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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Ralph Emery Weekly radio show, well
actually daily Mini Markets and each week though we have
a new guest star. And our guest this week is
Bill Anderson. And here's one of the strangest love songs
I've ever heard. Those strange words that some young fellow
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whispered into the lovely ear of a girl. I love
you Drops.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Funny name for a girl. Drops.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This goes back a few years, but I always like
this because you have a little, well a little to
a very bright record. Here's Bill Anderson and the Poe.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Boys justin see drop their kind love you Drops.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Oh, I love you.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
That you were on pillow when I welcome this morning,
they were on the latter. I tried all day to run,
and just a little while ago I saw them falling
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on your victure as I kissed.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Him good night.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I love Drops.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I miss you, Drops, horry hole, Drops, You've been gone
so long.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Drops there not.
Speaker 8 (01:43):
John say, Drops that say I'm old so and I
love you. I never knew this harm could hurt the
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way it hurts for you never lived so many lifetimes
in a week.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Why don't you come back to me the way you
said you and kiss these little crystals off my cheek.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I love drops.
Speaker 9 (02:35):
I listen, drop.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
Hory home drumps. You've been gone so long, drops dead,
just drop and say I'm long, sir, and I love you.
Speaker 10 (03:01):
I love you.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Bill? You still, how are you? Bill? You don't use
Poe Boys anymore? Po folks, it's the folks now.
Speaker 11 (03:18):
Of course, Poe Boys was drawn from the song po Folks.
I mean that's where it came from. So actually, when
I added the girls to the group, I went back
and just used the original.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Name Bill Anderson the Po Boys in this case. And
I love you drops. Bill. I you know you earlier
said you've been in this business for twenty years, and
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that's hard hard for me to believe. It's all right.
I can recall when you first came to Nashville, and
I want you to tell the story about the time
you almost killed Roger Miller.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
You mean tell it right now?
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah? Oh, okay. If Bill hadn't come to his senses,
there wouldn't be a Roger Miller.
Speaker 11 (04:07):
There may have never been a Dang Me, a chug
a lug, or a King of the Road hotel or song. Yeah,
Roger was going to take advantage of the fact that
he thought I wasn't in my little house. One night
when I first moved to Nashville, I really had a
little cabin I lived in almost like a little log cabin,
very small little place, kind of out behind a big house.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And for some reason, Roger wanted to.
Speaker 11 (04:27):
Come in my house this particular night, and he didn't
have a key, and so he decided, well, you know,
why do I just go in through the window. And
the window was right by the head of the bed.
Roger thought that I was not there because I parked
my car way down the street for the simple reason
that there were some people in town that I didn't
want to know that I was at home. I was
in the house, all the lights off, I was in
the bed. I was sound asleep, and I heard the
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window right at the head of my bed start up,
and you know, I thought, okay, there, you know, somebody's
coming in to get me, you know, and I could.
I looked over and I saw I could see a hand,
and then I began to see a head came in
and then the rest of the body, and I figure,
you know, here's an intruder that's coming in. I didn't
have a gun. I didn't know, really you know, what
to do, and I had the presence of mind somehow.
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When the guy got about halfway in through the window,
I reached over and got the other pillow on the
other side of the bed, shoved the pillar right in
this guy's face and was trying to push him out
the window. And I reached for my alarm clock, a big,
heavy wind up alarm clock, and I raised it up
over my head and I was just coming down across
this guy's head with the clock when I heard this voice.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Say, ay, Bill, it's Roger.
Speaker 11 (05:32):
But if I had come down with that clock as
big as it was and as scared as I was,
i'd hit him awfully hard.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It's probably fortunate you didn't have a gun.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, if I'd had a gun, i'd have probably shot him.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But Roger used to sit with me at night when
I would play records. But Roger hated to go home,
and I think he was very nocturnal. He hate to
go to bed, so he roamed around Nashville a lot,
and he would He probably just figured if he was
in the neighborhood and you weren't home, he'd sleep there.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Yeah, it might be some the in the refrigerator. You know,
come on in make yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
At all Bill, Who's next on our show?
Speaker 11 (06:05):
Jamie Fricky one of my favorite female singers, And let's
try again.
Speaker 9 (06:10):
You don't want to be alone? You say you're always blue, darling,
I've got news for you. I'm lonely too.
Speaker 11 (06:32):
You say you're still I love well made.
Speaker 12 (06:39):
I'm pray to God it's.
Speaker 9 (06:41):
True, because I'm a bus certain I still love you.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
If it's not to things to again again, I'd like
to try to put back something says again, things ja
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so much that there's gone.
Speaker 13 (07:25):
In the main.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
We're still in.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Then let's try again. On my brims can tell me.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
The time would heal my live?
Speaker 4 (07:54):
But I've known all along, But just what some true.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
My loves been locked inside.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
My sa.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Just bag into big free.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
No one else but you could ever hall the key.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
So it's not too.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
To get things to be again.
Speaker 9 (08:39):
I'd like to dry.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
To put my someby says again, they have cha so
much that has not than the man.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Weir. Let's check.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
We see again, Janie Frickey singing, Let's try again. What
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Box eighth, Nashville, Tennessee, thirty seven two oh two. Bill Jeret,
Could have you ever recorded you know this business we
call country and Western? You ever record a cowboy song?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Not really, I've done a couple that came kind of close.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
I did a thing on a recent album called Ride
Off in the Sunset, which is the story about.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
An old time cowboy.
