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Post by sabre14 on May 19, 2014 13:50:57 GMT -5
*Clint Black was a high school drop out.
*The music video for "Drugs Or Jesus" was filmed at an old house that former owners claimed was haunted.
*Songwriter Aimee Mayo who is well known for writing many country singles like "Who You'd Be Today", "Amazed", "I Wonder", "Backseat Of A Greyhound Bus", "Tangled Up", and "My Best Friend" once wrote a Backstreet Boys song called "Helpless When She Smiles which was co-written by other Nashville songwriters Brett James and Troy Verges. The song was also produced by John Shanks.
*Hanna-McEuen's 2005 single "Something Like A Broken Heart" peaked at #38 on Billboard in May. But the Radio And Records peak was #31 which was also unbulleted as it gained 3 spots from 34. Though it was extremely close to being #33 that week and after it dipped to #36 next week it went recurrent.
*Former artist Melodie Crittenden helped with backing vocals on Jamey Johnson's major label debut album The Dollar. Crittenden's only top 50 single was her version of "Bless The Broken Road" in 1998 which was simply titled "Broken Road" (#42).
*David Lee Murphy's 2004 album Tryin' To Get There's title track was helped written by Waylon Jennings just prior to his death in 2002.
*Eli Young Band says the song they wished was a single from Life At Best was "Skeletons".
*You're Gonna Be" by Reba McEntite peaked at #28 on R&R. It's Billboard peak was #33.
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 19, 2014 20:33:06 GMT -5
There used to be a George Strait gift shop in Nashville. It was called George Strait's Texas Connection. Conway Twitty had a gift shop, as well. One interesting thing I noticed, was that they had cancelled checks for sale with Conway's signiature on them. That's neat. On a semi-related note, Miranda Lambert owns a small town store and soda fountain in Tishomingo, Oklahoma where she and Blake live together currently and she recently opened a second location in her hometown of Lindale, Texas.
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Post by fe_lipeoliveira on May 21, 2014 20:48:38 GMT -5
* Emily West's mother played the role of Katie Armiger's mother in the "Better In a Black Dress" video.
* Kacey Musgraves dated Miranda's brother back in the day.
I know a lot of these stuff, but I can't remember more right now.
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Post by sabre14 on May 22, 2014 14:48:55 GMT -5
* Curb Records pushed back Trick Pony's album R.I.D.E five separate times. The first few times was because of the under performing of "The Bride", then finally settled on a June of 2005 release.
* Big & Rich released a Super Galactic Fan Pack album/DVD in October of 2004. The package included two story/song tracks with "Drinkin' Bout You" and "The Bob Song". Both of them featured Kenny and John talking about all sorts of things that did or did not relate to the song...
The package also included some of their "out there" songs like "Disco Ball", "Say Ooh" and "The Bob Song" ("you swing from your tree and I'll swing from mine")
* Lauren Elaine was the woman who appeared in 3 of Dierks Bentley's first 4 music videos ("What Was I Thinkin'", "How Am I Doin'", "Lot Of Leavin' Left To Do")
* "A Woman's Love" was originally recorded by Alan Jackson for his High Mileage album in 1998. He re-recorded the song for his Like Red On A Rose album and released it as the second and final single in 2007.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2014 14:51:16 GMT -5
*Natalie Maines hates the Chicks first hit, "There's Your Trouble," and was against recording it "I Can Love You Better" was their first hit, but that was their first #1. Where did you find this out?
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Post by .indulgecountry on May 22, 2014 15:03:14 GMT -5
Sara Evans was struck by a car when she was eight and suffered multiple leg fractures. She was confined to a wheelchair for awhile and had to go through months of rehab, but she continued singing with her family to help pay for the medical bills.
Also, when she was recording demos in Nashville after moving there in 1995, Evans caught the attention of Harlan Howard with her cover of his "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail." His interest in her ultimately led to Evans signing with RCA. Howard's famous quote that a great country song is "three chords and the truth" inspired the song of the same name (written by Evans with Ron Harbin and Aimee Mayo) that also served as the title of her 1997 debut album.
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Post by onebuffalo on May 22, 2014 17:46:46 GMT -5
All you have to do is switch some numbers: What am I talking about? Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle are sisters. We all know that. However, if you were to take the last two numbers of the years Lynn had #1s and turn them around, you get the years Gayle had her chart topping hits. Ready?
