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June 2, 2025 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
My friends. This is Ralph Emery and uh, this week
I'm interviewing Bobby Bear and playing some of his hit songs. Bobby,
I thought we would reach back for another oldie at
this point in the program.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
All right, here's uh, here's one. Bill Joe Shaver wrote
that I always loved the song, That's why I recorded it.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
What does the term ride me down easy mean?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, it's uh just a no cowboy phrasing, you know. Uh.
In other words, don't throw me down and let me
hit the ground hard. It's kind of like take it
easy when you do what. Well, this this particular thing
has to do with life?

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Alright, are you talking about a man to woman? No,
woman to man. I'm telling a friend to friend.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
No, it's sort of like a well, let's ride me
down easy lord. Alright, it's about a halfway religious song.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
So I'd say it's man to his God. Don't judge
me too harshly.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah, I take it easy when it's all over, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:07):
Got me down easy lord, Ride me on down.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
Leave word in.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
The dust where I live, say come.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Go?

Speaker 4 (01:25):
And easy to love when I stay it's so high,
Why she's hotter?

Speaker 6 (01:35):
And nine kinds of hill the rides.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
This care says a rain.

Speaker 6 (01:44):
When you're down to you last up with nothing to
sell and to farway from.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
The train.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Again mon desnda and I get talk.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
I had a twinge years Today's wine.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
Left the long string of friends.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
Some sheets in the wind, and some sadtisfied women behind.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
So want to ride me down? Lord, ride me on down?
Leave word in.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
The dust where I leve, save measy, come, easy.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
Go, and easy to love When I stay.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
I would snow on the mountain, raise tail on the hill,
locked horns with the deal himself, bell road.

Speaker 7 (03:16):
Bump the sun.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
And the whole board stars in his crown, and son't want.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
To ride me down?

Speaker 8 (03:29):
Ease?

Speaker 4 (03:29):
He Lord, ride me on down?

Speaker 5 (03:33):
Leave wild in the bus.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Where I lay.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
Say I measy, come, hey go, and easy to love
when I stay.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
I want you ride me down ease?

Speaker 5 (03:55):
You Lord ride me on down? Leave by.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Our guest Bobby Bear. And that's called riding me down easy, Bobby.
We used to have a lot of fun on this
program when you would come and tell us about your impersonators,
and you had a lot of funny stories. I wondered
if this has happened in recent years or months. I

(04:26):
know there used to be some guy that would charge
things to you and would go around the country representing
him himself as Bobby Bear.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I got a lot of a lot of hot
water with that being done. But it hasn't happened. It
hasn't happened lately. Maybe I'm not as hot as I
used to be, but it hasn't happened so much since
I've been seen on television quite a bit and the

(04:58):
cowboy hat and all that, it has really happened most
all has happened when I was first starting out, when uh,
nobody had really seen me, so.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
They they used that so they know people don't know
what you look like, so they're able to get away
with it.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Has this happened to any friends of yours in show business?

Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm sure it's happened to just about everybody, b because
uh there's people that, uh that use it to pick
up girls. They'll go into nightclub where nobody w would no,
no country music star would normally go. They go in
the nightclub and tell 'em and act out the part.
They would get a lot of attention and get girls

(05:42):
and free drinks and things like that. Uh, I'm sure
it's happened to just just about everybody.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Go in and say I'm whaling Jenny's.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah there.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
Uh, there's a whole lot of guys you know where
that's grown a beard and wears black vest and that
can get away with whaling. I I every time I
do a show, I see I can look out in
the audience and I'll see two through whaling sitting over here.
I'll see a couple of people dressed up like I do,
and I'll see three or four dollary partings in the audience.

(06:14):
You can, mercy, Oh really you can. You can tell,
uh tell who the who they.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
Are to country are Some country fans try to dress
like their country music heroes.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Certainly, Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that. Yeah, you
can tell, or at least I can. I can tell
who who they admire by the way they dress.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Have you seen bashful Brother Oswald?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I haven't seen that. I've I've seen too spec roades.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
How about Jerry Klower, I haven't seen old Jerry Clark.
Seen a lot of Johnny Cashes, though, haven't you.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I've seen a bunch of men in black.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Here is a song I was talking to Billy Ryl
the other Day, who produced the song I'm about to
play by Tammy. When that he was little concerned. He said,
some people have taken the song the wrong way. He said,
I analyzed the song when it was first brought to me,
and I'm convinced it is not sacrilegious. And he, the

