Chords for Statler Brothers 30th year interview Part 2

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[N] _ Music City tonight, live from Nashville.
We're back visiting the fabulous Stantler Brothers, who are celebrating their 30th year in the industry, and that's quite an accomplishment.
I'd like to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ tell everyone, and this is a disclaimer.
We have no idea what's going to go on here tonight.
We only know what has been announced on TV.
We got in from Florida early this morning.
We haven't had a lot of sleep.
We're not real wide awake, and Lori, I want you and Ralph to know that. Okay. _ _ _ _
You've got to wake up that Charlie.
What is it, Charlie?
Oh, yeah.
I see we're laying the ground rules early.
_ _ I thought we could handle this.
I was going to compliment you clowns, I mean you wonderful artists.
_ I think this is the best dressed group in show business. _ _ _ _ _ _
Is there, um, oh, wait a minute.
_ You guys have done a great job.
Is there one of you that's kind of like a wardrobe coordinator?
Well, Phil actually used to be a wardrobe.
_ _ _ But his hinges got real rusty, and we just kind of had to close him down. _
So the guys, you're all nervous tonight because you don't know what's going on.
The whole show is devoted to you.
Well, this is very nice of you all to have us and to do this, but it has been totally without our knowledge of what's happening.
And we're just kind of nervous. _
So we're just sitting here waiting to see what's going on.
Well, let's start with the easy stuff.
30 years in show business.
What?
That's not the easy part.
Well, _ true, true.
And what have you all accomplished in 30 years?
Oh, not a lot.
In your opinion, not a lot, huh?
We've been very lucky.
We've been fortunate.
We have accomplished, let me say this, we've accomplished a dream.
Because we did have this dream when we were kids and we were singing together and wanting to do this.
And it doesn't always happen to people.
And for some reason, God let it happen to us.
And there's a lot of people out there with a whole lot more talent, but we were able to do it.
We've been blessed.
Truly blessed.
Good _ on you. _ _
_ _ When you were first starting out in this musical venture, I'm sure you thought to yourselves,
Well, if it doesn't work, I could always go back and do what?
Be unemployed.
Okay.
All right.
_ _ That's what I did best. _
Unemployment.
Okay.
I was unemployed sometime from three jobs at one time.
No kidding.
Yeah, I truly was.
That's impressive.
Thank you.
Very impressive.
I was going to college and bagging groceries at the time.
So I guess I could have all_
I should have gone.
My mother told me, she said, told me not long ago, said,
You still owe me a promise.
You told me if this didn't work out, you'd go back to school.
I said, yeah.
She's still holding it over my head.
She thinks he's going to start next semester.
I got you.
What [B] about you, Phil?
I was working as a bookkeeper in my dad's office.
He had a sheet metal company.
And I was a halfway bookkeeper.
Oh, so you're the brains of the group then. Not [Bb] necessarily.
No.
I can add two and two.
That's about it.
And Jimmy, what about you?
I was a service writer at a car dealership back home.
A service writer?
Mm-hmm.
[N] Told people what was wrong with their cars,
or they tried to tell me, and I tried to tell them.
You told them the truth.
He was a service interpreter.
There we go.
You've done so well.
What we need to do now, we need to go back to when this dream of music started.
When all of you were just little bitty guys.
We have some photos to show the audience members.
See if you can tell who's who here.
Hey, look at that.
Good-looking kid.
I like him.
_ I [Ab] like that.
Little Harold when he was dreaming of being a star, and look what happened.
[E] Okay.
That kept you out of the military, didn't it?
_ [N] It certainly did.
_ Oh, look at that.
Oh, isn't he cute?
Don, you look so serious.
He had dimples and hair. _ _ _ _
I still got the dimples underneath the hair.
_ Why did you look so serious in that shot?
I was a serious man then.
You were?
You better believe it.
Things have definitely changed.
Here's a future bookkeeper, I believe, coming up.
_ _ Look at the ears on that kid. _
_ That is, that is.
That was from the sweater impaired.
_ _ _ _ _ Oh, and here it comes, Jimmy.