Lynn-1967-1978 Gayle-1976-1987
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Post by sabre14 on May 28, 2014 22:39:54 GMT -5
* Shannon Brown who sang the singles "Corn Fed" (#42 on R&R), and "Pearls" (did not chart) is married to music video director Shaun Silva.
* Cross Canadian Ragweed's name came from the founding members names, and not because they are from Canada (their not, their from Oklahoma). Cody Canada (lead vocals) and Randy Ragsdale (drums).
* George Strait put the Shawn Camp/Marv Green song "Love Done Gone" on hold but relinquished it at the last moment, allowing Billy Currington the chance to cut it.
* Marcel is not only a singer/songwriter, writing such songs like "Nothin' To Lose" by Josh Gracin and "This Ain't No Love Song" by Trace Adkins, but a music video director as well, as he's directed the videos for "Didn't I" by James Wesley and "She Won't Be Lonely Long" by Clay Walker.
* Lari White and Aaron Tippin were the first ever artists signed to Lyric Street Records. Both were formerly of RCA Records Nashville.
* Wynonna's last charting single was "Attitude" which was co-written by John Rich. I discovered that it peaked at #40 on Billboard but only #41 on Radio And Records. So it's 7 I've found since 2005 that have peaked in the top 40 on Billboard but not R&R/Mediabase.
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on May 28, 2014 23:25:35 GMT -5
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Post by vamp111 on Jun 13, 2014 4:27:00 GMT -5
*Craig Campbell's "Outta My Head" and Randy Houser's "Runnin' Outta Moonlight" were both originally on hold for Scotty McCreery.
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 14, 2014 16:05:02 GMT -5
* When Jon Randall and Bill Anderson wrote "Whiskey Lullaby", Jon asked Bill if they should have the woman drink herself to death too, and Bill said, "Sure, it's a country song".
* "That's A Plan" was supposed to be Mark McGuinn's debut single in 2001, but a station in Dallas started playing "Mrs. Steven Rudy" instead and others followed. The result was a overwhelming positive response to the song so VFR made "Mrs. Steven Rudy" his debut single instead. "That's A Plan" was the second single.
* 9 of Tanya Tucker's 27 top ten singles were #2 peaking singles.
* Category 5 Records only had one top 40 single while in operation ("You Never Take Me Dancing" by Travis Tritt in 2007). It peaked at #27 on MB and #29 on Billboard.
* When John Rich and Big Kenny decided to start their MuzikMafia show in Nashville before signing a record deal to Warner Bros., they purposely picked to play on Tuesday nights, later than 9 P.M.. The reasoning was because it was the worst night night of the week and relatively late, if people did in fact show up, they would know they were damn serious about being there and only there for the music.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jun 14, 2014 16:22:23 GMT -5
* When Jon Randall and Bill Anderson wrote "Whiskey Lullaby", Jon asked Bill if they should have the woman drink herself to death too, and Bill said, "Sure, it's a country song".
That is Brad Paisley's best vocal collaboration (with Alison Krauss). That came out in 2004. That would not get released in 2014 for being 'too country' (cue Paisley again).
* 9 of Tanya Tucker's 27 top ten singles were #2 peaking singles.
I recently covered that in the A #2 that should have been a #1 thread!
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Post by sabre14 on Jun 14, 2014 18:42:06 GMT -5
* When Jon Randall and Bill Anderson wrote "Whiskey Lullaby", Jon asked Bill if they should have the woman drink herself to death too, and Bill said, "Sure, it's a country song". That is Brad Paisley's best vocal collaboration (with Alison Krauss). That came out in 2004. That would not get released in 2014 for being 'too country' (cue Paisley again). * 9 of Tanya Tucker's 27 top ten singles were #2 peaking singles. I recently covered that in the A #2 that should have been a #1 thread! Sorry 'bout that. You do a great job in that thread by the way.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 5, 2014 19:35:52 GMT -5
We haven't posted in his thread for a while. :)
* Kenny Rogers son played the lead in his final comeback single "I Can't Unlove You" music video in 2006.
* Danielle Peck was originally signed to DreamWorks Nashville before it went under, then was signed to Big Machine by Scott Borchetta who was an executive for DreamWorks.
