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Title: Merle Haggard doing impersonations (Marty, Hank Snow, Buck, Cash)
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Published: Jul 24, 2015
Author: merle, buck, and glenn
Post Date: 2015-07-24 20:20:13 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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#1. To: All (#0)

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 20:21:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#2. To: All (#1)

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 20:28:43 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#3. To: All (#2)
I met Merle once in an old knife store somewhere south of Fairbanks in 1984(ish).
He pulled out $1,000 cash for a custom hand made moose horn hunting knife.
Just as humble as he could be. I think he had had a few. I didn't buy anything. The knife maker and I both had big smiles as Merle went back to his pickup. I have a friend that used to ride around in an old pickup the backroads of Bakersfield drinking scotch and whiskey with Merle, Buck, and Johnny. Sometimes all in the same truck.
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 20:36:47 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#4. To: All (#3)

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 20:40:36 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#5. To: All (#4)
I never really started appreciating these old songs until years after I outgrew 'hippie' music.
LoL

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 20:43:34 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#5)
In the mid seventies I went country and didn't look back.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2015-07-24 20:56:03 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#7. To: Lod (#6)
In the mid seventies I went country and didn't look back.

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My dad wore out every Hank Williams LP. I must have listened to 'Your Cheating Heart' 2 million times.
Dad downed at least 100 cases of Bud on this one alone ..
;>)

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 21:10:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#8. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#7)
Dad downed at least 100 cases of Bud on this one alone ..

If he lived to tell the tale, he's no Hank devotee :-)

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-24 21:13:44 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#9. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#7)

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2015-07-24 21:38:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#10. To: Lod (#6)
In the mid seventies I went country and didn't look back.

Yes. By age 14 I was almost 100% country, and was beginning to hate rock music with every fiber of my being.
But by 1986 country had degenerated so much that I completely quit listening to the radio. (About that time Merle Haggard called the new country music "half- baked rock and roll" as I recall.)
In September 1985 -- when the first Farm Aid concert was happening -- Boxcar Willie visited a nearby town and was interviewed on the local country music radio station.
"Why aren't you at Farm Aid?", the DJ asked him.
Box replied, "Because I wasn't invited."
A little taken aback, the DJ said, "Well, why do you think you weren't invited?"
Without hesitating, Box answered, "Because I don't smoke enough grass."

StraitGate posted on 2015-07-24 22:10:08 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#11. To: StraitGate (#10)
Great stuff, just great, thank you!
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
Lod posted on 2015-07-24 22:16:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#12. To: StraitGate (#10)
Haha, good for him!
I remember when country went porno in circa 1982, halfway to going country rock where you can't listen to a station for 15 minutes without hearing some snickering lyric about illicit sex. I collect the "this can't be wrong if it feels so right" genre -- gonna write up a full indictment someday.
The one that specific fraze is from, You Light up my Life, is especially guilty because of its (none too original) soaring anthem-like effect -- it's even been adapted in churches. And isn't it just divine when a "Christian" artist like Barbra Mandrell strikes gold with something like If Loving You is Wrong, I don't Want to be Right?

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-24 22:31:54 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#13. To: NeoconsNailed (#12)
I remember when country went porno in circa 1982

Alas. Sex sells, and Nashville is all about money. And I suspect that there is some smutty tribal control of the country music industry.
A list of the country entertainers who DON'T have at least one song referring to clandestine copulation would probably be a lot shorter than a list of those who do.
I remember my first pastor -- whom I visited earlier this week, incidentally -- railing against that very Debbie Boone lyric.
Barbara Mandrell was in the smut business several years before If Loving You is Wrong, I don't Want to be Right: her Midnight Oil (1973) was as trashy as anything Conway Twitty ever released.

StraitGate posted on 2015-07-24 23:14:17 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#14. To: NeoconsNailed (#8)
If he lived to tell the tale, he's no Hank devotee :-)

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Dad was married 8 times. Twice to the same woman.
His problem was his good looks, and weakness for women.
He sure loved 'ole Hank. Dean Martin was another fav of his, along with Perry Como, Eddie Arnold, Jeanie C. Riley, and of course Patsy Cline.
They just don't make 'em like that anymore.
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 23:25:00 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#15. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, Lod (#0)

Gotta love Dolly, that was disturbing :)
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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-24 23:26:43 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#16. To: Lod (#9)

WHERE does time go? I guess I've always been a redneck.
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 23:28:59 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#17. To: Dakmar (#15)
I remember the first time I ever saw Dolly. She was barely 18 and sang on Porter Wagoner's show (from Amarillo, TX IIRC).
Porter's wife wound up divorcing him for giving Dolly a new Cadillac and fur coat. Not sure what Porter got out of the deal (snicker)
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 23:32:29 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#18. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#17)
Such is the stuff of legends
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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-24 23:40:09 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#19. To: Dakmar (#18) (Edited)

1967

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 23:42:34 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#20. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#19)
I've been imbibing heavily, I exit tonight's 4-UM discussion with what I believe is the greatest Country & Western song ever recorded:

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-24 23:48:42 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#21. To: Dakmar (#20)
My daddy's favorite song.
Gives me shills ..
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-24 23:52:20 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#22. To: StraitGate (#13)
In view of the Dollymania here, Strait, I guess I'd better not give the sermon I was planning on her Green-Eyed Boy, Confederate flag suppression et al :-O

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-24 23:57:36 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#23. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#21)
My daddy's favorite song.

