Live from Music City, U.S.A., it's Nashville Now.
Our guests tonight are the Pirates of the Mississippi,
the Bellamy Brothers, and Tom Grant.
And now from Opryland, U.S.A., here he is, the host of
Nashville Now, Ralph Emory.
Okay, thank you, Gary. Thank you very much.
It's a pleasure to have all you folks with us tonight.
A lady way over there was waving this flag.
I came out here before the show started,
and she was waving this red flag.
And I said, it's Betty Brock, I think, from North Carolina.
Anyway, I said, why are you waving that red flag?
She said, to get your attention.
And it worked.
So you don't mind if I wave this red flag at you at home,
because I'm just trying to get your attention.
Now let me say first of all, Charlie Daniels,
who worked at Opryland here this weekend,
I guess he just sang till he give out,
because he's got laryngitis and he's not with us tonight,
and we're really sorry about that, Charlie.
Oh, I can hear it now.
Do you hear that, Gary, that low rumble?
Feel better now?
Would all of you like to wave to Charlie?
Give him a big wave.
Okay.
Now, do I have your attention yet?
Okay.
We have some young men that I think...
Are you guys going to be on the jam?
Because they're...
Okay.
Was that you?
Anyway, we'll tell you more about this,
but they are big favorites of Charlie Daniels.
Would you please welcome our opening act tonight,
The Pirates of the Mississippi.
I know they talk about you
With words that put you down
And your tight jeans don't wear too well
With the social lights in town
They say your perfume's much too strong
When you dance you tease
But I've got my own ideas
On matters such as these
My kind of woman
Where you've been all my life
My kind of woman
What you're doing tonight
And your body language is talking to me
I've got to know if you say what you mean
My temperature's rising
My heart's jumping
My kind of woman
They say you're wild at breakfast
And don't mind tempting fate
You've got that nook that men just love
And women love to hate
My mama always told me
Beware of girls like you
Out there doing women things
A lady wouldn't do
My kind of woman
Where you've been all my life
My kind of woman
What you're doing tonight
And your body language is talking to me
I've got to know if you say what you mean
My temperature's rising
My heart's jumping
My kind of woman
And your body language is talking to me
I've got to know if you say what you mean
My temperature's rising
My heart's jumping
My kind of woman
Okay, the Pirates of the Mississippi
on tonight's show.
How y'all doing, guys?
You guys doing alright?
Welcome back.
Hello.
We're back.
Good to see you, Ralph.
Hey, I'm delighted to see all of you.
Dean, do you know where you live?
Well, Ralph, I did about 30 days ago
before we left for the road.
We were out west, the northwest,
and it seems somebody moved.
My family moved and didn't tell me about it.
On purpose.
And when we tried to go into Canada,
my paperwork didn't coincide with the address
that they had.
So I'm still trying to figure it out.
If you didn't know that you had moved,
how did the Canadian authorities know
that you had moved?
Boy, I don't know how they know it.
I'll tell you what.
I didn't think they even knew my name,
but everything worked out okay.
I got back home and she hadn't moved far.
You know, it was close.
You know?
Your wife?
Yeah.
Is there more to this story you want to tell us?
You're living there now.
No, yeah, I'm living there.
Yeah, I'm back there.
Yeah, I found a place, yeah.
It's a nice place.
Where are you going when you leave this show tonight?
Home.
Do you know where it is?
I don't know the address.
So you really couldn't fill out any papers tonight
listing your address?
No.
Okay, I'll get off that.
Let me ask you something.
Tell me about Charlie's jam,
since he's not here to talk about it,
his volunteer jam this year.
Well, it's going to be a big hootenanny.
When is it?
September 20th.
20th, yeah, at Starwood Amphitheater
here in Nashville.
Charlie is noted for the volunteer jam.
It's an historical musical event.
Yeah.
And he always has guest stars.
A lot of them are surprise guest stars.
And I know they used to have it
down at the municipal auditorium.
And some of the money goes for charity,
or does all the money go for charity?
I think all the proceeds this year
are going to the T.J. Martell Foundation
for I think it's leukemia research.
For leukemia?
Yeah, so it's a good cause this year,
that's for sure.
Do you know of any other of the announced acts?
Little Feet is going to be there,
one of our big time heroes.
Oh yeah, rock and roll band.
Paulette Carlson is going to be there, I heard.
I'll catch one of my heaps first.
But usually you have the announced group
or groups or acts,
and then people just show up.
Yeah, that's why they call it the jam.