* Ronnie Milsap's last three charting singles were spread 13 years apart. "True Believer" (#30 in 1993), "Time, Love And Money" (#57 in 2000), and "Local Girls" (#51 on R&R and #54 on BB in 2006).
* Darryl Worley once said on GAC that a radio station PD said they weren't playing "Tennessee River Run" because he thought the "Doo-doo-n-dee-dee's" during the song were too corny. Darryl said that didn't stop Roger Miller's music becoming popular.
* Video directors Robert Deaton and George Flanigen actually approached Brooks & Dunn about doing a video for "Believe". Both Ronnie and Kix originally were fine with not doing one because they felt the story would work best when it was left up to human imagination and cited "Neon Moon" as an example of a song they purposely didn't do one. But both directors convinced them that they would do the song justice and both Kix and Ronnie were pleased with the video and thinks it helped the song's success.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jul 5, 2014 21:55:48 GMT -5
Alan Jackson's "Home" was originally planned as a single from "Here in the Real World", but it was canceled because Joe Diffie had another song called "Home" out at the time. The song later served as the B-side to four other #1 singles ("I'd Love You All Over Again", "Don't Rock the Jukebox", "Tall, Tall Trees", and "I'll Try") before finally getting released from his Greatest Hits in 1996.
The radio edit of Pat Green's "Wave on Wave" inexplicably edits out the backing vocals from the line "The clouds broke out, the angels cried." (Anyone know why?)
Parodists Pinkard and Bowden, whose work often tended to be very vulgar, wrote the completely serious songs "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by David Frizzell and Shelly West, "Coca Cola Cowboy" by Mel Tillis, and "Blessed Are the Believers" by Anne Murray.
The Statler Brothers recorded a jokey album as "Lester 'Roadhog' Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys", which was full of songs that were sung badly on purpose.
For the 2007 Christmas season, Rory Lee Feek's Giantslayer Records released a Christmas single called "Bring Him Home Santa" which was sung by an unknown six-year-old girl and credited to "Song Trust". Song Trust later got a full album.
Trace Adkins' "The Rest of Mine" was inspired by a line of dialogue in the movie Phenomenon.
Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, Lee Ann Womack, Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, and Alecia Elliott provided voices for a 2000 direct-to-video animated adaptation of Tom Sawyer in which all of the characters were anthropomorphic animals.
Leon Russell's only Top 40 hit on the country charts was a 1978 version of "Heartbreak Hotel" recorded as a duet with Willie Nelson, which went to #1. He charted a total of five times, three of which were under his alternate recording name "Hank Wilson".
Western Flyer's "Cherokee Highway" reached #38 on the country charts in Canada but did not chart in the US. As far as I can tell, this is one of the only times that an American country act managed to chart in Canada only.
After their second album flopped, Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps left The Kentucky Headhunters to form Brother Phelps. They did two albums of their own, while the Headhunters did two albums with Mark S. Orr on lead vocals and Anthony Kenney on bass. Doug rejoined for the next Headhunters album, taking his brother's former role as lead singer (and, after Kenney left, Doug once again became bassist).
In the early 2000s, Joe Stampley owned a label called Critter Records. Its first signee was a man named Billy Hoffman, who was 97% deaf and took guitar lessons due to being born with underdeveloped hands.
The lowest note Richard Sterban hits on the "oom papa mow mow"s on "Elvira" is a C2, two octaves below middle C. In comparison, J. D. Sumner of the Stamps Quartet repeatedly hits a C2 on Elvis Presley's "Way Down", and goes an octave lower to C1 (three octaves below middle C) on the last chorus. That C1 was once the Guinness record for the lowest note ever hit by a singer.
About a year ago, I managed to chase songwriter/producer Chris Lindsey off Wikipedia because he kept editing his biography with information that was copyrighted, promotional, and out of date (it said he was "currently" producing for Caitlin & Will!). I kept reverting it while politely explaining that, if he wanted to put something on his own article, it had to be neutral, accurate, and in his own words. He said that since he wrote the original (copyrighted) info, it should be fine. I then asked him why he was adding info that was obviously out of date, and he had a tantrum on his talk page before his editing stopped.
