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Mel Tillis

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 8, 1932

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

Mel Tillis

I'm not retiring.

Mel Tillis

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.

Mel Tillis

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.

Mel Tillis

And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.

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And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

Mel Tillis

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

Mel Tillis

And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.

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But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

Mel Tillis

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Mel Tillis

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

Mel Tillis

But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Mel Tillis

But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.

Mel Tillis

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

Mel Tillis

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mel Tillis

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

Mel Tillis

No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.

Mel Tillis

Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.

Mel Tillis

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

Mel Tillis

Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.

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