tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post6878559809832596230..comments2024-03-26T23:59:24.053-04:00Comments on Fayfare's Opry Blog: June 29, 1963-Jim Reeves Final Opry Appearancefayfarehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00173166778978335059noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-61514773361537995262012-06-25T14:59:38.582-04:002012-06-25T14:59:38.582-04:00Byron, I was listening to WSM one Saturday night a...Byron, I was listening to WSM one Saturday night and he did it on the Opry sometime in the 1960s. He did it fine but, while I love Jimmy C., it really did need a "big" voice like Dudley's. I also should have said another word for NewKeys because that's where Tom T. Hall got started, and I THINK his first song in Nashville was "DJ For a Day" by Newman.<br /><br />I also count 24 members appearing. Jim & Jesse also were yet to become members, but I notice they tended to do guest shots on the Martha White segment when Lester and Earl were away--they also were part of the Martha White Bluegrass world.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998867386294693956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-64808394525629628482012-06-25T14:28:21.475-04:002012-06-25T14:28:21.475-04:00Mike, I have a tape of Jimmy C. singing "Six ...Mike, I have a tape of Jimmy C. singing "Six Days on the Road" on the Opry one night. It was in the late 80s and the only time I ever heard Jimmy do it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-50723422883876438082012-06-25T11:52:50.074-04:002012-06-25T11:52:50.074-04:00Stonewall also was responsible for confirming one ...Stonewall also was responsible for confirming one of the legendary Nashville stories: the claim that when Tammy Wynette hid the car keys so he couldn't go get booze, George Jones took off on the lawn mower. The two guys were on with Ralph one night on Nashville Now and Ralph said something about that. George said, well, those stories are a bit exaggerated, and Stonewall started laughing. George said, "What are you laughing about?" Stonewall said, "You stopped at my house to ask if I had any gas." When the roaring died down, George said, "I did?"<br /><br />Byron, I learn a lot from you. I'd never known that Jim Reeves had left the Opry. As for Dave Dudley, he was a close friend of Jimmy C. Newman, and NewKeys, the Cajun guy's publishing company, did "Six Days on the Road." He gave it to Dudley, saying, with his Cajun French accent, "I can't sound like a truck dri-vair." Newman also said Stonewall turned it down, as did Johnny Cash, and in the latter's case, because he didn't like the line about "little white pills." When he said that, Ralph said, "CASH?" Newman nodded and said, "I know."Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01998867386294693956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6344993590139159352.post-83944793693468006122012-06-25T07:54:38.801-04:002012-06-25T07:54:38.801-04:00Fred in Bismarck:
I will always give Reeves credi...Fred in Bismarck:<br /><br />I will always give Reeves credit for sneaking back into the studio and continuing to record country-style, with the appropriate spare backup, even after he had become an international pop monster.<br /><br />RCA thought so little of these efforts that it first released them in budget albums, on its Camden label. After Jim's death it would add voices (and sometimes "strings") and put out such as "Blue Side of Lonesome" as a single.<br /><br />Stonewall Jackson told a funny story about Reeves on one of Ralph Emery's Reunion shows. Probably a lot of you saw it. He recalled how "Gentleman Jim" projected this tuxedo image but was really a brawler, especially when he had a wee drop taken.<br /><br />Stonewall told how, one night on a bus, Reeves took exception to something Stonewall said and ordered the bus stopped so the two could get off and duke it out. But Reeves was so hammered he couldn't even stand in the barpit, promptly falling down. End of "fight," as Stonewall had to help him to his feet and back onto the bus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com