Lots of trivia on "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis: Pam Tillis first cut it in the 80s for Warner Bros. but didn't release it. When she re-recorded it for her first Arista album in 1991, she wanted it to be a single, but the label held off because they thought the song was too pop, and released it late in the album cycle after she had scored a few Top 10 hits. Also, the radio edit changes the electric guitar solo to a steel guitar solo, perhaps to make it sound less pop. Finally, the second verse ("Read about you in a Faulkner novel…") was written as a filler verse with the intent of replacing it later on, but the writer never got around to replacing it, and resented the fact that he never did.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 5, 2014 22:09:58 GMT -5
For the 2007 Christmas season, Rory Lee Feek's Giantslayer Records released a Christmas single called "Bring Him Home Santa" which was sung by an unknown six year-old girl and credited to "Song Trust". Song Trust later got a full album. And they released another song in 2009 to radio called "Choose Me" about the perspective of a dog. I remember hearing "Bring Him Home Santa" on the radio in November of 2007 and thinking, "is this a joke?"
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Post by Kanenrá:ke on Jul 5, 2014 23:01:33 GMT -5
Alan Jackson's "Home" was originally planned as a single from "Here in the Real World", but it was canceled because Joe Diffie had another song called "Home" out at the time. The song later served as the B-side to four other #1 singles ("I'd Love You All Over Again", "Don't Rock the Jukebox", "Tall, Tall Trees", and "I'll Try") before finally getting released from his Greatest Hits in 1996. The radio edit of Pat Green's "Wave on Wave" inexplicably edits out the backing vocals from the line "The clouds broke out, the angels cried." (Anyone know why?) Parodists Pinkard and Bowden, whose work often tended to be very vulgar, wrote the completely serious songs "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma" by David Frizzell and Shelly West, "Coca Cola Cowboy" by Mel Tillis, and "Blessed Are the Believers" by Anne Murray. The Statler Brothers recorded a jokey album as "Lester 'Roadhog' Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys", which was full of songs that were sung badly on purpose. For the 2007 Christmas season, Rory Lee Feek's Giantslayer Records released a Christmas single called "Bring Him Home Santa" which was sung by an unknown six-year-old girl and credited to "Song Trust". Song Trust later got a full album. Trace Adkins' "The Rest of Mine" was inspired by a line of dialogue in the movie Phenomenon. Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, Lee Ann Womack, Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, and Alecia Elliott provided voices for a 2000 direct-to-video animated adaptation of Tom Sawyer in which all of the characters were anthropomorphic animals. Leon Russell's only Top 40 hit on the country charts was a 1978 version of "Heartbreak Hotel" recorded as a duet with Willie Nelson, which went to #1. He charted a total of five times, three of which were under his alternate recording name "Hank Wilson". Western Flyer's "Cherokee Highway" reached #38 on the country charts in Canada but did not chart in the US. As far as I can tell, this is one of the only times that an American country act managed to chart in Canada only. After their second album flopped, Ricky Lee and Doug Phelps left The Kentucky Headhunters to form Brother Phelps. They did two albums of their own, while the Headhunters did two albums with Mark S. Orr on lead vocals and Anthony Kenney on bass. Doug rejoined for the next Headhunters album, taking his brother's former role as lead singer (and, after Kenney left, Doug once again became bassist). In the early 2000s, Joe Stampley owned a label called Critter Records. Its first signee was a man named Billy Hoffman, who was 97% deaf and took guitar lessons due to being born with underdeveloped hands. The lowest note Richard Sterban hits on the "oom papa mow mow"s on "Elvira" is a C2, two octaves below middle C. In comparison, J. D. Sumner of the Stamps Quartet repeatedly hits a C2 on Elvis Presley's "Way Down", and goes an octave lower to C1 (three octaves below middle C) on the last chorus. That C1 was once the Guinness record for the lowest note ever hit by a singer. About a year ago, I managed to chase songwriter/producer Chris Lindsey off Wikipedia because he kept editing his biography with information that was copyrighted, promotional, and out of date (it said he was "currently" producing for Caitlin & Will!). I kept reverting it while politely explaining that, if he wanted to put something on his own article, it had to be neutral, accurate, and in his own words. He said that since he wrote the original (copyrighted) info, it should be fine. I then asked him why he was adding info that was obviously out of date, and he had a tantrum on his talk page before his editing stopped.Lots of trivia on "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis: Pam Tillis first cut it in the 80s for Warner Bros. but didn't release it. When she re-recorded it for her first Arista album in 1991, she wanted it to be a single, but the label held off because they thought the song was too pop, and released it late in the album cycle after she had scored a few Top 10 hits. Also, the radio edit changes the electric guitar solo to a steel guitar solo, perhaps to make it sound less pop. Finally, the second verse ("Read about you in a Faulkner novel…") was written as a filler verse with the intent of replacing it later on, but the writer never got around to replacing it, and resented the fact that he never did. Thank you for that one, that was an amusing read.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jul 6, 2014 0:05:05 GMT -5
For the 2007 Christmas season, Rory Lee Feek's Giantslayer Records released a Christmas single called "Bring Him Home Santa" which was sung by an unknown six year-old girl and credited to "Song Trust". Song Trust later got a full album. And they released another song in 2009 to radio called "Choose Me" about the perspective of a dog. I remember hearing "Bring Him Home Santa" on the radio in November of 2007 and thinking, "is this a joke?" After that album came out, WATZ played "Box of Rocks" from that Song Trust album. I thought it was kinda cute actually.
