Today’s show featured Songs About Hank Williams, Songs Written by Hank Williams, Songs Made Famous by Hank Williams and Songs performed by Hank Williams. Hiram “Hank” Williams was born September 17, 1923 and died on new years day January 1, 1953 at the age of 29 During his short lifetime, Williams placed 30 songs on Billboard’s Top C&W Records, with 11 being number one hits.I had a lot of Tribute Records to choose from.Charley Pride “There’s a Little Bit of Hank In Me”Merle Haggard “The Way It Was in ‘51”Johnny Cash “The Night Hank Williams Came to Town”Waylon Jennings “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way”Moe Bandy “I’ve Done Everything Hank Williams Did, But Die”George Jones “Why Don’t You Love Me”George Jones “Honky Tonkin’”George Jones “I Can’t Help It”Merle Haggard & The Strangers “Moanin’ the Blues”Merle Haggard “My Heart Would Know”Merle Haggard And The Strangers “Love Sick Blues”Johnny Cash “Hey Good Lookin’”Johnny Cash “I Could Never Be Ashamed of You”Charley Pride “Honky Tonk Blues”Charley Pride “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”Hank Williams “Your Cheatin’ Heart”Hank Williams “Jambalaya”Hank Williams “Move It on Over”….And because The Milwaukee Brewers are in the Playoffs.Nate Gibson “Fear the Beer” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDJohnny Cash Ring of FireJim Reeves Welcome to My WorldRay Price For the Good Times (Single Version)Willie Nelson If You've Got the Money I've Got the TimeGeorge Jones & Tammy Wynette Golden RingHank Williams & His Drifting Cowboys Lovesick BluesDelmore Brothers Blues Stay Away from MeHank Snow I'm Movin' OnDottie West Country Girl Bobby Bare Four Strong WindsTex Williams Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)Margaret Whiting & Jimmy Wakely Slippin' AroundMerle Travis Divorce Me C.O.DFrankie Laine Mule TrainJerry Lee Lewis One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
Songs about not settling down (or not settling for someone).Songs about lost loveSongs about meeting up with your Ex.Songs of devoted love. and of course some cheating songs, it is a Country Show after all.HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDTex Ritter "(I Got Spurs That) Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"Dottie West "Country Sunshine"Conway Twitty "(Lying Here With) Linda On My Mind"Don Gibson "Woman (Sensuous Woman)"Bob Luman "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers"Porter Wagoner "I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand"George Jones "The Grand Tour (Single Version)"Lefty Frizzell "She's Gone, Gone, Gone"The Statler Brothers "Susan When She Tried"Charley Pride "Just Between You and Me"Ronnie Milsap "(I'm a) Stand by My Woman Man"Johnny Duncan "She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed (Anytime)"Barbara Mandrell "Crackers (Single Version)"Mel Street "Borrowed Angel (Original Gusto Recording)"Warren Smith "I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today"The Sir Douglas Band "I'll Be There"Ray Pillow "Thank You Ma'am" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
I think this was recorded in August and I just forgot to hit the Publish button.We start of the show by getting confused about which country star has recently passed away.Things get back on track with some Country Songs That Don’t Sound Like Country Songs and we nearly beat the theme of ‘Lonesome’ into the ground.Pretty solid show IMHO.HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDJean Shepard "Slippin' Away"Jeannie Seely "Don't Touch Me"Jeannie C. Riley "Shed Me No Tears"Charlie Rich "Nice 'N' Easy"Sonny James "A Little Bit South Of Saskatoon"Henson Cargill "Skip a Rope"Ray Price "The Lonesomest