08/06/2024
BREAKKNG NEWS!!! Please share this to er’body!!
Due to technical difficulties AGAIN!! Our Playoutone Broadcast will not get the mic to air so yall can’t hear me when I’m talking to you, this has been an ongoing issue since we purchased all new equipment and has been a challenge to say the least but we march on. With that in mind, below you will find my script for todays show and we invite you follow along to read the stories behind the songs! Of course you won’t have my rich baritone voice to smooth ya like buttah!!
As we speak we are still working on the problem but enjoy the show that I put together with you in mind!!
There’s more than one way to skin a cat😅
Freddie Pate’s Country Legends
1963 by Johnny Cash made its debut at #28 on the singles charts. It went on to become his first #1 hit since the 1959 "Don't Take Your Guns To Town."
1986 Randy Travis released his debut studio album Storms of Life which went on
"Ring Of Fire"
to peak at #1 on the Country charts. Here’s a tune previously recorded by Keith Whitley on his 1985 album L.A. to Miami,
Randys album features the singles "1982", "Diggin' up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" and this big ol hit, “On the Other Hand"
1991 Garth Brooks was at #1 on the chart
with his third studio album, Ropin' the
Wind. The album replaced his previous album No Fences at the #1 postion, where it enjoyed a combined 18 weeks at the top of the charts. “Rodeo”
2003 by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, Written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins it spent eight non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. It also won (CMA) Award for Vocal Event of the Year. The song became the #3 country song
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
of the decade on Billboard's Hot Country Songs Chart. It also became the biggest pop hit for Jackson and the first top forty hit for Buffett since the 1970s.
2014
Steel guitar player Weldon Myrick died. In the late 1960s, he joined Bobby Thompson and Charlie McCoy to form Area Code 615.
Became part of the The Nashville A-Team and played on many songs for artists: Charley Pride, Reba McEntire, Kris Kristofferson, Chet Atkins, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, George Strait and Johnny Cash. He helped shaped the
“sound” of many artist and here’s one that fits that description, “Once A Day”
1996
George Strait released "Carried Away" the second single from his album Blue Clear
Sky which would become his 30th US
Country chart hit. The song was one of two George Strait songs (the other being "One Night at a Time") to be nominated for Single of the Year at the 1997 Country Music Association Awards.
1929 Born songwriter, singer, and radio host Bill Mack. His best-known song is
one of LeAnn Rimes' biggest hits.
"Blue,"
The song won Mack the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 1997. Mack also wrote "Drinking Champagne," which has been recorded by numerous artists. He died on July 31, 2020.
1937Born in San Benito, Texas, Freddy Fender who had the 1975 US Country #1 hit "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" and is known for his work in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. Fender died on 14th October 2006.
1993
Country singer Conway Twitty died from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He had the 1958 US & UK #1 single "It's Only Make Believe". Until 2000, he held the record for the most #1 singles of any country act, with 45 #1's. He lived in Hendersonville, Tennessee, just north of Nashville, where he built a country music entertainment complex
“I’m The Only Thing I’ll
Hold Against You” written
called Twitty City. And here’s what Conway does best, like the saying goes, ‘ Conway was songs bet friend” from his last album, “Final Touches”
by Joe Diffie, Kim Williams & Lonnie Wilson
1945 Born this week was Don Reid, of The Statler Brothers who had the 80's US Country #1 hits "Elizabeth" and "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine".
1943
Born in Springhill, Louisiana, in Webster
Parish was Joe Stampley, 1973 #1 the 1975 US #1 country hit with "Roll On Big Mama”
1971
Lynn Anderson was at #1 on the country music album chart with Rose Garden. The title track went on to top the country charts, where it stayed at the #1 position for five
weeks, and reached #3 on the pop charts in 1971. Anderson received a Grammy Award for the song for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
1974
RCA Records released
, the second single from Parton's thirteenth solo studio
album, Jolene. Recorded on June 13, 1973, the singer wrote the song for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, from
You" by Dolly Parton
"I Will Always Love
whom she was professionally splitting at the time.
1980The movie Urban Cowboy, starring John Travolta and Debra Winger, opened in American theaters. The movie, which showcased Mickey Gilley's nightclub, was a huge success at the box office and its soundtrack included several major hits.
“Lookin For Love”
"Whisper
My Name"
1994 Randy Travis released
the second single from his
album This Is Me which became his fifteenth US Country #1 hit.
1933Born on this day in Morrisville, Missouri Winford was Wynn Stewart, the country music performer who was one of the progenitors of the Bakersfield sound and an inspiration to such greats as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Stewart scored the 1967
#1 hit
Stewart suddenly died of a heart attack on July 17, 1985.
2005 Toby Keith was at #1 on the country charts with H***ytonk University.
biggest hit, topping the BillboardHot Country Songs
charts for six weeks. Due to the closure of
as I Once Was" was the album's
"As Good
"It's Such a Pretty World Today".
DreamWorks shortly afterwards, however, "Big Blue Note" was releasd on Keith's Show Dog Nashville label, going on to peak at #5.
1940Born on this day in Pontypridd, South Wales, UK, was Tom Jones, singer who scored the 1977 US #1 Country hit "Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow". Jones is famous for his version of "Green, Green Grass of Home" which was a world-wide hit in 1966.
1969
The Johnny Cash Show premiered on ABC TV; from the Grand Ole Opry with special guest Bob Dylan and the regular cast, Tennessee Three, June Carter and Carter Family, Statler Brothers, and Carl Perkins, stepping in for Luther Perkins, (who has just died accidentally in house fire). Bob Wootton
became a permanent replacement in Cash's band, and a mainstay for the next three decades.
2014George Strait ended his touring career in style with his final performance at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The show
shattered a Billboard Boxscore mark for largest single-show attendance at a US stadium when 104,793 fans packed the home of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys to see the singer on the final date of his farewell
tour Cowboy Rides Away.
1969
Tammy Wynette was at #1 on the country charts with "Singing My Song" who she co-wrote with Billy Sherrill and Glenn Sutton. "Singing My Song" was Tammy Wynette's fifth #1 on the country charts as a solo artist and spent a total of fourteen weeks on the charts.
1976
The novelty song "One Piece at a Time" by Johnny Cash was at #1 on the Country chart. The song tells of a man who works at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, building
Cadillacs and knowing that he will never be able to afford one. He and a co-worker decide to steal a Cadillac, using their assembly line jobs to obtain the parts via salami slicing. He takes the small parts home hidden in his large lunchbox; larger parts are smuggled out in his co-worker's motor
home.
2003
Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" was ranked #1 in CMT's 100 Greatest Songs Of Country Music. Ex-husband George Jones was placed at #2, with "He Stopped Loving Her Today." Followed by "Crazy", Patsy Cline, "Ring of Fire", Johnny Cash, "Your
Cheatin' Heart", Hank Williams, "Friends in Low Places", Friends in Low Places, "I Fall to Pieces", Patsy Cline, "Galveston", Glen Campbell, "Behind Closed Doors", Behind Closed Doors and "Mammas Don't Let Your
Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys", Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson.
2014
Dolly Parton hand-delivered the millionth book from her UK Imagination Library reading initiative to a Liverpool child. The
singer-songwriter gave a Braille copy of Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit to five-year-old Dylan Manifold while in the city to perform. It was the first book for blind and partially-sighted children the project had supplied in the UK. The Imagination Library, which runs in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, sees sponsors pay for pre-school children to receive a book every month. It
originally launched in Parton's home county of Sevier, Tennessee in 1996.
