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Speaker 1 (00:08):
You're listening of the Ralph Emory show. Up next with
a new duet our Barbara Mandrell and Lee Greenwood.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
It's never gonna happen together. It will always be a dream.
We've tried to make it so good and it's not bad,
just somewhere in between.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But we're too hots going nowhere because we just keep
holding on when we vove.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
No, we should lead nor. It should have been loved
We ought to feel so much for.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's turned me outside because it should have been loved by.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
It's never gona happen, not ever. We did all we
could do.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
You've always been there for me, enough tied to be
there for you to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
But we made each other prints notes, changed our hearts
to feelings we don't really be.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
And l me.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It should have been by No.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
We ordered you so much.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
It's turning side b COB. It should have been loved bad.
It should have been love bad. We ordered so much
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for it's turning me upside down CBB. It should have
been loved by now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
That's Barbara Mandrel with Lee Greenwood, and it should have
been loved by now. Mel tillis former Entertainer of the
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Year and a man who has done so much in
country music. Where's the book? Do we have a copy
of Stuttering Boy here in the I have one in Yonder. Well,
it's sorry. I was going to read something. I thought
Chad Atkins wrote something very nice. Well, we'll get him
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a little bit. I thought he wrote something very nice
about you tell me your favorite story in the book.
In your book Stuttering Boy, is there a favorite story
that you yes, Uh, we could go for the well,
my favorite one I can't tell. Okay, Uh, you want
to tell the Colonel Tom Parker story.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
The Colonel Tom Parker story is a good story. That's
that's a true story.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Back when I Colonel Tom Parker, I think everybody knows,
was Elvis Presley's manager, right.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
And he's a distant, distant uh cousin of mine through marriage.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
He married Marie Parker, and Marie.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Was a tillous as i'm as I'm I'm told and uh,
and I wanted to come up to Nashville uh and
get in the uh in the music business, but I
didn't know how to do it. And someone suggested I
believe it was my daddy. He said, Well, the colonel
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I married my cousin. He said, and I heard he
likes fish some. Me and Buck Petty, Uh, the man
that brought me to uh to Nashville. He and I
went out and caught your manager.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Yeah, he's my manager. Uh.
Speaker 7 (05:17):
He and I went out and we caught a bunch
of fish, speckled trout, and we loaded him up in
a nice chest and we brought him up to Nashville.
Put some some dry eyes on him, and we came
to Nashville, and we uh, I went out to colonel
uh out to Colonel Tom Parker's house in Madison, and
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we went around to the back. That's where the arrow
said go to and we and we went around to
the back and I knocked on the door and the
maid answered uh, and.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Buck said uh.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
He said, this is Melovine tell Us and he stutters
and uh. He's Marie's cousin and he's come to see Marie.
She said, what, Uh, just a minute. So I waited
about three or four minutes, and Marie came to the
door and she said, oh, and Melvin, she said, you
must be Lonnie's boy.
Speaker 8 (06:12):
The colonel loves fish.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
But the colonel's asleep right now, and we don't wait
the colonel, now, do it, but you can leave the
fish and call back, and she's very nice. And we
left and I didn't see the colonel for twenty two years,
and I saw him about two years ago or three
years ago. I was I was doing a benefit of
(06:37):
a Sportsman Award show for Baron Hilton, which he a baron.
He as a host that he puts it on every year.
He's a big sponsor.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That who is Baron Hilton?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Well, he owns all the Hilton Hotel and a very
nice man. And they had a party after it was
over with for all the people that were in above
in the award show. And I went up to the
Hilton and the first person that I ran into with
George Hamilton.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Of the actor and Colonel Tom Parker.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
And Colonel Tom looked at me and said hello, cuz
he said both of those were good fish.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Isn't that something he remembered that all those yes, all
those years.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Let's play the Coca Cola Cowboy.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Oh yeah, this song here.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
Clint Eastwood told me if I didn't record it, he
was going to beat me up. So I recorded it,
and I'm glad I did. Hey went number one in
nine weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Let's play Coca Cola cowboy, I can collect on the phone.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
You say you're tired alone, but it sounds like someone
else's lying.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Bird, She said, don't call me no more. Don't you
knock on my door.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
It's too late now, and I'm know you never change.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Let she say, you're just a colder, colder cowboy.
