Billy Walker pt8

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
My friends. You're listening to the Ralph Emery Show with
our guest star Billy Walker.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
You comfortable, Oh yes, yeah, oh yeah, they're great boy,
you're a great host.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Coffee alright, coffee all right, yeah, okay, Charlie mccally's gonna
pick up the hot harmonica, play a few licks.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh, blow it out there.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
And he's going to bring on well. He leads into
George Hamilton.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh, I thought he was going to just let him
play by himself.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
No, he's gonna he's gonna help George.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
A little blue train, right, blue light facing down their
bed lou track, do smoke falling from the old smokestack,
blue train, Don't leave me behind? Do steam by from

(00:52):
beautin a little.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Train, hap the heart break, the hold by my baby
said she loved beef truth and.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
She ran off with someone new only train. Don't leave
me behind, let me right kill by him.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Normal some nes only train.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Ha the hard break, the hold by.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
The train.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
You're coming in on time, the train coming in on time?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Side, Just mo that baby fi.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Train you're coming in all time.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
The train.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
You're coming in on time.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Side, Just mo that darted a fight.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
George Hamilton, The Fourth with an old old John louder
Milk song. I think you'll find that in an old
John Loudermilk LP somewhere George with the Blue Train. Billy
Walker is our guest. There's a story. We've been trying
to get on this show all week and I've been
trying to find the proper place to put it in.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Billy, are you gonna give it to me right now,
aren't you?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Billy had the most I've heard a lot of show
business stories. This is the strangest one I've ever heard.
And I'm really surprised.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
About the rodeo thing. Yeah, you've been trying to get
around that for a long time.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
I'm surprised you didn't get there.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, I've been trying to get around it so you
wouldn't bring it up. But hey, you know, the Carol
Days is a big celebration, a big rodeo and celebration
parade and all that kind of stuff with a little
town called Los crusis New Mexico, and it's got a
big college and it's a fairly progressive city out close
to El Paso, Texas. And we played this about three

(04:06):
years ago. We played out there three n stand for
this Voocaro days and we did a thirty minute show
in between the rodeo events, and we were on the
float of this truck which was made into a float.
They drove us out. We'd would get all their instruments
and everything. They'd drive us out and we'd hook our
instruments up to the electricity and the PA from the

(04:28):
grand standing and we had our own PA on the
truck too. And Man, the third song we were doing
across the Brasses at Waco.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Now you're singing on the back of a flatbed truck.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Yeah, a flatbed truck. And this guy cowboy just runs
out there, gets in the truck, starts it up, and
just guns the dicking side of it. Man, And you know,
if you're standing up on the truck, how you are. Well,
the drummer goes one way. The bass fiddle player kind
of just turns a flip, I mean just literally flip,

(05:01):
and the guitar man takes a leaving dive off. And
the one thing about the bass drum, the guy steps
right through the bass drum. It fell off and the
guy his steps right through it. And I fall over
with my guitar. I had my guitar and I had
a blue rhinestone suit on and I fall over on
the truck and like he's just going ninety to nothing
down the other end and he sees an exit and

(05:24):
as he turns and on this truck, well, I just
go sailing off like Superman, you know, with the blue
rhinestone suit with a guitar slung around his neck. And
this photographer captures me about then a blue haze flying
through the air with a guitar, and I just go
rolling in a dirt. And then this guy gets around
the back of the arena or back of the grand stand,

(05:47):
and I hear this shot start firing. This goes bang
bang bang, and this the sheriff jumps out from nowhere
and starts shooting at this guy in this truck. And
then the steel guitar player was still hanging on and
he makes a dive and leap for the for the
gravel because he was protecting that steel guitar, which you

(06:09):
know costs about two thousand dollars. And this guy then
jumps out the truck, and the truck run down the
hill and runs through side of a building. This guy
runs out into the grass and passes out. It seems
like a driver. Yeah, the driver seems like that they
had a bet a bunch of cowboys drinking. Hey, bet

(06:30):
he wouldn't go out there and getting his truck and
just drive off. Well, this guy is about nine sheets
in the wind drunker and Cooter Brown, and he just
guns the thing man, and it just amplifiers, microphones, guitars, drums.
Everything just went by about forty waist everything. And uh,

