Mel Tillis pt5

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
From Nashville. It's the Ralph Emery Show with Ralph's special guest,
Mel Tillis. Brought you in part by Kmart. We've got
it and We've got it good at Kmart, by Jimmy
Dean Sausage, and by Start Us Tours. As you plan
your trip to Music City, be sure to take us
Start Us Tour. Now here's Ralph.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Thank you, Michael. Here we go again. Everybody a big
hello O of Mel Tillis.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
How there, Ralph?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Mel You know we're heard on two of your radio stations.
How many of you own three? We're on two of them.
We are Amarillo and w M E N B n
B m B m B m E m me, m me,
m all right. Here for the benefit of Tilli's Broadcasting
Incorporated and all the rest of you folks, is Miss

(00:49):
Crystal Gale the open our show.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
Please don't shut down.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Had his memory?

Speaker 6 (01:05):
God, don't laughing in.

Speaker 7 (01:08):
That guy.

Speaker 8 (01:12):
Because you don't want to see me cry.

Speaker 9 (01:18):
Heart.

Speaker 10 (01:19):
Don't let anything help.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
Lock your job.

Speaker 11 (01:26):
Don't let his memory. I mean the cold and love
and love like.

Speaker 9 (01:40):
This was men but two.

Speaker 11 (01:44):
But it's me a guess tonight and I'm afraid to
losing by.

Speaker 6 (01:52):
I see you in every shadow upon you the home
the tax i.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
Can't wait till the morning, Lie.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Do way went?

Speaker 6 (02:09):
When it's me against the night.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Gone? You said you'd.

Speaker 10 (02:23):
Never be and love you belong with.

Speaker 6 (02:31):
Me until spat like.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Gray to long and by your love again against the night,
and I was afraid to lose.

Speaker 6 (02:51):
And I see in every shadow of the room. I
can wait till the.

Speaker 10 (03:06):
Lawn and.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Wait when again.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's Crystal Gale with me against the night. Jimmy Howell
is the Jimmy Dene Sausage Company.

Speaker 12 (03:33):
See we started in nineteen sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
And you mean in the short space of fifteen years,
you've become America's best selling sausage.

Speaker 12 (03:42):
Yeah. Yeah, you know that 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 show costs a little bit more.
But I've always said that I'd rather explain the price

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than have 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 2 (04:19):
Ralph? Oh, I think I can comprehend. That's wonderful.

Speaker 12 (04:22):
Jimmy Deane Sausage Hot, Regular, Extra Mile or special Recipe.
It's the finest quality that's made, and it tastes good.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
I want to tell you this, Of all the tunes
you've recorded and I've got, there's certain certain tunes that
you've done that are favorites of mine. I think this
is one of the prettiest songs you've ever done. I
do too.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
This song is written with Bobby Russell.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Bobby Russell who wrote Honey It Don't Rain in Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Little Green Apples.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
And Honey Honey. How you think this is pretty song?

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh? Yeah, I get. I get a little request, I'll
do it on and almost.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Every ship I called a million old goodbyes.

Speaker 13 (05:05):
There's a plane out to night, and I swear to you,
I'm gonna take that vie.

Speaker 7 (05:18):
Please don't know.

Speaker 14 (05:22):
To see me cry.

Speaker 7 (05:26):
You've seen it in a.

Speaker 13 (05:28):
Million o goodbyes.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
There was me, there was you.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
There never was a enus to hook on to.

Speaker 10 (05:46):
There were times.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
We touched the sky.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Long before a million Old good Lies ray came up.

Speaker 10 (06:03):
Sometimes it's more loving.

Speaker 9 (06:06):
Than the same.

Speaker 14 (06:10):
Cry and not send planning how to paschet up, knowing
it was something didn't givething.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
It was good, it was fine.

Speaker 13 (06:33):
We played out despending many times.

Speaker 10 (06:39):
We can't say.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
That we tried.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Weavyy the media good time.

Speaker 10 (06:53):
Break came up.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
Sometimes it's more loving than stay.

Speaker 10 (07:03):
Crying lads him.

Speaker 14 (07:05):
Planning how to pascheta.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
Knowing it was something didn't gaining.

Speaker 14 (07:18):
There's a way.

Speaker 13 (07:22):
Out to night, and I swear to you I'm gonna
take that guy.

Speaker 10 (07:32):
We can't say.

Speaker 11 (07:35):
That we try.

Speaker 9 (07:39):
Weybeyond a million bye.

Speaker 13 (07:46):
Waybeyond a million of good.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
By Our guest star of the week Mel Tillis with
a million old goodbyes. There's a new book out. I

(08:23):
assume it's being nationally distributed. It can be bought anywhere.
It's called Stuttering Boy. Stuttering Boy is a is a
book about your life, I guess, beginning from the time.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
You were a little bitty baby in nineteen thirty two
August eighth up to win up to about two years ago.
The first fifty they took out two hundred pitty pages
of it. There was a there's a lot of stories
in there that that they took out that I sort

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of hated that they all in all meaning the publisher,
not the publisher, but all in all. It's uh, it's
already has gone into the second printing.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Already, I'm in in the first printing.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh twenty five I think twenty five thousand. It's into
the second pinning.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Now, all right, we're going to spend some time talking
about the book as we roll along through this show.
Up next to singing for you, Miss Emmy Lou Harris.

Speaker 15 (09:31):
Others have touched me, salt the.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Others he kiss me.

