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*----------- TEST YOUR COUNTRY MUSIC KNOWLEDGE -----------*
Q. Who sings the song 'Loves the Only House'?
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+----- TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY -----+
1916 Bluegrass singer-songwriter Carl Story born in
Lenoir, N.C.
1954 Hank Snow's No. 1 single "I Don't Hurt Anymore"
charted
1979 Karl Davis of the popular WLS/Chicago radio duo,
Karl & Harty, died at age 73
1952 Hank Williams and Audrey Williams divorced
1984 Record producer Jimmy Bowen became president and
CEO of MCA Nashville
1950 Maybelle Carter and the Carter Sisters joined the
Grand Ole Opry
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Hank Williams' "Mother's Best"
Recordings Finally Being Released
After years of legal wrangling, Hank Williams' "Mother's
Best" radio programs will finally be released beginning
this fall under Time Life's exclusive agreement with his
children, Jett Williams and Hank Williams Jr. The 143
previously-unreleased recordings were made in 1951 for
Williams' show on radio station WSM-AM in Nashville. Air-
ing at 7:15 a.m., the program was sponsored by Mother's
Best flour. Williams and his band pre-recorded 72 of the
shows to run while they were on tour. The shows were
recorded on 16-inch acetate discs that were later thrown
into the trash but salvaged by a WSM employee. One attempt
was made to release the songs with overdubbed instrumental
tracks, and one record label tried to release them and
lost a legal challenge. After Williams' family was given
the discs, the estate fought an eight-year battle to
establish sole ownership of the recordings. In addition
to Williams' best-known material, the recordings include
40 songs he was never known to have performed and others
he never recorded commercially. Time Life will release
the music periodically over a three-year period. Jett
Williams says the recordings show another side of her
father's music. "Everyone will get to know the man and
his musical genius as never before," she said. "These
recordings were my vehicle to get to really know the
father I never met."
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Has Eddy Arnold Made His Final Chart Bow?
Eddy ArnoldForget the top album and song for a moment.
The big news this week is that RCA Records worked its
promotional magic and charted the late Eddy Arnold's
final single, a feat that gives the recently departed
superstar the singular distinction of having charted
a record in Billboard every decade from the 1940s
onward.
Arnold made his first chart appearance in June 1945 with
"Each Minute Seems a Million Years" and went on to score
28 No. 1's and 62 Top 10s. The new single, by the way,
is titled "To Life," and it raises its glass at No. 49
-- the highest charting new entry of the week.
Arnold quit having regular hits in the early 1980s but
managed to return to the singles charts in 1999 via his
"Cattle Call" duet with LeAnn Rimes. That song made it
all the way to No. 18.
Other than registering the late Country Music Hall of
Famer's achievement, the charts are pretty sedate this
week. Brad Paisley's "I'm Still a Guy" moves into the
No. 1 song slot, while Toby Keith's 35 Biggest Hits
settles in for its second week at the top of the coun-
try albums chart.
There's just one new album to note -- Playlist: The
Very Best of Roy Orbison -- which arrives at No. 74.
And there are two other first-time songs apart from
Arnold's -- Ashton Shepherd's "Sounds So Good" (No.
56) and Taylor Swift's "Should've Said No" (No. 59).
Returning to the albums list are Rodney Carrington's
King of the Mountains (No. 71) and Diamond Rio's 16
Biggest Hits (No. 75). Song-wise, Ashley Gearing's
"Out the Window" comes back on at No. 55, and Kid
Rock's "All Summer Long" reappears at No. 60.
Brooks & Dunn's "Put a Girl in It," which got some
valuable exposure on Sunday's (May 18) Academy of
Country Music Awards telecast, has already been flex-
ing a lot of radio muscle. This week the song leaps
from No. 27 to No. 22.
Trooping directly behind Keith within the Top 5 albums
are Swift's self-titled CD (now in its 82nd week on the
charts), Dierks Bentley's Greatest Hits/Every Mile a
Memory 2003-2008, Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride and
James Otto's Sunset Man.
The remaining Top 5 songs, also in descending order,
are Phil Vassar's "Love Is a Beautiful Thing," Otto's
"Just Got Started Lovin' You," Rascal Flatts' "Every
Day" and Lady Antebellum's "Love Don't Live Here."
While one supposes that Eddy Arnold's "To Life" is his
final single, it just might not be. His longtime label,
RCA, has a history of resurrecting the dead for chart
purposes. It kept Jim Reeves' recordings on the charts
for nine years after his death in 1964, scoring 34 more
chart singles (five of which went No. 1).
The label even paired Reeves in a series of studio-
simulated duets with Deborah Allen (who was only 10
when Reeves died) and charted three singles in the
late '70s and early '80s.
The oddest hookup came, however, in 1981-82 when RCA
and MCA Records electronically linked the late Reeves
and the even later Patsy Cline in a series of duets --
even though the two had never actually recorded
together. It worked. This wizardry led to Reeves hav-
ing two more singles on the charts.
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