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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Ralph Emory Show. Bobby Bear is
my guest. We were talking about Bobby discovering Whaling Jennings.
And the reason I always thought you did, Bobby, was
because of a reference Chet made to me one time.
But if Bobby Bear brought me this singer and I
love his name, I remember that was the first thing
Chit told me about him. He said, I love his
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name Whalen.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, well, it's a natural. The whole thing is, you know, uh.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And the reason why it embarrasses me for people to
say that Bobby Bear discovered Whaling Jennings is it's kind
of like, uh, I don't know, it makes me feel
uncomfortable because it's sort of like like bragging or or something.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
If uh, if Whaling never sold three records, nobody would
ever uh even bring it up. But uh, he has
become one of the great superstars and and so uh,
I guess people like to talk about it now.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I I have discovered.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A whole lot of people, all right, but I have
never sold three records.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
But if you were talking earlier about you had discovered
that his music was to your liking, and you liked
the same things. Oh yeah, eventually you must have taken
him to chat.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Oh, yes, I did. That's the point I was getting
at uh. As I was going from Phoenix to Vegas,
I stopped and got on a pay phone and I
called Chet and I said, Chet, you got to sign
this little war because he is really great. I went
out last night and I listened to him, and he
is everything that he has got it all. And I said,
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I realized that he and I both like the same things,
and he'll be doing basically the same thing I'm doing,
except he probably does it better. And it's gonna hurt me.
But the guy deserves to be on a on a
major label. I think at that time he was on
on an unknown label.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
It was A and M. Really so then I Chet
signed him up that day on.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The phone on your say so well, actually, Chet had
hurt him because he doesn't just sign somebody up because
somebody calls tells him. But I happen to know that
Chet Atkins thinks a great deal of you.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh, Chet said you.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I mean, you're one of his favorite people, and I
think he would sign somebody if you said, Okay, Chad,
I think you ought to sign this fella. I think
he'd sign him right there. I believe you would.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Well, you're going to get more calls, only once, but
only once.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
You're going to get more calls when people hear this
and they go say, hey, Bobby, would you call chet
that them about me?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Oh, well, you got to. You gotta be writer once
in a while.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Now that the period we're talking about was in nineteen
sixty four when all this happened, wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah, it's in nineteen sixty four, And you can't go
too far wrong when you when you're really hot, and
I was at that point. I was right in the
middle of a whole streak of records, and and when
you were doing that, you're usually pretty well tuned into
what's happening.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I think Whaling's first hit would stop the world and
let me off.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
If that wasn't his first one, it might may have
been something that he had written. But now I'm not
really sure that I did wading any favors by braining
the RCA, because right after that, A and M and
Herb Alpert just smashed wide open and became that's the
label that we got him off of to get him on.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I'm sorry it's paid off.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, but it took a long time. It may have
happened sooner if he had gone the other way.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Five of you like boxing, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I do like to watch it on TV.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, here's a little song that really tells a story.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Well, this is not about boxing now, right, this is
about street fight. Oh okay, there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Okay, I've got another I've got another song in mind,
that's right. But this this is about a guy that
takes on another guy though.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Oh yeah, and he never been whipped, never got the
scars to proof.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
The hug of a man with a beer in his hand.
He looked like a drunk old food.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
And I knew if I hit him right while, I
could knock him off of that stue. But everybody, they said,
watch out here, that's tiger Man McCool.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
He's had a whole lot of fights. He's always come
out winter. Yeah, he's a winner. What I'd had myself
about five too many? And I walked up, tall and prouder.
I faced his back, and I faced the fact that
he had never stooped or botance. I said, the Tiger Man,
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you're a pussy cat. And I fell on the crowd
I said, let you and me go outside and see
who's a winner. Well, he gripped the bar with one big,
hairy hand, man embraced against the wall.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
And slowly looked up from his beard.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
My god, that man was tall.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
He said.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Boy, see you're a scrapper.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
So just before you fall, I'm gonna tell you just.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
A little about what it means to be a winter.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
He said.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Now you see these bright white, smiling teeth, You know
they ain't mind.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mine rolled away.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Like chicklets down the street in sant and the tongue.
But I left that person cursing, nursing seven broken bombs,
and he only broke three of mine. That makes me
the winter he's sitting now behind this grin. I got
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a steel pin that ows my jaw in blatance, a
trophy or my most successful mold cycle rates. And each
morning when I awaken touch this.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
Scar across my face, it reminds me of all I
got by be in a winter. Now, this broken back
was a dion act of a handsome Harry Clay, that
sticky sensing.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Nay night, I stole his wife away. But that woman,
she gets uglier, and she gets meaner every day. But
I got her, boy, that's what makes me a winter.
