Mel Tillis pt10

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Mel tell Us, I want you to bring on the
next fellow.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's from Delight, Arkansas, the pride of Delight, Arkansas. He's
the man that Uh Porter Wagoner exposed me to the
country world, and Glenn Campbell exposed me to the world,
and I'm all thankful for that. And here he is,
he's singing his latest hit, and I like his song.

(00:28):
A lady like you, you live.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Justin ordinary man, and my virtues are you.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And I'm a made every morning when I will with
the lady like you.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
You're all the good things God.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Put on this.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
And you're so much more than likes.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
And what did I to when a lady like you
look at me? I'm as calm as kny, but do

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you make me shine?

Speaker 5 (01:43):
And look at you. You're lady through through, so pacious.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
And kind, and when you're sleep and solved me by
my side, I look at you and I'm mister fie.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
What did I little lady like you even knows.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
I'm missing perfect.

Speaker 7 (02:34):
And I have found the very.

Speaker 8 (02:37):
Ben But it's old the story.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
How someone like me.

Speaker 8 (02:50):
Was chosen to.

Speaker 9 (02:51):
Me with a lady like you, your ald the good

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things God.

Speaker 10 (03:13):
Put on lizard, and you're so much more, and I desert,
Why did I.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Ever do you will?

Speaker 11 (03:31):
Ladies like you?

Speaker 5 (03:37):
A lad like you?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's Glenn Campbell and what a pretty song. And I
think that is for you. Uh, the lady in his
life his wife, and that's called a lady like you. Well,

(04:13):
there's so many stories and stuttering boy, that we haven't
told that that we won't have the time to tell.
I'm wondering if there's something about this book that you
would like to relate to these people that we haven't related.
It seems to be a very honest book.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Rep. I've tried to tell that as honest as I
could about life on the road. I went through a
painful divorce, which, out of all of my career, my life,
that's was one thing that I regretted the most.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
Did the writing of this now you have how many?
How many children?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Do you have? Five children and two grandchildren?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Did any parts of this book upset any of them? No?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I don't think so, because we had before it was released.
We sat down and and went over it, you know,
and I told the truth.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Okay, all right, I want you to sing a little bit.
Then I got a couple of more things I want
to ask and then we're gonna have to wrap all
this up. How about heart over mine.

Speaker 12 (05:42):
You so much that I can't leave you, even though.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
My mind tells me I should.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Well, didn't you make me think that used to love me?

Speaker 12 (06:03):
And all my thoughts on leaving do no good.

Speaker 7 (06:10):
You've got me heart.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Over mind, worry all the.

Speaker 8 (06:16):
Time, knowing you will always be the same.

Speaker 12 (06:25):
You'll keep hurting me, I know, but I just can't
let you go because my heart won't let my love
for you change.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
Now, friends tell me they see you and with the others,
and in my heart I try hard to forget. You've
come home and tell me you still love me, and

(07:33):
I still.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Hope there's some chance for a ship.

Speaker 5 (07:39):
You've got me hard.

Speaker 8 (07:41):
Over mine, worried all the time, knowing you will always.

Speaker 13 (07:51):
Be the same.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
You keep hurting me.

Speaker 8 (07:57):
I though, when I still can't let you go.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Howse my heartbone, Let my for you change.

Speaker 8 (08:10):
Both my heartbone, let myther for you.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Change our guest mel till us with heart over mind.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
It's the name brand and it's the saving.

Speaker 7 (08:30):
It's a good good day.

Speaker 9 (08:32):
Toy and game came on, We've got it, we got gone,
and Jamon Game I came on we got.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
We got good.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
It's a good, good feeling walk to wear.

Speaker 14 (08:53):
One the department master another on one good.

Speaker 11 (09:04):
Our way.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
And our best to make.

Speaker 7 (09:10):
Use that you came.

Speaker 11 (09:13):
In well tell us.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
In nineteen seventy six, you became country Music's entertainer of
the year. I never will forget that night. Uh. What
was the story about the pipe and the tucks? Uh?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
I don't even smoke, but I thought that that the
pipe looked distinguished. So uh, I bought me one. And
I was sitting out there in the audience with that pipe.
And you want and you're not supposed to smoking in
the opery house, but I had it, and I had
a really ball anymore.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
It wasn't so much at uh it was smoking. It
was I had a hot and uh and I was
sitting back there. I didn't expect to win this. Are
you kidding? The competition that I was up against? Somehow
I want him. And when tennessee Arnie, he said, and
the winter is mel tillis well. I stood up. I said,

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I couldn't. I can't believe it. I stood up, and
I put the pipe in the inside of my trucks
and I walked up on the stage, and while I
was making my speech, it got to burning me, you know, inside,
and the smoke was coming out.

Speaker 11 (10:34):
You know why why you're making your acceptance.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Yeah, And at first I thought I had the worst
case of heart burner I ever had. But I was
burning and it was hard against my body that a
hot pipe bowl. Anyway, I said what I had to say,
and I got out of there.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
All right. I got a record here by the judge,
Wyomi and Naomi coming up next.

Speaker 15 (11:19):
There's a bird in my tree singing say autumnllodies lit
it all some the Greefs, and it's blowing away. There's
a rock in my sky high. There's a more who's

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been all my mind. There's a tea in my eyes
and I'm there getting.

Speaker 8 (11:46):
Not Rayner.

Speaker 9 (11:52):
Furner far.

