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"My three favorite people in all of country music's past history are Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl & Carl Butler. I was profoundly affected by their death and have never really gotten over it. I'm not sure that the Grand Ole Opry will ever be the same without Mr. Acuff. He was my great hero in country music. In the strictest sense of the word, I am a country music "traditionalist."
When I produce a record, I'm always reminded that we have a "higher" standard to live up to in country music because of these three special people." I had the privilege of producing two great hits on Grand Ole Opry star, Carl Butler (Don't Let Me Cross Over Love's Cheatin' Line) prior to his death. The songs were entitled, "Cut Him Loose," and "Big Old Heartache!" Those singles, pressed on historic vinyl at Nashville's world famous, "United Pressing" plant, were the last nationally charted Billboard records in his discography.
The two songs which are now considered "collector's items," (because of the special pressing of the singles on vinyl) have recently sold to collectors for as much as $190.00 per record. There are no more available as it was a special, limited pressing run for country radio. There are less than 250 copies in existence today!
Carl Butler said the "sinner's prayer" in my office with Grand Ole Opry star Billy Walker, they recounted at his funeral. That's true. However, if it had not been for the kindness of Billy Walker who got in his car and drove into Nashville at the time that Carl was wanting to know more about receiving Christ into his heart, Carl might never had said that prayer.
Carl told me, "Robert, I need someone to pray with me that I will feel comfortable with." I asked him if he would feel comfortable praying with Billy Walker. He said, "Yes I would." It wasn't long afterward that Carl was gone from the stage of the Grand Ole Opry and singing on a bigger stage for country music stars in the next life.
I mentioned that in a song that the Smokey River Boys recorded, called, "O Brother" which is on MCA Univeral now in retail stores everywhere.
I also had a life-changing experience with Minnie Pearl. Sarah Cannon, as she was known to her friends in Nashville, was standing outside a trailer one night prior to an appearance on TNN. A crowd of people were trying to get her autograph, and without meaning to, pushed her off the wooden platform. She fell into my arms down below, a distance of some 8-10 feet. I just happened to be standing below, and looked up in time to catch her falling through the air.
It was like fate put me there to keep her from hitting the ground. I remember as if it were yesterday how light she felt when she landed in my arms. Without missing a beat, she said to me, "Robert, thank you so much for catching me. If you hadn't caught me, there's no telling what I would have broken in this fall." I didn't even realize that she knew my name. I was actually shocked at the time that she wasn't hurt.
The next time I saw Minnie Pearl and her husband Henry, she introduced me to him by saying, "Henry, this is the other man I've been telling you about. I just wanted you to know Henry when I told you about being in the arms of another man, it wasn't all that bad, it was just a younger man. He saved me from falling and breaking something the other night...probably something pretty important." Her sense of humor overwhelmed me.
That very special incident in her life prior to her death meant more to me personally than anything that has ever happened to me in country music. I was glad that fate put me at the bottom of that landing that night.
I had the privilege of producing one of the most celebrated albums of all time on Freddie Mandera, one of Europe's great singing stars. Some of the single releases from that album have played in excess of a million times on European radio. Freddie and Roy Acuff were such close friends and had such success together as international stars. Sometimes, we forget that the country music world is greater in Europe than here in the United States. We get as many hits on these pages from Europe and Japan as we do from the United States.
Quote is by Robert Metzgar
From "Country Parade Magazine" interview regarding Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl & Carl Butler
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