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Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is Ralph Emery along with Conway Twitty, and we
are into December. It is the Christmas season and and
it becomes very evident when you walk down the street
look at all the items and the stars and begin
to see all the Christmas decorations.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Do you like Christmas? I love Christmas? I really do.
It's it's it's a special time.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
And when you when when the emphasis is is on kids,
you know, and uh uh just there's a magic, a
certain magic about it that that's been there for all
these years for me, and hopefully it will always be there,
and I think it will.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Do you like Christmas Shop?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now, being a famous person and easily recognizable, can you
Christmas Shop? Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well? Not with total peace, that's for sure. But I enjoy.
I enjoy meeting people out there and send hot to them.
Right now there are here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You come down the aisle and you got five bucks.
I mean you get both hands full of yeh, mister Twitty,
I want your autograph.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I say, here, holdies for me. I'll do it. And
that's the way we have it. I say sure, and
I handle that stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And I signed an autograph for him, and and uh
but it's a lot of fun. I like, people seem
to be in a different frame of mind, you know,
during the during the Christmas season, and attitudes are a
little different, and uh, people saying there more fellowship and
that's what makes it special. Let's go back to your album,
Mary Twistmas, and we're going to deliver two songs back
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to back here and it's because they fit together. So
how about setting this up the scene for me? We're
going to hear Johnny snow Man and that's a new
song for me, followed by Frosty okay with the twenty Bird,
and now are talking to twenty Bird says, hey, Conway,
it's starting to snow again, and uh does.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
It ever stop at the north Pole?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, that kind of snows for a while and it
stops you Okay, but it's starting to snow again. And
I say, well, you know, did you ever stop to
think that in some places like way down south, it's
it's seldom ever snows and kids don't get to see snow.
Twenty Verse says, oh yeah, I remember this one little
boy named Johnny Way down in Louisiana and he's got
you know, the Sears Roebuck catalog and he and he
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looks in there and he sees a snowman, and you know,
and he can't build him a snowman like other kids
do because it doesn't snow. So this the first song
I wrote, and along with a young man named Fred
Carter back in nineteen sixty sixty one.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The guitar player. The guitar player Fred Carter.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, and it tells all about Johnny down Louisiana and
how he wanted to build a snowman, and what happens
then at the end of Johnny Snowman, the snowman that
he finally builds comes to life, and.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He, of course is frosty.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Okay, and you and the sweaty bird card of course
handled the transition here, right, okay? Right?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Did you see that slurman over there?
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Most anywhere you find snow, you're gonna find a snowman.
But you know, some of us kind of take snow
for granted.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
What do you mean, well, did you ever.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Stop to think that in some places like way down South,
it hardly ever snow?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, I remember this story about a little boy and
when he's don and name Johnny, he wanted to go
to snowman, but he didn't have any snow.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Oh we just before Christmas, way down and lose a in.
A little boy was kneeling by his bed in the manner, poised,
and grand I listened as he said his prayers. His
voice came soft and low.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
He's catched on counting. He let set snow.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Send some snow, summer snow for john.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So I can be a big snowman in my pictures.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Mister snowman always looks big and fat. If you just
send the little snow, I'll build one just like.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
That near me.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
One question, snow, Please send.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Some snow, some snow for Johnny, so I can build
a big snowman.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I'd like to build a.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Snowman like other children. Dude, I got an old top hat,
got a walking cane, got a big long cigar to
everything is ready and I'm all set to go.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Can I build a snowman?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
If by having any snow piece and some snow, some
snow for Johnny, so I can build a big snowman.
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Down the stairs and out the door as fast as
he could go. So happy that Saint Nicholas had sent
a little bird to s work.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Honey, look at Rusty up.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Crosty the storeman was a tiny hot bistom with the
corn got.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Nip in the button nose and two.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Eyes made out of the corner.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Rosty the storeman wasn't very tail. They say he was
made of snow, but the child didn't know how changed
a slight window.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
There must have been some magic in that old silk
hat they found.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Or they tasting on his hand. He begins to around.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, Frosty the storeman was alive as he could be,
and the chill wouldn't say. He could laugh and play
just the same as you and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Me.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Wall war.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Down to the village with the broomstick in his hands,
running here and there all around the square. Saint catch
me if you can right.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
He only find the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Rosty the snowman had to hurry on his way. But
you wait too, ADVI, saying, don't you cry. I'll be
back good again someday. Dumb but it it.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Dumbody it buck dump it buck dump.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Oh. I've got a goold, but I'll be back next time.
It's SnO oh, that's cute, that's cute.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
You've heard a couple of songs out of Conway's album
Merry twistmas Uh, especially for our listeners in the Southern Climb,
the sun Belt, Johnny Snowman and then Frosty the Snowman.
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Ralph Emery Show continues now with Mo Bandy.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
She picked up her hair, water, a new dress this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
She looks like a lady. She is.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
It feels like a woman.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
She was ready to spend that night on the town
like you promised, but you let her down.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Now she's in her gown at home again.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You're gonna lose her like that, staving a woman with deli,
spending her nights looking back.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You're gonna lose her like that.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
It's a daily affair to stop for a drink after
work and a little time on your own where you
go home. You deserve it.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But the new ger you met there last.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Week, she keeps returning, and your.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Woman at home can tell.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There's a wild bar burning.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You're gonna loser like that, bunny.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
You're playing with danger, and she is a guaranteed that.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You're gonna lose like bet.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You're gonna loser like that.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
You've gotta wamming with needles.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
It's a cold matter of battle.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
You're gonna lose like that.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
You're gonna loser like that.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
That's moll Bandy singing. You're gonna lose her like that.