Lonesome"Don Gibson "Oh Lonesome Me (Rerecorded)"Wynn Stewart and the Tourists "It's Too Much Like Lonesome"Sammi Smith "The Last Word In Lonesome Is Me"Charley Pride "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"Hank Williams "Long Gone Loneseome Blues"George Jones "White Lightnin'"Barbara Mandrell "Sleeping Single in a Double Bed"Gary Stewart "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)"Johnny Cash "I Walk The Line"Conway Twitty "I've Just Destroyed The World"Tammy Wynette "Stand By Your Man" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
When I was in the studio on Saturday morning I was in a panic as no sound was coming out of one of the stations turntables. I had another stack of Uncle Boyd’s records and was unsure if I was going to be able to play them or if it would be an mish mash of Uncle Boyd’s records and what was available in the media library on the station’s computer.Engineer Paul came to the rescue and got everything up and running.The first two songs (David Alan Coe and Willie Nelson) are us literally filling time while Paul was reconnecting lose cables and making sure our sounds were going out on the airwaves.Here’s What We Played David Allan Coe "You Never Even Call Me by My Name"Willie Nelson "City of New Orleans"UNCLE BOYD’S RECORDSRoger Miller "I Get Up Early In the Morning"Ray Price "Letters Have No Arms"Ray Price "Crazy Arms"Waylon Jennings "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)"Merle Haggard & The Strangers "Honky Tonk Night Time Man"Dolly Parton "Jolene (Remastered)"Bobby Bare "Detroit City"Nancy Sinatra "Jackson"Emmylou Harris "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double"Marty Robbins "You Only Want Me When You Are Lonely"Larry Gatlin "Statues Without Hearts"Sonny James "The Cat Came Back (Remastered)"Hank Locklin "Foreign Car"Waylon & Jessi "Suspicious Minds"Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
ANOTHER ALL ANALOG ALL VINYL ALL NEW TO ME RECORDS.LAST WEEK MY BUDDY BEN CALLED ME UP TO ASK IF I WANTED TO GO THROUGH SOME ALBUMS HE INHERITED FROM HIS UNCLE BOYD. HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDMerle Haggard & The Strangers "Old Man from the Mountain"Waylon Jennings "I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself"Willie Nelson "Me and Paul"Nancy Sinatra "Oh Lonesome Me"Helen Merrill "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"Conway Twitty "It's Only Make Believe (1976 Version)"Hank Locklin "Please Help Me I'm Falling"Don Gibson "I Can't Leave"Marty Robbins "Big Iron"Roger Miller "It Happened Just That Way"Sonny James "Baltimore"Bobby Bare "The Streets of Baltimore"Mac Davis "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me"Don Williams "Say It Again"Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band "Garden Party"Emmylou Harris "Amarillo" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Tennessee Ernie Ford "Sixteen Tons"Merle Haggard "Workin' Man Blues"Norma Jean "Heaven Help the Working Girl"Loretta Lynn "Coal Miner's Daughter"Merle Travis "Dark As a Dungeon"Jim Ford "Harlan County"Dolly Parton "9 To 5"Alabama "Forty Hour Week (For a Livin')"Johnny Cash "Oney"TRIBUTE TO TRUCK DRIVERSTerry Fell "Truck Driving Man"Dave Dudley "Six Days On The Road"Del Reeves "Looking At the World Through a Windshield"Merle Haggard & The Strangers "A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today"Glen Campbell "Witchita Lineman"Mel Tillis and The Statesiders "Sawmill"The Judds "Working In the Coal Mine"Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job And Shove It" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Willie Nelson "Whiskey River"Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job