1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville. 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,360 Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville, and today I am coming to you 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:09,959 Speaker 2: live from Country Radio Seminar. 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: The energy is high here and the history of this 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: genres everywhere you look. 7 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,520 Speaker 2: And today's guest with me as someone who truly needs 8 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,040 Speaker 2: no introduction, but his list of accolades is a masterclass 9 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 2: in American music history. He's a member of the Grand 10 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: Ole Opry, a Country Music Hall of Famer, and a 11 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 2: member of. 12 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: The legendary Oakridge Boys. 13 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,960 Speaker 2: But he's also a photographer, author, and patriarch of the 14 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:36,280 Speaker 2: musical dynasty with his family group, the Goldens. 15 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: William, thank you so much for being on Taking a 16 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: Walk in Nashville today. How are you. 17 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 3: I'm doing great well. 18 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for being here. 19 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 2: You know you spend decades seeing the world through a 20 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 2: tour bus window. What was a specific moment or landscape 21 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 2: that first made you want to pick up a camera 22 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:54,920 Speaker 2: and start. 23 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: Documenting these golden memories in your new. 24 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 3: Book, Well, it was a I guess back in two 25 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 3: thousand and eight, I got my first digital camera my 26 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 3: wife at the time, and by young Sawn, they gave 27 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: me one a camera for Christmas sun Rud. Anyhow, that 28 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,240 Speaker 3: was opened up a whole your world for us. I 29 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 3: was trying to paint, you know, learning how to paint, 30 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 3: do landscape paintings, and I would use a camera to 31 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 3: take shots of the landscapes that I loved across the country. 32 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 3: And so I never liked any of my film shots 33 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 3: that I made, or you know, you take them and 34 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 3: didn't you have to get them developed, and when you 35 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 3: get them back, you didn't like any of them. So 36 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 3: that's kind of what I did for a long time. 37 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 3: But then what I got a digital camera that opened 38 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 3: up a whole in your world. I could see immediately 39 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 3: what I was doing. And then I bought a computer 40 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 3: actually to put all my photographs arms travel with. Instead 41 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 3: of sitting in a hotel room, I would maybe get 42 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 3: one of the guys in the crew and one of 43 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,720 Speaker 3: the band members i'd like to take photographs. We'd get 44 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:13,120 Speaker 3: a car and go out somewhere to like if we 45 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 3: was in Vegas, Retherid sit there and listen to slot 46 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: machines all day. We'd go out to Red Rock Canyon, 47 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,360 Speaker 3: so about fifteen minutes outside of town, and it's a 48 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 3: beautiful drive around Rock Canyon about fifteen mile, drive around 49 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 3: that canyon and take photographs. And then one day we 50 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: may go north of there about forty five miles up 51 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 3: to Savalley Fire, which is another beautiful landscape place to 52 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 3: go take photographs. That's what I did instead of sitting 53 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:52,079 Speaker 3: in a hotel room doing nothing and watching bad TV. 54 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,959 Speaker 3: I would get out, go take photographs wherever we're at, 55 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 3: bring them back home and show my little boy, you 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:04,840 Speaker 3: know where I'd be and photos. So I was doing 57 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 3: an autobiography with Scott England back during the pandemic. I 58 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 3: actually did five major projects at the pandemic. After I've 59 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 3: turned off negative hate on television news, got my family 60 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 3: together and we started reporting old songs, songs that had 61 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 3: inspired us he individually, you know, throughout the years. I 62 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 3: took them back to where it all started with me 63 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 3: and we harmonized with these old songs that my sister 64 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 3: and my mother told me when I was real little. 65 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 3: So that's what we did as a family during the pandemic, 66 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: and we went out and did several shows together with 67 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 3: a family, and when the Oaks were not out on 68 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 3: the road, I would go out and do shows with 69 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 3: by kids. 70 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 2: And grandkids, yeah, yeah, you mentioned all these projects you 71 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: did during the pandemic. Besides Golden Memories you mentioned you 72 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 2: have an autobiography. It's titled Behind the Beard, talking about 73 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 2: your career, your time with. 74 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: The Oakridge Boys. 75 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: How did you first get introduced to the members of 76 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 2: the oak Ridge Boys formerly the Oakridge Quartet. 77 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: Well, like I said, you know, I learned to play 78 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 3: and sing when I was six and seven and eight 79 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 3: years old, played with a guitar and singing harmonies with 80 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: my sister, and she was a talented one in our familis. 