Speaker 14 (11:56):
Down around my face.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Lohing, butther raining by life, duffing water up water.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
Five down around.

Speaker 11 (12:14):
My face.

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Nothing brother raining.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
By lie.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
Shah.

Speaker 7 (12:37):
There's a move o people shotting down on the wall.
My love is a pain in my heart.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
He's gone. It was.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Give this song walk to night, let it fall and
her cam ah b push my ant, make a wish
you'll come back to day.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
Drop the water got water fie down round.

Speaker 7 (13:16):
Mapping, talking about the rading my line.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Drop the water, drop water.

Speaker 9 (13:29):
Fire down round mapping.

Speaker 7 (13:34):
Oh, nothing but the raining my line. It's nothing but
the red.

Speaker 10 (13:46):
In my life.

Speaker 9 (13:50):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 7 (13:54):
Drops of water, drops, water.

Speaker 16 (14:02):
Jumps, water jumps, water jumps, water jumps, water jumps, water jumps.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Those are the judges and drops of water. Well, you
were around here when the Everly Brothers got hot, weren't you?

Speaker 13 (14:38):
I sure was.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
I was on Columbia, Uh, and they were on Columbia.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
I don't remember them being on Columbia much because they
didn't have any it's over there.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Yeah, and then no, they didn't and uh, and then
they left Columbia and the Archieblier came to town and and
uh started a new label called Cadence, and the Court
Edge was on it, and Charlie McCoy was on anyway,
the airplaces and I were on a tour together with

(15:09):
the Hawkshaw Hawkins. We were getting paid eighteen dollars a night,
and they had just put out Bye Bye Love, and
it was just all over. I mean, you couldn't even
a turn on a radio without here Web Piers covered

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him on it. But Web couldn't even come close to
touching them boys. He couldn't hurt their record because they.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
Were gone.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
They're good kids too.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well you know they're back together again and this is
their latest record, called the First in Line.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
They'd say that.

Speaker 13 (16:05):
I have found.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
And maybe.

Speaker 13 (16:13):
It's strong, But should you.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Change German, let me be.

Speaker 9 (16:30):
The First in Line?

Speaker 5 (16:34):
Or I would.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
With your entrue.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
And it would lie.

Speaker 14 (16:55):
To the end of time. So let me besey.

Speaker 9 (17:12):
Shot back.

Speaker 5 (17:17):
And somebody.

Speaker 7 (17:25):
Will treat you, treat you.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
Let me be.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
Whose did, and it's.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Us.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
I agree that.

Speaker 13 (18:11):
Will consider.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I would.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
All just.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Lis Don and Phil, the Everly Brothers and First in Line.

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Speaker 18 (19:06):
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(19:38):
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Speaker 1 (19:49):
Five MEL i gotta wrap all this. UP i have
one final question about the. Book what's your mama's?

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Name, Uh burma b u Rim A, Burnham, Magdalene, Magdalen Tillis,
rogers that.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Used to Be. Rogers you dedicated the book to? Hear
did it? Right what's she think of the? Book?

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh you, KNOW i went by there the other. DAY i, Said,
mamma have you finished the? Book she, said, SON i
haven't Finished hidie.

Speaker 13 (20:17):
Yet.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
NO i, said, well if you looked at, it she, said.
YEAH i went. In she found the, Index she found
where her name is in all the. Books so she
went to those pages, first and she looked at those
and she's mad at me BECAUSE i told her in
there that she got married on on such and such a.

(20:42):
Time and she, said you make me sound Like i'm,
OLDER i, Said, MAMA i, said who's Gonna i've Got
i've got friends out there that are are still my same.
Age she's seventy seven years, old she. Said AND i
don't want them to think That i'm older than they,
ARE i, Said mama. Does i'm. SORRY i didn't. MEAN

(21:03):
i didn't even think of it like, THAT i, said
BUT i thought it was. Right, well it's not. Anyway everything's,
fine good. Good where she. Lived she lives out on
the farm with me out here in that. Category she
has her own, home though she lives up about a
block from me on the. Farm you built her, PLACE
i built her little.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
House, WELL i thought we'd closed this show with one
of your best performances of A wayne fluff Old walker.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Tone ACTUALLY i couldn't think of a naicer song, then
and the let's sing this For wayne you, Too?

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Okay all you since.

Speaker 13 (21:56):
When you see.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
Love?

Speaker 5 (22:00):
You all?

Speaker 4 (22:05):
You since when you Say i'll.

Speaker 1 (22:13):
Bet you do your.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Every? Word that's my.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
Years Have.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
I'd like to know.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Which way to.

Speaker 13 (22:37):
Go WE'RE i love.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
All? You?

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Since are you since when you say.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
You miss?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Me all?

Speaker 13 (23:16):
You since every time you kiss?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
ME i know you.

Speaker 13 (23:34):
Really mind.

Speaker 14 (23:37):
Every, day all the.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
Time i'd like to know which way to go.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Real our love?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Girl all you?

Speaker 13 (23:54):
Sence where You?

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Sir Mel Tillis Wayne walker's song are you? Sincere H?

(24:43):
MELBOURNE i suppose your NEW rca records will be out
in the spring as you move over to r C
a for a new part of your. Career AND i
wish you well with uphill all the, way your movie
and your book stattering boy do you? Met so many
nice things happen to? You BUT i think that's because
pretty nice. Fellow will.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
You make me feel? Good, ralph thank, you.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Pardon our show with Mel tillis has been brought to
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tillis saying so long that we see you again.

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