Speaker 9 (08:43):
You got an Eastwood smile and Robert redbird hair. But
you walked across my heart like it was Texas, and
you're taking me how to say I just don't care.
(09:06):
She said, just leave me alone and let me hang
up this phone, because he'll see me cry and think
gs to love you.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
These don't call me no more.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I change the locks on my door.
Speaker 10 (09:32):
It's time you understood that we are through.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
She said, you're just.
Speaker 8 (09:42):
A comer, cool a cawboy.
Speaker 9 (09:48):
You gotta Eastwood smile and Robert red food hair. Let
you walk across my heart like it lost Texas, and
you taught me how to say I just don't care.
(10:28):
She said, You're just a comb got Cola cowbel you
gotta Eastwood smiling, Robert redbird hair.
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Let's walk to cross my hard luck. It lost Texas.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
And you taught me how to say I just don't care.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
This taught me how to say I just don't care.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Our guest Mel Tillis and Coca Cola Cowboy.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
It's the name brand and it's the saving.
Speaker 11 (11:21):
It's a good, good day to be at game.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
I just game.
Speaker 12 (11:28):
Guys got good and Jamon game came on.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We got it stand, we got it good.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
It's a good good feel.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Walk through our door.
Speaker 11 (11:45):
One goes depm faster and others on one. So it's
a game sitting our way.
Speaker 12 (11:58):
And will do our.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Best to make you let less.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
Team came out, Got Him, Got his came.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Came up week week.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Up next to on The Ralph Emery Show, the Young
good Looking Bachelor Steve Warner. I didn't cheat.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I didn't line so early.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Even took me by surprise, just a note on.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
The table seeing we're through.
Speaker 8 (12:47):
At first styling crazy. So it took me sometime, but
I finally read me.
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Between the lines. It's not what I did, it's.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
Why I didn't do.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
I did.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
Each did.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I took it full.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Prandy somehow she knew.
Speaker 12 (13:28):
I did what.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
When she needed a short.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
It's nun what I did.
Speaker 12 (13:42):
It's what I didn't do That was easy to see.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Ilived that she was planning, not by the team.
Speaker 8 (14:00):
She needed me with her.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Oh then I knew I was too busy working get
in ahead.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
When I should have been home loved in her instead.
It's not what I did, it's why I didn't do.
I didn't.
Speaker 13 (14:34):
Each day I loved. I took it four benny. Somehow
she knew.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
I didn't what.
Speaker 11 (14:55):
She needed a s.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
It's not what I did, it's what I didn't do.
It's not what I did, it's what I did do.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Steve Wonder and that's called what I didn't do well
till us. I want to ask you something. Maybe in
writing your book, maybe you reflected on this. Do you
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think you would be as big a star as you
are if you didn't study? I shall I do? I would?
Speaker 8 (16:01):
I would?
Speaker 12 (16:03):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (16:07):
You mean successful?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, you're a star.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Well, you see, a lot of entertainers are rather one dimensional.
They just sing. But you're a comedian and a singer,
and your stuttering has has entertained more people and attracted
caused people to pay attention to you. You weren't just
one of the bunch, and I've often thought that that
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was a big boost for your career. Now maybe you
disagree with that.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Well, you know, I'm to know it's there, and I
know that it was a.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Part of the.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Of the mystique in the beginning about militaries, I know that,
But the stutter didn't help me write on them songs. Well,
I know you're a good songwriter, you know, And and
talking as far as being successful, it's just like when
Elvis watched you. I'm sure Elvis watched you, yeah, because
he got a big kickout.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
That's right. I don't think that that my singing.
