Bobby Bare 285x pt3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Folks, this is Bobby.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Bear and I'd like to welcome into the Ralph Emmy Show.
We got a lot of records to play for you,
and we got a lot of stories to tell. We
might lie to you, and I want I tell you
the truth. And I'm sitting here looking at Ralph Emmy.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Rat smack in the face.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
You're just a ratchet jaw, aren't it.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well I'm trying to make up and blow my image
off a being a no talker.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well, Bobby Bearr Is here. As you can tell. Our
show is presented by Ford Trucks and by Bear are aspiring.
I'll turn it back to you, Bobby for the first song.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
All right, here's Tommy Smith and she's going to sing
about loving the baby.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Well, love and you.

Speaker 5 (00:46):
Sure is great.

Speaker 6 (00:48):
I thought i'll have a step you take.

Speaker 7 (00:52):
I'm watching ever loving.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Me whoa baby?

Speaker 7 (00:59):
Do you know, honey, your child?

Speaker 8 (01:03):
You really gotta love it time?

Speaker 9 (01:06):
I love it at a time you smile? Oh baby?
Why I get this speed?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
And when I love.

Speaker 7 (01:25):
Whoa?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Now?

Speaker 7 (01:28):
I can't think of anything better.

Speaker 8 (01:32):
Than you and me all loved together. I loving your baby.

Speaker 9 (01:53):
You've got to be one of a time.

Speaker 8 (01:57):
All everything you do is.

Speaker 9 (01:59):
So far, well, I think it's all a dream.

Speaker 8 (02:02):
Sometime whoa baby.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Love?

Speaker 10 (02:08):
Then you're sure it is great.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
I'm wanting you ever move that you made, and I
thought a step in and tea wove baby, I get.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
This kid anything. I'm love you.

Speaker 11 (02:37):
Now.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
I can't think of anything that you and me the
dead her eyes love love, then your baby.

Speaker 9 (02:52):
Love. Then you're sure is pree me?

Speaker 8 (02:55):
I want you nable.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Move that you made.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
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Has Detroit City been the biggest song.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Of your career?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
I think it's one that everybody. Everybody ties me up to.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
They you know, it's the one that I'd had a
couple of big hits before that, but that's the one
particular song where everybody jumped up and said, yeah, I
wonder who that is. Seen up to that point, you know,
they had sold a lot of records, but nobody was
really interested in who the artist was. I think Detroit
City's one, and everybody identifies me with.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
I guess if you said name a song Bobby Bear
hit with, immediately people would say Detroit City, no doubt, Right,
did you identify with the people in that song?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I certainly did.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Ralph I heard when I first heard that song, I said, boy,
that's me. I like to wreck my car and driving
down the street in Hollywood. I thought that was one
of the greatest songs I ever heard in my life.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
I still do you heard it first by Billy Billy
grammarated Billy Grammar right. His was called I Want to
Go Home.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Right.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
It's such a great song that you can even start
out tuning your guitar and still.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Be I want to go home. I want to go home.
Wa go home.

Speaker 10 (05:28):
Last night I went to sleep in Detroit City, and
I dreamed about those cotton fields and home.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
I dreamed about my mother, dear.

Speaker 10 (05:47):
Old, Papa's sister and brother.

Speaker 12 (05:51):
I dreamed about that world there's been waiting for school long.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
I wanta go home, Go home home.

Speaker 13 (06:23):
Folks think I'm big in Detroit City from.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
The letters that I write.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Think think I'm fine.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
But by day I make the cars. By night I'm
made the bars.

Speaker 10 (06:46):
If holy they could read between the lines.

Speaker 13 (06:55):
Because you know, I wrote the friend rain north to
Detroit City, And after.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
All these years, I find that I just spent wasting
my time.

Speaker 14 (07:08):
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride and
put it on the south bound freight and ride go
on back to the loved ones, the ones that I
left waiting so far behind.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
I want to go home.