(07:12):
producer of this record, feels like that this is a
good message, and he hopes that you won't take the
song the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
And this is.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Tammy Winnett, and you had a record that people sometimes
took the wrong way. Drop kick me Jesus through the
gold posts of life, and I think you you replied
to those who would who were critical of your song.
But it doesn't matter how you get to heaven across

(07:43):
a football field or however, as long as you get.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
There, it doesn't matter as long as you're long as
you make it well.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
A young writer who had never written songs for anybody
came up with this idea. I'd like to see Jesus
on the Midnight Special. I'd like to see the wolf
Man bring him on. And then it finishes with I'd
like to see Jesus, the wolf Man and the Angel Band,
and of course the songs they refer to our religious songs.
So here is Miss Tammy Wynette.

Speaker 9 (08:17):
I'd like to see Jesus on the Midnight Special.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
I'd like to say.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
The wolf Man bring him home.

Speaker 9 (08:29):
I'd like to say Jesus on the Midnight Special. I'd
like to hear him sing my favorite songs.

Speaker 10 (08:43):
Rock Age.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
Is Theft Me, Heaven is etern of Jesus loves.

Speaker 11 (08:55):
Me This sun.

Speaker 9 (08:59):
Alchey, you saved my soul.

Speaker 12 (09:06):
I like to sit Jesus's on the Midnight Special.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I like the City the Wolfman bring him off.

Speaker 12 (09:18):
I like to see Jesus on the Midnight Special.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
That's what it's gonna take to turn the whole world on.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
When I lay.

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Me down to sleep, there's angels.

Speaker 13 (09:43):
Wanch of me, So get a ride.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
I love your hands.

Speaker 12 (09:53):
For Jesus, the wolf Man and the Angel Bad. I
like c JS on the Midnight Special. I like to
see the old.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Man bring him on.

Speaker 14 (10:12):
I like c JS on the Midnight Special. I like
to hear him sing in my favorite song.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
I like CGS.

Speaker 6 (10:26):
On the Midnight Special.

Speaker 11 (10:31):
I like to see the old.

Speaker 5 (10:34):
Man bring him on.

Speaker 10 (10:35):
I like St.

Speaker 11 (10:36):
Jesus on the mid Mai Special.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
I like to hear him sing in my favorite song.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
I like CGS on the Midnight Special.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
I like to see such Jammy when that. I'd like
to see Jesus on the Midnight Special.

Speaker 15 (11:03):
Here's Burl Hagger for tough new Ford pickups.

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Hey, pickup driving man, Are you in love?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Lord's got your coin of a real tough turtle.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It's just song running long running spoomadges song running pick
up where the prive Ford threan made tough with the
pickup driving man.

Speaker 15 (11:33):
You seventy eight Forard pickups are tough all over, maryl
tough twin I beam suspension, tough QP eights, tough corrosion
protection inside for It's tough all welded cab. You can
get my handsome Murriot interior of a New options include
four speed, overdrive, child steering wheel, integral CBE radio. See
the tough seventy eight Ford pickups at your Ford dealer

(11:54):
pick up where.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
The prown board pres ma tough for the pick up
driving man. All right, Bobby, bring on old Flutter, All right.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Here he comes Mel Tillis, and here's a song called
I Believe in.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
You and he This is sort of a different approach
from Mel Tillis. He's got a lot of violins here,
and he's really singing out.

Speaker 7 (12:36):
Believe in you.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
This is all only.

Speaker 8 (12:48):
Bound to you.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
The same screen.

Speaker 16 (12:54):
The key is understanding.

Speaker 7 (13:01):
I believe in you.

Speaker 17 (13:07):
You saw me in letting me know, to me.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Reveal my song.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I believe in you.

Speaker 17 (13:30):
I gave up all everything I was talking, what was real?
That was just the way to die kill.

Speaker 6 (13:48):
You ought me to feed.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Now I believe in me.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
You gave me a.

Speaker 17 (14:01):
Reseonto, took me in and came for me.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
In Me and.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Mel tell us.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Do you see Mal on television in his new television
series on ABC Television.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
I sure did. I thought it was a great show.
I thought it was real good. I think Mail's mails
dance steps, no matter how how he shook it up,
his dance steps still still come out as uh, the
what do you call it? The boogie woogie?

