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The Story Behind the Song ... Page Four

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According to Warner Mack, his 1957 hit "Is It Wrong for Loving You," actually started when he was 13 years old and dating a girl.

Warner commented, "My dad had driven me over to this girl's house and then he came back and picked me up, but I forgot my hat. So he took me back over to her house to get my hat. But when we got back to her house, she was sitting on the porch with another boy. She had another date after I had left her house. So I was cutting the grass at the park there in Vicksburg, Mississippi and I just started singing that line, "Is it wrong for loving you?" The line just came to mind and of course it took me a while to write it, but that is where that song came from."

Warner Mack

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According to Jack Greene, you have to hunt for some songs and then some of them just fall in your lap.

Jack said, "Dallas Frazier sent "There Goes My Everything" to me. Back in those days, Dallas was working everywhere he could work and doing everything he could do to get his songs out and recorded and he sent me that song. You know ... Dallas was a very good singer too. But he decided to concentrate on writing songs and I'm real glad that he did. He is a great writer and that was a great song. I'm just glad he decided to send it to me. We had a lot of fun with that song. Dallas sent me the tape of that song around 1965 -- somewhere in there. And I liked the song the first time I played the tape. And I decided that I wanted to record it right then and there. And so I did."

"There Goes My Everything" entered the country music charts October 22nd, 1965, made it to number one and stayed in the top position for seven weeks. It was Jack's second charted song and was on the charts for 23 weeks.

"There Goes My Everything" was also the CMA Single of the Year.

Jack Greene

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According to Eddie Raven, his 1975 hit song, "Good News Bad News" just sort of fell in his lap.

Eddy commented, "Don Gant was my record producer and also my best friend, and he was the one that brought that song to me. Snuff Garrett had liked the publishing on the song. Don played the song for me and I really liked it. But I didn't think the song was as great as Don Gant thought it was. But Don had better ears than I had and he was running the record company -- so there you go. But Don was just floored by the song. He was really high on it. Later I found out that he was going through a divorce at the time -- so he was going through the same situation as the song was all about.

Eddy Raven

But anyway ... that's how I got the song and how I recorded it. We actually recorded that song at Woodland Studios in Nashville on Valentine's Day. And before we finished the session, we went over to Crystal Hamburgers across the street and bought fifty Crystal Hamburgers and brought 'em back to the studio. It's funny what you remember about recording sessions. The hamburgers had nothing to do with the song or the session, but that just comes to mind. It was a big record, but was bigger on the West Coast than anywhere else."

"Good News Bad News" entered the country music charts April 19th, 1975 and peaked at #27. It was Eddy Raven's 3rd charted song and was on the country charts for 11 weeks.

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According to Jeanne Pruett, her 1972 hit "Love Me" came about because of Marty Robbins.

Jeanne Pruett

Jeanne commented, "That song came about because Marty Robbins needed another song for an album. At the time, I was writing for Marty Robbins' publishing company. And I always thought that the songs I wrote for Marty that he recorded sounded like he wrote them himself. So I wrote that song for Marty and eventually he did get around to recording it -- even though I recorded it first. I had the song in an album and on a single before Marty recorded it."

Jeanne's version of "Love Me" entered the country charts March 11th, 1972 and peaked at #34. It was her second charted song and was on the charts for 12 weeks. She and Marty recorded a duet version of the song in 1983 which peaked at #58.

Marty's single version of "Love Me" made the charts October 13th, 1973 and peaked at #9. It was his 65th charted song and was on the charts for 14 weeks.

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According to Charlie Louvin, the Louvin Brothers' 1965 hit, "When I Stop Dreaming," was a complete change of course for them.

Charlie commented, "When we first started recording for Capitol Records, we were just recording gospel music and we decided to branch out. And the Capitol Records A&R man told us that we shouldn't do that, because if we recorded something that the regular country folks didn't buy, that that would turn away the gospel music fans that we already had, plus we would no longer be on Capitol Records. But he said that if we still wanted to do it, we could do it. So we went through the songs that we had already written and decided that "When I Stop Dreaming" should not be offensive to anyone. So that is why we recorded it. It was just a love song. The song didn't really say that much. It's a 'loving, wanting, thinking and crying song'. And I think that's about as close to life as you can get."

"When I Stop Dreaming" entered the country music charts September 10th, 1955 and peaked at #8. It was The Louvin Brothers' first charted song and was on the country charts for 13 weeks.

The Louvin Brothers

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According to Janie Fricke, her first chart single, "What're You Doing Tonight," came to her from her record producer.

Janie commented, "At that time, I followed the directions of my producer. The song was written by Bob McDill and he was a very popular writer during those years. So he pitched it to my producer, who thought the song was good for me, and my producer gave me the song and said, "here it is ... record it" and so I did. "

"What're You Doing Tonight" made the country music charts September 17th, 1977 and peaked at #21. It was Janie's first charted song and was on the charts for 13 weeks.

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