Speaker 9 (07:28):
I want to Go.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Home, Bobby Bear and the song that for Bobby I
guess really made people aware of who you were.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well I did, Yes, that made me realize that I
might really have a career in this business after all.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Up to that time that you think you might not
well up.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
That time had uh, like I said, had two real
big hits, but they really.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Didn't mean anything.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's uh there was just one up and down that
were kind of pop hits, and UH there was nothing
that you could follow it up with.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
It wasn't really any direction to 'em.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Have I shu I well, I I'll rephrase this. That
shows particularly back when this was a hot record, did
you have people come up and tell you that that
was the story of their life?

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, certainly I had. And this jockeys too, you know, UH,
especially on the West coast. UH, they could relate to
it a whole lot. And everybody at one time or
the other gets homesick or UH or gets thinking about UH.
Nostalgia plays an important part and UH in a lot

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of records.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
UH.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
As a matter of fact, probably one of the greatest
emotions that a human being has is is UH nostalgia.
I would say, and uh, and this certainly kept that.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
I mean looking back in this case being homesick.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Yeah. Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
You know in all the wars like World War two
and Vietnam whatever, when they they would take prisoners of war,
that's the one emotion that they would play on to
get get people tell them whatever they wanted. They'd they'd
start talking about their family and get them nostalgic, and
they just they just bust loose and tell them whatever

(09:29):
they want to hear.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
In some cases most cases, well it it is a
heavy emotion, and I think you captured it in that song.
You've heard a Robert Joseph Bear Senior. It is senior,
isn't it? I hope so because there is a Bobby Jr.
Bobby Bear with Detroit City Bobby is next.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Well, we got Jim ed Brown and Helen going to
Elias and they're gonna sing. This is an old song.
I remember hearing this when I was a kid. Call
I'll never be free.

Speaker 9 (10:09):
It's time somebody news.

Speaker 11 (10:15):
Mom so cold, thank you for you.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
No one can.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Take your place, John and mine race, I'll never.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Be free and one Moody.

Speaker 9 (10:36):
Start with dissolve. Nobody can spits up the fire. Oh
I may try and try.

Speaker 15 (10:48):
No one can satisfy this long all will.

Speaker 11 (10:58):
Never be free from your small, so tender, the sweet
surrender in.

Speaker 15 (11:06):
Your How can I freeze when I steal?

Speaker 9 (11:14):
Remember how you consume me with a sad joy?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
Such change the ball you every man.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
When we're a ball, kiss I gave to.

Speaker 15 (11:34):
You, Maybe a sleigh to you.

Speaker 9 (11:39):
I'll never be free, job your love rem.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
When we're.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Each kiss I gave to.

Speaker 9 (12:22):
You, Maybe essay to you.

Speaker 11 (12:27):
I'll never be free. I'll never be free.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Jim ed Brown and Helen Cornelius capturing the flavor of
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thirty seven, two oh two. Hey, Bobby, I'll take the
next to another old Eastern Kentucky boy. We've been talking
about Eastern Kentucky, and here's a fellow used to be
a policeman Cincinnati. Also, do you know that I didn't
know that well. I thought there might have been a
time when he pulls you over.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Oh no, he might have pulled me in the number over.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Bobby Boucher's is the singer.

Speaker 12 (14:18):
I like doctor neighborhood places with bull and machines in
the rear, where the boom suffriendly and it don't ask
questions if there's none.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Let you like to hear.

Speaker 12 (14:34):
I like ladies a long black dresses with their range
a sparkle inside, just like the one that used to
come in here.

Speaker 9 (14:46):
One that I used to call by.

Speaker 12 (14:50):
Put up another round, Joe, she's still suff on my mind.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
What's that you're telling me now, Joe, that.

Speaker 7 (15:02):
You might have to take me home this time?

Speaker 12 (15:08):
I like doctor the neighborhood places the bowl and machines
in the room where the boat sufferingly, and they don't
ask questions. You can laugh for cry in your years.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
God food.

Speaker 12 (15:38):
Up another round, Joe, she's still sulked upon my mind.
What's that you're telling me now, Joe, that you might
have to take me home this time? I like ladies
long black dress's time hearing the sparkle inshine. It's black

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one that you used to come.

Speaker 9 (16:06):
In here, one that I used to call my.