81 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 3: You could play any instruments she picked up or sit behind. 82 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 3: Basically she plays piano, mandolin, the guitar. It was in 83 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,799 Speaker 3: high school and when I sang in my first quartet, 84 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 3: I sang in the FFA Quartet Future Farmers of America, 85 00:04:42,440 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 3: and that's when I fell out of love with four 86 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 3: kart harmony singer. Then after school I got a trio together. 87 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: It had a trio. I didn't have a good bass singer, 88 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 3: so if you didn't have a good one, you didn't 89 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: use one. But that's where I met the oapi Is Boys. 90 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 3: Was doing concerts and open shows for different people, and 91 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 3: they played at an all night singing. It was a 92 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 3: sundown to set up singing. They would have every year 93 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 3: in Bonifay, Florida, and that's where I got to meet 94 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 3: him and talk to him. And then in Mobile, Alabama, 95 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 3: they were playing a stadium there and I got to 96 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 3: talk to him. But I got to know them, and 97 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 3: they made a change in the group. I didn't quite 98 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 3: think that it fit the group, and I went to 99 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 3: Nashville and talked to the guys. I knew they were 100 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 3: playing in Nashville that weekend, so I drove up from 101 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 3: South Alabama to fought to him. I told them that 102 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 3: I would like to try out to the group because 103 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,160 Speaker 3: they ever decided to make another change. A couple of 104 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 3: months later, they called me and said, we're in the 105 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 3: market for a Barretts. I'm a singer. He's still interested 106 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 3: in try now. I said, yeah, So I drove on 107 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 3: to Nashville from South Alabama and got to the Tennessee 108 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 3: line of you hit a snow blizzard coming in. First 109 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:09,599 Speaker 3: time I'd ever driven in a blizzard. You know, growing 110 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 3: up the South, we didn't see snow. So yeah, I 111 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: drove through a blizzard to get up to their house 112 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 3: and to the spey Gatlet's home and uh, and we 113 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 3: tried out. We get a few songs and they said, man, 114 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: we'd love to have you join our group. I said, 115 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 3: well one do you want me to go? They said, 116 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: well this weekend, So I said okay. So I had 117 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 3: to drive back to South Alabama to repack my suitcase 118 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 3: and fell back up and that's where it started. That's 119 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 3: how I got rid over s born. 120 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 2: Well, it was well worth it, and you still have 121 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 2: many upcoming performances with them at the Grand Old Aubry. 122 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,400 Speaker 2: You recently did the American Made Christmas. 123 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: Farewell toward Together. 124 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 2: What's it like being on stage together after fifty years? 125 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 3: Well, you know, Dwayne and I have been singing together 126 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:10,400 Speaker 3: for sixty years. This year. He joined sixty years ago. 127 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: This year, about a month from now is when he joined. 128 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 3: But I joined the year before Dwayne did. But we've 129 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 3: been singing together, and it was we were together here 130 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 3: almost ten years when Richard joined our group, and then 131 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,320 Speaker 3: when Joe joined the group in eighty three. Richard joined 132 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 3: us in seventy two and Joe joined us in seventy three. 133 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 3: So that particular lineup is the one that had all 134 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: the big treachery hit Records, and we were together with 135 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 3: that lineup for fifty years before Joe passed away two years. 136 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 3: Joe and Richard's been struggling this whole past year with 137 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 3: pancreatic cancer, and so we've had another bass singer out 138 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 3: with us. We've had two young bass singers out. They're incredible. Man, 139 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: I've never heard nothing like He's young guys, but our 140 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: young tenor that replaced Joe. He's been with us over 141 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 3: two years now. I got grandkids older than Ben. James 142 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 3: Tony Brown heard Ben saying two years ago and after 143 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 3: hearing insane, you walked up said, man, your brand new 144 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 3: generation with a Vince Gill voice. You got that high, 145 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 3: alsome sound. He said. I've not heard another person of 146 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:39,200 Speaker 3: that voice put Vince Gil in the past thirty five years. 147 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 3: But Ben is he was in his late twenties when 148 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:46,600 Speaker 3: he joined us. We were in our twenties when we joiced. 149 00:08:47,559 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 3: So I've been here sixty one years ago. 150 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,199 Speaker 2: Would I join well, even though the lineup has changed, 151 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 2: is going to be so special performing together on stage, 152 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,240 Speaker 2: singing those songs. And as you mentioned earlier, you've been 153 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 2: busy performing and also recording with your family. The Goldens 154 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 2: recently releasing a music video for Old Country Church. 