Bill Anderson 319x pt3

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, everybody from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's the Ralph Emery Show.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
This is Bill Anderson, Ralph's guest this week, and we're
glad you joined us.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Let's see Bill, Ford Trucks and Raid.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
Oh yes, our show is brought to you by Ford
Trucks and Raid.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Okay, Bill, that's good. Your first song is by Donna Fargo.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Our first song is by Donna Fargo.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
What it's called?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Uh, Daddy Bill? You can not daddy Bill, just dadd Daddy.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
And I'm finally going to write letters.

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Bold to fall A long long.

Speaker 6 (00:47):
Why casson for me?

Speaker 7 (00:49):
Wan?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
You hope that y'all are to empire?

Speaker 8 (00:55):
Has all Barrian Virginia still level on a par.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know sometimes of yourself? Don't soon, Daddy, I wish
i'd never leave.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Well? Are you working hard these things? Are you doing
all things?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Doctor's stad yard?

Speaker 6 (01:22):
You just sell aw your the back?

Speaker 9 (01:25):
Did the crops bring in what you call the wool?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, I'm might as well do the bone.

Speaker 8 (01:33):
That's not trying to call you on the phone, but
I'm getting my head.

Speaker 9 (01:41):
Yes, it is a had the money, Daddy, I'd come
on close.

Speaker 8 (01:48):
Every I did the South down train with soon.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
And Daddy it's calling, and all.

Speaker 8 (02:04):
I didn't do New York, Chicago, weeen in West Virginia.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And Nashville to Jersey, kissing her sawsticks.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Please on the dogs back by the way, he aw.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
I change and names them Rindy Down. I can't even over.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Oh, and Daddy, I.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Should miss them, beloved beings and corn red and country.
Well now I know I should listen.

Speaker 8 (02:41):
And you said I didn't have no business coming, well, Wes,
and the little girl belongs at home and the farm
Mercy was born.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
And raising.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Like all the rags.

Speaker 9 (02:59):
When I know now, and fad and I'm trying to
go on a.

Speaker 8 (03:07):
What I'm really trying to stay here is a plo
sending me the money.

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Out every day, so down trains.

Speaker 9 (03:21):
So today.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
It's calling. Oh it's called.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, we're off and away, repeat after me, We're off
and away with Donna Fargo, Dona Fargo, singing, singing, Daddy,
Daddy Bill. What does the date December nineteenth mean to you? Well,
if you had a very special calendar like the one
I have here in the studio, you'd see that that
was the day Dickens and Bill Carlisle were born. Plus

(04:02):
the amazing fact that December nineteenth was the date Uncle
Dave Macon first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry and
Hank Williams made his very last appearance. Every day of
every month shown in this unusual calendar list important country
music events, including the birthdays of your favorite stars. There's
never been another calendar like this, and on page after

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Mel Tillis, Tammy Wynette, and over one hundred more. You
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money order for two fifty to Birthday Box eighth, Nashville, Tennessee,

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thirty seven to two oh two. Oh my goodness, how
are you folks today? We hope you're well. Bill Anderson
is our guest and want to say special hello to
Provo Utah.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Let me tell you something funny.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Chris McGuire, who manages my station and programs it and
does two or three hours a day on the air
out there, told me that he took the last show
we did where we talked about him, and about every
three months he plays it again, he says, because my
name's in there. So let's say a special hello to
Chris McGuire in Provo, Utah at KFTN, and this show
will just get played and played and played out there.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Oh. If I know that, i'd have brought some of
my records which didn't make it. Put him in right now.
I've tagged him right up there next to McGuire. McGuire, McGuire. Yeah, Bill,
you're expanding your horizons and broadcasting, aren't you.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Well.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
We're trying to buy a couple more stations out in
the great state of Utah. We're in the process right
now of signing the final papers on a AMFM combination
in the town of Richfield, Utah, which is about one
hundred and fifty miles south of Provo.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Bill, I know you like Utah and awful lot. You
expressed that to me. You think you might retire there someday.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Boy, I don't know, it would be tempting.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
By the way, I've been meaning to tell you my
vacation out there this year.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Listen to you every day while I was there, and
I want to tell you the station because I couldn't
pick up my station. I was up in the mountains,
but I listened to you on KAH in Preston, Idaho.
Oh really, they carry your show there about eleven o'clock
in the morning. You had Connie Smith on one week
while I was out there, and you were talking about me,
And it was really wild sitting ou there on my