And Shove It"Bobby Bare "Numbers"Jerry Lee Lewis "What Made Milwaukee Famous"Roger Miller "Dang Me"George Jones "Tender Years (Re-Recorded)"Buck Owens & His Buckaroos "How Long Will My Baby Be Gone (Mono Single Version)"The Hagers "Gotta Get to Oklahoma ('Cause California's Gettin' to Me)"Susan Raye "Maybe If I Close My Eyes (It Will Go Away)"Loretta Lynn "You Ain't Woman Enough"Jimmy C. Newman "Artificial Rose"Jan Howard "Evil On Your Mind"Dottie West "Walking In the Dark"Rose Lee Maphis "I’ve Come To Take You Home (Original Starday / King Recording)"June Stearns "Just Another Song Now (Original Starday / King Recording)"C.W. McCall "Convoy"Stop by Classic Country Corner every Saturday Morning at 8, only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
Here’s What We PlayedStory SongsLefty Frizzell "Saginaw, Michigan"Marty Robbins "El Paso"Johnny Cash "One Piece At a Time (Single Version)"Red Sovine "Phantom 309"Jeannie C. Riley "Harper Valley P.T.A."Birthday Dedication to Superfan Matt in McFarlandConway Twitty "Happy Birthday Darlin'"Porter Wagoner "A Satisfied Mind"Roy Clark "Thank God and Greyhound"Birthday Dedication to DJ ShotskiDon Ring and his Rhythm Kings Orchestra "Waltz Across Texas"Buck Owens & His Buckaroos "Scandinavian Polka"Long Distance Dedication to Andrew in Vilas NeighborhoodGlen Campbell "Wichita Lineman"Merle Haggard "Big City"Dottie West "Suffertime"Johnny Lee "Lookin' for Love"George Jones & Tammy Wynette "Golden Ring "Stop by Classic Country Corner every Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
Here’s what we played.Drinkin’ Songs (in the Morning)Dick Curless "Bury the Bottle With Me"Hank Thompson "Hangover Tavern"George Jones "Just One More"Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys "Bubbles In My Beer (feat. Tommy Duncan)"Moe Bandy "Honky Tonk Amnesia"Wanda Jackson "A Girl Don't Have to Drink to Have Fun"I Beg Your Parton?Dolly Parton & Porter Wagoner "Always, Always"Dolly Parton "Time For Me To Fly"Country Songs about Country MusicThe Statler Brothers "How to Be a Country Star"Red Steagall "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music"Stoney Edwards "Hank And Lefty Raised My Country Soul"Kooky Classic Country Covers: Piano Man EditionWillie Nelson "Just the Way You Are"Waylon Jennings "The Entertainer"Odds and EndsLoretta Lynn & Ernest Tubb "Sweet Thang"Charley Pride "Busted"Tammy Wynette "Kids Say the Darndest Things"Buck Owens & His Buckaroos "Love's Gonna Live Here"Stop by Classic Country Corner Saturday Morning at 8 only on 98.7 WVMO or online at WVMO.FM This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
WE ARE RETURNING TO THE WELL THAT IS A BOX OF 45s THAT I PURCHASED OVER A YEAR AGO FROM A FELLOW COUNTRY MUSIC ENTHUSIAST AND DOLLAR BIN AFFICIONADO. IF YOU GET A CHANCE, FOLLOW Dollar Country ON THE SOCIALS. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.WHIMSY AND WORDPLAYLarry Steele "Daylight Losing Time"Marty Robbins "You're Breaking My Heart (While You're Holding My Hand)"Billy Walker "Don't Stop My World (If You Don't Mean To Stay)"Rose Maddox "Stand up Fool"Mel Tillis "Mr. Dropout"DRINKING SONGS (PERFECT FOR THE MORNING )Wilburn Brothers "Roarin' Again"Tommy Collins "Untied"Webb Pierce "I'm Tired"Hank Snow "The Rhumba Boogie"Bill Clifton & His Dixie Mountain Boys "Blue Ridge Mountain Blues "SONGS OF HEARTBREAKFerlin Husky "Who's Next"Jean Shepard "Just Another Girl"Lefty Frizzell "Glad I Found You"BACK IN THE 80’SJohn Anderson "She Just Started Liking Cheatin' Songs"Lacy J. Dalton "Can't See Me Without You"Billy Walker "Honky Tonkitis"Rose Maddox "Blue Bird Let Me Tag Along"Johnny Booth "Wishful Thinking" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDSONGS