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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.
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.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now here's ral Thank you, Mike, Hi again everybody, Mel
till Us, welcome back to our show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Thank you. It's good to be here.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I feel kind of I said that this will be
the last one.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, I mean for a while, for a while.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yeah, I'll come back again sometime.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
You want to bring on this all for from Knoxville.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
The All American Country ball you're talking about?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Here he is from Knoxville. He's a dear friend of mine.
I've been doing him for some time. Now Here he
is mister conahunt.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I work before the air week and not earn my
keeth and not proud to walk the crowd and home,
keep my nose to the grind man, I don't get
me high, and a.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Don't back for all.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Well, my next A little.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Red, my collar blue, simple little.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Coffee and a dragon little boot. I listen all Everton
country ball. I'm my dad is stitting livery, my mama
finding joy. There ain't nothing down home now A really
do and joy. I'm just a All American custter ball.
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I talk to cous and I don't fass a book again.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I always speak my mind.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
I'm hooking on b SS, roledds, TV and a.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
No average time.
Speaker 5 (01:46):
I'm a little bit rounded, a little bit tanged.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Ain't no way wherever.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
Don't change.
Speaker 9 (01:55):
All American country ball.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
How my daddy's sitting limits and my mama's riding jaw.
Speaker 9 (02:06):
There ain't uping down hold with.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Their dolls and joy. I guess it's all the very
gun cons.
Speaker 9 (02:15):
Balls really must end me.
Speaker 10 (02:19):
But I'm mellowed up.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Your father time to slow it down. But I'm skilled
doing everything I used to do. Is you take a
little longer night. I just all the Beaverton count balls.
How my dad is didn't ever tell my mama's riding jaw.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That as upping downholder, Just doll and jaw.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I'm here's all the Vericon conser balls.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Yeah, my daddy's spitting limits. Eat all American country boy too.
You've got one of more picked up Crook.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, takes it out episode Mama right all down the Road.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
That's Con Hunley, the All American country Boy. 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.
Speaker 9 (03:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (03:27):
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 show costs a little bit more. But
I've always said that I'd rather explain the price than
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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 and
it tastes good. That's not hard to understand, is it
even for you?
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Ralph?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Oh, I think I can comprehend. That's wonderful.
Speaker 11 (04:07):
Jimmy Deane Sausage, Hot, Regular, Extra Mile or Special Recipe.
It's the finest quality that's made and it tastes good.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
On the back of the book Stuttering Boy, there are
a number of people who have written some very nice things,
and I wanted to quote a couple. Bert Reynolds said,
I've always loved mel Tillis. I love him when he stutters,
I love him when he doesn't stutter, and love him
when he sings. And most of all, I love the
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kind of man he is. And then there's something chet
Atkins wrote that I thought was nice. Mel Tillis is
one of the most interesting characters ever to come to Nashville,
also one of the most talented and likable. His growth
from a shy songwriter who stuttered to an international star
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is phenomenal. I thought that was well. I thought that
was well.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I appreciate Did you read Porters?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Porter says, I think mel Tillis is a great entertainer
because he picked up a lot of habits from me.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Evidently he hadn't read the book yet.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Did you jump on Porter in the book?
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Not too bad? Not too bad? We're friends? Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Well he fired you? No, you didn't fire you quit?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Didn't you know he fired me?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You were on the Porter Raking show.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah he fired you?
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Sure did Where did he fire you? Why?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
In a word?
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Why didn't how many words? I guess I was acting up?
Speaker 12 (05:47):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Uh? He told me that I was not uh the
kind person that.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
He felt like that he wanted to be uh projected
on his uh television.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Show.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So he fired me and and the next day I
went to the Glenn camera a good time out.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Okay, all right, are you a poor friends today?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
We had had some misunder uh standings there, and you know,
I was just beginning to uh you know, after he
got me on put me on his show, uh, my
career I really took off. And and he was a
cause of that. I mean, you put me, give me
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that exposure. And I suppose that that uh it came
a little too fast for me.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I couldn't handle it.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
And I probably rubbed it then several different times on
the A if if if if, the opportunity presented itself,
I did, you know, and I probably aggravated him.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
And I'm sure I did.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
I put that in the book, too, didn't I.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, I want to play a song here that
I like a lot. Remember me, you like this too,
I sure do. Let's play this one. Here's mel.
Speaker 8 (07:37):
Come in the sky, the sunburn and rising.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Me wearing a hole in the shoes got.
Speaker 10 (07:49):
Remember me? I'm wanting mat.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
You laughing, you put on the crime.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
Image.
Speaker 12 (08:01):
You how to fly?
Speaker 10 (08:06):
Remember me? Will you tell down? All right?
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Now?
Speaker 10 (08:15):
Mber me? Remember me.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
And you'll feeling I can never fall?
Speaker 10 (08:23):
Remember me? Remember me?
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Something above me?
Speaker 10 (08:30):
You pet of face, my mother, brother you that me way?
Remember me, me me dembe me.
Speaker 12 (09:04):
Love competing a friend, my father ronning down, hide me,
repent me.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So let me.
Speaker 13 (09:20):
I'll be beside you at last seven day my.
Speaker 12 (09:24):
My father mother hide were remember me, rect me.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Dict mel Tillis with remember me? Got a gus Harden
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Earl Thomas Conley duet coming up here for you folks
next on the Ralph Emery Show. Then we'll get back
to mel Tillis, you.
