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May 29, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hm and with the help of a fabulous group of
pickers and singers known as the Poe Folks, Here's a
song I hope you like call the Dream Never Dies.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Dream dies just the dreamer, the dream it dies, strang.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
The song dies, just the singer.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Come on, everybody dream Some.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Men dream of fame and song the fortune. Some men
dream about the time gone back. All men dream of happiness,
All men dream even love for without dreams and signs,

(01:05):
without dreams, how could we.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Know get by listening?

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Dream never die?

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Just the dream, dream never dies.

Speaker 7 (01:19):
Its strong, song never dies.

Speaker 8 (01:25):
Just the singers.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Come along.

Speaker 7 (01:30):
Everybody dream along.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Dream now dive, just the dream, the dream neverdies, it
being strong.

Speaker 9 (01:49):
You know, ever since I was a little boy, I've
dreamed about night's life, tonight, traveling, getting out on the
big stage somewhere singing my song. I guess over the
past few years my dreams have come true.

Speaker 10 (02:04):
Thousands of times.

Speaker 9 (02:07):
But you know, even if they hadn't, I'd have kept
writing on dreaming it.

Speaker 10 (02:10):
Anyhow, I meet so many people in.

Speaker 9 (02:13):
My travels who compromise, who settle for less than they dream,
and they walk around looking down at the ground saying amen.

Speaker 10 (02:23):
But dream dying.

Speaker 9 (02:25):
But dreams don't die, no, not if you dream them
long enough and strong enough. You men out there listening
to me right now, you're dreaming of success.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
At you dreaming.

Speaker 10 (02:37):
Of finding that perfect lady. Hey, keep dreaming, you'll get it.

Speaker 9 (02:42):
And ladies, you're dreaming of the good life, finding that
man you want to kiss you and hold you, fulfill you.

Speaker 10 (02:50):
You'll find it.

Speaker 9 (02:52):
Dream on.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Die just a dream, dream neverze in strong, song never dies, just.

Speaker 8 (03:09):
The same, Just to come on, but dream.

Speaker 10 (03:16):
Along, stinking with me.

Speaker 9 (03:18):
Now, the dream never dies, just the dream by.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
The dream never dies.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
It strange stop song never dies, just a singer.

Speaker 9 (03:35):
So come on, everybody, dream along.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Dreams alone, Go on one now, dream never die, just
a dream.

Speaker 11 (03:47):
That's old Bill, Bill Anderson, our guest star of the
week with a dream never dies. Bill, Are we going
to go back to funny radio stories in this show?

Speaker 6 (04:05):
You got any more? Oh?

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Goodness, I know I've probably got some, really and truly, Ralph,
and I don't mean this to sound bad in any way.
Most of the things that happened to me in radio
that were funny really turned out to have double meanings.
Or if I were to sit here and tell him
they'd come off like dirty stories. Oh, I wouldn't want
that to happ Well, I realized you wouldn't. Have you
ever laughed your way through the funeral report. I had
that happen to me. One day. A friend of mine

(04:28):
worked about twenty miles away at another radio station, and
we had a local funeral report every.

Speaker 10 (04:34):
Day on our radio station.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
And I was very seriously reading it, not knowing that
my friend was within one hundred miles of where I was.

Speaker 10 (04:42):
And I happened to look.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Up and the studio room faced the control room, and
there was a glass there. And right as I was
reading about this poor man dying and the funeral services,
I looked up and my friend, whom I hadn't seen
in months, was given me the Kilroy thing, you know,
his nose up on the counter there, you know, and
look just looks like the cartoon you'd see with Kilroy

(05:03):
was here. And right in the middle of the funeral report,
I just cracked up and started laughing and could not
gain my composure.

Speaker 11 (05:08):
And that's very embarrassing, that's terrible, but it really is.
I can't believe the America is all American. Boy, I
would do that. Well, he did did you ever try
to break the other guys up?

Speaker 9 (05:18):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (05:19):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 11 (05:19):
That's uh, that's a favorite pastime of radio announcers, try
to break your buddies up.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
We went over to another station one time and the
guy was in the studio, not at the control board,
but in the studio where he had no way to control.

Speaker 10 (05:34):
Himself on or off the air.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
In other words, they said, here he is, and then
they opened the mic in the studio and he was
reading the news that we went in and set fire
to the news he was holding in his hand he
was reading, and the government said, said today trying to
blow the fire out, and fanned the flame.

Speaker 10 (05:48):
And we were standing out in the hall dying laughing.

Speaker 11 (05:50):
Did you ever do one of those things and have
it backfire on you? Or you break a guy up
and you wish you hadn't?

Speaker 10 (05:56):
No, I don't think so that happened to you.