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 6, 2014 0:31:49 GMT -5
And they released another song in 2009 to radio called "Choose Me" about the perspective of a dog. I remember hearing "Bring Him Home Santa" on the radio in November of 2007 and thinking, "is this a joke?" After that album came out, WATZ played "Box of Rocks" from that Song Trust album. I thought it was kinda cute actually. I decided to look up "Box Of Rocks" on iTunes when you brought it up and I actually agree on that song being cute. The "Choose Me" song isn't half bad either but that's probably due to that one being sung by an adult, and the fact I'm a sucker for dogs. I'm not totally against little kids singing on the radio though. I actually thought Tim's daughters on "Last Dollar (Fly Away)" were a nice addition to be honest and added to the quirkiness of the song.
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Post by .indulgecountry on Jul 6, 2014 1:25:16 GMT -5
If it's utilized well, I don't mind either. For instance, I love the addition of the kids choir on Deana Carter's "Angels Working Overtime." It's my favorite part of the song.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Jul 6, 2014 7:43:00 GMT -5
The kids' choir on The Oak Ridge Boys' "Christmas Is Painting the Town" or Brad Paisley's "Ain't Nothing Like" are two of the most shrill kids' choirs I've ever heard.
Also, one kid is horribly off-key on the kids' choir on "Angels Among Us", but not quite enough to distract me from the song.
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Post by onebuffalo on Jul 9, 2014 16:58:47 GMT -5
If you want a top 20 hit, marry Lorrie Morgan. She scored three with her three husbands: 1. 'Til A Tear Becomes A Rose-with Keith Whitley-1990-#13-just after he died 2. By My Side-with Jon Randall-1996-#18 3. Maybe Not Tonight-with Sammy Kershaw-1999-#17-just before they got married
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Post by sabre14 on Jul 22, 2014 15:42:50 GMT -5
During CRS, there are usually promotional videos for new artists to be seen by country radio. It acts as a "get to know the artist" and many have been made into comical videos. One of the best I've seen was in February of 2006 for Hot Apple Pie who unfortunately hasn't made a chart appearance since "Easy Does It" (#48 on R&R) in 2006. They were under the new faces category that year. I just found the video on YouTube here. I figured this would be a good thread to put this in since these videos are made for Country Radio Seminar and it's a fun fact that these videos were made. :)
BTW: Cameos from Dierks and Tim are in this as well.
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Post by sabre14 on Aug 30, 2014 15:25:39 GMT -5
* Trace Adkins once said that "Rough And Ready" was never supposed to be a single. But fans kept pleading him to release it, so Capitol decided to make it the final single off his Comin' On Strong album.
* Keith Stegall never pitched Alan Jackson "I Hate Everything" and instead pitched it to George Strait, which is odd since Keith was Alan's long time producer. Alan said he joked with Keith about never being pitched the song but he couldn't see how he could have done better than George's version.
* Josh Gracin originally didn't want to record "Nothin' To Lose" which was written by Marcel. He told Marcel that he thought he couldn't sing the song fast enough to make it work. Then because that song turned out so well, Josh recorded another Marcel song for his next album, "Favorite State Of Mind".
