I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.
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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
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.
Mel Tillis
You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.
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
No, my son's a songwriter and he does that.
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
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