money.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But do you ever get mad?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, he was kind of tore up. He wasn't really mad,
but a little shook bella.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We're gonna close this show with circumstances.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Yeah, well, this would be a good song for Porter,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We'll pay for him?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, that lonely.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Night we got harried away with each other? Remains with
me go down, Never.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Be another.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Warm Brinks song, Lights slow Dances, When two Blue People
were the victim of circumstances, circumstances, the wrong arms, the
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right time, circumstances, Was it charged or just the way?
Would it have about again if we had enough chances?
Are what we eve on all each other under different circumstances?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
What is done is over than just ambo.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
The night they set a sign for you and me?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Oh but the dreams there's.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Too there's hard roumancs. When two blue people were the
victim of circumstances, circumstances, the mom arms, the right time, circumstances,
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Was it charged or just the one?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Would it have on again if we had enough chance?
Or would we eave on long each other?
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Under the prime sir dumbstance?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Our guest star Billy Walker, another Billy Walker hit.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
From the year nineteen and sixty three.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Billy is singing the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Hey, I'm Billy Walker.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm going to be back tomorrow with the Ralph every
show God willing.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Don't nobody run away join us tomorrow, won't you?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's all brought your way by gold medal Flower. Thank you, Billy,
thank you? What's that?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Mumblin? We'll all right, goodbye, Ralph, We'll see you tomorrow,
Hey, you're listening to the Ralph Emery Show with our
guest star Billy Walker, the Traveling Texan, the Tall Texan. Huh,
I don't have it right yet, the tall Traveling Texan.
I guess what was that introduction the mask singer whose
parents didn't want him to sing country songs or something
like that.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Uh, you know, supposed to be product or rich folks
and they didn't want their their child singing old country music.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I I just wondered if when you were billed that way,
and if you missed that story, folks, you missed a
funny story. But Billy used to be billed as a
as a rich kid who was singing country music. I
wonder if a lot of people came up and tried
to borrow money from you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
No, but I tell you, I like got killed a
couple of times. Ralph, you know I would uh. I.
What I would do is when I'd get into Dallas,
I would uh ride in on a bus from Waco.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I was too poor to have a car at that
particular time. And then when I got the bus station,
I would take a cab to this sport of two,
remember the big d Jim Ree whatever you call it.
And in the meantime, before I got to the auditorium,
I was to put the mask on. And you know,
like a couple of times, these cab drivers would call
the cops. Man like, he said, help, I'm being robbed,
(01:14):
and I'd try to tell him all the time, Hey,
I'm you know, I'm the traveling text and the mass
singer country songs on the Big d Jim Bree, I'm
calling the cops.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
And you'd put the mask on in the cab.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, I wasn't supposed to get it to the auditorum
without the mask.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I bet he thought you were about to whoop out
a gun.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
One time I worked the show with a nod boy
that was popular back there. His name was Art Davis,
who was a fiddle player, and so he hired me
to do.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
A bunch of shows with him.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
And we got out there and I walked into this
club with this mask on, and this this club operator
flips out this guns and he says, one more move
and I'll blow your head off. And it's got a
little bit shaky. I kept telling these guys, says, hurry
up and get me out of this thing. Are you
gonna get me killed. This is the only I knew
(02:01):
how the Lone Ranger felt.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
The only case I've ever heard of a country singer
being presented like a wrestler. Yeah, because they used that
same gimmick.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, but they would get to the wrestling arena before
they put it on.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Out of a new album, But Charlie Pride. Charlie borrows
a recent hit from Uh Whale and Jennings.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
And it's called good Hearted Woman.
Speaker 6 (02:26):
A long time forgotten odd dreams that just fell by
the way, have a good live fee promise.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Ain't what she's living today.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But she never complains all the bad times of bad
things he's done.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Oh, she just talks about the good times they had.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And all the good times.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Cause she's a good hearted woman and love with the
good time and man.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And she loves him.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
In spite of his ways that she don't understand.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Well.