Speaker 11 (10:45):
I guess the closest I've ever come to really doing
a cowboy song was I sang the theme song in
a Henry Fonda movie made for television movie back when
they first started making these special movies for television, a
song called Stranger on the Run, and it was pretty
much of a Western kind of song.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That's about the closest I've ever come, I.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Think, Bill, And in your Sight and Sound production presentation
on stage, you cover the gamut of American music. Do
you feature Western music in that presentation?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Not cowboy music as such?
Speaker 11 (11:17):
We feature Western swing from the Bob Wills era, and
we use pictures of Bob on his horse from some
of the movies that he did, and then people of
course like Hank Thompson and Judy Lynn who do the
big Western swing thing. We don't really do anything cowboy. Yes,
although I've got to tell you the night we did
our show for the Winter Baseball meetings in Orlando, I
sent to California and got a picture of Gene Autry
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because he's, of course the owner of the California Angels,
and of course the great Cowboys star, and when we
alluded to Western music that night, we had a picture
of mister Autrey on the screen, and everybody really applauded.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
When his picture came.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Actually, anybody with a California Angels.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Well, I noticed the other teams applauded too.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I'm sure he is held with greatest deem by everybody. Well,
I've got a cowboy here singing to cowboys.
Speaker 14 (12:01):
Mister party rabbins wheel all around cowboy. I wanted six
years in a row.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
All around cowboy means chample the big ruined. You made
me some money, hand me some good times to the
all that I've had.
Speaker 14 (12:23):
Have been due till rodeo Queen made the all around
cowboy looked like and all around fool.
Speaker 12 (12:36):
I was the.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
Cowboy that said he would never be ruthed.
Speaker 14 (12:43):
I even bragged how I'd never be branded and brood.
I was doing right well till this blonde little Philly
rode into my lifeline. The dream and the Aller and
Cawble fell head over hughes in love with the rodeold Queen.
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The morement, I.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Looked in her blue eyes and knew I was gone.
Speaker 14 (13:15):
I'd tried to hide them, but the feelings I had
were too strong.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
She showed the world what in all around.
Speaker 14 (13:25):
Cawble could do. She showed the world howling all around
Camble could look like, and all around who. She made
me feel like a horse without any fire. Julie, I
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realized breaking me was her desire. She rolled me and
raked me, whispered and lesson to her. She left me broken,
and she left me crying out there in the rodeoder.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
The moment I looked in her blue eyes and you,
I was gone.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I'm trying to hide him.
Speaker 14 (14:18):
But the feelings I had weren't too strong. And she
showed the world putting all around Cowboy can do.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
She showed the world halveing all around Cawbo could look like,
and all around Pool. She showed the world holven all
around Cowboy could look like, and all around.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Pool old Golden Trout, Marty Robbins singing all around Cowboy Bill,
Why don't you bring on this great singer?
Speaker 13 (15:06):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (15:07):
Whenever they ask me, they say who's your favorite singer?
And I guess this happens with just about everybody in
our business. They see who's your favorite singer? And the
automatic answer is George Jones and Someday his day will come.
Speaker 14 (15:20):
Someday my day will come.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
I won't need a thing at all.
Speaker 13 (15:32):
I guess I can stand proud and tall.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
And say just what I.
Speaker 13 (15:44):
Someday my day will come, when dreams become.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Reality, I'll deal what I want to.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Someday my day will come.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
It's a tire and path trale great step, I turn
lord and set back to.
Speaker 14 (16:22):
We all have rules and mine to play, and I'll
play a great one. Someday someday my day will come.
Speaker 13 (16:42):
I'll hold to love riding my hand. I'll touch the
pretty rid bows.
Speaker 12 (16:52):
In my cup will load flow Sunday my day.
Speaker 13 (17:06):
I'll watch my ship as he comes in my castle's walker, Sir, somedayday.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
I'll hold your love ride mine.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Sunday, mo day come, Old Possum Jones George singing, Someday
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Normould I play this by day with Sugar. You tell
me you were the first record.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, I recorded it before they did.
Speaker 11 (19:21):
I just didn't have the presence of mind or the
foresight to put it out for a single. I did
it in my Lady's Choice album. This song goes back
to the group Exile that did the big rock hit
kiss You All Over, And when I did that for
the Lady's Choice album.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I bought their album and got into it a.
Speaker 11 (19:36):
Little bit and heard this song and it's really, I think,
a great country song.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
Well, I don't know what makes you want to go, Baby,
won't let your feel and show Now you leavething me
all alone and I'll be just a broken hard.
Speaker 11 (20:00):
With me, just a little bit longer with me till
I'm a little stronger. I can't baste the lie alone
without baby, a.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Little mercy on me.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Tell me, girl, you want to leave the company.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Stay, let's talk about about the.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Oh I want.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
But it's one last p for you. Come, come and
do what you want to do so beyond and things.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Stay this wordless right for your help, ease the pay.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
Stay with me just a little bit longer me till
I'm a little stronger.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I can't bat the mine by A little mercy on me.
Tell me, girl, you want to be in the company. Stay,
let's talk about about that.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Just a little bit.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Longer, me till I'm a little stronger.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I can't paste a night alone without love.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Baby, A little mercy on me.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Tell me you won't leave me alone.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Stay, let's talk.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Stay, let me just a little longer, me till I'm.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
A little stalk. I can't baste an baby, A little
mercy on me. Tell me, girl, you want to be alone?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Stay, let's talk, Stay.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Longer, stay.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Stupid.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Our guests, Bill Anderson, will stay with me. Now my
friends will leave you, but we'll head me back for
another session with Bill Anderson tomorrow. Bill, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thank you, Ralph, look forward to next time.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
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This is Ralph Memory, thanking you for listening
Speaker 9 (25:02):
Us.