Pioneers of Country – February 28, 2015

Nobody knew we had less than one year left in our existence at the time. We were enjoying promoting real country music from artists around the globe. We begin by Australia's King of Country Music - Slim Dusty! Dave is cooking Haluski today. Stan Hitchcock sings about the Phoenix Flash! Country Music Hall of Fame members are next, The Statler Brothers sing about The Class of 57! Dave speaks more of his feeble attempt at cooking. Dave mentions that Leonard Nimoy passed away and plays “Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town” sung by Leonard and written by Mel Tillis. Dave runs down the line-up of artists performing on The Grand Ole Opry. Dave plays a few songs by Ronnie Milsap performing Live! Dave counts down the top 10 songs for February 2015 on Pioneers of Country. This was all in the first half hour – There's still 90 more minutes of great country music to follow!

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Cybershortwave March 3, 2002

Long before our country music format, we had two previous formats that we have mentioned in the past. 

This broadcast was always innovative especially in the early days of the internet. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) was just beginning. There was no video to speak of at the time. A friend and listener to our broadcast was Tim Gaynor, a well known radio monitoring enthusiast from Australia. Tim and I decided to try VOIP and talk about a variety of things. It went very well. Now 24 years later, Tim and I are still in contact and still enjoying radio!

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CyberShortwave February 17, 2002

A Tribute to Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002)

Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed at fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first band, the Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge, Arizona, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, a cover of “Jole Blon,” and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens.

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Golden Age OTR February 13, 2005

For those of you who listened to our previous podcast dated February 15, 2014 we flashed back to a show we did remembering Merle Kilgore (a short clip). 

I found the entire original broadcast from February 13, 2005. I thought I'd post the entire podcast including the Kilgore tribute.

This was our previous format of Old Time Radio. However even though it was 5 years before switching to our full time country music format, we always included country music on our show.

And there's no shortage of country music on this show, especially during the second hour.

This is the first time we are replaying this episode since its first broadcast (21 years!).

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Pioneers Of Country February 15, 2014

We begin by a Johnny Cash spoken word recording about the heart and muscle of America. This may have been taken from a Johnny Cash album called “Ride This Train”. Dave speaks of watching The Johnny Cash Show in 1971 when he did several segments called Ride This Train. Dave replays a tribute to Merle Kilgore from a show 9 years earlier (originally broadcast February 13, 2005). A lot more real country music pioneers to follow.

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Pioneers Of Country Live! February 3, 2013

This is a replay of our Live broadcast on February 3rd, 2013. It was The Day the Music Died. Referring to the day Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens died in a plane crash in Iowa in 1959. Dave goes into depth on how there are ties between early rock n’ roll and country music. Dave plays Ladd Dunham’s country version of “Stager Lee” and also Don McLean’s “American Pie”. 

Dave also took time to remember Patty Andrews, Lead singer of The Andrews Sisters. She passed away on Wednesday January 30, 2013 at the age of 94.

We also did a version of  “Who Owns The Song”, music that was done by various artists and we let you choose who had the best version. This time we highlighted the song “I’m Movin’ On”. Thanks to Tom Steiner of Montreal, Canada for suggesting it.

Oh, and it was Super Bowl Sunday also which Dave has a few comments about.

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Pioneers of Country February 2, 2013

This is a replay of our Live Groundhog Day broadcast from February 2, 2013. We had some great participation from listeners. We got e-mail from a listener who didn’t want to hear our comments regarding The Groundhog, but Dave’s Cheerleaders came to his rescue with some very nice comments. We had some fun at “Edwin’s” expense. It was all in fun, and I wasn't insulted in the least. This is what can be had with “live” interactive radio. We miss it dearly.

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The History of Country Music (Pt 18)

Statler Brothers (Pt 2)

Charlie Pride (Pt 1)

The Merle Haggard Story (Pt 18)

Pioneers of Country welcomes you to “The Merle Haggard Story” - a syndicated program originally broadcast in early 1985, including many interviews.

PLAYLIST:

That's the Way Love Goes.

Merle Haggard passed away on April 6, 2016. Not long after Live 365 went out of business, so we never got to do a proper tribute broadcast. That is until now.

During the COVID Pandemic of 2020 and 2021, I got the chance to travel to a place close to home – my attic!

Up there I found a treasure trove of recordings that I had forgotten about. Among them was this several part syndicated broadcast titled “The Merle Haggard Story”. I thought it would be a great tribute to “The Hag” if we rebroadcast this part of Merle's beginnings, and continuing to his mid career popularity.

Pioneers of Country January 20, 2013

This is one of my favorite live broadcasts. Sometimes things go right, and this day we were hitting on all cylinders. We highlight Canadian Country Music singer, Carroll Baker during the second hour.

Hank Williams Sr. starts things with “Your Cheating Heart”. Paper Rosie, a song by The Osborne Brothers follows. Dave reads “This Day in History” which includes information on the infamous radio payola scandal. 

Johnny Paycheck originally recorded Motel Time Again written by Bobby Bare and Johnny Paycheck released it on the single Motel Time Again in 1966. We hear that song now.

Dave reads some history on the marriages of Hank Williams Sr. 

Johnny Horton sings Honky Tonk Man. Back To Nashville, Tennessee from 1967 is next from The Stonemans. Up next is “Wild and Wicked World” by Ray Price & the Cherokee Cowboys. Followed by Tanya Tucker and Here's Some Love.

Dave reads some today in history headlines. Dave introduces Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton "The Last Thing On My Mind". Dave plays a song by The Texas Troubadour, Ernest Tubb. 

Dave dates the program, January 20, 2013. He reads birthdays in history in this date. He plays a song by Slim Whitman. (Dave mentions Slim was still alive at the time – Of course, Slim had passed away since this broadcast).

Eddie Rabbitt "Drinkin' My Baby (Off My Mind)" is next in sound.

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