Speaker 11 (05:57):
Yes, we uh. We had a fellow on our announcing
staff that we thought was a little stuffy, and he
had put us on by telling us he had formerly
worked with MVC. We found out he was an NBC
page boy, which is not on the announcing staff, and
so it became a thing with us, the three announcers
that decided we would try to break him up, and

(06:19):
he was pretty good, and we had a difficult time,
and we've worked on a day every day and we
couldn't break the guy up. And finally we did in
the worst possible spot, and it went something like this.
He was reading a National Safety Council announcement and it went,
did you know that last year six hundred and fifty

(06:40):
people were killed on the nation's highways. We broke him
up right at that point he started laughing, and you know,
now we're wishing we hadn't done it. Yeah, it was terrible.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
One of the funniest things I ever heard on radio
happened down in Georgia, where it doesn't get all that
cold in the winter time. And this disc jockey was
a guy who he was a farmer, really and truly,
and he came in and did the early morning show
on the radio station and then he went back to
his little farm or his little country store or whatever
he did.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
The rest of the day.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But he came in this particular morning and the temperature
was zero, right on zero. He had never seen the
temperature on zero before, so he starts doing the weather forecast,
and it's chilly outside this morning. The weatherman says it's
gonna be fair to partly cloudy, a high to day
of twenty seven degrees. The current temperature is and he
looked up at thermometer was sitting on zero. He says,

(07:30):
good lord, we ain't got no temperature.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
I love that.

Speaker 11 (07:39):
Well, let's play a record here by Don Williams Don
to sing. It must be lost.

Speaker 12 (07:44):
I get coold and hot, think I'm on fire, but
I'm not over a pain I've got. It must be
the there's nothing I can do. All that I want
is you.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Look what I'm going through. It must be. It must
be the love. It must be the I fall like.

Speaker 8 (08:06):
A sparrow, Why I get them?

Speaker 13 (08:09):
You must be the dream I've been dreaming of, Oh
water feeling.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
It must be the.

Speaker 12 (08:20):
Something is wrong all right? I think of you all night,
can't sleep till morning. Like it must be the seeing you.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
In my dreams, holding you close.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
To me for what it was?

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Can it be?

Speaker 3 (08:36):
It must be the It must be a love. It
must be the I fall like.

Speaker 13 (08:43):
A sparrow, fly like get them?

Speaker 6 (08:46):
You must be the dream five I've been dreaming.

Speaker 13 (08:49):
Of, Oh water feeling it must be the It must
be the love.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
It must be the I fall like.

Speaker 13 (09:00):
A sparrow fly like Gooddom. You must be the dream
of been dreaming at a water feeling.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
It must be love.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
It must be love.

Speaker 6 (09:13):
Love, It must be love.

Speaker 13 (09:16):
I fall like a sparrow flyler Goodom you must be
the dream of and dreaming.

Speaker 6 (09:25):
Water feeling. It must be the.

Speaker 11 (09:41):
Good sounds of dying William singing, it must be love.
To a genuine country music fan, the date December tenth
is very special. That was the day the WSM Barn
Dance became the legendary grandell Opry back in nineteen twenty
seven and September eighteenth, well, in nineteen forty seven, tub
was the first country music star to perform on the

(10:02):
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(10:24):
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Speaker 3 (10:45):
Bill.

Speaker 11 (10:45):
I think we ought to play your record of Country
DJ in lieu of the fact that we are telling
so many radio stories.

Speaker 10 (10:53):
Well, all the stories I talk about in this record
are true.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
It really happens.

Speaker 14 (10:56):
Just this way.

Speaker 9 (10:58):
I'm getting up my next door neighbors, turning off the
late show, and hitting the hay. I've got to sign
on the radio station. I'm what's known as a country
d JA. Nothing in the house but Sirvenston coffee, Joe
nuts left from early yesterday ain't exactly what you'd call it.

(11:22):
Gore may breakfast, but rich boys don't play country d J.
He your phones, microphones, telling bones, back bones.

Speaker 12 (11:32):
Just about to break now any day.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
One Graphs and Grass and.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Grass Daly last had the tap sure getting written this
way gord, have mercy on a country d j.

Speaker 9 (11:49):
To fan letters in my box this morning note from
the bosses.

Speaker 8 (11:54):
Cut down the gap.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Woman rode in and asked for a song called or
another woman's husband driving a caw. The news machine must
have run out of paper. Last thing I have is
the midnight report whether corkcast says warm and sunny funny.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
It was snowing when I came in the door.

Speaker 9 (12:19):
Here phones, microphones, telephones, backbones just about to break now
any day, phtographs, photographs, autographs early last pepitaph sure get
ridden this way, Lord, have mercy on it, dja. Another

(12:41):
disc jockey taught me the business, showed me how to
talk and the things to do.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Poor old boy.

Speaker 9 (12:49):
Passed away last Monday.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Old age god he met.

Speaker 9 (12:53):
The age of twenty two thirty more seconds and the
poodle start play and turned tables. Ready got my records
and had I still get a thrill every morning when
I tell them how they their friends out radio land,
dear phones, microphones, tell of phones, back bones just about

(13:15):
to break down any day. Phone and graphs, phone and graphs,
part and graphs.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Delly, last, have the tash sure get written this way?

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Or den mercy on a country d J.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Are you sure that Ralph Emery and Charlie Douglass got
started this way? I tell you I have to do
everything around here.

Speaker 9 (13:39):
Sign on, sign off, pick out records, pick up trash,
cut commercials, cut the grass, carry out orders, carry out garbage,
answer to the boss, answer the phone of a good
morning radio station. No, ma'am, Porta Wagner is not married
to Dolly Party and I'll.

