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May 11, 2025 • 25 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
From Nashville.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
It's the Ralph Emery Show with Ralph's special guest Mel Tillis.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now here's Ralph. Well, thank you, Mike, Hi, everybody. We
welcome Mel tell us to our show here in the
heart of Record Role in Nashville, where Mel's office is. Melvin,
how are you.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm just found Ralph, and thanks for coming down to
our offices here and on Music Role. As you said,
it's nice to have you and your people here with us.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
You really been busy lately, haven't you. Oh boy, I have.
I We have a ton of stories to tell you
about Mel's new book, about Mel's new movie. Why don't
we get a little tune going here first? I always
wondered when you wrote I ain't never what you were
writing about. I ain't never what you know.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Somehow I had the feeling that you were gonna ask
me that I cannot tell you uh what I that
I was uh ritten about. I was out one afternoon,
uh web, see you're pulling it out of me again,
Ralph Uh. I was out in uh a Web Pierce

(01:28):
and Read Sylvine and myself were going to Savannah, Georgia,
and we were uh down at the jungle having uh
some beverages. Uh and I had to go next door
and get a haircut. Uh Web went over first to

(01:50):
get his and and I knew I had to go,
but I was. I was in in a conversation station
with a person u uh, a female, and I asked
her a question and she looked at me and she said, male, trellis,
I ain't never seen nobody like you. I said, I

(02:11):
gotta go get a haircut. I'll be right back. So
I went over there to Well, and as I was
as I went in into the barbershop, I was, I
was singing, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
Part of it.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, I ain't never I ain't never seen nobody. It
was just that fast. When I got to Savannah, I
finished the song and Well.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Came in and recorded. It went number one and no
time at all.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
And then a few years after that, I think in
uh in sixty five, I think I put it out
again and it went number one for me.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's been number one twice. Yeah, let's open the show
with it.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Where light Nevin Hain never seen nobody like you? No, no, no,
never al forever seen nobody like you. Don't you call
me up to save.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Me at nine? I have to hurry Herry, for.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
From now on time, I walk right up and I'm
not putting door. The landlord saturated he no more. I
ain't never lor Darling seen nobody like you on body.
I love you. You love you girl.

Speaker 6 (03:43):
I love you just the same, right and tell see

(04:18):
things that you don't mean.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
You got me living in a home, a dreams.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
You make me do things.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I don't want to do, A friend that I asked
to tell you? What's wrong with you? I'm now what
all see? Nobody like you would fight. I love you,
jod love you girl. I love you Joseph the same.

(04:47):
I love you Joseph the same. I love you just
the same.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Opening our show, our guest well till us with I
ain't never. Jimmy Howell is the Jimmy Dene Sausage Company.
See we started in nineteen sixty nine, and you mean
in the short space of fifteen years, you've become America's
best selling sausage. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:14):
Yeah, you know that is a hard thing to understand
unless you are looking at it from my viewpoint. I
think Americans will pay for quality, and a lot of
times our sausage costs a little bit more. But I've
always said that I'd rather explain the price than have

(05:36):
to apologize for the quality. And we never apologize for
the quality of our sausage. And as I said, we're
number one because we do it better. It's quality and
it tastes good. That's not hard to understand, is it
even for you?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Ralph? Oh, I think I can comprehend. That's wonderful.

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Jimmy Dean Sausage, Hot, Regular, Extra Mile or Special Recipe.
It's the finest quality that's made and it tastes good.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, there's a lot to tell in this series of
shows we're going to do with you. At first, I
want to talk about the record you made with Glenn Campbell. Okay,
Slow Knights. I know you and Glenn are good friends
going back to the days of the Good Time Hour,
aren't you all right?

Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Slow Knights was a song that I found up in Anchorage, Alaska,
and it was written by a young man from Texas.
His name Bobby Albright from Lovebook.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
And I liked the song a lot, and.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I brought it with me to Nashville, and I was
in the studio recording it. And and Glenn Campbell just
happened to be in town and UH, and he dropped
by the studio to UH to visit UH. And he
liked the song so much he asked if he could
sing with me on you know, on the song. I
said he could.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Martin is sitting on the ass machine. We're just talking
on the phone.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
Not one thing dollar in the jarge tonight most everybody
stayed and tube good old boys are talking pol cues.