Speaker 6 (03:23):
Now through tears, talks and laughter, they'll pass for this
spird hand in hand. Oh, she's a good party walmer, loving.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Her cut timing mad.
Speaker 8 (03:42):
He likes tonight like Bride, likes in good time and friends.
And when the party is all over, she'll welcome him
back home again. Gord, No, she don't understand him, but
(04:04):
she does bad that she can.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Oh, she's a good hearted Parma.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
She loves her good time and mad.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Yes, she's a good hearted form.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
I'm in love with a good time and man.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
And she loves him in spite of it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We get ways that.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
She don't understand. If not through tears drops in the laughter.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
They'll patch to this, spurl hand in pad.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh she's a good hearted farm. I'm loving her good
time in man. Yes, she's a good hearted all my
she loves a good time and.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Super. Charlie Charlie Pride on our show. You know the
song well as I do, probably better than I do.
Charlie is singing good hearted woman. Our guest star this
week is Billy Walker. They call you Bill.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
At one time I used to go with Bill, but
when I started recording, they made it to Billy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I gotta ask you this, Okay, ask me about the
other Bill Walker. Isn't this confusing? Have people?
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Ask you?
Speaker 9 (05:38):
You know?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
The other Bill Walker directed the music for the Johnny
Cash Show.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
And well, and I live out there, not just the
stone's throw from Cash, out there in Hendersonville, and everybody
in Hendersonville says why does Johnny case say good night
to you every time he goes off there? And then
I have to go in this long story. Well, you know,
Bill Walker isn't a musical arranger, and he conducts his
orchestra and band and everything. And i'd do on this
(06:04):
long story, and everybody comes, you know, out on the road, says,
gee that Johnny Cashir does like he just plugs you
every time he says good night Bill Walker. And then
I have to go on this long story. It says, well,
now you know it's a different guy.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Were you ever billed as Bill Walker?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
No, not really, I've always really been Billy Walker.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, somehow I can't I can't ask you. I can't
ask you about your Billy without thinking about the mask.
You get what?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Hey, just play a record?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You get what?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I get mailed? We get each other's mail, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Uh, somebody will write Bill Walker music roll and then
they'll send it to me thinking it's me, and then
I'll have to send it back to him. And then, uh,
he's gotten some of my checks in which he's had
to forward to me, and and I've gotten some of
his checks, but I had to forward to him.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
You guys, know about what each other's.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, you know what things you work and you know
you kind of if a big fat check comes up
from a recording company you're not affiliated with you, you know,
I'll check with him.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Billy, We're gonna play across the Brazis at Guaco. I understand.
I was told one time I was mispronouncing this. I
used to say, Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys,
and somebody from Texas said, you're not pronouncing it right.
It's Brasis.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Well yeah, they they slur it with a U down there,
like it's b r a z us instead of Os.
It's I've always called it the Brasis River.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
How far we're how far back we're going for this?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Well, this is in nineteen sixty four.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This time we worked together with Yeah, yeah, all right,
let's listen all.
Speaker 10 (07:40):
The Chisholm trail.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
It was midnight.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Prmelo was strong on his mind because of variety he
had chosen. Harmela had left him behind too long. It
been el Bandito. Harmelo had left him alone. But to
days someone brought a message she had been seen in
(08:07):
old Samon told.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Cross the Rasles.
Speaker 11 (08:12):
Said, Waco right hard, now make it by doll.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Cross the rizal said, Waco, I'm safe.
Speaker 10 (08:22):
Why he said tom He glanced back over his shoulder.
The posse was nowhere in sight. He had sent for
Carmela to meet him on the banks of the Brassas tonight.
She was waiting, and he kept the promise he had
(08:45):
made such a long time ago. As he drunk the
guns that she hated and the bloody grasses below cross
the rasles said, Waco, right hard.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Now make it by doll.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
Across the ridles said, wavecoat.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
I'm safe? Why said it?