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (15:06):
You think Mal was doing a little boogie woogie.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
Well, the old time boogie woogie.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Mel told me he danced like the man on the
Gong Show.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, it wasn't, it was.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
He didn't have the moves that they have on American Bandstand.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
It wasn't. No Saturday Night fever going on.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
You've heard mel Tillis sang a pretty song cause I
believe in you. Bobby keep rolling there?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
All right, here's a Dolly parton and one title. It's
all wrong, but it's all right.

Speaker 8 (15:50):
Hello Free, I like your looks, ship, Could I use you?

Speaker 5 (16:04):
Fall while?

Speaker 8 (16:09):
It's all wrong, but it's all right.

Speaker 13 (16:12):
The ever sunsing glue My needs a very perchize it okay,
a foxt up by.

Speaker 5 (16:32):
It's all wrong, but it's all.

Speaker 18 (16:34):
Round, it's all but it's all right. Just fall around
and whole time, Yep, sexy night. It's all wrong, but

(17:00):
it's out maybe wrong we make.

Speaker 5 (17:12):
I just need something.

Speaker 18 (17:14):
Much and who knows it's my last for life.

Speaker 11 (17:24):
It's all load, it's all, it's all but it's a
that's long line all.

Speaker 5 (17:36):
World yet Sampson. It's all long, but it's all.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Mass, Dolly, Dolly, pardon. It's all wrong, but it's all right.

Speaker 10 (18:31):
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(18:54):
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Speaker 1 (18:59):
Use as directed, Bobby Bear is going to go into
his new album again and tell us a story about
just a fighting man.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Well this the moral to this story is, don't mess
around with Big Dupris, old lady.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Right, don't monkey with another monkey's monkey.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
That's right, because if you do, Big Dupree has got
this knife and he will cut on you.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
And he's a little mean. I assume Big Dupree is
a Cajun fella, right.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Big Dupree is a big Cajun fella and he is mean.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Now, you in this scenario, you are running around with
Big Dupri's wife.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, I'll get caught with her. I get caught with
her with Dupri is that Well, let's just play the record.
And Dupri is not too happy with you, is very unhappy.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
A lot of hollow was Occajun in the town that
I was raised in.

Speaker 16 (20:04):
She was something most amazing to my inexperienced eyes, but
the fact was clearly.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Stated she hadn't.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
Big Dupree was made in a dreadful fade away in
anyone who touched his bride.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Cars.

Speaker 17 (20:24):
He said it alive and clear for all the.

Speaker 6 (20:28):
Town here, and he nailed it up for all the
town to see.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
That the man who puts his hand upon the hand
of the.

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Body holive oo, we'll feel the heavy.

Speaker 16 (20:44):
Hand of Big Dupree.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
But that dangerous situation worked on my imagination, and passing.

Speaker 16 (20:55):
Up temptation ain't the thing that I do best. And
you knew the wee things happened One night Dupree was
out trapping, and I spent the evening napping with her
head upon.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Mine hills.

Speaker 15 (21:14):
Down.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
A roar comes from the door six foot fourth maybe more.

Speaker 16 (21:19):
He stood standing there, staring right at me.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
He said, boy, you put your hands upon the hand.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Of the hoty hollid.

Speaker 6 (21:32):
Now you feel the heavy hand of Big Dupree.

Speaker 16 (21:38):
Then, crazed by raging passion, he come dashing, smashing, crashing,
and I fell his blade come slashing through my shrieks
and screams and crawls, and there just ain't nothing worse
than what he done to my person. And I spend
these evenings of cursing him.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
In slightly high sound and fly we're poble down, running down.

Speaker 7 (22:14):
The town man, I put the heavy Uh.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Who is your guest on that record there?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Bobby, Well, there was one high part in there that
I couldn't get and uh, that was Shell Silverstein who
wrote the song.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
He wrote the song, and that's from the album Calledbert
b A r E. And it's the story of Big Dupree.
We're gonna leave you now, my friends. We thank you
so much for joining Bobby Bear and Ralph Emory on

(23:13):
this show. Bobby will we'll do it again tomorrow, all right.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Ralph finding my part and I've got I've.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Got some things i want to do, so I'll be
back all right.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Our show has been presented by those dependable tough trucks
from Ford and by by your aspirin.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
For that mean old headache you might have.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
We'll see tomorrow.
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