Phil Everly dies at 74; half of vocal duo the Everly Brothers
The Everlys charted nearly three dozen hits in the late ’50s and early ’60s, among them ‘Bye Bye Love’ and ‘When Will I Be Loved.’ Their harmonies influenced the Beatles and Beach Boys.
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The Colonel Tom Parker Management Office on Gallatin Pike in Madison stands as a testament to the old cliché, “if these walls could talk.” As confined within a cluster of unassuming stone buildings, the walls would tell of unconventional 
Today, the property, located in an unassuming suburb on the ouskirts of Nashville, is available to the highest bidder on ebay.
Now a law office, Parker once brokered some of the biggest deals ever made in the entertainment business at the stone residence (located at 1215 Gallatin Road), making it a “holy grail” for the most discriminating “collector” and Elvis Presley / music afficionado.
Parker maintained the offices even after Elvis dominated the entertainment world. Meanwhile, he also managed such legendary “Country & Western” recording artists as Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow. Photographs and books document their casual “drop ins” to see the Colonel. The home has been well preserved over the years, decades from 1956 and 1957, when Elvis would swing by following recording sessions at RCA or en-route back to Memphis, to Audubon Drive or his new mansion on the hill….Graceland.
Just minutes from downtown Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry on Briley Parkway, and Hank Snow’s Rainbow Ranch in an adjacent neighborhood, the property remains extremely well maintained, having retained MUCH of the original 1950’s charm, as noted in the knotty pine paneling, entertainment bar, and pink-and-black and aqua tiled bathrooms.
The marketing of the property will be handled by Rockology’s Stephen M. Shutts. Upon a meeting arranged by pop culture author, Alanna Nash, Rockology — which will be featured in a new TV Series on CMT — has arranged to market the property to a worldwide audience. This is not the first significant marketing endeavor for Rockology when Stephen M. Shutts and Grammy Award Winning Mavericks bass player brought international attention to Elvis’s Audubon Drive Home in Memphis, Tennessee. The home appraised at $286,000 was sold for 1 Million dollars to then music mogul Mike Curb.
“The property is easily one of the five most significant music based properties in greater Nashville if not the single most significant,” Shutts said. “This is a vault of music energy when you consider Elvis monumental career was strategically built, negotiated and managed from within these walls from 1955 to well past Elvis’s passing in 1977. Colonel Tom Parker captured musical lightening in this very building that eventually influenced the world as we know today”.
The property will be showcased on ebay with strict bidding criteria, starting the second week of October. Private tours will be available to a select qualified few during the duration of the sale. The property is zoned for multiple use.
Original source: http://www.cmrnashville.com/news-details.php?id=17655
For the first time ever, Tony Bennett’s entire historic catalog is now available on iTunes, including the long-awaited release of Tony Bennett Live At The Sahara: Las Vegas, 1964. To celebrate, Tony chatted with fans live online yesterday answering questions all day on HuffPost Live, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook! Catch up on everything Tony had to say about his music and enduring career by visiting Tony’ Facebook page. And don’t miss his three part tour of the Sony Music Archives as Tony looks back on historic albums and mementos from his career.
A virtual jack of all trades in the entertainment business, Cowboy Jack Clement, 82, died Thursday (Aug. 8) at his Nashville home following a lengthy illness. He was to be officially inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame during ceremonies later this year.
At various times in his colorful life, he was a record and movie producer, songwriter, performing and recording artist, studio engineer, dance instructor and always a first-rate raconteur.
Over his long career, he produced records for an astounding array of artists, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich, Charley Pride, Louis Armstrong, U2, Tompall & the Glaser Brothers, the Stonemans, John Hartford, Mac Wiseman, Doc Watson, Frank Yankovic, John Prine, Emmylou Harris, Townes Van Zandt, Dickey Lee and Bobby Bare.
Jack Henderson Clement was born April 5, 1931, in the Whitehaven suburb of Memphis, Tenn. He began playing guitar and Dobro when he was still a teenager.
In 1948, he joined the Marines and spent the last two of his four years of service stationed in Washington, D. C. It was there that he met the Stonemans, a family whose roots in country music were even deeper than those of the famed Carter Family. In 1953, he teamed up with Scotty Stoneman and Buzz Busby to form the bluegrass band Buzz and Jack & the Bayou Boys.
Clement returned to Memphis in 1954 and hired on as a producer for Sun Records, where he worked with such young upstarts as Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Charlie Rich.
Sun Records fired him in 1959, and the following year he moved to Nashville where Chet Atkins took him on at RCA Records.