Speaker 10 (09:19):
Then the night came alive with gunfire. He knew that
at last had been found. As the ranger spands shone brightly,
hell bandied old lay on the ground. Carmela knew he
was dyne, that all of her dreams.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Were in vain.
Speaker 10 (09:42):
As she kissed his lips for the last time, she
heard him whisper again. Across the risles said, wavecoat right hard,
Now make.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
It by doll across It sets away dogs.
Speaker 10 (10:02):
I'm safe when I read Sad and toll, I'm safe
when I read Sad.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's our guest star this week, Billy Walker with cross
the prizes at Waco.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
I have a riddle for our audience, Ralph. Oh Yeah,
what do a rich silver white cake and a chewy
Filbert nutcake, and a light Lady Baltimore cake and a
pretty pink checkerboard cake have in common? They're all made
from the same basic Betty Crocker recipe. That's right, the
same basic recipe. Because Betty Crocker basic recipes, like the
(10:43):
ones you often find in Gold Metal Flour, give you
more than just a set of directions. You'll find suggested variations,
helpful cooking hints, and time saving shortcuts. So go ahead,
add your favorite ingredients are put in your special flavors.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
It's easy.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Up a sack of gold Metal Flour and look for
the Betty Crocker recipes inside and be creative, because creativity
is what counts when you want to serve your best.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Now, here's a cute country record by a couple of
friends of our Billy Charlie Luban and Elbowment.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
She comes in and pulls the covers off of me
and wakes me to the smell of hot coffee.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
And the man.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
Sometimes he reads for the covers.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
I say, get up there, And the man likes things
like that.
Speaker 11 (11:54):
She looks on while I pick my ties and says
that one brings.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
Out the flu in your eye. Lord of man love
things like that.
Speaker 9 (12:08):
Well, he'll pretend he hasn't heard, but doesn't mass one
scene the work god.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
Man likes things like that.
Speaker 11 (12:24):
She can do such silly things like showing everyone herring
com account.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Of days until the baby is due, and if it's
a fine will name it are you? And a man
likes things like that.
Speaker 11 (12:45):
If she thinks I've got plans far laugh, she's gonna
come crosed up.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
And my laughing Lord of man.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 10 (13:00):
Are you sleep?
Speaker 7 (13:01):
Here's a little.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
Kids who can sleep at a time like their side.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
It's a man.
Speaker 11 (13:09):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I say.
Speaker 11 (13:15):
She can do such shoot city things like showing every
one ring some accounting of days, and while the baby
is due, and if it's a boy.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Well name it for you. And a man ducks things
like that. A man.
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Likes things like that.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
That's Charlie Lvin Melvine Montgomery, And a man likes things
like that, Billy, have you ever heard records like Ajax
Liquor Store and Ajax Airlines?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Oh that's great.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
By Hudson and Landry. They're great, great comedian, two.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Of the funniest people I know. They're back on this show,
and I think one of our heroes is just entering
the pet store.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
That's this is a dog pounds?
Speaker 12 (14:13):
I know this is a Jack's Pet Store, pet star, Hey,
Jax pet store.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Okay, he's it? Fred? Who's Fred? That's my card? Aren't
you losing? He right away to man? What did he
look like?
Speaker 12 (14:26):
Liken ten ten? Excepting a tail hotel? No, I haven't
seen a dog like that all day verd. No, he's
not here, sir, Fred, No, he's not here. Believe me,
he's not here.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
And don't lean on that bird cage. I'm sorry. That's
a nice little birdie. That's a nice bird, isn't it.
I love berdies, So do you like birds? Hey? T
bird calls? Hire me a call? Okay, okay, that's sensatial.
What kind of bird was that? Is it? What pecker? Okay? Okay,
(15:11):
don't pet that snape? That's a diamond back rapley. That
cost me one hundred and fifty dollars. Why they say
you coming to the pounce?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Why do you say that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Look at the tongue on that sucker split.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right out in the middle.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Say, did you steal one of my white mice?