155 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: I love the video. The song is deep sentimental value. 156 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 2: Reaching back to when you and your sister saying on 157 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 2: your granddad's radio show, what does it feel like to 158 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 2: now hear those same harmonies coming from your sons and 159 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 2: your granddaughter? 160 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 1: Now? 161 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: Well, it's great math. Our granddaughter Elizabeth, she plays violin 162 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 3: and she's also a great singer. And my grandson Eliza, 163 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,959 Speaker 3: he just graduated Brown University and he's also a great singer. 164 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 3: So being able to play years of your sing with 165 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 3: the owners, there's a real freel bad. It's there's a 166 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,440 Speaker 3: whole nother generation of our family, and so we go 167 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,120 Speaker 3: out play shows at Brufans is a family. We take 168 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 3: three generations out with us. It's kind of like what 169 00:09:56,520 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 3: the Oaks are now with our young singers Tenner sing, 170 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,160 Speaker 3: Ben James and then the young bass singer Aaron Lee 171 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 3: mccinern is out with us. It's exciting to have these 172 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 3: young kids come in of a brand new generation of 173 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:14,680 Speaker 3: singers that could help keep the Oakridge Boys going forward. 174 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 3: None of us started the Oaprish Boys and started back 175 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 3: in World War Two and Oakridge, Tennessee, you're in the 176 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 3: development of Victoric Bah that's where they perform for all 177 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 3: the scientists and engineers that were not allowed to leave. 178 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 3: They were segwesterned there atge during their development. The Oakridge 179 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 3: became their favorite group have in through the Oakridge Facility 180 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,320 Speaker 3: there to sing on the weekends and they would come 181 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 3: every weekend. There's a theater in Opridge, Tennessee there through 182 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 3: by the Atomic Energy Place where the Oaprish Foyers used 183 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 3: to play. The original Oapris Quartet play there and that 184 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 3: theater was basically to build for them to travil Clay. 185 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 3: What's a week for the weekends? We go way back 186 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 3: to there far as our name, but then he's one 187 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 3: of us joined the brute, it was already going and 188 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 3: uh so this configuration that we've had for fifty years 189 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 3: was Dwayne and I and Richard Servant and Joe Bonzel. 190 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 3: That's the ones that had all the big success for 191 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 3: record recording country music. We had our first country album 192 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 3: and nineteen seventy seven with the y'all Come Back Saloon Owl. 193 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 3: Jim Halse who managed the Olkridge Boys, he still manages. 194 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 3: He's in his nineties now. He was a top manager 195 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 3: and rookie agent, and so he played a major part 196 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 3: of us having the recording contracts to Reford Country Music 197 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,319 Speaker 3: and if he put all those contracts together for us 198 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 3: and helped book card dates for years. But Jim Haws 199 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 3: was one of major players and helped us. He was 200 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,200 Speaker 3: a man that opened the door to get us on 201 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 3: network television. For years and years, he was a topic 202 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 3: getting people on TV. He had an LA office for 203 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 3: the TV agent that run his office out there. Dick 204 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:28,480 Speaker 3: Cowards was a guy that brought his Hollywood office out there, 205 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 3: but he also had a Tulsa office. Jim managed Roy 206 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 3: Clark throughout his whole career, and Belle Chillis and many Pearls. 207 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 3: Some of these people he managed. There's several of his 208 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 3: artists in the Hall of Fames. But he was a 209 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 3: top manager in country music book he worked with it. 210 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 3: He's still up there with that Lee. 211 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:54,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such special history to mean too, because I'm 212 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 2: from East Tennessee. You know, I have friends that work 213 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 2: at the Atomic Energy Planty twelve. So I love the 214 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 2: history and I love that. You know, all of your 215 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 2: family is very musical too, and on tick and Walk Nashville, 216 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 2: I love to give our listeners, various Nashville music history, 217 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 2: and a lot of people don't know that the song 218 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:22,240 Speaker 2: el Vira was actually inspired by a street sign in 219 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 2: East Nashville when songwriter Dallas Frasier was looking for a 220 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 2: place to eat lunch. 221 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: Elvira Avenue still exists. William take us back in time. 222 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,439 Speaker 2: What made the Oakridge boys want to cut this song 223 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 2: that Dallas Fraser wrote? 224 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 3: It was one of the publishers here with Tree Publishing, 225 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 3: was out in Texas one weekend and he heard a 226 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 3: band out there at a club play at El Viral. 