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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This week we were visiting with Ed Bruce and Ed,
I got a loose string here. I want a loose threat.
I want to pick up. Earlier, we were talking about
how you got the part on Maverick, and we went
through the part where you had met Jim Garner at
a golf tournament several years. You meet him at a
golf tournament. He likes country songwriters, obviously liked you. But
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it's still a long way from the tea out to Hollywood.
How did you get selected?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Subsequently, course, I told you the story about meeting Stuart
in his singing?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Who is Stuart?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Stuart Margolin who was angel you know and was doing
the singing, was on the show of the second year.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
There and.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Last summer.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Apparently they had read quite a few people, uh, for
the part of Tom Guthrie, and I don't know how
any but I was given the believer. It's quite a
few Jim said one time, we read everybody in Hollywood. Well,
obviously they didn't read everybody in Hollywood, but a lot
of people. And they were really dissatisfied. They were not
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happy with anybody they had come up with. And they, uh,
they had an option they had taken an option on
a particular person.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
And we're within hours of exercising that option, just getting
right down to the deadline.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And have they were going to sign this other actor
for that role.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Stuart says, you know what we really needs and ed
Bruce and Jim said, uh. Or as the story is
recounted to me, Jim said, uh, well, okay, why don't
we get Ed Bruce? Can he act? And Stuart said, well,
I've I've got a h a a good friend that's
a good friend of his and Patsy's. And he called
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the young lady that we were talking about earlier that uh,
Patsy brought out to your show several years ago. Sherry Rhodes,
who did the location casting on Lukes of Hazzard, called
Shery to find out how to get in touch with
us and call the office.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
And Jim called Patsy.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I was in a studio Victor doing chewing tobacco commercial
at the town and she came in and said after
I finished, she waited until I got three, and she
walked in she said, well, where're going Hollywood in the morning.
I said, okay, you know, I thought, well, what's she
coming up with?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Now and she's on I asked her years go pretty much?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Hey, when I when I decided when I came home
early from work that day and back in August sixty six,
and she said, what are you doing here so early?
Why why aren't you at work? And I said, I
got to go to Nashville. She said, I'll pack a
bag when you read late. She trusted me then, So anyway,
she said, well, Jim Garner called and they're going to
redo the Maverick series and they want you to come
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read for the co starring roll with him. I said sure,
And next morning we were on the plane and only
way to Hollywood. It okay, And you got out there,
you read for the part, read for the part, went
met the band somewhere. We were in the middle of
a tour, met the band somewhere, did a couple of shows,
and then flew back the next Monday to do a
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screen test then, which Jim did with me, which is
fairly unusual, and then we got the part heard from
Then in a couple of days, I was in New
York doing some commercials and Jim called me up there
and said, I've gotten the part.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
You said, I haven't got time Jim, I'm doing some commercials. No, No,
I didn't do that. Ralph. Now that you know you
you were laid back and treating this kind of lightly.
That had to be exciting.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Surely it was, and I was very excited about it.
It took a while even for some of it to
soaky and you pinched yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I knew that it was.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
A good career move. It was a career decision, and
we talked about it patchy that we discussed it whether
to do it. She maintained that she felt all along,
just a gut feeling that it was in the back
that I had the part uh, from the time that
Jim called. In fact, she told me that later on
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that first day, that first Monday afternoon, when Jim called,
she said, she said, this is it.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
And I said, well, you know, there many other things before.
She said, no, I've just got the gut feeling this team.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Well, and she was right, obviously, she was right. Let's
play this too. I like this song. I do too.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
There were others, and some were friends and some were
merely lovers, but they all helped me discover It's so.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
You find something wrong, it would be true and I sitting.
No week, would I fall again? No, No, no week.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
There's just too many hardy s.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
I don't like the week to be.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
My un break, and it was you. You're the best break.
It's so hard every day.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
You're all of good luck that I ever need to have,
never thought I'd ever love again like that. You're the
best break the soul.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Ever had.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
And all around me my world was crumbling down all
around me.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Wool, but then you found me, and with your love
you men did's my life.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You're the best break.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The soul hard.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
You're all the good luck that I ever need. He
ever thought I'd ever love again like that. You're the
best way you saw.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Ever.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
You're the best break the soul hard ever had. You're
all the good luck that I'll never need.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Have.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Never thought I'd ever love again like that. You're the
best que.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
This soul.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Ever had.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
You're the best this soul ever had.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
That's Ed Bruce with. You're the best break this old
heart ever had. Next up, Miss Chammy Linnet.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
When you left, you said just doing me a favor.
I cried and affected you not to go.
Speaker 9 (08:30):
I just been too short weeks and you want me
to come back.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
We thank there's something that you ought to know rearigned
living rooms. If me I gave your.
Speaker 9 (08:46):
Favorite charity charity that card that you insisted on, it's.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
Mine now, so it don't bring your old hag ups
back to lead.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
I've played my cheee a little bit tighter, chans, my hairstyle,
and i'm learning out today.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
So maybe that's wait a little bit longer.
Speaker 11 (09:16):
You come back with me in a food change.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I'll thank you for your call.
Speaker 12 (09:35):
But someone knocking out the door and he's driving a
big old cat.
Speaker 10 (09:43):
I probably won't be home when you come against your
closer on the back porch in a paper side.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
I play my cheeks a little bit tighter, change my hairstyle.
Speaker 13 (10:00):
I'm learning out of it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
So maybe that way, allottle bit or you come back
and give me another good stand where my jeans a
little get my hairside.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
I'm learning outaday, So maybe the best way a little
bit along the.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Boy you come back give me in other.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Jemmy. When that here on the Ralph Emery show, that's
called another chance.