* Songwriters Bob DiPiero, Jeffrey Steele, Tony Mullins, and Craig Wiseman were on a short lived reality show called The Hitmen of Music Row on GAC in the fall of 2007.
* Trisha Yearwood's last top 10 single was "I Would've Loved You Anyway" (#4) in 2001.
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Post by Andy on Aug 31, 2014 7:16:05 GMT -5
-Trace Adkins was the first to record "In Color" and was slated to release it as a single, but when co-writer Jamey Johnson asked if he could have it instead, Adkins agreed, basically saying "Sure, it's your song." While Adkins' version was kept off the standard edition of his album X, it is/was available as a bonus track to the iTunes edition.
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Post by sabre14 on Sept 8, 2014 13:12:10 GMT -5
* Gretchen Wilson's car was repossessed the day she signed her record deal with Epic Nashville.
* Keith Anderson's first goal in high school was to be a Major League Baseball player and was even approached by scouts from the Kansas City Royals at one of his games. A shoulder injury would end that dream.
* Kevin Hughes, who was a tabulator for an independent music singles charts in Nashville, was murdered by people who wanted to manipulate the charts by payola in 1989. Hughes refused the money and bribery, and it cost him his life. It was an episode of the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, and was solved in 2003. The person who was hired to murder him was convicted of first degree murder.
Pretty scary to think how far people went to make sure their payola was paid off.
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Sept 8, 2014 16:16:48 GMT -5
* Gary Harrison, co-writer of "Wrong Side of Memphis", disliked the song because he felt that it just droned and didn't have anything interesting to say. He also disliked that it used Drop D tuning, which was a real rarity in country at the time (the only older song I can think of that does is "Guitar Town" by Steve Earle).
* Rebecca Lynn Howard had not one, but two labels (Rising Tide and Decca) close on her before she got her debut album out. Then her second album was cut off after only one single, and she had TWO albums that got unreleased, plus one single to an album that apparently never even got finished.
* The Bellamy Brothers had two Top 15 singles in a row that never appeared on an album: "They Could Put Me in Jail" at #12 and "You're My Favorite Star" at #7. Later on, they terminated their contract with MCA after only one single from their 1990 album Reality Check ("I Could Be Persuaded"). After that, they did only one album for Atlantic before going independent.
* Toby Keith recorded a few tracks for Mercury near the end of his contract with them, but they didn't like what he recorded except for "Getcha Some" and "If a Man Answers". They put those songs on a greatest hits album and asked him to try again. He submitted to them what would later become his How Do You Like Me Now?! album, and when they didn't like that either, he asked out of his contract and moved to DreamWorks. They agreed to put out How Do You Like Me Now?! and put out "When Love Fades" as the lead single. When it tanked, he asked them to pull it and put out "How Do You Like Me Now?!" instead. (On a related note, Toby Keith co-wrote Shane Minor's "Slave to the Habit". Given that Shane was on Mercury, I wonder if Toby had originally cut it?)
* Speaking of Shane — despite his only album producing singles that went to #20 and #24, the album itself did not chart at all. Mercury must've really, really botched the promotion of that album.
* Although he divorced Lee Ann Womack in 1997, Jason Sellers would collaborate with her several times, most humorously as the backing vocalist on "I May Hate Myself in the Morning".
* Music video directing team Deaton-Flanigen Productions has not directed a music video since Dierks Bentley's "Home" in 2011.