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vacation and listening to you and Connie discussed Bill Anderson.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
You know, Connie on that show stipulated that the record
we were playing, her new record, was her last country record.
She's not going to record anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I didn't hear that part of the show.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I heard her talking about some of the early days
and how Loretta helped her much in the way that
Patsy Kline had helped Loretta.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
In that thing.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, that's kind of sad to me in a way, because,
you know, having brought Connie here to start with and everything,
and knowing the great country talent that she is. I
wish she was going to keep putting out her good records.
But I guess she's doing what she wants to do.
She is.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
She said she was going to record what we call
country gospel. I guess not really gospel or not really country.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, nobody sings it any better than she does.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
But she is a super singer. And Bill you had
a great deal to do with their career, not only
in bringing her to Nashville but writing her head songs.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
When I took her first tapes over to RCA. The
one thing that Chad Atkins expressed to me and to
Hubert Long, who was with me at the time, he said,
you know, he said, We've got a lot of girl singers.
He said, the problem is finding the songs. He said,
if I signed this girl, where are her songs going
to come from?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
And I raised my hand and.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Said, I'll, you know, I'll try to write them if
you'll cut them. And I guess out of the first
four or five sessions Connie did, I probably wrote all
but maybe one or two songs. She ended up recording
more of Dallas Frasiers than mine. I know I need
to speak with her about.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Once a day. Of course, Tiny Blue Transistory, what else
back that in that era?

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Then and only then?

Speaker 1 (07:51):
I can't remember Cincinnati, Ohio Gee, so many of them.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
But these were the songs you wrote for her.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
And one of her first albums was Connie smith sings
Bill Anderson where she went back and did a lot
of my songs.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know, so she paid me back many times.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
And then went to Dallas. Yeah, she did record a
lot of Dallas Razer songs. Bell how about singing as
a song here? What do you what do you want
to say about this tune?

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Well, one of the television networks has used this song
quite a bit. I wish they'd used my version of it.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
The ABC television.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, they use this all the time, and it really
ties in very well. It's a song that a group
called Orleans had a big pop record on and I
decided to do a country version of it.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
It's called Still the One.

Speaker 6 (08:32):
We gain since way back.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Sometimes I want to see you, but I won't, you know,
after all these years.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
Years, Still.

Speaker 9 (08:55):
I want to sling one.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
I want to talk to him, Still the one that
turns my head.

Speaker 9 (09:05):
We're still having fun and you're still wone.

Speaker 6 (09:12):
I look at your face every day, but I never.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
Saw it thet way.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Wetter king.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
I just wanted to go.

Speaker 9 (09:33):
In the dessert.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
I love on.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Still the one that makes me laugh, Still one that's
my better hand.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
We're still having fun and you're still.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
You're still one. It makes me strong. Still I want
to take long.

Speaker 9 (09:59):
We still have the fun, and you're stealing, even.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
Though we grow secross, You're.

Speaker 9 (10:32):
Steal the one that I love to touch and steal
the one, and I can't get enough.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
We're still having fun and you're still.

Speaker 9 (10:45):
You're still one. Can scratch my itch, steal the one,
and I wouldn't switch. We're still heaving fun and you're stealing.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Are steal the one? It makes me shout still dreams
about were.

Speaker 8 (11:07):
Still You're still.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Our guest, Bill Anderson singing still the one? Bill, tell
us about the baby. Give me an update on the baby.
Last year when you were here, the baby was quite young.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, the baby's still quite young.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
Well younger.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh listen, I could talk about the baby all day.
James William Anderson, the fourth we call him Jamie.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Oh, let's see.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
He must weigh about twenty five twenty six pounds now,
and I forget how many inches long the doctor said
he is.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
He's big.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
He's going to be a big boy. Of course, I'm,
you know, almost sixty three, and Becky's quite tall. Becky's
about five and so we couldn't very well have a midget.
I own guess he's going to be a big boy,
laughs all the time, in a good mood.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
When will he be on one of your album covers?

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Just as soon as I can get him over there, probably.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
I figured that would be the next step.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
You publicize his career.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
He's the doctor told him the other day.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
He went in for his one year check up, right
after his first birthday, and he does.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
All these little imitations. He's the funniest little thing you
ever saw.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
You see, I knew he was in show business.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
He's gonna be, I believe, because you'll say to him, Jamie,
what does Tarzan say?

Speaker 7 (12:32):
It?