Speaker 12 (10:52):
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You know, I've never seen anything like Opryland.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
There's rides and fun for the whole family.
Speaker 12 (11:10):
But what it's really famous for is music, especially country music.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, just staying on chum call.
Speaker 12 (11:24):
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Speaker 1 (11:37):
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Speaker 12 (11:39):
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Speaker 1 (11:49):
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Speaker 2 (11:55):
Okay, here's no more that's had a couple of all
two or three pretty good years back to back and
just shows no sign of quitting. And he's got a
young recent wife that he's about to become a father.
I guess for the first time he said, you know,
I don't know anyway, Johnny Lee, when you fall in
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love and I believe her hands.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
They'll be old rainbow round the moon. You'll fall apart
when you hear that.
Speaker 13 (12:24):
Toune every day well in too soon. When you fall
a load, you'll get weak in the knees when you
see her smile. You try your best to hide it
because it's not your style. You let it get your
crying like a little child when you fall in load.
Speaker 11 (12:51):
When you fall in love.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
With your head, it gets in there heard, it changes
in place, but you only ununderstand.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
And when you fall in loved.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The summer breathes with you, you to the bone, You.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Walk the floor to the break of dawn.
Speaker 13 (13:20):
Sometimes you feel so long when you fall in love,
and you won't notice, but the day that it shows
that light of falling wherever you go.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And that's how you know.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
When you're ball in love.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
When you're falling, the tidy your hands. It gets into
your heart. It changes your plans. But you only understand
when you fall love. When you fall in love, it's
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out of your hands. It gets in their heart. It
changes your plans, But you lonely understand when you fall though.
When you fall in love.
Speaker 11 (14:25):
It's out of your hands.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
It gets in their heart.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
It changes your plans.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
What you only understand when you fall in love. When
you fall in love gets in ther heart, it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Changes your plan.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
But that's Johnny Lady's saying, when you fall in love.
And I don't know whether you've met this old boy,
but I know you and I know him, and I
think you'd like him. I've met John briefly, John Anderson.
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I've seen him around a couple of times. I mean
the first time at the airport. Likes to fish.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
It's funny how many of us meet at airports, you know,
sure in air business. But I met John Ron and
Dean Dillon and I were on the way to Portland,
Oregon to play show for Chris Collier out there and
met John the first time. Then I thought I'd probably
like him. He looks like the kind of just kind
of like to get a hook wet and sit back
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and drink a cold.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
And I think you got him. I think you begged him.
Here's John Anderson.
Speaker 14 (15:52):
You know, the crowd was very small, all a country
music show. Buddy faked a curtain call, just like it
was years ago, and then a lady grabbed his arm.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
As he staggered down the aisle and with all his
country charm, and he addressed her with a smile.
Speaker 9 (16:28):
Would you catch a ball and start? The boy crashes
to the ground. Don't you know how pey bularm? Nobody
loves you and your die? Let me up and take
me home, and I bring my un guitar.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Sang a golden on his song, If You'll.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
Catch a falling Star. He had a silver plated bus
and a million country fans, and now there's.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Just a few of us, and he drives a little.
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Van, and they were beating down his door, the lovely
women left and right, And now he's on the hardwood, flown,
wondering where he'll spend the night?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Would you catch a fallen tide? Before he crashes to
the fire, don't.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
You know how? Can you long?
Speaker 11 (18:02):
Nobody loves you in your town? Peak him up and
take him home, and he'll bring his.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Or guitar.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Sang a gold and all his song.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
If you'll catch a fall in still sang a gold
in country song. If you'll catch a.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
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oh two. In this show, I have played new tunes,
one extremely old tunes see the Big Man Cry, and
I found this all too. I think this was single
for you wasn't it sleep all night? I think it
was kind of rawchy.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Little record this week five or seventy six, this is
an Alex Alex Harvey tune. Uh oh, precious from down
in Brownsville, Tennessee, where Patsy's from.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Precious precious.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I don't know where that got started, but that's what
Patsy and Coach Royal both called himself.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Wow, this is a tune that uh I's kind of cute.
I always like called sleep all morning.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Sleep all morning, sleep all on.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
And sleeve all And my dad has gone fishing and
lamoney home.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
But I ain't got a word.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
To the un the good old feather beach, so whist
come doing, got two jeans.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
He ain't got the word about screaming and hollering, and
then and by the talking to you mean.
Speaker 7 (21:03):
And sleeve off, morning sleeve off, morning sleeve off, going away.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
My daddy's gone fishing, and my mama dein't home. Man,
I ain't got the word.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
The dev.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Goo spied the corner.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
You surely called you. We fly.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
That's somebody faring breakfast more skinny who spied up? But
we'll all got up, Get buy something house fly, Sleep
all morning sleep all morning, sleep.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Off on and away.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
My daddy's gone fishing, and my mama ain't home. Man,
I ain't got the.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Word to deal.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
I have a little best sunshine speaking in my window.
Speaker 8 (22:08):
Tho, still old letter sea go foodstumper upon.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
My nose, and a billow down over my head.
Speaker 9 (22:19):
Sleeve all morning, sleeve all on, and sleep all on
and away.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
My daddy is gone this and my money ain't home. Man,
I ain't got the word Steve.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Steeve, all alone and sleep all on, sleep all on
and on.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Dad's gone this and my money home man.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I never got over our guest ed Bruce on the show,
and the sun is gone, sleep all morning. H h.
(23:11):
That's it, my friends. We thank you for joining us
for this episode. Jill. Then tomorrow, I don't do that
much anymore. Week's about over the week's I've got one
more show to do. Yeah, appreciate you being a guest.
I've enjoyed it. Now see you tomorrow, Sai