227 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 3: He come back, Joe ron Chancy, our record producer. He said, Man, 228 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 3: you know that song el Viral that Dallas Fraser wrote? 229 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 3: We said, do you old to cut the onfers year. 230 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,080 Speaker 3: I was out in Texas this weekend. There was a 231 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 3: band playing that in a club out there. They said, 232 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 3: band they had the crowd going wild without old song. Uh. 233 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 3: Dallas had it on an album. It released it as 234 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 3: a single. Charlie Rich had the song on Behind Closed 235 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 3: Doors album, Rodney Crowd had it on an album. Kenny 236 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 3: Rodgers at the first Edition had it on Something's Burning Out. 237 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 3: So they had all cut Elvira, but no one had 238 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 3: a bass saint. It was ron chanted idea for us 239 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 3: to let the tenor singers sing the lead on it, 240 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 3: a high voice singing the lead. And then he also 241 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,880 Speaker 3: wanted to do it different than everybody else did since 242 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 3: we had a harmony group. He wanted the bass singer 243 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 3: to do the step out lines over the novel Cow 244 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 3: Cow and uh. So that's what we did with a song. 245 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 3: First time we ever did it in concert was in Spokane, Washington. 246 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 3: We rehearsed it for the band in the afternoon. We 247 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 3: dropped it in the middle of the show. We didn't 248 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 3: sof thing about it. We just dropped it in the 249 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 3: show and sang us, all it's the end of that. 250 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 3: That crowd exploded like I'd never heard. They went wild 251 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 3: and would not stop, kept on and off. We backed up, 252 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 3: said what do we do? Said sing it again. We 253 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,880 Speaker 3: did it again. It was the same response. We wound 254 00:15:30,920 --> 00:15:33,760 Speaker 3: up singing it three times and it was the same response, 255 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 3: so we had to keep going on. Nothing got them 256 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 3: that exciting for the rest of the show, and at 257 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 3: the end of the show we threw it one more 258 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 3: time at him and it's still it was the same response. 259 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 3: Every time we did it. It happened the next night 260 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 3: in Seattle the same way, and the next night in Portland, Oregon, 261 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 3: it was the same thing. Right in the middle of 262 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 3: the show. It stopped the show. So we called the 263 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 3: record label on Monday and say, hey, we don't know 264 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 3: what you got in mind to release off this album, 265 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 3: but this is what's happening with a Salt Elvira out here, 266 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 3: so you might want to consider that. So they released 267 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 3: it to the top of the chart, said record time. 268 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 3: It's spilled over at the Puff rock and roll. 269 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely a crossoverhead that's so timeless, especially with 270 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 2: that based up outline. William, I have one more question 271 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 2: left for you today. Thank you again for being on 272 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 2: Taking a Walk Nashville. Looking back at your career walk 273 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 2: so far, what is the one piece of advice you 274 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 2: would get to someone who is taking their first steps 275 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,560 Speaker 2: of their career in music city. 276 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,120 Speaker 3: Well, the main thing is following your visions and don't 277 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: be distracted. People will pull you one side or the other. 278 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 3: You know they'll pull you off from where you're headed, 279 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 3: but don't lose sight of your goals and your vision. 280 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:05,920 Speaker 3: Keep following your visions and just always remember a lot 281 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,080 Speaker 3: of people quit. And there's one thing for sure, if 282 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 3: you ever fit, you know you won't make it, which 283 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 3: keep going. We went through all the negative. Everybody tell 284 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 3: us all you can't make it. We'd share our visions. 285 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 3: No one could see it but us, and so we 286 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:27,080 Speaker 3: got with Jim Halsey. We shared our visions what we 287 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 3: could see. He could see it, but yet he could 288 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 3: see it even bigger. So that's who you want to 289 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,440 Speaker 3: surround yourself, where there's people that are also vision errors, 290 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 3: people that can take your visions and propel them in 291 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 3: to be in much more than you could avy yourself. 292 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,520 Speaker 2: Now, that's such wonderful advice and so true. 293 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,800 Speaker 1: William, thank you again for being here today. 294 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 3: Thank you. 295 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk in Nashville with 296 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: Sarah Harrelson. 297 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,840 Speaker 2: Please check out our other shows produced by Buzznight Media Productions, 298 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 2: Comedy Save Me and Music Save Me hosted by Lynn Hoffman, 299 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 2: and Taken a Walk hosted by Yours Truly Buzznight. 300 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 1: All shows are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and are 301 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 1: part of the iHeart podcast network