Speaker 1 (12:32):
He go, and he can talk like Donald Duck. And
you ask him what does the airplane say? He goes,
you know, do all the sounds and the you do
all those things, Bill, Well, yeah, that's part of my act.
But the doctor said the other day, he said, you know, said,
I really believe he's got some of his daddy's god
given talent.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
And when the doctor said that, I wanted to cry.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, now, I assume at this point you really haven't
worked out his career yet. Manage your bus. I got
to tell you what he loved.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I got to tell you what he did at the
doctor's office though, because this may put a stop if
he's going to be like this. The doctor told Becky
to take him into the little examining room and get
him ready for the examination, and to take all his
clothes off, you know. So Becky's sitting in there with
him and he's just as neked as a day he
was born. And the doctor comes in, and when the
doctor opens the door, Jamie darts out, ran out in

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his little birthday suit, went right out to the to
the waiting room when people were sitting around waiting for
their appointment. And Becky said he ran right over to
this little girl that was sitting there in a little
chair and just ran right over there tour, you know,
and the doctor had to come get him, streaking at
age one.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
An exhibitionist already wanted to be in show, and he
is daddy's born. Well, let's see, I've got a baby
song here to play. This is an album cut that
I thought a lot of and it's by Charlie McLean,
that sweet little gay album Memphis. And it's Charlie singing, Baby,
I'm gonna want you.

Speaker 8 (13:58):
Baby, You're the only one car enough to heard about.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Maybe I'm a crazy but I just can't be with thou.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
Your loving and affection.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Gathering me direction.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
Like a guiding light to help me through my dark style.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Maybe I'm appraised, but you'll always besty beside me.

Speaker 8 (14:37):
Used to be my life was just emotions passing, bow
feeling all the well and never really knowing why.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
Baby, I'm a pradier that you'll always.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Be stayed beside me.

Speaker 8 (15:13):
Used to be my life was just emotions passing. Then
you came along and made me laughing.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Babe me cry, you talk me why.

Speaker 9 (15:30):
You baby?

Speaker 8 (15:33):
Im a media.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Baby, baby a media. Oh it took so long to fine.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
You be baby.

Speaker 9 (15:58):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Charlie mac another Charlie mack. We haven't built on no
one here in Nashville. Charlie McClain with baby, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right, Let's take it down to South Texas or
North Mexico or somewhere Here's Johnny Rodriguez and fools for
each other.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
I don't want to tell you how it's over.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
You don't want to tell.

Speaker 10 (17:32):
Me that we're through. But we can hardly look at
one and other.

Speaker 6 (17:44):
I guess leaving it's the best thing I can do.

Speaker 10 (17:51):
We beople all each other, crazy promise.

Speaker 6 (17:58):
Time wos for each other.

Speaker 10 (18:03):
We couldn't stand to be upont We used to be
fools for each other, but now we're just too with
broken hoigh.

Speaker 7 (18:30):
I suppose you find another lover and it won't take
me long to fall again. It seems to me we're
just win war another.

Speaker 10 (18:52):
Fools fos tail the very end.

Speaker 6 (18:59):
We used to be sort o.

Speaker 10 (19:04):
Crazy bron starvetory to other.

Speaker 7 (19:10):
We couldn't stand to bes to beat fry Tver.

Speaker 6 (19:18):
But now we're just to bool with broken.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Hog Old Johnny Rodriguez scoring with another big hit over

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I've got two fool songs here back to back, another
one coming up here in a moment, and in the
studio I have Bill Anderson.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Trying to tie that all together.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I'm just trying to figure out where I am.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Bill.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Bill. You were disc jockey for holl Long almost four years.
I assume when you were doing it, though, you were
not doing it as something you were going to entertain
for a lifetime.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oh yeah, yeah. I just hoped someday i'd be good
enough to get to Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
You mean you were serious about making career of that.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Oh yeah, yeah, because you know, I never really thought
I could could get into the music business.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
That was something other people did, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
I just wanted to be a good enough disc jockey
to go from Commerce, maybe to Athens and then maybe
to Augusta, Jamaica, and then hit the big time in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
They're they're telling me to move on with my Fool records.
Here's Jim and Helen.

Speaker 10 (21:11):
Oo. Now, girler, you play with f.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
You're gonna get the burn.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
Nie off. We play with.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
You can't do me?

Speaker 10 (22:04):
You live?

Speaker 6 (22:16):
No, No, it's locky.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Thing finals some.

Speaker 9 (22:39):
Wait, get stup?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
What this sign.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
A baby?

Speaker 9 (22:54):
I can't let.

Speaker 6 (23:02):
This baby?

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Arkansas Boy, Missouri Girl, Jimmy and Brown, Helen Cornelia singing
Fools