Speaker 6 (09:46):
And hemy good jis.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
You s.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
I was just waiting or someone like you. I am lonely,
I in love.

Speaker 15 (10:21):
I'm grown used to losing, but I'm found net.

Speaker 10 (10:31):
I can't secretly.

Speaker 14 (10:36):
Oh last.

Speaker 15 (10:41):
I was just waiting or someone like you.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
All never wait, stay.

Speaker 11 (10:55):
A minute everywhere to let me to your side.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
You're no way say don't get.

Speaker 11 (11:55):
It, but try, yeah, road, I ever to let.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Me to your side, dune. See, I never knew I
was just waiting or someone I was just waiting. I

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was just waiting for someone.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
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(13:40):
spence mannor Pamper. You Mel, you'd said an interesting thing
to me earlier about writing your book.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
I wish you would say it again for our audience.
It's a reflective thing about the re examination of one's life. H.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
You know, I certainly didn't have the time to sit
down and write a book as busy as I am
what everything I am involved in. But I found that
I had to. I had to get involved with it.
Walter Wager is a man from New York. He's a
great writer. He wrote a book called Telethon which he

(14:24):
made a big movie out of, which was Bronson. He's
a good writer. He used to work for Ashcalf. His
name is Walter Wager. He went with me and the
guys on the bus for a couple of months, and
I gave him about forty cassettes. He left and he
took the cassettes to New York. In about a year

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and a half of a year or so, he sent
me back a manuscript. It is about three hundred and
fifty pages. I think it was as I read it,
I realized that I had only told the man the
highlights of my life.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
And he tried to fill it in uh and it
didn't uh uh uh it didn't work. I got to
read it. I said, I didn't do that. I said,
that's funny, but that wasn't me. Oh no, no, oh,
we can't do that. A And I said down. I
called him. I said, Walter uh uh, I said I uh,
I said, you did a good job, but uh it

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just didn't in the way that it uh it should be.
You're putting uh words in my mouth that I didn't
you know, I didn't say. So I sat down uh
with a pencil, and I got into it and and
and each uh chapter. Uh, I re examined my life,

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you know. And I went back and and I started
remembering uh things that had happened, and and I realized
that I had never forgotten those things. My mother asked me,
She said, how on earth did you remember all those things? Son?
I said, Mama, I don't guess I ever forgot them.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Well, when you re examine your life as meticulously as
you had to to put the book together, does it
cause you to change philosophically?

Speaker 3 (16:13):
It does you get another look at yourself uh a
wrap uh it uh and you uh you put a
different different value on things at a certain age you
uh uh you know Ali like you think uh uh.

(16:40):
I recommend every everybody should at least sit down and
write their story, whether they get it published or not,
because you know exactly uh where you're coming from then,
and and I think it's good. It's awful, good theory
for you. I'm even talking better since since I re examine.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Okay, that's good, that's good.

Speaker 7 (17:07):
You not.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm burning old love letter.

Speaker 13 (17:17):
Photographs, send memories of.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
You been somehow.

Speaker 7 (17:28):
I'll feel better. And when the smoke is gone, I.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Won't wall you can rub fall am, burning all the
milmories of you that I can't you.

Speaker 7 (18:02):
My heart to you no longer matters, and I can't
live on memory into the fargo dreams you shadder. And

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when the smoke is gone, then I'll.

Speaker 10 (18:32):
Be free.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Of all while.

Speaker 7 (18:47):
Burning all the memories of.

Speaker 10 (18:51):
You that I can't live.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
Burning mees a I.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Can mel tillis guesting on the show with burning memories.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
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Speaker 1 (19:42):
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Speaker 8 (19:52):
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(20:15):
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Speaker 2 (20:26):
I got a couple old Florida boys I've never forgotten
the first time I ever met him, they were introduced
to me as the Bloney Brothers, and I've never forgotten
that joys Jimmy Jay did that. Jimmy used to book him.
He's the guy that books Conway Twitty. Yeah, the Bellamy
brothers here. They are from down in Florida. But I

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need more of you.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
My hearts burning like they were wrong, five.

Speaker 10 (21:14):
Legs changing.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
I love to decide.

Speaker 11 (21:22):
The My heart is screaming jues say.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
Girl, we got to go all the way.

Speaker 9 (21:38):
I need more, changing my brain into the sun.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
More you putting my blues off rothers.

Speaker 9 (21:55):
I need more.

Speaker 10 (21:58):
Till that I need more of you more anything.

Speaker 4 (22:07):
Last week new.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
Weep aping to gather too long?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Strange?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
How did I love get so strong?

Speaker 5 (22:29):
There's nothing to keep for su.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
We got to.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Catch up to our huts.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
If I need more, changing my brain into.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
Some more, putting my blues off the road.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
I need more.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
If y'd man, I need more of you.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
More anything?

Speaker 10 (23:14):
Last word is I need a boy?

Speaker 4 (23:36):
If changing my rain into the sun.

Speaker 9 (23:44):
More, if putting my blueses off run I need Are
you y'all that I need all of you?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Those are the Bellamy brothers, and I need more of you.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
They're from the Kuchi. This is know where La Couchie is. No,
that's in the swamps and the green swamp. They call
it down there and it's uh uh and that's where
they're from. Actually they're from Dover around uh where I
grew up a few years in Florida in Turkey Creek.

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They went to school to Turkey Creek. You're not helping
me a whole lot where you got to get in
the book. Okay, you've heard I'll give you that cue again.
You've heard the Bellamy Brothers, and I need more of you. USA,

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