Speaker 9 (10:37):
With a hundred kids.
Speaker 10 (10:40):
I'm more long nice.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Than me.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
I didn't hurt him that needed a tail because.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
We didn't want in the last anything Just so fano
to the money cave.
Speaker 10 (11:04):
We never been out on.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Kid fa TI find no streets tas What have we
changed from.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
The side came Look at the two.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
All tble up in.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
You with a good badcy Wren.
Speaker 10 (11:40):
Listen, Pa Stream.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And me.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
I've made of my mind love what's too hard on me?
We blend the name just.
Speaker 10 (11:57):
One line the bubble, no ball line we got the thing? No, no,
no ties and die, no streams up sack? What are
we trained? When the song came?
Speaker 9 (12:18):
Look at the U, I say lots.
Speaker 10 (12:27):
Oh you didn't learn it?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
The vert something.
Speaker 10 (12:33):
We'll roll nine now maybe we'll not cream more. But
what can we do when a thing we never be? Now?
Speaker 12 (12:51):
No game back, no ties, fine, no stream.
Speaker 10 (12:58):
No mottle? How we track two?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Gus Harden with Earl Thomas Conley, all tangled up in love.
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Speaker 1 (14:28):
In your book Stuttering Boy.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
There is a strange remedy for getting rid of stuttering
in chapter six about the squirrel.
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
I guess I get so many.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
I guess in your lifetime a lot of people have
told you how to quit stuttering.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
Oh yes, yes, in this particular one. I remember this
one very well. The lady told my mama, said, you
catch young Melvin coming from Prince Theater in Phoki it
at nighttime after having watched The Mummy or a Frankenstein,
a wolfman or something, and he'll already be scared, and
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somebody jump out the bushes and hit him in the
face with a dead wet squirrel, a dead wet.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Squirrel, And that that was supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That was supposed to do it.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Did somebody try it?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No, No, we never did try it.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
But that was.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
One of the uh a remedies that I remember.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Another one was the rocks. You know.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
I had read about Demostroneses, a great Greek orator, that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
It went down to.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
The seashore and he put some pebbles in his mouth
and he could talk. He found out that he could talk,
and I tried that, and I would go down to
Okachobee Lake and put.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Them in my mouth and talk to the lake to help.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Oh no, uh the lake never did talk back at me,
and I think I swallowed one of her almost dead,
and I got rid of the rocks.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Okay, how about singing Metal Revenge? I always liked this
little tune because of some of the rhyme that you
got in here. Why any any story about writing Metal Revenge? No,
that was just uh uh.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
I wrote that about an old girlfriend as I used
to have, and uh you know, uh uh uh uh
I'm talking about an old uh uh girlfriend I had
any high school and she did me wrong and I
didn't want to you know, uh you know, I d
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and I wrote this song.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
You know, I didn't want to harm nobody.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Uh uh physically or nobody even knows who the girl is.
But in my mind, uh she ran off with this
guy and got uh uh and married him, So I
just I took care of her mentally.
Speaker 14 (17:14):
Okay, Well, I hope that the friend just yourself will
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get something and his job.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
And that road you walking on that school.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Rocky in hall.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I couldn't make you love me.
Speaker 10 (17:59):
You wont only made me bloom.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
So all in all.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
If the curtain should all, I hope that falls.
Speaker 15 (18:08):
On I will have sweet frick, sweet sweet Melly. I
will have sweet Friet, sweet sweet never rebe.
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Well.
Speaker 15 (18:45):
I hope that the train from character may runs over your.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Sweet love affair.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You won't fall from nord a door and.
Speaker 12 (18:58):
Will lash your rock side al.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You never was my woman because.
Speaker 10 (19:08):
You are never true.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So all in.
Speaker 15 (19:12):
All, in the courtship ball, I hope that falls on you,
I will have sweet green, sweet sweet metal ribb. I
will have sweet fat sweet sweet medal ribb.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
That's males killers about writing about an old girlfriend. How
old were you and this this romance.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Broke up about sixteen?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh oh you go? You don't ever You're not an elephant.
You don't ever forget?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Do you no?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's mel Tillis with Metal Revenge.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
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Speaker 1 (21:19):
Got a Whalon Jennings record here that you folks might like.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
It's new.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
It's called Waltzmeare the Heaven and here's old way More.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
It's been a long time since I've had a good time.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I think it's high time good.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
I have the stage it for you like.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Man and it's good.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
To be feeling.
Speaker 7 (22:04):
Like the light suit down loop the band's blea sloop to.
Speaker 10 (22:15):
The beautiful Jena.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
See how many love songs? How many dance floors have
lovers like us?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Walls to crow.
Speaker 9 (22:35):
Sos me to ever Tonight to the wall song we
as me blens.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
Mel ang as the middle be waited to par.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
Walt You wants me to ever Nothing lolls me to
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ever tonight. All you talk in inju and vate life
with the.
Speaker 7 (23:32):
As our halo and the stars in our eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Won't you ask me to never till not.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Wr to ever tonight, hold your ever.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Feb against my soul te as.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
The band solve to play, So this magic fol light.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
We'll dance past the Milky Way.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
To everyboy with the moon is our heload and the
stars and our eyes.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Won't you bals me to devil to.
Speaker 10 (24:24):
Won't you ast me to devil.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
To
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Whil and Jennings and waltz me to heaven.