(06:51):
it wasn't so funny that night. But boy, we had
the headlines on the paper the next day and ap
wire and everything, and you're talking about having a crowd
for the next two days. I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
How that guy to come on drive that truck.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Every night they throw that poor old boy in jail,
cost him about five thousand dollars to get out of there.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
You have that kind of mind.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
And every time I see that drummer now and he says, hey,
when we're gonna play another rodeo together.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now, what surprises me is that you did this funny
you know what.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
I was so stunned that I run up to the
the announcers booth up up on the you know how,
I totally are. I run up there and I says, gee,
I hope my singing don't affect everybody like that. But
I look back on it now and it's so funny.
And I get this picture out and you can't tell
who it is. You just see a flying blue thing

(07:40):
through the air, and it's so funny. Now, it's just unbelieving.
I can't really believe it happened. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, I got to say, you've got a wail of
a sense of humor if you didn't get mad. It's
really funny, Billy, How far back do it go for funny?
How the time slips are?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Oh, nineteen and sixty one?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
But this is not the original recording RW.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
No, this is a brain new recording. We've got a
new album out called Billy Walker's All Time Great Hits
on MGM, And this is a brand new recording.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well, hello there, it's been a long long time.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
How my new? Oh?

Speaker 5 (08:33):
I guess did I'm doing fine? It's been so long now.
I didn't seemed that it was only yesterday.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Gee, ain't it money?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
How times?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
So? How's your you love?

Speaker 5 (09:09):
I hope that he's doing fine.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
I heard you told him that you love him till the.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
End of time.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
Now that's the same thing you once told me.

Speaker 6 (09:34):
It seems like just the other day.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Gee had it body.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
The time?

Speaker 6 (09:47):
So I've gotta go now, I guess I'll see you,
And now I don't know when, though, I never know

(10:09):
when I'll be banking town.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Oh but remember why I tell you.

Speaker 6 (10:23):
That in time you're gonna play.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
And it's surprising.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
How time.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Slip?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
So, Billy, wasn't that song written but Willie Nelson about
the time he was so productive with Hello Walls and
things like that.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
In fact, Willie, when he came into town, he stayed
with me for about two or three months. He lived
with me. In fact, I've known Willy for many, many years.
He comes from around Waco two. I knew him way
back because when we were kids.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Did you have the first recording of this?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, that's the original? Well my record was the original record,
as you probably well know.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yes I did.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
I got mad at Old Ralph one time because he
played somebody else's record of it.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
There was another record, Yeah, there was that's Billy Walker
with funny how the chime slips away?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Raf? Do you think I might tell our friends about
a new easy way to bake a cake?

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Sure, Billy, go ahead, One of.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
The nicest things you can do on a cold winter's
day is to stay inside and bake your favorite cake.
But one of the worst things is cleaning up all
those dirty bowls. Sometimes, doesn't it seem like you've used
every bowl in the kitchen?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sure does.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Now Gold Metal Flour gives you recipes to bake special
cakes using only one bowl. They're called one mixed cakes,
and boy are they good. There's sour cream, spice, and
a nut and apple sauce. They're almost as easy as
using the cake mix, but they taste a whole lot better.
So look for one mixed cake recipes on the back

(12:09):
of Gold Metal Flower Sects. And the next time it's
too cold to go out, stay in your warm kitchen
and bake a one mixed cake.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
And since you only use one bowl, maybe you'll have
time to bake two. Now, my friends, listen to the
smooth a smooth voice. Yeah, Ralph a farronyacht.

Speaker 8 (12:37):
She is filled with mixed emotions from a knee that
keeps missing of hermid and she fights the gentle pressures
that keep pulling all her heartstrings.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
All the time.

Speaker 8 (13:00):
She does find until somebody's touch wakes the sleeping passions
inside of her, and she fights said loving season until
I can love the fight.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Right out of her. She was turning to a.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Woman by a man, and her love for him was.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
Gone, and the love she knew was shadowing when she
woke a quandee and found him gone. But the crab
and for somebody's love is still ever present in her world,

(13:57):
and she fights said loving on. I didn't allow to
fight right out. It's so hard, not too idly.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
When all her.

Speaker 8 (14:22):
Loving feelings begin to sturb.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
She prayed far alone.