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We're gonna d her up the parade of Christmas music
and play another must song.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Oh yeah, if it weren't for the song, there would
be no Christmas album. That's for sure.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
You're talking about you. It's my first ship words only
make believe it. Back in nineteen fifty eight. People see
us everywhere they think you really came. But myself I
can't deceive.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I know it's.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Only make bely.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
My one and only.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Bread, is that some day you can my hope, my
dreams come true, My one and only.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
No one will never know.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
I'm a child of.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Your soul, my only well RepA someday care bubby, But.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
It's on.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Mad being whilst my dreams come true. My life not you,
for you, my heart, wading my all, my every thing,
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my heart.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
I can't control you, my very soul, my holy BP.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Care mommy, But it's a.
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Be want and only prayer, is that some day you
can my hopes, my dreams come true. My one and
only you.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
No one will ever know.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
I'm a child of your son on my honly well
with me some day you care for me.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
But it's.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Our guest Conway, Twitter, and you know the song, It's
only make Believe.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Conway.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Recently, little Jimmy Dickens entered the Country music Hall fam,
a place I'm sure you will enter someday. I just
want I wanted to play one of his records on
this show and have you comment, well, you couldn't have
picked a better one.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And back you know when I was just dreaming about
being in country music, back when I was singing rock
music and traveling all over the country. As I told
you earlier, if I had a day off and there
was a country show anywhere near where we were, we'd
drive through four hundred miles to a country show. One
of the people that I saw quite frequently was Jimmy Dickens,
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and on one occasion one of the shows I went to,
we became pretty good friends, and he was He said, boy,
you ought to be in country music. You should be
singing country music. And I said, I agree with you.
Maybe someday I'll get to do it. And he said,
I got something I want to give you, and he
took his tie in off, a little cowboy boot type
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in he had.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
He said, this is not much, but you just keep
this forever. And it's from old Jimmy, you know. And
I think the world of him.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Pardon still right, I still have it, That's right, I
always will have it. But he's a super person to
me back then, and he doesn't have to be. And
to me, he is what the Country Music Hall of
Fame is all about.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Here she comes live at her road.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
There she goes, eating that cold.
Speaker 8 (17:20):
Watch a fly and look at her sail.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Let her by bye bye.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
I've all nails, watch her gold, look at her steam.
Hear her blow whistle and scream, I'm rigging this type.
She's got us.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Down and bound mound five, all nails, enginey make enough time, saxophally.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Live at her pie.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
See that bray here in.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The veil up and she's late, late laid. I'm all mail.
Watch her swerve, look at her sway.
Speaker 8 (18:20):
Get that purve out of the way. Watch a lie,
I look at her sail, Let her bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I'mon wheel.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
Watch her go, look at her steam, her blow whistle
and scream, fly cie ride this type of.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Heat, Dallas Bound Bound Mound, yet Dallas Found Bound Mountain.
I've a sheat Dallas Bound Bound.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
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believe according to my dialogue here, I've we've analyzed your
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album and we're halfway through uh sad As Water Wonderland
here at this point in your Christmas album, that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
The twenty bird started going along there and twenty Bird
sneezes and says, boy said, it's you know, it's a
little cold out here.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Boy, he's got kidding a right our credit had he
read for one thing? He's intelligent.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
All he's talking and thinking about frosty and snow is
backing meat cold.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, let's step inside here and get warm by the fire.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Boy, this was a good idea. He way this fire,
sir good.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Well, we can't stand here all day, so bundle up
real warm, twoty bird, because we're only halfway through Santa's
winter Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Sleigh bell tring?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Are you listening in the lane? Snow is glistening a
beautiful son. We're happy to night walking and knowing through wonderland.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Gone away is the blue bird. Here to stay is
the new bird.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
He sings a lot of song as we go along,
walking in no win through Wonderland. In the middle, we
can build a snow man and pretend that he's Parson Brown.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
He'll say, are you married?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
You'll say, no, man, but you can do the job
while you're in town.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Later on, we'll conspire as we dream by the fire.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
To base on.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Afraid the plans that we made walking in the wind
through Wonderland.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Naways them you're the day the twenty birds walking in
a window Wonderland.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
In the middle.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
We can build a small man and pretend that he
is Parson Brown.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
You'd say, are you married?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
You'd say, no, man, but you can do the job
when you were in town.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Later on, we'll conspire as we dream by the fire.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
The face on afraid the plans that we made walking
in the window Underland.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Had another another little piece of a very cute album
by Conway Twitty and the Twitty Bird Mary Twistmas, and
that tune is Winter Wonderland. Conway, I don't know about you.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Outside, and I'll standing here by the fire rappers. Yes, uh,
by the way folks, at the end of the horror
show with Conway Twitter. But we'll go back tomorrow to
continue our playing of the new Conway Twitty Christmas album
and we'll join Rudolph for the Rudolph fans out there. Conway,
thank you very much, Thank you. Also soon we'll meet
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the Twitter Bird. We'll see tomorrow