Here it comes.
_ _ Oh.
_ _ _ Where'd those teeth go?
By the way, Jimmy, did those teeth ever come back?
Okay, we're just checking here.
Now, I stopped by rehearsal this afternoon when the guys first stopped by to say hello,
and you were telling me about a movie you had just done.
Yes.
And you came through my hometown of Rogersville and noticed it on the marquee at the theater in downtown Rogersville.
What year did we do the movie?
1966, maybe.
It was a movie.
We did two songs in the movie called That Tennessee Beat.
Yeah.
And we don't know that it was ever officially released.
We don't know whatever happened to the movie, but we were driving one day through your hometown of Rogersville.
That's about the only way you could get back to Virginia.
Yes, it's true.
Back in the old days, it didn't have the interstate.
And we went through one day, and lo and behold, on the marquee, there was the movie that we were in, playing in Rogersville.
And lo and behold, we have a clip.
All right.
We found it.
So this is your first performance in a [Fm] movie.
Yes.
Here are the [Bb] Statler brothers.
Watch this.
This [Abm] was.
When the sun _ _ _ comes up to us.
_ _ _ [E] Big red sun rises up and hangs through the [Gb] downtown.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _
That's right.
_ _ _ _ Staterforth is Lou DeWitt, and he also [Db] wrote Flowers on the Wall.
[Bb] We have a photo [N] of you and Lou together.
Now, Lou has since passed on.
He died of Crohn's disease?
Crohn's disease.
Is that what it was?
And how long was he with the Statler brothers?
From the very beginning until.
81.
Until 90.
_ How many of you?
Until 81. He retired. _
Okay.
And then I think we have another photo coming up here.
I think we mentioned the awards.
All right.
Now, that was taken.
See, that's after Jimmy was with us, see?
And that was taken before good looks were invented.
_ _ _ You can see how much better looking he is now.
_ _ _ I look like I had a haircut.
You've got much more jabber.
_ Yes, you have.
Now, we know that Roy Rogers has been such a hero of yours for so long.
[Db] And he and Dale Evans have sent a telegram for us to read to you
because they love you as much as you love them.
Dear Statler brothers, Dale and I just wanted to say thank you for 30 years
of the finest [Bb] harmony and the very best of music.
We both have admired your dedication to bringing your special kind of talent
to the [N] world.
Want to read the second paragraph? _ _ _ _
What does it say?
_ _ 1994 is a special year indeed.
The Statlers celebrate 30 years together
and the sons of the Pioneers celebrate 60 years.
It goes to show good entertainment will always be in demand.
May God richly bless you for another 30 years.
That's loud.
Roy Rogers, man.
That's _ _ one _ _ _ of the biggest thrills of us doing what we do.
It's that we have been able to meet all of our heroes
and perform with our heroes.
This has been a dream that you can't imagine.
You know, the big story that you've told thousands of times,
how you got the name Statler Brothers,
brings to mind something that we have planned.
Well, make him tell it one more time.
Well, you were in a hotel room, right?
No, actually we were at home in my bedroom, I think,
and we were rehearsing and we were looking for a name.
Sitting on the nightstand was a box of Statler tissues.
Pretty much like this.
And when we say that, yeah, there you go.
Statler tissue.
And when we usually say it, people say, well, I've never heard of those,
so there's evidence that there is such an animal.
Well, we have a box of Statler tissue for each of you.
Oh, you're going to give everybody one?
Oh, really?
Yes.
Thank _ _ you.
Good.
Why not? _ _
I mean, it's the least we can do for having you on the show.
How about a round of tissues for everybody?
_ Everybody get a box.
_ You know, the Statler Tissue Company has grown along with the Statler Brothers.
Not only do they make Statler tissues, they have toilet paper,
[D] they have paper towels,
and when they found [Ab] out that we were having this tribute night to you,
they sent us just a ton, a truckload of Statler [B] tissues.
Just think if we'd have been in the bathroom when we'd been trying to come up with that new name.
What our name might have been.
_ We'll give you a chance to think on that at home
and