Speaker 8 (14:36):
She remained, and she fights that loving feeding until I
didn't love to fight right out. And she fights that
loving feeling until I didn't flow to fight right out.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Great new record for Parah Young call she fights that
love and feeling. And now Billy Walker, who's next on
the program.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Here's Dave Dudley and carrying O'Donnell with a great song
called we Know It's over.

Speaker 9 (15:32):
Well, sit down just a minute, won't you a woman?
Let me tell you just what's.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
On my mind.

Speaker 9 (15:41):
Honey, we done bail ourselves a mountain that's just too
high for us to reply.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
But you keep pushing on, just.

Speaker 9 (15:51):
Like nothing's going wrong, don't you know, it's sofa.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Don't you know it's.

Speaker 10 (15:56):
Sofa, honey. I'm glad finally told me because I've got
a lot to lay on you.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
While you were on your own light parties, I.

Speaker 10 (16:11):
Wasn't sitting home like food. That's why I kept pushing on,
just like nothing was going wrong.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
I knew it was over.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
I knew it was over.

Speaker 9 (16:23):
Now we both can well because there's nothing going on,
we know it's over.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Well.

Speaker 9 (16:40):
I've done everything that I know how.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
To let you know it's time to hit the roll.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Girl.

Speaker 9 (16:49):
I think it's time that you were learning. There's nothing
in our fire to keep it burning. But you keep
pushing on, just like nothing's going wrong. Don't you know
it's over? Don't you know it's over.

Speaker 10 (17:06):
I'll watched you close and cooked your fancy meals. I
even took the time to shine your shoes, but that
was just to get you on your way so I
could play the game by your ruse.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
That's why I kept.

Speaker 10 (17:24):
Pushing No, just like nothing was going wrong. I knew
it was over. I knew it was over. Now we
both can move on cos there's.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Nothing going on.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
We know it's over. Now we both can move on.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Coast there's nothing going on. We know it's over now
we both can move.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's Big Dave Dudley with a little girl who travels
with his show his girl singer day with Karen O'donnald
and we know it's over. Now it's time for a
musical message. My friends makes some.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
Mona gold metal never read.

Speaker 10 (18:08):
Today in the snow on a winter afternoon, the bundle up.

Speaker 11 (18:15):
Against the wind, feeling pretty good.

Speaker 10 (18:19):
Can I know the very soon Mama's gonna call me in.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Because today's the day we've gone up back a great
big delicious gold metal.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Cake, gold metal flower, that's a turn out greate, golly,
I can hardly wait.

Speaker 11 (18:37):
Mama always lets me lick the ball and thanksy. I
think too, and I can hardly wait on it more.
I doesn't know what's gonna do.

Speaker 10 (18:49):
Today's the day we've gone up and a great big
delicious gold metal break go battle flower like to turn
out great golly.

Speaker 8 (18:59):
I can hardly waiting, Kelly.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
I can hardly wait to take.

Speaker 10 (19:05):
A lot of good Man emory today.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
And now Billy you're on is singing for us, So
what's you're gonna be?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Well, we've walked everywhere, we've had walker's woods walking through
that well. We got a walking song right here called
she goes walking through my mind.

Speaker 1 (19:25):
Welcome, she.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Goes walking through I've tried to drive away her memory.

Speaker 11 (19:49):
Bud.

Speaker 12 (19:50):
Each night it comes by to torture me. Those Once again,
there she is ride all.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Time when she goes walking through my b She goes
walking through my bo.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
Tarry out a little each time. Her footsteps are getting
louder on the bar.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
When she rose walking through my bones, I'm trying to
drown my bones in the wind. But the glass full
of parties, oh.

Speaker 6 (21:03):
Love fine ows Once again, there she iss, why no time?

Speaker 3 (21:16):
And she does walking through my b She goes walking
brew by b.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
Tarving loud on.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Each time.

Speaker 7 (21:42):
Her footsteps are getting louder on the pip.

Speaker 3 (21:51):
When she goes walking through my bod.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Another of the Billy Walker hits what year was that Billy?

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Nineteen and seventy one?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Not too far back Billy Walker with she goes walking
through my mind. Hey, it's all the time is all
gone for us. Billy's all gone.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Ralph, we've got to say goodbye. We'll see him tomorrow, though, won't.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
We write for gold? My little flower? This is Ralph
Emory thanking you for listening, and thanking Billy Walker for
being aboard our show.