just wanted someone to hear it…
This Song is from my Nashville daze. One guy in a room with an Akai 12 track and a Sad song.
This one is from 1987 I think it was. I never could figure out who to pitch it to.
Sad Song Radio
I just got all my old demos converted from DAT to CD sent to me from my old writing partner in Tennessee, so let me know if I get out of hand, just want to make sure the music gets heard.
What’s that you once said about “simple power”?
Can simplicity be over done?
Simply complicated or Complicated simplicity?
Definitely has a late-80’s Alabama feel to me. They were a fun group to sing along to in the car, at the NCO club, in the middle of the street, or whatever. Your song would’ve fit in perfectly in the country music radio rotation of the time you recorded it. I think you should’ve pitched it to Alabama’s manager, if you didn’t try to break into the biz yourself.
I think you have a sort of Gordon Lightfoot thing going on here…and I mean that as a compliment…good sounding production.
Hi Poppa Willis:
It’s a shame that somehow you couldn’t fit Family Life and Nashville Daze into the same container…
I am downloading buffering and listening to your creativity…
I can hear someone like the Bellamy Bros. down in Florida doing this flavour…
AND…
You’re right.
Alabama, would sparkle doing a song like that…
I can hear a current female Hi-visibility artist like Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift or Trisha Yearwood, among others like them…
Does anyone know Harold Jenkins?
Too bad, he’s not with us anymore…
Why am I unable to remember his Stage Name. 
?
He could pick the “SONGS”…
Bill…
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I forgot… What a great recording machine that Akai 12-track desk was… We had one of them up here in these parts. I got the call on several occasions to maintain it… Mostly, the transport need work… If it’s the same one you talk about. Anyway, this one used Sony Beta video tapes to record the tracks… Just a Super Audio Machine…
Harold was more commonly known as Conway Twitty. I don’t think I pitched this to him. I did have a tune called “You’re The Best” on hold for his last session when he up and died.
As far as family or career in that town… choice is clear.
I know…
AND…
I hear you loud-and-clear…
I knew you knew him…
He didn’t start out doing the stuff he ended up doing…
What a great entertainer he was…
In my opinion, of course…
We always had a few Twitty Songs on our stage play lists…
I always felt like we short-changed our audience after we did his songs…
How do these guys show up on the scene ?
AND…
Why do they go ?..
What a loss to the world of music…
This guy processed some kind of magic…
Why couldn’t I think of his name…
Bill…
Bill, I want to know how you remembered his given name! 
Hi TomS:
Back in the early '60’s to the end of the '70’s I worked on many stages…
In the late '60’s to the mid ''70’s I was fortunate enough to work on a stage with some s**t hot musicians…
I was so lucky…
When you’re young the DOOR is wide open…
you can do No Wrong…
The world beckons…
My world was clean and pristine…
I know so many guys that didn’t survive the lure of what took them…
You know what I mean…
Anyway, I worked with a Steel Guitar player…
His name was Lew Jenkins…
We often wondered if Lew was related to Conway…
Hence…
Lewie Twitty…
Often, Conway’s songs appeared on the play lists… They would be introduced and we would have the greatest of times attempting to cover a Twitty song…
Lew lives in Fredricton, New Brunswick these days…
We trade E-Mail…
back-and-forth…
Bill…
That is really some good stuff you have there…the wrong side of town is a great country song… really like it…
cliff
well thanks cliff - that was a pleasant surprise - I found that demo and meant to post it here but forgot.
'Preciate it!
By the way did you get into the Foxfire Books after the Whole Earth Catalog?