ABOUT SONGSWynn Stewart and the Tourists Why Didn't I Write That SongWillie Nelson Sad Songs and WaltzesJune Stearns Just Another Song Now Merle KilgoreLoretta Lynn & Conway Twitty Pickin Wild Mountain BerriesGeorge Jones Who Shot SamKOOKY CLASSIC COUNTRY COVERS: THE SOUL OF COUNTRY EDITIONBarbara Mandrell I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson (Sittin' On) The Dock of the BayMickey Gilley Stand By MeBuck Owens Keys in the MailboxCarl Smith Back Up Buddy(MOSTLY) BROTHER GROUPS The Statler Brothers We Got Paid By Cash The Oak Ridge Boys Elvira The Oak Ridge BoysLarry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers All the Gold In CaliforniaJohnny Cash There You GoPatsy Cline Too Many SecretsFlatt & Scruggs This Land Is Your Land This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDTHE ORIGINAL VERSIONS OF SONGS WILLIE COVERS ON THE ALBUMArthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith Redheaded Stranger Roy Acuff Blue Eyes Crying in the RainEddy Arnold I Couldn't Believe It Was TrueJeannie Seely Can I Sleep In Your ArmsLulu Belle and Scotty Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)THE RED HEADED STRANGERWillie Nelson Red Headed Stranger Medley (Live at Harrah's Casino, Lake Tahoe, NV - April 1978) THE SONGS OF WILLIE NELSONConway Twitty Blue Eyes Crying in the RainJerry Jeff Walker Hands On the WheelHank Thompson May I Sleep In Your Barn Tonight Mister?Merle Haggard & The Strangers Stay a Little LongerBuck Owens and His Buckaroos Hello Walls No. 2 (Live at the Bellevue Theater in Richmond, Virginia, 1964) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
Inspired by recent events, every song has the word Midnight or Hammer in the title HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDWaylon Jennings "Midnight Rider" Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash "If I Had a Hammer"Patsy Cline "Walkin' After Midnight (feat. The Jordanaires)"The Delmore Brothers "Midnight Special" Tennessee Ernie Ford "Nine Pound Hammer" Charlie Rich "Midnight Blues" Barbara Mandrell "The Midnight Oil" Tammy Wynette "Midnight Love" Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton "Burning the Midnight Oil" Leon Everette "Midnight Rodeo" Lynn Anderson "Midnight Train to Georgia" Steve Wariner "Midnight Fire" Razzy Bailey "Midnight Hauler" Kenny Rogers "Santiago Midnight Moonlight" Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers "Midnight Choir (Mogen David)" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDThe inaugural Kooky Classic Country Covers Twitty Twin Spin Edition. Conway covers Lionel Richie and The EaglesConway Twitty Three Times a LadyConway Twitty Heartache TonightMORE COVERSDonna Fargo You Don't Mess Around With JimGlen Campbell Both Sides NowBuck Owens Big in Vegas (Live in Las Vegas)Wanda Jackson Two Separate Bar Stools Merle Haggard Workin' Man BluesCarl Smith Blue Eyes Crying In the RainCarl Smith The Bottle Is Just Fooling YouHank Williams There'll Be No Teardrops TonightMerle Kilgore Whiskey Road The Osborne Brothers You'll Never Know WHATTA MAN WHATTA MIGHTY GOOD MANTammy Wynette My Man (Understands)Lynn Anderson What a Man My Man IsLulu Belle & Scotty Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor (On the Bedpost Overnight) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDAMERICAN HISTORYJohnny Cash Paul RevereJohnny Horton The Battle Of New OrleansTennessee Ernie Ford Union Dixie PRAY FOR AMERICALoretta Lynn & Conway Twitty God Bless America AgainPorter Wagoner I Dreamed I Saw America On Her KneesFreddie Hart Let's Clean Up This CountryAMERICAThe Oak Ridge Boys American MadeEddie Rabbitt American BoyHank Williams, Jr. The American WayMORE ‘MERICAAlabama Born CountryThe Charlie Daniels Band In AmericaWaylon Jennings AmericaPATRIOTISMWillie Nelson Remember The AlamoDonna Fargo U.S. Of A.Johnny Cash Song of the Patriot (with Marty Robbins)Merle Haggard The Fightin' Side of Me This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED DONNA FARGO DEEP DIVETammy Wynette "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A."Donna Fargo "Manhattan, Kansas"Donna Fargo "The Awareness of Nothing"TRAVELING SONGS ABOUT LESSER-KNOWN LOCATIONS🗺️🍁Buck Owens and His Buckaroos "Amsterdam"Sonny James "A Little Bit South Of Saskatoon"TRUCKERS AND WAITRESSES🚛🍽️Dave Dudley "Listen Betty (I'm Singing Your Song)"Moore & Napier "Truck Driver's Queen"Norma Jean "Heaven Help the Working Girl"CLASSICSKenny Rogers "Lucille"Tammy Wynette "D-I-V-O-R-C-E"Bonnie Owens & Merle Haggard "That Makes Two of Us"Loretta Lynn "Hey Loretta"Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job and Shove It"Charley Pride "Billy Bayou"BY THE NUMBERS 🔢Ray Price "Heartaches By the Number"Johnny Cash "Five Feet High and Rising "😢😟 George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today" 💔🪦 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYEDJohnny Cash "Ragged Old Flag"Ernest Tubb & Loretta Lynn "Keep Those Cards and Letters"Johnny Wright "Hello Vietnam”Loretta Lynn "Dear Uncle Sam"George Jones "Soldier's Last Letter"Willis Brothers "Private Lee From Tennessee "Autry Inman "Ballad of Two Brothers"Margie Singleton + Leon Ashley "Big Boys Don't Need Mamas"Stonewall Jackson "The Minute Men (Are Turning In Their Graves)"Jimmy Dean "P.T. 109"Merle Haggard & The Strangers "I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me"Charlie Daniels "Still In Saigon"Johnny Cash "Drive On"Red Foley "Smoke On the Water"Glen Campbell "Universal Soldier"Waylon Jennings "Six White Horses"Jerry Reed "Fightin' For the U.S.A."Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler "Ballad Of The Green Berets" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
Here’s what we playedGlen Campbell "Try a Little Kindness"George Jones "Why Baby Why "George Jones "You Gotta Be My Baby"Marty Robbins "Big Iron"Connie Smith "The Other Side of You"Merle Haggard "The Okie from Muskogee's Comin' Home / Okie from Muskogee"Mel Tillis "I Ain't Never"Roy Clark "Is Anybody Going To San Antone"Mel Tillis "Woman in the Back of My Mind"Roy Clark "Thank God and Greyhound"Mickey Gilley "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier At Closing Time"Conway Twitty "Darling,You Know I Wouldn't Lie"George Strait "Unwound"Mel Tillis "Mental Revenge"George Jones "White Lightnin'"Johnny Horton "I'm Ready, If You're Willing"Glen Campbell "Truck Driving Man" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com
HERE’S WHAT WE PLAYED Kooky Classic Country CoversStonewall Jackson “Me and You and a Dog Named Boo”Tina Turner “Tonight I’ll be Staying Here with You”Linda Martell “I Almost Called Your Name”Cheatin' SongsDavid Houston "No Tell Motel w/ Janie Fricke (Original Gusto Recording)"Bobby Bare "Margie's At the Lincoln Park Inn"Beg Your PartonDolly Parton "Sometimes an Old Memory Gets in My Eye"Dolly Parton "Here You Come Again"Weekend SongsGeorge Strait "Friday Night Fever"Mel McDaniel "Louisiana Saturday Night"Johnny Cash "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down"Classic Country Corner AnthemsMac Davis "It's Hard to Be Humble"Archie Campbell "Pfft! You Were Gone"C.W. McCall "Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep on A-Truckin' CafePorter Wagoner "Y'all Come (You All Come)"The Osborne Brothers "Rocky Top"Ernest Tubb "Thanks a Lot" This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit classiccountrycorner.substack.com