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He said, you gotta speak loud when you challenge me, son,
because it's hard for me to hear with this twisted
neck and these migraine veins and this big old cauliflower hear.
And if it wasn't for this glass eye mine, why
I shed a happy tear to think of all you're
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gonna get by being in the winter.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
I got offer, I gave a boat, boy, I got
b slocated kneans.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
From picking and fights with thunderstorms and charging in the trees.
Now my nose been broken so awful, I might lose
it if I see, And Son, you see you still
want to be a winter.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Now you can remind me a.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Lot of my younger days with your knuckles of quenching wife. Boy,
I'm gonna sit right here and sip this bear all night.
And if there's something that you gotta gain a crew
by winning some silly fight, well okay, I quit. I
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lose you. The winter sol some moved from that bar room,
not so tall and not so brown, and behind me
I still hear who laughed and crown.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
But my eyes still see, and my nose still works
in my teeth still in my mouth, and you know,
I guess that makes me the.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Winter our guest Bobby Bear. One of Bobby's big songs
called the Winner Bobby keep rolling there, old buddy.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
All right, here's Dave and Sugar, and gotta quit looking
at you, baby, I gotta quick.
Speaker 10 (09:25):
Look or someone stot you know, got quick looking at
one of stone show, got looking at bad when you're
looking tact at me looking.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Bad, or someone stops.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
You and I was kind of love from the.
Speaker 11 (09:50):
One I could see.
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Either one would tell what the one here's free.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
We're pretend that we just fridged everyone around high feelings
that have tell some rules down I.
Speaker 12 (10:06):
Got with look the next wave, or someone's started to know,
don't with look the next baby on my last star
show that with look the next baby, when you're looking
raft at me, done with look the next bab or.
Speaker 13 (10:23):
Someone started see we have.
Speaker 14 (10:30):
To meet with no mind rules might go our face,
hide a life, pry hide some dars mos.
Speaker 13 (10:37):
Please it's hard.
Speaker 7 (10:39):
To keep my hands on you, but you know it
has to be still.
Speaker 10 (10:44):
I can tell the world on yours and.
Speaker 12 (10:46):
Us to me about with something the next pay or
someone's starting to know, got a quit look the next.
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Baby on my last star show.
Speaker 12 (10:57):
That with look the next baby. When you look at
what's the scene.
Speaker 13 (11:09):
What's.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
That's Supe Powell and Dave Rowland and Vicky Baker, Dave
and Sugar with gotta quit looking at you baby.
Speaker 15 (11:23):
Here's Burl Hacker for tough you Ford pickups.
Speaker 16 (11:26):
Hey, pickup driving man, are you in love?
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Bors?
Speaker 7 (11:33):
Got your kind.
Speaker 16 (11:36):
Of a real tough travel It's this song running long, running,
smooth as.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
A song, running pick up with the five four.
Speaker 16 (11:46):
Praying made tough with the pickup driving man.
Speaker 15 (11:52):
You seventy eight Ford pickups are tough all over maryl
tough twin I beam suspension, tough BIQB eights, tough corrosion
protection inside for it's tough all welded cab. You can
get my handsome larryt interior of any options include four speed, overdrive,
child steering.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Wheel, integral CBE radio.
Speaker 15 (12:09):
See the tough seventy eighty four pickups at your Ford dealer.
Speaker 16 (12:13):
Pick up with the prown board may tough for the
pick up driving man, Bobby.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
As long as he's been in show business and as
long as you have been in the show business, do
you happen to have a Jerry Lee Lewis story.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well a lot of them that I can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Ever worked much with Jerry Lee Lewis.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, we're quite a bit. Jerry and I get along great.
You know.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He has problems with a lot of people, but never
with me. I think one of the reasons is in
the later years, his mother used to come to a
lot of the shows that we were on together. And
his mother was a big Bobby Bear fan. Oh and
I liked her.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
She was a nice lady, and I think and she
had a great influence on his life.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
God probably Jerry Lee jer Y couldn't stand me that
he would go along with it because his moment was
h She liked me, so that helped out. Now and
I like Jered Lee. I think he's one of the
one of the real great ones. I mean, he is
really given a lot to show.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Beats the killers about to sing now.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
If you hear God, you love me.
Speaker 14 (13:36):
And not just becallang didn't work out with him.
