Thanks, Publius, for Rachmaninov’s “The Star Spangled Banner”. ((HUGS))
When I went through the songbooks of the Fathers of Hot Country, the most prolific was Wayne Carson, who got his start with a song for Jim Reeves in 1962. That story fueled a lot of beer-soaked discussions at Wally’s Nightclub in Nashville. This was to be one of the biggest successes for Carson.
When I told the story of producer Lincoln “Chips” Moman, I told how Alex Chilton blew the opportunity to be a father of Hot Country through sheer pigheadedness and how Moman approached Tom Parker, the manager of Elvis Presley, with a proposal on how to revive the King’s career. This was Moman’s last assignment with Chilton, who went on to Hot Country years later when it was too late.