Speaker 7 (17:08):
That I don't think that it would have carried me
all the way to the uh on top of the stutter,
the songwriting and everything else that that that whatever talents
that I have been blessed with, it all came together,
and I think that the stutter was part of it.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
But sure now, conversely, I think you're an excellent singer.
There are certain examples if you want to dig around,
are you sincere? I can't stop loving you. Your version
in an album really show you off a million old
goodbyes as a good legitimate singer.
Speaker 8 (17:44):
But we got a lot you know what I should
do though, but that I haven't done, and and I
know it. I haven't you know.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
I've spread myself out so much in movies and books,
a concert, but.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
You've been able to do that because you are a
major entertainer. People everywhere, no male tell.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
Us well, I wish that I had though that I
had I concentrated on my my recording more. Although I've
had fifty three albums, I haven't had a bad uh career.
I had thirty five top tens. But I wish that
I had a really really have been selective over the
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material and this and that and the other.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
What you're saying is you didn't have enough time.
Speaker 8 (18:36):
I didn't have the time.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Let me play a record by the Kendles here.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Thank you for the left, thank you for your.
Speaker 14 (18:57):
Thanking you making you good, oh wold, and if there's
any question, just.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Tell good you are.
Speaker 14 (19:08):
When it comes to loving baby soup the stove.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I had love time.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
What can I say?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
I had love time. It's glad ask.
Speaker 14 (19:23):
Stay all the music and the lands and loving shoes starts.
I'm just gonna tell you what I had loved it.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
You've been not gracious, you will more than come.
Speaker 13 (19:53):
You didn't hold back any You.
Speaker 14 (19:56):
Almost love me blind good Prince Candy loves the news,
candy friends, I just love the way who says please
come back to get I had a lovely time.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
What can I say?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I had lovely time.
Speaker 14 (20:18):
Splen Ask, Stay, Harmony, music, the Landers and Loving Shoes
was fine.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
I'll just got call love head lovely time. I had
a lovely time.
Speaker 14 (20:35):
What can I say? I have love lip time, splend
Act Harmony, Easy Candle, Landers and the love in Shoe
was fine.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
I'm just those the kindles and I had a lovely time.
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Speaker 1 (21:53):
We're near in the end of this hour with you.
How about Who's Julie? That's a pretty potent little piece material.
That's one of my most requested songs. That's the song
was written by Wayne Carson.
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I wrote the.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Letter and always on my mind. Okay, let's play this
song what it mails best?
Speaker 5 (22:16):
Cross the table over coffee.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
Just this morning, my woman caught me by surprise, without
a warning.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
She said, honey, you talked in your.
Speaker 8 (22:34):
Snee and then she began to as she said.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Tell me, now, tell me truly, who's you?
Speaker 1 (22:54):
We're loo plad to look on my face.
Speaker 8 (22:57):
I searched my mind.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
For an answer, our excuse of some kind.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
But the word wuldn't come, and my mind was blank.
Slowly my head just sank when she said, Honey.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
You know I love you truly, but who's Julie?
Speaker 16 (23:27):
Oh dude, what's this hole you got on me? Hold
my mind in my dreams?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
You know you shouldn't be there, Julie. I'd like to
say Julie just.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
A friend of my but I know that would not.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Say this by your ma. You see, Jerie gave me
something you did not.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
She remembered what you forgot.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
And Honey, I'm sorry I have to tell you so.
Speaker 7 (24:24):
Cruelly, but now you know, and don't you ever ask
me again?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
Who's Julie?
Speaker 16 (24:40):
Help me about.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Mel tell Us? And who's Julie Melvin?
Speaker 17 (25:08):
Thank you, Thank you, Ralp. You're sitting here and jabbering
with now. I'm looking forward to tomorrow too, and we're
gonna tell some more tails. I want to get into
your law as array story. Oh Ralph, got on a
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