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onebuffalo
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Post by onebuffalo on Sept 8, 2014 16:19:29 GMT -5
* Gary Harrison, co-writer of "Wrong Side of Memphis", disliked the song because he felt that it just droned and didn't have anything interesting to say. He also disliked that it used Drop D tuning, which was a real rarity in country at the time (the only older song I can think of that does is "Guitar Town" by Steve Earle). * Rebecca Lynn Howard had not one, but two labels (Rising Tide and Decca) close on her before she got her debut album out. Then her second album was cut off after only one single, and she had TWO albums that got unreleased, plus one single to an album that apparently never even got finished. * The Bellamy Brothers had two Top 15 singles in a row that never appeared on an album: "They Could Put Me in Jail" at #12 and "You're My Favorite Star" at #7. Later on, they terminated their contract with MCA after only one single from their 1990 album Reality Check ("I Could Be Persuaded"). After that, they did only one album for Atlantic before going independent. * Toby Keith recorded a few tracks for Mercury near the end of his contract with them, but they didn't like what he recorded except for "Getcha Some" and "If a Man Answers". They put those songs on a greatest hits album and asked him to try again. He submitted to them what would later become his How Do You Like Me Now?! album, and when they didn't like that either, he asked out of his contract and moved to DreamWorks. They agreed to put out How Do You Like Me Now?! and put out "When Love Fades" as the lead single. When it tanked, he asked them to pull it and put out "How Do You Like Me Now?!" instead. (On a related note, Toby Keith co-wrote Shane Minor's "Slave to the Habit". Given that Shane was on Mercury, I wonder if Toby had originally cut it?) * Speaking of Shane — despite his only album producing singles that went to #20 and #24, the album itself did not chart at all. Mercury must've really, really botched the promotion of that album. * Although he divorced Lee Ann Womack in 1997, Jason Sellers would collaborate with her several times, most humorously as the backing vocalist on "I May Hate Myself in the Morning". * Music video directing team Deaton-Flanigen Productions has not directed a music video since Dierks Bentley's "Home" in 2011. You're My Favorite Star DID appear on the Bellamy Brothers' 1989 Greatest Hits Volume 3 CD. I had covered Toby Keith earlier this year when I saluted the last seesaw battle for the top spot between his You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This and Diamond Rio's One More Day. This is what I said: 8. MILESTONE TOP TEN CHART: The last seesaw battle for the top spot in country music started thirteen years ago this week. That is when Toby Keith and Diamond Rio were fighting for the #1 position with You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This and One More Day, respectively. 1998 is where we will start the story. Keith released his first greatest hits CD, Greatest Hits Volume One. By the time his first hits CD was released, Keith had 15 top 40 hits, 14 major hits, 13 top ten hits, and three chart toppers including his first, Should've Been A Cowboy (1993) which became the most played song of the decade. The two new songs off the greatest hits CD became chart singles: Getcha Some (#18 in 1998) and If A Man Answers (#44 in 1999). While he was on the charts with those songs, he completed another CD for Mercury. However, Mercury was NOT interested in it and decided to drop Keith after seven years. Undeterred, he shopped his CD to other labels and found a taker: Dreamworks, who had just opened their country division in Nashville. They kept what Keith had and released a single called When Love Fades. It matched the previous single's peak at #44. They quickly settled on the title track, How Do You Like Me Now as the second single. Released in November, 1999 it became Keith's first chart topper for Dreamworks in March, 2000. It was the first #1 for Dreamworks and the fourth for Keith. It was at #1 for five weeks, becoming his biggest hit to date (later replaced by Beer For My Horses, his duet with Willie Nelson in 2003). How Do You Like Me Now ended up being the biggest hit of the year according to the American Country Countdown and Billboard. Country Comes To Town was the third single and it hit #4. Fourth and final single, You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This was released in November. In the meantime, Diamond Rio was busy releasing a CD called One More Day. The first single, Stuff peaked at #36 and became their lowest charted top 40 hit. They regrouped with the title track, released in November, 2000 (alongside You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This). Keith arrived at the top spot first, giving him five #1 hits. Then, Diamond Rio collected their third #1 hit in One More Day. It was their first chart topper in almost four years since How Your Love Makes Me Feel in 1997 (chart wise, their biggest hit). One More Day took on new meaning following the death of Dale Earnhardt in February, 2001 (R.I.P. #3). Keith reclaimed the top spot for two weeks and then Diamond Rio returned for a second week at top. BOTH acts were replaced at the top by Jessica Andrews' ONLY chart topper, Who I Am. Diamond Rio would chart two more times off their CD: Sweet Summer (#18 in 2001) and That's Just That (#42 in 2001). As for Diamond Rio, their last chart appearance occurred in 2006 with God Only Cries (#30). Their last CD was released three years later called The Reason. Keith is currently on the charts with his Drinks After Work CD. As a bonus, I will be providing ALL five charts where Keith and Diamond Rio were #1. Ready?
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Ten Pound Hammer
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Post by Ten Pound Hammer on Sept 8, 2014 16:26:10 GMT -5
Which was released eight years later. It was still never on a studio album, thus making it a case similar to Terri Clark's "The World Needs a Drink" — never put on a "regular" album, but did appear on her 20th Century Masters set.
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