Speaker 12 (16:14):
I like headed long black dresses, hearing the sparkle inshine,
just like a walk that used to come in here,
one that I used to callbine.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
I like long black dresses.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's Bobby Borcher's well. I like ladies in long black dresses.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
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seven two oh two. Oh Bobby A that show. I

(18:11):
was gonna ask you to tell our listeners how you
discovered Whalen Jennings.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Well, actually I I probably didn't. Uh wh What really
happened was uh? I I, as I said earlier, I
had recorded a song Whalen had written, he and Don
Bowman had written.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It goes back farther than that.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
I Uh, Don Bowman was a disc jockey in California,
and and I was bringing Don stuff to Nashville to CHETU,
and eventually chet signed Don up and recorded him. And
Don and Whalen had been friends. They started together in uh, Texas,
and and Don is the one that that more or

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less was telling me about Whalen.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
He he kept talking about this old boy in Phoenix,
you know that he'd used to be dis jockey, went
back in Texas, and uh when he said old boy,
I I heard a couple of uh Whalen's demos, and
I took him uh.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
Uh literally you know old boy?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I thought, well, uh, the guy is probably fifty years
old or sixty, but I.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Was doing she sounded that old. Well, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I I just kind of took Don for his word.
But then one day I.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Saw him on on TV and Phoenix so on some
local show.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I was going through there.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
I was doing a movie, I think flag Staff, and
I was flying through there and changing planes, and I saw.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Him on TV and I, well, he's not old. It
all looks real good.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
And the next time through I called him and told
him that I had recorded the song and and then
I put it out and as a big hit.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
And and I would be booked at.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Magoo's in Phoenix, and Whalen was b booked at working
JD's out in Scottsdale, and uh, and I'd be a
Magoo's on him like a Monday night and w 'em
to come down, sit in.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
We'd do duets.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
And and fool around have a good time. And so
then I was through there on a Sunday, I think
it was Sunday night, and we went out to dinner
and uh. Then I went by the club where it
was picking. There was a tape recorder there and uh,
and it maybe been my tape recorder, I don't know,
but uh, we.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Taped a whole bunch of stuff.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
And and there wasn't a big, huge crowd. It was
kind of an off night. And and you can hear
real good under those conditions. I could, and uh, and
whaling sounded so great that I couldn't believe. It just
completely blew me away, and I went back to the
room and I was listening to the tapes and we'd

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uh and whaling. I set up and visited. So the
next day I was booked in Vegas and we were
driving to to Vegas, and halfway between Phoenix and Vegas,
I really got to thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I thought, then that guy's really good.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
And then we've been visiting and realized that what both
of us liked were the same things, the same songs,
the same uh, the same everything.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
So then did you take here take the tapes to
Chad Atkins?

Speaker 1 (21:14):
No, Uh, Chad had already heard him sing.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
He had heard him when I cut uh the song
that he had written in four Strong Wins.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
All right, I'm gonna interrupt your story and I'll come
back to it.

Speaker 1 (21:25):
All right.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You said this was a good song, Glenn Anderson.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Ah, I said it was a good record. It is
a good record. I like it a lot. It's called
rising above it All.

Speaker 9 (21:51):
I can't count the times.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
That because of me, your heart's been Oh can.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
I have seen you heard?

Speaker 8 (22:08):
Because of the.

Speaker 9 (22:11):
Words I spoil.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
What somehow?

Speaker 9 (22:17):
You always naw.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
When I heard you.

Speaker 8 (22:24):
I'm never a mad We gave around above it all.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Lie side.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
On the ways. I am.

Speaker 9 (22:43):
Can't make his fall.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
We came round.

Speaker 9 (22:49):
It's an about it all.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
I have seen.

Speaker 9 (23:02):
The gold mines.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Flow. I feel so shame, but.

Speaker 9 (23:16):
Then you have.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Your way.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Do it all?

Speaker 7 (23:25):
You still cool?

Speaker 9 (23:26):
And see you and.

Speaker 8 (23:29):
Me who well we should We gave.

Speaker 9 (23:38):
It above it all, like the sun.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
On the way more.

Speaker 9 (23:48):
And behind. Can't make us all.

Speaker 8 (23:54):
We gave around.

Speaker 7 (23:57):
Above it all.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
No, I can't make all.

Speaker 7 (24:06):
If we give her up.

Speaker 8 (24:10):
Above it all.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
You've heard Lenna Anderson on the show with Rising above
it All.