Speaker 11 (13:57):
Give you idea of the rough road that jockey's purst
sue or follow Bill Anderson on our show singing mister DJ,

(14:22):
take it, mister DJ.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
All right, Rex Allen Junior.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
And if I fell in love with you, If.

Speaker 15 (14:27):
I fell in love with you, would you bring my heart?
Would you help me build the dreams? Tear them all upon.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
What you take by feelings where they've never been before?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Baby? You know.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
I want to go.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
If it's what you're letting me live.

Speaker 7 (14:56):
And be brave?

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Oh love, b have to give. If I fell too hard,
would you helped.

Speaker 7 (15:04):
Me to my feet again?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
I've got to know.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
I've got to know.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
Did my fall.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
Alone with you like I think I'm gonna do?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Would you let me know this? Because if I'm.

Speaker 8 (15:23):
Going to play the food, if a ball alone with
you and.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
You broke my heart to like the other ones, I don't,
maybe I'd be better off along.

Speaker 15 (15:49):
Give a set that home frame what you turned away?
Would you help me find the proper lines to make
you stay? What you teach me how to keep your
love forever?

Speaker 8 (16:04):
Mind? Then teach me how.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Or tell me now? If I'm bad in.

Speaker 8 (16:13):
Love with you like a big I'm going to do, would.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
You let me know this time?

Speaker 16 (16:21):
If I'm gone play the food, bad in love with
you and you broke my heart to like the other ones,
I don't, Maybe.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I'd be better off along. I fell in love with me,
if A fall alone, I alone, if.

Speaker 11 (17:04):
Little chicoll Rex Island Junior, and if I fell in
love with you.

Speaker 14 (17:08):
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Speaker 6 (17:12):
Pickup driving Man, are you in love? Ford's can your
cab of the real tough travel?

Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's the pick up with the bad for.

Speaker 14 (17:26):
Friends made to the pickup driving Man and Ford Toughness.
Merle is one big reason why Ford pickups are the
best selling pickups in America.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
According to R. L.

Speaker 14 (17:37):
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tough all welded double wall box on Ford style sides,
and all Ford pickups have tough rust fighters like galvanizing
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Speaker 11 (17:57):
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(18:17):
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we have not included Mary Lou Turner, and I know

(18:38):
later on we have her new record in this show,
but I thought we would feature something that you did
with Mary Lou Well.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I think that's very nice and I'm sure she will
appreciate if this is the first record we ever made together.

Speaker 11 (18:48):
You still do the duets as part of your road show.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, Mary Lou is still a permanent part of our
road show and will be through the end of this year.
She's going to kind of go out on her own
in the first part of nineteen eighty and will not
be a part of our show.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
I see why I hear that.

Speaker 10 (19:04):
Well, I do it to your records together, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
We've had a lot of fun recording and working together.
But I think she kind of wants to try her
wings a little bit. She's got a new recording contract,
and I don't really blame.

Speaker 11 (19:13):
Her all right now, this goes to nineteen seventy five,
and this was the first time you did this.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Its call.

Speaker 10 (19:19):
Sometimes Hello, beautiful, Are you married?

Speaker 17 (19:38):
Sometimes?

Speaker 10 (19:42):
Tell me?

Speaker 9 (19:44):
Are you happy?

Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yes? Sometimes? But sometimes I feel like I've just got
to get away from the same old existence day after day.
Oh haven't you.

Speaker 11 (20:04):
Ever felt that way?

Speaker 10 (20:08):
Sometime I can see you're married, don't you love her?

Speaker 17 (20:18):
Sometimes?

Speaker 10 (20:22):
But you have thought of cheating, haven't you.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yes?

Speaker 17 (20:28):
Sometimes sometimes I long for a warm, tender kiss, just
to see if there's anything.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
I might have missed you. Haven't you per felt like this.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Sometimes?

Speaker 7 (20:52):
And it's beginning to feel like Chris might be one
of the sometime.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Those one time.

Speaker 7 (21:08):
In a life time, I aking to holding kiss and console.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
You drive you right out of your mind.

Speaker 8 (21:23):
But I know when I do, I won't get over you.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
A quiet sun time, I'm making to holding kiss and console.

Speaker 8 (21:41):
You drive you right out of your mind.

Speaker 7 (21:46):
But I know what I do, I won't get over
you a quiet sun time.

Speaker 11 (22:05):
Bill Anderson with Mary Lou Turner. That's called sometimes Well
my friends were going to mosey on out of here
boy in radio. In the radio world, there been more

(22:30):
classic closers.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
Bill, I wish I could remember the way I used
to close my disc jockey show. I started about seven
minutes before I had to be off the air. Because
I did more crazy, foolish junk going off the air.
I made a production out of it.

Speaker 17 (22:42):
Every day.

Speaker 11 (22:43):
They won't give us that much. All we can say
is four trucks and raid brought you the show. Thank you, Bill,
and bye bye bye.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
Need to know.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
Not to know not to

Speaker 2 (25:01):
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