It was a short stay, however. In 1961, Clement left Nashville at the urging of producer and publisher Bill Hall and moved to Beaumont, Texas, where he and Hall opened Gulf Coast Recording Studio and the Hall-Clement publishing company. While in Beaumont, Clement also worked with Memphis pals Dickey Lee and Allen Reynolds and the burgeoning Texas songwriter Bob McDill.
During this period, Clement persuaded George Jones to record Lee’s “She Thinks I Still Care,” as well as one of Clement’s own compositions, “Just Someone I Used to Know.” The former became a No. 1 single for Jones in 1962 and is now memorialized in the Grammy Hall of Fame. The latter was a Top 5 hit in 1969 for Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton.
In 1963, Clement produced Johnny Cash’s signature hit, “Ring of Fire,” another Grammy Hall of Fame recording.
Clement returned to Nashville in 1965. After recording a demo session on Charley Pride, he convinced Atkins to sign the young African-American singer just as America was in the thick of the Civil Rights struggle.
Pride’s first two charted singles, “Just Between You and Me” and “I Know One,” were both penned by Clement, who would go on to produce Pride’s first 13 albums for RCA.
In 1972, he established JMI Records. As the label’s most visible artist, Don Williams‘ first five charted singles were on the JMI label and were all written either by the singer himself or by Clement allies, Allen Reynolds and Bob McDill.
Concurrent with the start of JMI, Clement masterminded and produced the horror movie Dear Dead Delilah. Starring veteran actors Agnes Moorehead and Will Geer, the film was a box office fizzle.
In 1973, Clement created for Williams’ “Come Early Morning” what is arguably the first country music concept video — even though there were no music videos at the time or an outlet for them. The film wove together segments showing Williams singing with clips of a truck driver coming home from the road to awaken his sleeping wife. Inserted at random into the story were silhouette shots of Clement doing a soft-shoe dance.
That same year, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall Fame in a class that also included Harlan Howard, Don Gibson, Roger Miller and Willie Nelson.
Among the many other hits Clement wrote were Cash’s “Ballad of a Teenage Queen” (No. 1 for 10 weeks) and “Guess Things Happen That Way” (No. 1 for eight weeks), Bare’s “Miller’s Cave,” Waylon Jennings’ “Let’s All Help the Cowboy (Sing The Blues)” and Tompall & the Glaser Brothers’ “California Girl (and the Tennessee Square).”
Several of his lighter tunes became standards for Cash, notably “The One on the Right Is on the Left,” “Dirty Old Egg-Sucking Dog,” “Everybody Loves a Nut” and the metaphorical massacre, “Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart.”
Clement made his debut as a major-label artist in 1978 via Elektra Records’ release of his album All I Want to Do in Life. The album yielded three chart singles — “We Must Believe in Magic,” “When I Dream” and “All I Want to Do in Life” — none of which rose higher than the low 80s on the country chart.
During Clement’s middle and late years, his Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa in his home on Nashville’s Belmont Avenue became a popular hangout for songwriters and singers of all magnitudes. Among his guests were the members of U2, who recorded a portion of their 1988 album, Rattle and Hum, with him. The house and much of the memorabilia it contained were destroyed by fire in 2011.
In 2002, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum tapped Clement to be its first artist-in-residence. In 2004, the Americana Music Association honored him with its lifetime achievement award. Also that year, Dualtone Records released the second album of his career, Guess Things Happen That Way.
Clement’s Cowboy Jack’s Home Movies won best documentary honors at the 2005 Nashville Film Festival. The same year, directors Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville produced a documentary about Clement titled Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan. Released on DVD in 2007, it featured comments from such kindly disposed luminaries as Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dolly Parton and U2’s Bono.
Clement was honored during a concert at Nashville’s War Memorial in January 2013. Musical tributes were provided by Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Amos Lee, Del McCoury, Tim O’Brien, Sam Bush, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, T Bone Burnett, Jakob Dylan, Buddy Miller, John Hiatt and Black Keys member Dan Auerbach. Video messages were provided by former President Bill Clinton, Taylor Swift, Marty Stuart, Bono, producer Rick Rubin and actors Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, John C. Reilly and Dennis Quaid. Actress Connie Britton of ABC’s Nashville read a letter of congratulations from first lady Michelle Obama.
Clement’s induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame was announced in April 2013. Along with Kenny Rogers and Bobby Bare, he was to be officially inducted during a medallion ceremony on Oct. 27.
August 8, 2013; Written by Edward Morris (CMT News)
Original URL: http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1712001/cowboy-jack-clement-a-nashville-music-legend-dies-at-age-82.jhtml