Speaker 8 (07:35):
Down, spilling bear and killing time four Jake walking then
turned out here do you know business? Here?

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Tonight it slow night. Nobody is dancing.

Speaker 9 (08:01):
To the newssy.

Speaker 10 (08:05):
Nobody is listening to my son.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Feeling runs away and me step all rest of to play.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
When I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
You like playing anymore. I'd like to be home with
my lady by the fire, drink and win instead of

(08:53):
standing up here making I'm having such damn good time.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
Nobody's dancing to the me, nobody's listening to my son.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
The feeling rolls away.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm all best.

Speaker 10 (09:37):
Up to play when I don't.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Feel like the dot nice.

Speaker 6 (09:55):
Nobody's dancing to the manus, nobody's.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Listening to my song.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
You've heard mel tell Us with Glenn Campbell, and that
pretty song is called slow Nights. I'm mixed on the

(10:28):
Ralph Emery Show, The Pretty Redhead. Here's Miss Shelley West.

Speaker 11 (10:32):
There were times and there were places. There were hints,
there were traces, but the pieces never hit.

Speaker 12 (10:41):
There was you.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
There were dolls and there were sunsets.

Speaker 11 (10:47):
There were winds, there were upsets, but they never met
a thing to There was you. Now there's you, You
love the mate. Now there's you.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
You brought new meaning to my life. They can lie
that day till.

Speaker 11 (11:11):
I lay down next to you.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Now lie so boy, Now there's you.

Speaker 11 (11:31):
There were mountain trails and highways, but they never led
me no place, and I never rid character.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
There was you.

Speaker 11 (11:43):
There were sundays and dark clouds.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
There were not I cried out, but no one ever urged.

Speaker 12 (11:52):
There was you.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
Now there's you, You of the let my mind.

Speaker 11 (12:00):
Now there's you. You brought new meaning to my life.
Making a love that day until I've made down.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Its to you.

Speaker 9 (12:12):
Now my solo, Now there's you, Now there's you.

Speaker 11 (12:43):
When you're falling out my mind, Now there's you. You
brought new meeting to my life, making love that day
until I laid down next to you.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
Now lie.

Speaker 9 (13:02):
Nowless you.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
That Shirley Weston The song is called now There's You.

Speaker 13 (13:22):
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Speaker 2 (13:38):
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Speaker 13 (13:48):
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(14:12):
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Speaker 1 (14:22):
Now there's Mel Tillis and there's Roy Clark, and Mel
Tillis and Roy Clark have made a movie.

Speaker 13 (14:31):
You.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
You're through shooting the picture, aren't you.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
We finished all the the uh principal photography, as to
say in Hollywood, and we're mixing it now, which means
that they're editing in it.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Therefore they're editing in it.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
I said it in the realm, and they're, oh, I
did that.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
I kicked the mix down. I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (14:53):
Uh uh.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
As soon as they get it all all mixed and
put together, they'll add the sound of f X and
the music.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
It will be scored all right. Will there be a
number of tunes to come out of this picture?

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Oh yeah, we're gonna have an album.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Uh, We've got Burl Lives.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I will be singing on the album, and Glenn Campbell
will be singing he's in the movie. Uh uh uh,
Roy Clark, mel Tillis will be singing.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
You and Roy singing together, yeah, yeah, and do its.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
And we did a trio on the on the theme
song on the movie Uphill. All the way, We've got
a demo of it that Roy and Glenn and I
made while we were on location one night. We got
having a little party there and we put it down
on a tape cord of there and it sounds real good.

(15:48):
So it may be the theme song could be uh.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
A trio uh the song the theme is going to
be called up here all the way uphill be right.
When are you anticipating the release of the picture?

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Hopefully it will be a summer release. If not, we're
shooting for a realistic.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Time to release.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
It would be in the fall of the year.

Speaker 4 (16:17):
Are are around.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Christmas next year?