Speaker 17 (13:47):
If you've had sweet dreams of me and where we
left all, come on in. I'm on man, it did
come back forever. And if you're sincere, if you'll be
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set a spy.
Speaker 13 (14:15):
With one man.
Speaker 18 (14:19):
If you've got it together and you're bragging, come on in,
come on in.
Speaker 17 (14:35):
I've been misceived.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
The fire.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
And your shine, green eyes and the lover you whisper.
Speaker 19 (14:47):
Back then.
Speaker 18 (14:51):
If you can still say.
Speaker 13 (14:53):
You love me after telling old wie Hm, I'm on in,
I'm on in.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
It's the worst time.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
I don't think God I can tuck you. Lookain.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
If you sly that you love me, I'll open my own.
Speaker 13 (15:35):
I'm on in. I'm only.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Come on in.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That's the killer. Jerry Lee Lewis would come on in.
Let me tell you a cute story, Bobby, Bless her heart.
She's dead now, But I met Faraen Young's mother one
time at Farren Young's house, and the Jerry Lee Lewis
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story you told me reminded me of this, and I
thought I would give her a chance to brag. And
so I said to fara and Young's mother, I said, well,
missus Young, who's your favorite singer? She said, Marty Robbins.
So it didn't come out the way I had planned it.
Right now, we're gonna bring on somebody new who's busting
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through like crazy on the American record scene. Here's Christy Lane.
Speaker 12 (16:36):
You say you've been untruth.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
I tell you what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I'm gonna love you.
Speaker 11 (16:44):
I'm gonna love you anyway.
Speaker 12 (16:50):
Honey, don't tell me I'm.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
A no point acting.
Speaker 11 (16:58):
I'm gonna love you anyway.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
Oh baby, don't say you're sorry.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
I must have been out of my mind to drive
you to another's.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
So I told me sent you sory. That is just me.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I'm gonna love you.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
I'm gonna love you anyway. Oh baby, don't say you're sorry.
Speaker 11 (17:50):
I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I must have been out of my mind to drive
you to another.
Speaker 11 (18:01):
Me that you free one.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Just anyway, I love you anyway.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
That's Kirsty Lane. Well, I'm gonna love you anyway.
Speaker 20 (18:40):
Doctors recommend aspirin twice as often as any other pain reliever.
You hear lots of claims for pain relievers about strength
and speed and gentleness, but you should know this. Doctors
recommend aspirin twice as often as any other pain reliever.
That's just one reason people choose Bear again and again.
(19:03):
Bear Espirint has relieved more pain than any medication in history.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Use only as directed.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
All right. Vibert Let's talk about a little tune called
alay moy. I know you record so many songs that
Shell Silverstein has written. Did he write this song?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yes? He did?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
And you you like to do comedy songs.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I just like to do good songs, Ralph, and I
do a lot of Shell songs because so all the
great songwriters nowadays are recording their own songs, and they're
saving once they realize that they're great writers, and then
they start saving their songs for their first album.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And Shall writes kind of off the wall things that.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Shell is a great writer.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
And what's so good about him is he ain't got
no record do he can't sing, so so it's pretty
safe that he's gonna have some good songs that he
he's not gonna record himself.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Oh here's one of his little tunes now has sung.
But Bobby Bear.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Alimony alimony work till my fingers are bloody and bony.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Me O, my.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Goodness, see, I'm my misteek, the dol of money. I
call it all of money.
Speaker 21 (20:32):
You married men may think it funny to one fine
day you wait and find you pin for your misteak.
Every Friday, wen.
Speaker 19 (20:52):
I get my babe, I put it in I am
the open mail. It away amold song with a little
more blues in it.
Speaker 21 (21:05):
I'm paying for a while someone else is using it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Halimony alimony. I thought I bought steaking. It was all
bloaning me o my.
Speaker 22 (21:22):
Goodness say, I paid more, my misteak.
Speaker 19 (21:49):
Ilemony ileemony.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I thought I bought steaking. It was all blowning my
goodness sake.
Speaker 22 (22:04):
I'm being for my mustay, every payday been for my mustay.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Hi, our guest, Bobby Bear. That's called alamony. We're gonna
quit here for a little while, but tomorrow we'll be back.
I want to thank Bobby Bear for being our guest.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Well, thank you, Ralph, and I'm looking forward to being.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Back on the next one.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And our show has been presented by Bear Aspirn and
by those tough four trucks for nineteen seventy eight. We'll
see you tomorrow. Woken want