All the big acts, the country acts,
and some of the old rockers like Lynyrd Skynyrd
and a lot of the new country acts.
I don't know exactly who's going to be there,
but you're liable to see anybody.
It's an all-day affair,
and it goes into the evening.
We're real happy to do it,
because Charlie's one of our inspirations.
We listen to a lot of Charlie Daniel's music,
as you can hear in our guitars,
if you heard us play for about an hour,
you'd hear a lot of Charlie Daniel's licks
and stuff in there.
We're just proud that he wanted to have us.
Is your new video out?
I haven't seen it.
It's going to be out next week.
Next week, is it?
Yeah.
We're real excited about that one.
The song you're going to sing after a while?
Yeah, the first single off of our new album
called A Street Man Named Desire.
That's it.
So the video is not out yet?
No.
No, the video I think ships this weekend.
Is this about the homeless?
It sure is.
It's about ordinary, everyday working people
that are down on their luck and lost their jobs.
We see that more and more often nowadays,
especially with modern-day economics.
We want to write something to bring people's awareness
to the fact that a lot of homeless people do have jobs,
but their jobs just don't pay enough
for them to have a house.
Did you use homeless people in your video?
We certainly did, yeah.
The only actors I guess you could say are us.
Thank you, Pat.
You're the second group that I know of that has done this.
I think Shenandoah did a video using homeless people
to call attention to the problem, as I'm sure you have.
Let me take a break and remind you,
you're watching Nashville Now,
and we're talking to the Pirates of the Mississippi.
The Bellamy Brothers are here tonight.
Tom Grant is here. That's the show, and we'll be right back.
$8,000 Chevrolet.
The trucks you can depend on.
The trucks that last.
Like a rock!
Oh, like a rock!
Where in the world can you find
hot days, hotter nights,
romance under the sun,
romance under the moonlight,
sports all day, sports all night,
superstars enjoying the day,
superstars filling up the night,
and action day and night, day and night.
Only in Las Vegas.
Always on the money, Las Vegas.
Mama and a papa and a little baby Jean
Out on the fire we can hear stampings
There's 15 beans and a spicy tooth
They're good for me and they're good for you
Pay so dollar and my son Mark
saying about NK Hearst Package 15 Beans Soup
Cajun style, spicy good, great, hot, hot
Guaranteed to make you smile
Everybody likes to go to Cajun style
NK Hearst 15 Beans Soup
You touch it.
Your body rubs against it.
It's inches from your face.
It's mildew, but there is a way to stop it.
You can kill it with Tylex.
Tylex kills mildew and penetrates the grout
to destroy the stain.
Tylex, don't let mildew ruin your shower.
If you've been watching TNN,
you know about the TNN Explorers America sweepstakes.
We're giving away a Winnebago Brave,
a Dodge truck, trips to Hawaii and Alaska.
But did you know that 150 people can win
TNN Explorers America travel packs,
a duffel bag, a T-shirt, fling camera,
a Shawnee's coupon, and the cooking
with Southern celebrities cookbook.
To enter, call 1-900-370-4TNN
or send a postcard with your name address
and phone number to this address.
Each call costs 95 cents per minute.
With all these prizes and chances to win,
get your entries in soon for the TNN
Explorers America sweepstake.
Well, the dudes from Darby are here tonight,
a couple old friends of mine from down in Darby, Florida.
Would you please welcome Howard and David,
the Bellamy Brothers.
If you could be anywhere in the USA
Texas, Tennessee, down in F.L.A.
When the weekend falls and all the girls come out
That's what a country boy's life is all about
There's a band on the jukebox everywhere we go
In the cars and up the radio
Country music playing out in the streets
Everybody's dancing to the combo of beat
Well, the way out west, they get a burning desire
When the guitars play, it really feeds a fire
For Arizona, California, down at Lagos Way
The feeling that beat through the heat of the day
You know the farm and the love all over the supply
From Alaska to the Rio Grande
So hold you baby while you move your feet
Everybody's dancing to the cowboy beat
Well, they're selling like hotcakes everywhere we go
Showing up in honky-tonks and rodeo
Playing and kicking on movie screens
Lord, it's taking over everything
If you could be anywhere in the USA
Texas, Tennessee, down in F.L.A.
Well, the New York City has a Broadway show
They wear boots and buckles, a lot of do-si-do
You know it's playing the whole world down to a sneeze
So move a little closer and hold on to me
Well, down inside the aisle I'm a bit so sweet
Raising our keys to the cowboy beat
To the cowboy beat
Yeah, we're dancing to the cowboy beat
Hell, we're dancing to the cowboy beat
Thank you.