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I must tell you I have just seen a few
scenes from the picture, and it is one of the
funniest pictures I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of movies.
I've seen some bad pictures. I've seen some bad pictures.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
You were in Oh Me Too, I've seen.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
But Cannonball Too was not gone with the wind.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
Well, I can't comment on it.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
I was just one of them, and I guess I
was as bad.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
As the No, you didn't have anything to work with
on Cannonball Too. But this is a good script, and
this is a funny picture, and also it has a
superstar major proportions that I understand you don't want to
reveal his name at the moment because you don't want
to use him.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
No, he's such a nice a person and he wants
it to be anonymous and be a surprise. I've already
I let the bag out from time to time. I
didn't mean to you, but I did. But we won't
do it this time.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Okay, all right, all right, we're gonna talk more about
uphill all the way. Why don't you bring on this
next fellow right here?

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Okay, here's no boy here from Texas, and he's I
think one of the finest country singers around. Today's name
is Gene Watson. Here's a song. I got no reason
for going. I got no reason now for going home.

Speaker 14 (17:58):
Got no reason now I'll go in hall all my reasons.
Now she's gone, got no one. I'm there to talk,
and even though I know I ought to, got no
reason now I go in home.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
Once I had every week.

Speaker 15 (18:26):
Some a man a wall, I'm going home and making love,
But now I don't.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
So I'm up in here each night, sitting there and thinking,
missing her, hurt and soul and dragging. I got no
read now go in in hall.

Speaker 14 (18:54):
All my resms.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Now she's gone, got no one that talk to And
even though I know, wow to, got no reason now
the win hall.

Speaker 15 (19:25):
It's so hard now just know there's another that she's
out with him, knowing that I love her.

Speaker 8 (19:38):
So I'm up and he reads night sitting there thinking,
missing her.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Hating him and Greg.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
Got no rees now the win hall. All my resms. Now, jeez,
go got no one go home. And even though I'm
now off to, got no reason now go in home.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
That's a saw written by Johnny Russell. Johnny wrote, act naturally.
Remember that's all I sure do. That's Gene Watson. We've
got no reason now for going home.

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Speaker 1 (21:33):
We're sitting here talking with Mel Tillis and Mail. Hold
are you this year? I'll be I'm in this year? Yeah,
eighty five, I'm fifty two. When's your birthday? August? You'd
be fifty two and August I'll be pitchy three. You
about a year older than I am. I know you

(21:54):
were such an old fellow. Yes, I got a Cards
Jones Brenda Lee record coming up next.

Speaker 11 (22:10):
Let me tell you about the girl I know, see
my baby and she lived next door.

Speaker 12 (22:17):
E I'm owning one of the sun gone up.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
He being then called me and my family right up.
That's wine. No, you have I known how to do
you love us? So when I a drouble and I
have no drink, I'm know he'll be with me.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
And jes.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
For everybody asked.

Speaker 17 (22:41):
Me how I'm look, I filed them and said he told.

Speaker 12 (22:45):
Me, so that's how I look.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yes, I know, Hello, do y'all. I just love him.

Speaker 12 (22:52):
So then I call on the tiller the phone.

Speaker 4 (22:58):
And tell her that I'm all.

Speaker 17 (23:01):
By the time I have a warmer four up, I
hearay won my dog.

Speaker 12 (23:09):
Ever, even when the.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
Sun thorg down, nobody else are hanging around.

Speaker 17 (23:16):
He looks at me and it holds my child and
tell me darling him but things all round?

Speaker 5 (23:22):
How I love?

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yes, Yes, I know, hello Loulia, I just love you.

Speaker 12 (23:28):
So when I call her own a edg injy and.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Tell her that you better week for me.

Speaker 17 (24:00):
By the time I count from one to four, I
hear m on my dove.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
Ever again on the sun look down and that's oldbody
house I hunging around.

Speaker 17 (24:14):
He looks at me and a room and time and
he tells me have rent all room, yes, signed more,
I didn ya.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I just love you So I love you I just
love you, so.

Speaker 12 (24:31):
I dovey, I just love you.

Speaker 9 (24:33):
So.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
That's George Jones and Brenda Lee with Hallelujah, I Love
your Soul.
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