Speaker 12 (15:29):
S Hey, well, there's a white mouse crawling out of
your pocket right now.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's my mouse, your mouse. Conrad, Conrad lam, what's like
a bird? I'd like to hear that stampye conrect? What's
like a bird? For the man? Conrad? Now you can't
pull me. I saw your lips move. Hey, hey, it's
getting away. That's my son. I'm sorry, you're sorry. I
(15:59):
hope you of my leg. Now he's going out back.
He's gonna feed the hawk. Nice, nice, it's all right,
it's all right. The hawk is in a in a cage.
Don't Fred.
Speaker 12 (16:14):
Fred is not here.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
He's not in the pet store. They have a pound
of us fish.
Speaker 11 (16:20):
Fish are deadly, their South American piranha.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
This camera half a pound. Here comes a dog. Now
is that your dog? Hey? He's a beauty and he's
smarter than last. He him some tricks? Can he do
some tricks? Roll over and play that? Look at that?
Who's rolling over? That's beautiful. That's how it was there.
(16:53):
Shut up, Look at that right up on the hind legs.
That's beautiful. What else can you do. Can he speak?
Are you kidding me? You right? Ready? Friend speak?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Fad well you think, Billy, Oh, that's great, that's funny.
That's Hudson and Landry. And the title of that selection
is the Ajax Pet Store. A final word now from
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Speaker 9 (17:25):
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Speaker 9 (18:05):
It makes me feel good to know I can here
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Speaker 7 (18:11):
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I know she'll remember her as well as she lived
her Golden medal mar movie. Mayke someone of gold medal
mem me today.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Billy, you used to be on the Ozark Jubilee with
Porter Wagoner, did you?
Speaker 7 (18:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Porter, in course Red Folding was uh the the principal
head of the thing.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
What'd you do to Porter Wagoner?
Speaker 10 (18:42):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I was telling you well to go about you know,
we s was all playing kind of poker. We we
planted a thing called Black Daddy, where uh nines and
three was well, and every time a three turn up,
you'd have to match the pott. And you know, he
got four or five dollars and you got to match
the pot. But the three was a wild card, and
so was the nine. So we they'll these threes to Porter,
and then we dealt the nines to somebody else. And
(19:04):
then Porter matched the pot and he had, you know,
a whole bunch of money in there. And then he
finally wound up loosing the hand with all the wild
cards because the other guy had all the cards.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
What'd you do this to Porter? When he had to
get up and leave and go around, he had.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
To go rehearse, and in the meantime we stacked the
dick against him. Of course, we gave him the money.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But do you ever get mad?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, he was kind of tore up. He wasn't really mad,
but a little shook bella.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We're gonna close this show with circumstances.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Yeah, well, this would be a good song for Porter,
wouldn't it.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We'll pay for him?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, that lonely.
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Night we got harried away with each other? Remains with
me go down, Never.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Be another.
Speaker 10 (20:00):
Warm Brinks song, Lights slow Dances, When two Blue People
were the victim of circumstances, circumstances, the wrong arms, the
(20:23):
right time, circumstances, Was it charged or just the way?
Would it have about again if we had enough chances?
Are what we eve on all each other under different circumstances?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
What is done is over than just ambo.
Speaker 10 (21:12):
The night they set a sign for you and me?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Oh but the dreams there's.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
Too there's hard roumancs. When two blue people were the
victim of circumstances, circumstances, the mom arms, the right time, circumstances,
(21:49):
Was it charged or just the one?
Speaker 7 (21:53):
Would it have on again if we had enough chance?
Or would we eave on long each other?
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Under the prime sir dumbstance?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Our guest star Billy Walker, another Billy Walker hit.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
From the year nineteen and sixty three.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Billy is singing the circumstances.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Hey, I'm Billy Walker.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
I'm going to be back tomorrow with the Ralph every
show God willing.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Don't nobody run away join us tomorrow, won't you?
Speaker 1 (22:35):
It's all brought your way by gold medal Flower. Thank you, Billy,
thank you? What's that?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Mumblin? We'll all right, goodbye, Ralph, We'll see you tomorrow,
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