Well, it's been a while. How's your mama?
Very well, thanks.
You watching tonight?
Yeah, I bet she is.
Well, I want to say hi to her. Is she down at the farm?
Home in Darby.
Were you guys impacted in any way by Hurricane Andrew?
No, we lucked out. It was about 200 miles south of us,
but we know a lot of people who were
and have done some telethons and whatnot to help raise money.
Bad, bad news.
Was your video director, was he involved?
Yes. Oh, you heard this story, I guess.
We were just wrapping up our new video for the next song we're going to do tonight
and they were just going into editing
and just prior to going into editing, his wife flew down to Homestead
to stay with her grandparents and the hurricane hit
and she was like, she was stuck there. He had to go literally rescue her.
So it held our video up for a while
and so we're billing it as the video that couldn't be stopped even by Hurricane Andrew.
Okay. When will the video be ready?
We're going to debut it tomorrow.
What's the song?
Can I Come on Home to You.
Can I Come on Home to You?
Can I Come on Home to You, yes.
Can I Come on Home to You?
There you go.
What's the entire line?
After I go to hell, can I come on home to you?
You've been doing research tonight, I see.
What kind of hell has this man been through in this song?
Well, I suppose as men in relationships, you've probably been through a little in relationships.
I have, I'm sure David has, and probably every guy out there.
Sounds like you read my book.
So this is the eternal battle between men and women?
Yeah, but there's a nice ending.
Oh, it does have a nice ending.
It's a love song. She told him to go to hell and he's going to do it,
but he wants to know if he can come on home afterwards.
I see, okay.
What is this story about marketing the World's Greatest Lover album?
Oh gee, boy, you're digging deep tonight.
How long ago was that?
It was actually, we had a single out, The World's Greatest Lover, some years ago,
and somebody got the bright idea that it would be a great idea to sell women's underwear,
you know, bikini panties at our concession.
And they said World's Greatest Lover on them.
On the bum.
Across the rump.
Okay.
And so we had ordered several thousands of dollars of these underwear.
And they sold like hotcakes.
Yeah, they were selling.
One of the hottest items we've ever had.
Just selling great.
And our bus driver put them in a store board, you know, on top of the bus,
one of those containers that holds everything up there, but he didn't latch it down.
And we were coming down an interstate out in the middle of the country somewhere.
I don't even remember what state it was in.
Minnesota, I believe it was.
Minnesota or somewhere.
And about three or four thousand dollars worth of panties started flying, flying through the air.
They were hanging on windshields of trucks.
And all the truckers were calling us and going,
hey, you know, you got women's panties flying out of your store more up there.
And by the time we, you know, got stopped and everything,
there was no saving them.
People had picked them up and they were hanging from tree limbs.
And so did anybody ever say anything about the Bellamy's on these?
Yeah, it said it said Bellamy Brothers on the front.
Anybody ever send them back to you?
No.
And it was hard convincing the IRS that should be a write off.
That's the hard part.
It's a funny story.
How long ago was this?
Oh, it's been several years ago.
Ten years or so.
Was that record out ten years ago?
No, it wasn't that long.
It was maybe seven, seven years.
Seven, ten.
What's the difference with this many miles?
That's right.
You know, didn't we discuss you're doing reggae cowboy sometime when you came back?
Yeah.
I notice it's not on the playlist tonight.
OK.
We went through this actually and David won this argument.
I said, you know, that's Ralph's favorite song.
We should do it tonight.
And I said, didn't we play that a while back?
Didn't we just do that?
But I think you're right.
We'll do it next time.
I like that song.
Thank you.
This portion of Nashville Now is brought to you by Orkin Exterminating.
Orkin, one call destroys them all.
They invade by the thousands, leading an invisible chemical trail.
But ants can be stopped by the exterminator, the Orkin Man.
The exterminator wipes out ant armies with the awesome power of his advanced pest control
technology.
He destroys ants and their colony and make sure they never return.
Guaranteed.
The Exterminator.
The Orkin Man.
One call destroys them all.
Introducing Glade Plug-ins Nightlight, a bright new way to plug into freshness.
Plug it in, plug it in.
The freshness of a plug-in, the convenience of a nightlight.
Plug it in, plug it in.
It gently warms its refill cartridge for 30 days of freshness.
Freshness day and night.
Freshness with the lights.
Plug it in, plug it in.
Original, show, and new nightlight.