And now here's something we hope you'll really like!

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-24 23:59:06 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#24. To: Dakmar (#23)
There is a lot of difference between Loretta and Dolly.
Loretta doesn't 'like' girls, and I don't think she sold herself to 'get to the top.'
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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-25 0:45:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#25. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#24)
I hate country music! :)

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 0:51:18 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#26. To: Dakmar (#25)
He's looking more haggard than Merle, but your honesty is a breath of fresh air :-)

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-25 0:57:23 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#27. To: Dakmar (#23) (Edited)
This is the old 'real country.' I'm not well versed in it.
Loretta's favorite was Bill Monroe.
Elvis' first national hit was his rendition of Bill's 'Blue Moon of Kentucky.'
Ricky Skaggs got some of his fire from Bill Monroe as a kid.

(FF to 1:00 to get past the 'twang.)

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-25 0:58:07 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#28. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM, NeoconsNailed (#27)
Holy moly, I prolly only like bluegrass because it makes me feel normal. :)

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 1:04:38 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#29. To: Dakmar (#28)
How can I miss you if you won't go away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZhT5ZNyHlM

She Only Bitches When She Breathes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxtd5Hj0yxo

You're Not As Ugly As You Look
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S56UXQnf6LY

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-25 1:15:13 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#30. To: Dakmar (#28)
Jeff Beck can surely make his Fender sing.
Its all in the ears (and fingers).
I gave $50 for Ricky Nelson's 12-string Harmony in 1970. Got it from a lady whose son 'left it behind' when he 'went off to college' and didn't want it anymore. She had no idea what she had. I didn't either. Played it for two years and sold it for .. $50.
Perhaps no picker has ever 'crossed' the line smoother than Chet Atkins. Mark Knopfler would agree I think ..

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-25 1:16:36 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#31. To: NeoconsNailed (#29)
Never Hit Your Grandma with a Great Big Stick

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 1:18:54 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#32. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#30)
I gave $50 for Ricky Nelson's 12-string Harmony in 1970. Got it from a lady whose son 'left it behind' when he 'went off to college' and didn't want it anymore. She had no idea what she had. I didn't either. Played it for two years and sold it for .. $50.

LOL, I don't feel so bad about my first generation chia pet dying now :)
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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 1:23:10 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#33. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Dwight Yoakam, Buck Owens & Flaco Jimenez live on stage Austin 1988 (Buck hits the stage at 3:16)

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X-15 posted on 2015-07-25 1:31:55 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#34. To: X-15 (#33)
Country really does mirror the working man.
I won't spoil it by mentioning (oops) what has happened to Country. Its still out there somewhere.
I remember hearing this as a kid with no clue about what a 'Tiger' really was. I thought it was the tiger on cereal box.
GAWD .. what happened to our music?

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-25 1:56:44 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#35. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#34)
GAWD .. what happened to our music?

JUES, that's what. Country music gone rock is Jued music.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-25 2:02:26 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#36. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#34)
GAWD .. what happened to our music?

Englishters...ruined it!

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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 2:10:47 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#37. To: Dakmar (#36)
That is a gorgeous composition, let's face it, even if Jue -- sounds like HQ, too! I'm sure I'm not alone in remembering the original live worldwide broadcast. Raising a bottle of vino to the 5th Beatle in particular here, even drinking some -- yummy.
That is a beautiful, blessedly silly song. Thanks, D.

NeoconsNailed posted on 2015-07-25 2:16:17 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#38. To: Dakmar (#36)
Englishters...ruined it!

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Yeah, but in the END, John still said he WAS NOT Jesus Christ. Even said he believed in 'Him' towards the end (did he IMAGINE it?)
I can't tell you how many Abby Road 8-tracks I wore out.
Imagine Chet Atkins would sound after doing a few tokes of Colombian and a hit of Orange Sunshine?

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HAPPY2BME-4UM posted on 2015-07-25 2:24:04 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#39. To: NeoconsNailed (#37)
Thanks, NN, I was born in 1965 so didn't get the whole Beatles story from beginning to end, in fact I was only 4 when they broke up.
There are plenty of better songs, about love and reindeers or something, like this:
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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 2:29:30 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
#40. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#38)
Medleys make me start singing in a Bill Murray style, with no legally provable copyright infringement.
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Dakmar posted on 2015-07-25 2:35:58 ET Reply Trace Private Reply

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