Charlie Rich

I think your buddies went on to do that,

right? Yeah, what happened was we went on, we ended up playing with a guy named Charlie Rich who initially he did country rock he got his big fame doing country music obviously we were doing country rock back then we won a tour we played several places with him and then we went on a tour playing as his band during the summer and when the summer ended Warner Brothers found out about Jerry.

He was our singer.

And all the guys went to LA, contract.

Dylan's not just playing old hits.

He's experimenting with covers by Bo Diddley and Charlie Rich.

It's like he's saying age doesn't define creativity.

Right, and he's doing it in his own way, using whatever voice he has at 85.

I'll keep on rolling with the flow.

Charlie Rich from, what, 77.

Was it Kenny Chesney who said, only in country music you get laid and saved in the same three-minute song? Now, culture is a trajectory.

Culture is a river.

We also have what might be the best Philly soul falsetto record of all time.

Plus, Charlie Rich sings Hank Williams.

All this and more during the next hour.

So sit back, settle in, relax, get comfortable.

And right before that, we heard Crazy Face by Van Morrison from 1970.

And before Van Morrison, we heard Diamond Head by The Ventures.

Queued up and ready to go, Charlie Rich sings Hank Williams.

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Behind Closed Doors by Charlie Richnecks.

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Ivan the Man with the perfect face for radio.

Roy Orbison, yeah.

Charlie Rich.

I know we were taking our tour, and this – I don't know why I've never – heard it on tour before but our tour guide jeff um if you are in like the museum portion of sun studio you can see dewey phillips's sound booth and it's the original sound booth from the chisca hotel like they pulled it out was it 2012 i think they said

i think

standin' in the corner, wishing somebody'd ride with me We're gonna rock, rock, rock everybody Rock, rock, rock, rock everybody Rock, rock, rock everybody Rock, rock, rock everybody Rock, rock, rock everybody Rock, rock, rock everybody

eskew reader or escarita is also called rocking the joint from a uh compilation called rocking the joint which was on norton records jerry lee lewis rockin jerry lee from uh the locust years box set charlie rich with whirlwind off of lonely weekends the sun years and little richard doing lucille from the essential Little Richard.

That can only mean one thing, ladies and gentlemen.

It is time to raise your glasses for the Rock and Roll Manifesto Beer Minute.

It's not.

[laughs] Behind Closed Doors, John Morgan says, by Charlie Rich.

You Ain't Woman Enough by Loretta Lynn.

DJ Bobby G says You're Cheating Heart by Hank Williams.

I had heard it by the original writer, Dallas Razor, on his album.

Charlie Rich had it on Behind Closed Doors album, and Kenny Rogers, the first edition, had it on Something's Burning album.

Rhonda Crowell had cut the song, but the Oak Ridge Boys put a different twist on it.

They took it back to the old doo-wop type groups and the early pop groups like the Spinners and Coasters with step-out lines, bass singers, you know, like...