Plug it in, plug it in.
From S.C. Johnson Wax.
Good morning, birthday girl.
Don't remind me.
I hope no one finds out.
It's our secret.
Introducing Pond's Foaming Cleanser and Toner in One.
It deep cleans and helps tighten pores to bring out your natural radiance.
And this birthday wish goes out to Deborah Palmer from a secret admirer.
You are so beautiful to me.
Pond's, it brings out your natural radiance.
All of these children have one thing in common.
All of them were unplanned pregnancies.
Pregnancies that could have ended in abortion.
But their parents toughed it out, listened to their hearts,
and discovered along the way that sometimes the best things in life aren't planned.
Life.
What a beautiful choice.
Pizza Hut announces an amazing new menu policy.
Order pizza at regular price and get any other of equal or lesser value for half price.
It may change the way America buys everything.
Okay, one aircraft carrier, regular price.
Any other aircraft carrier of equal or lesser value, half price.
Any other molar extraction of equal or lesser value, half price.
Pizza Hut, where your second pizza is always half price.
It's catching on.
The first World Trade Tower, regular price.
We'll throw in a second World Trade Tower.
We've got an old friend on the show tonight.
I used to have fun introducing him until he got married.
You know, I would tell jokes like, you know what a bachelor is,
a guy who comes to work every morning from a different direction.
And I would call him the love god.
And then he got married, it ruined all my material.
Would you please welcome an old friend, Tom Grant.
Thank you, guys.
Thank you.
I'm taking you away and leaving me lonely.
The silver wings are slowly fading out of sight.
Don't leave me here, I cried.
Don't take that airplane ride.
Cause you locked me out of your mind and let me stand in here behind.
Silver wings shining in the sunlight.
Roaring engines headed somewhere it flies.
I'm taking you away and leaving me lonely.
The silver wings are slowly fading out of sight.
Don't leave me here, I cried.
Don't take that airplane ride.
Cause you locked me out of your mind and let me stand in here behind.
Silver wings shining in the sunlight.
Roaring engines headed somewhere it flies.
I'm taking you away and leaving me lonely.
The silver wings are slowly fading out of sight.
Tom was one of the original members of our Nashville Now cast,
as I pointed out the other night when Darlene was here,
and you and Laurie Morgan.
Do you have any fond memories of those early years?
Oh, boy, do I ever.
I've got a lot of them.
In fact, my mother sent me a bunch of tapes.
She taped all of the programs.
I've got tons of them.
One of my favorites.
Okay, you go ahead.
You go first.
I think on my 35th birthday, Darlene and Laurie surprised me over here
and sang Happy Birthday to me.
We had a lot of fun with them.
I'll tell you a performance, and I can't remember the song,
but you and Darlene and Laurie all sang together.
That was one that you liked.
That was one that Kenny Rogers had done.
What about me?
Yeah, Kenny Rogers and two other people,
which escapes me at the moment,
but that was an outstanding performance.
Thank you.
Thank you much.
What was this business that you left?
I honestly don't remember.
What was this business we got into over the Gambler?
You don't remember.
No.
People still talk about that.
I started singing it one night, and you just stopped me.
I think we ran out of time,
and you stopped me in the middle of the song.
You got a big kick out of it.
Did it become a running game?
Yeah.
I've been thinking about it five or six times.
You kept on stopping the song.
One time the band walked off the stage
before I could finish it.
Every time you tried to sing the Gambler?
I never finished it.
You've never finished the Gambler?
I've never finished the Gambler.
I think I did.
You happen to know the last verse.
Yeah.
Maybe tonight I can do it.
Do you want to sing it?
What key?
I think the key of F.
We never played it before.
They said they've never played it that far.
Come on, guys.
Give me a break.
I never could finish that.
People still get a request,
and I always say when I do my shows...
You sing the Gambler on the road?
Oh, yeah.
Do you sing all of it?
All of it.
I say if Ralph Emory doesn't walk through that door tonight,
I'll finish this song.
Did this all start because we ran out of time?
I think so.
I don't know who...
Or were we just pulling your chain?
Well, a combination.
You did that a lot in those days.
But I think we ran out of time,
and it got to be a gag.
But it's on that tape, by the way.
Remember the first tape that I had out?
And I want to talk about this.
This tape?
No, the other one.
That was at last.
That's the one where you said if I don't get it out by a certain date,
you'd give me a pie in the face.
Oh, yeah.
You kept telling me about this forthcoming album.
And every time you talked to me, it was still forthcoming.
