Jimmy Fortune

Harold, Don, Phil, and Lou... or entertainers on and off the record, Harold Dunn, Phil and Lou, the Statler brothers.

And so then when Jimmy Fortune came in, that was a stumbling block for me because it was like entertainers on and off the record, Harold Dunn, Phil and Jimmy, the Statler brothers.

It was hard to get that Jimmy in there.

Well, hey, he made a big difference.

Well, it doesn't take an expensive one to get started.

I had a guy named Jimmy Fortune on my show who is a four-time Country Music Hall of Fame artist and was in a band called the Statler Brothers back in the day and had many, many hits.

And his first guitar was found in a dump site and only had two strings on it.

So you think about that.

They had not featured anybody but Don and mainly Harold.

Since Lou DeWitt, they had not really featured Jimmy.

So I called Harold and Don, and I said, if you're not going to release Elizabeth, you can expect the Oak Ridge Boys to cut it, because that's a hit song.

And it became their biggest song.

Yep.

I just heard it.

And Jimmy wrote that, didn't he? Yeah.

Wow.