Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Awful, awesome country music I was raised on!

Much of it is pretty terrible, but I still loved it.

It would be inappropriate to begin this thread with any act other than DAVE & SUGAR, whom I j'adored. In, like, 1980, I went to a Kenny Rogers/Dottie West concert-- but was most excited by opening act Dave & Sugar!!





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Of course, by 1980, D&S had gotten all sexy and country-poppy (which was fine since I loved this song):





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I also had a THANG for Memphis qurl Charly McClain and still have several of her albums!

I don't know if this one is just awful or so awful it's awesome:

REX ALLEN JR. had 2 hits in the mid 70s that I loved, one was super-sweet and one was super-sad. Here's the super-sweet one:





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FINE, I admit I also thought he was super-cute. Here's the super-sad one, it taught me that playing games leads to heartbreak and to say what you really mean:






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DUH-- it is AWESOME!!!!!!

I defy ANY OF YOU to listen to Gail Davies' late-70s hit GRANDMA'S SONG without tearing up!!

Come down the merry stream.... aaaah, the memories... *BURSTS OUT CRYING!*

Wow, some of this is very difficult to revisit; but while I'm here, here's another heartbreaker from this particular Gail Davies album... I'll need to step away from this for awhile, after this one.

Well, maybe one more. I'm already dabbing tears anyway. This song used to make me cry so much it scared my Mom, heehee. Pretty much any song where something bad happened to an elderly woman was gonna just about kill me.

Fortunately Mama quickly figured out she had a "sensitive kid", and she's been pretty much grateful ever since! (this video is from '85, but Gene Watson released this in the '70s!)

^^^OMG, I ***LOVE*** that song!!! I couldn't remember who sang it when I was thinking of it not long ago! Thanks for posting!!!

"Boney Fingers" was apparently released in 74, which would have been at least 2-3 years before I got into music and Granny started supplying me with vinyl cash!

I loved Jim Ed Brown and Helen Cornelius... they were duet partners and also hanky-panky partners... but OOOPS, both were married to other people! Helen divorced her husband for Jim Ed, but-- UH OH!!-- he did NOT leave his wife for her... and that was the end of their partnership (and careers!)

A shame really-- I especially thought Helen Cornelius had a pretty voice.

Another one I loved by them... their voices really meshed well; hate that it all got messed up.

One more, live this time...

Don't even play like you didn't love Anne Murray, I ain't hearing it. Of many songs by her I j'adored, I j'adore this one the most (I even got drunk enough ONCE to sing it in karaoke):





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John Conlee

As a wee lad at the age of four or five, this was the first song I ever learned the words to!

Y'ALL DON'T EVEN PLAY, my love for John Conlee and especially MISTER KENNY ROGERS will be displayed soon enough I'm sure! But tonight, it's time for a lass with the last name of PARTON... no, not Dolly, she's too mainstream! I much preferred her sister STELLA PARTON!

Since Kenny has already been brought up... and I absolutely LOVED Kenny... here's one of my earliest favorites by him!

^nobody else can make me feel
that things are right when I know they're wrong

So, about Kenny. It wasn't just his plethora of awesome solo singles, but dude could duet with ANYBODY. And this is my absolute alltime favoritest duet ever by anyone in all time and space!! Mainly because, about this time, I was just discovering the honey-soaked gravel voice of Kim Carnes...