So I set a date,
and I didn't have it ready for that date,
so I got a pie in the face.
I don't know if anybody remembers that.
I got some footage on it somewhere.
Did we make a bet?
If you had gotten it out on time,
was I to get the pie in the face?
Yeah, that's right.
I see.
So later on, you did get it.
Well, I called those people and told them not to put it out.
I thought you did.
Well, I do want to mention
that those are both available right now.
I'm working on a new one, and that's why.
And I'm not going to set a date on that one, by the way.
But those are yours and mine is my current one.
Which one is yours and which one is mine?
You could have them both, though.
Oh, this is called yours and mine.
That's right.
And the reason is because it has silver wings.
And this is called at last.
Some other ones, and then some that I wrote.
And at last has a lot more original things,
plus the gambler in its entirety.
Today, I started loving you again.
Yeah, and there's an address right there.
If you want $10 to cover the postage and everything,
we can send those out right to you.
Have you still got that old Ford?
No, I don't.
That's it right there.
That's a great-looking car.
Oh, boy, I had a lot of fun with that.
What model was that?
That was a 59 Thunderbird convertible.
And it had an automatic top.
I love that.
That pop would just pop up out of there.
Yeah, I brought its Ralph Emory Day one.
It was about eight miles long, too.
It's a big, big car.
It sure was.
All right, we need to take a little break.
We're having too much fun.
We'll be right back.
TNN explores America.
And on this date in 1921,
Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C.
was crowned the first Miss America in Atlantic City.
You're watching Nashville Now, live on TNN.
There's no worry.
Fleet works when you want it to, in minutes.
For fast, predictable relief, trust Fleet.
It's predictable.
I'm back, and I'm blind.
Delta Burke stars in Delta.
Catchy title, don't you think?
And she's got dreams of being a star.
Oh, here you are in Nashville.
Seems like everybody here is trying to break into country music.
I'll tell you one thing, I hadn't seen anybody make it yet.
But you gotta go with your heart.
Delta Burke returns to television.
And ABC's gutter this fall.
I'm getting back to my country roots.
Speaking of roots.
You couldn't get the picture.
Maybe you can read the writing on the wall.
The message is real simple.
Watch for George Jones, Thursday on Nashville Now.
You can start losing up to 10, 20, 50, even 100 pounds
with a powerful doctor-approved Megalos 1000 Miracle Diet Fill Program for only $9.95.
With this doctor-approved Megalos 1000 program,
you can burn more body fat relaxing in the sun
than swimming 2.5 miles or exercising 6 hours nonstop.
Faye Diamond rapidly dropped from a size 8 to a size 4.
I'm not embarrassed to wear a bikini anymore.
Toronto's Debbie Holloway lost 53 pounds.
Sherry Coppock lost 38 pounds with her doctor-approved Miracle Diet Fill Program.
Loween Liberati rapidly lost 46 pounds.
Lynn Clary lost an astonishing 65 pounds.
And E.J. Alkire lost an incredible 100 pounds.
Now you can shed excess fat by calling 1-800-241-5600
for your Miracle Diet Fill Program for only $9.95.
We accept all personal check orders by phone.
Call 1-800-241-5600 now and receive your nighttime cellulite cream absolutely free.
Call 1-800-241-5600 now.
Okay.
Now, we're going to go back to the Pirates of the Mississippi,
and we mentioned this song when they were sitting over here,
and this is their song about the homeless called
The Street Man Named Desire, Pirates of the Mississippi.
The assembly plant moved to Mexico
When domestic sales started getting slow
But the bills kept pouring in
Me and Becky took it on the chin
And the day the landlord threw us out
Well, Becky, she threw in the towel
She'd had enough at last
Of these modern grapes of rad
Some say he still has a job, but I don't
Tonight he'll sleep in a big warm bed, but I won't
He'll soon be standing in front of the bus stop booth
With a sign that reads, we'll work for food
And later I'll take my place round the trash barrel fire
Where's the pot of gold for a street man named desire?
It seems like a million years ago
I faced each day full of hope
Honest labor with my hands
Making a living, making plans
Well, I never was much at drinking before
But these days it's all that keeps me warm
It's still hard to believe
This could ever happen to me
Some say he still has a job, but I don't
Tonight he'll sleep in a big warm bed, but I won't
He'll soon be standing in front of the bus stop booth
With a sign that reads, we'll work for food
And later I'll take my place round the trash barrel fire
Where's the pot of gold for a street man named desire?
The president still has a job, but I don't