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This weeks #1 on the IndieWorld Country Record Report
Waylon Jennings – “Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line“
– Pretty World / Country Rewind
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This weeks #1 on the IndieWorld Country Record Report
Jim Chesnut – “True Love Is A Dance In Three-Quarter Time“
– MP3
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THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH TOP 10
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The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.
The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!
Copyright © 2016, Hotdisc, 21 Redpath Crescent, Galashiels TD1 2QG, Scotland. Used with permission from HotDisk.
A seldom used railroad track crossed Payne Avenue, North Tonawanda.
There was a tiny one room station that had once been a whistle-stop,
but had later become a small store, a diner,
and then an abandoned oddity,
leaving the area it’s name, The Junction.
The corner was now a bus stop, and at it’s busy time of the afternoon,
when workers were getting off buses after a day at the factories.
I was with my then girlfriend and another couple,
and there were maybe thirty or forty people moving around
when the golden UFOs soared to exactly over our heads and stopped.
The didn’t slow down, they just stopped.
They didn’t make a sound.
Everybody stared up at them, stunned.
Nobody was going to believe this, and yet, there they damn were.
The were three of them,
glowing chrome orange as if reflecting a sunset,
but there was no sunset.
They were not like any UFO pictures I’ve ever seen,
because they weren’t horizontal like Frisbees.
They were vertical… upright on their edges.
They hung motionless for a couple of minutes.
Not a sound in the air.
Then they suddenly resumed their thousand mile per hour speed
till they were above the line of trees to the north,
then took a sharp right turn
and disappeared over the roofs and trees to the east.
People were excited about it for a week or two,
and then a strange human thing happened.
The ones who actually saw the phenomenon
began to doubt their own accounts,
and in time the talk stopped and it all just faded out of most memories.
Not mine.
I was determined to not forget.
Not ever.
I don’t talk about it much
because people only believe in socially acceptable fantasies.
Almost two decades later
Misty and I were driving home from a gig at two in the morning.
It was a new road,
a by-pass that had just opened a day or two before,
and we were the only car on it.
As we approaches the western fence of the Opa Locka Air Field,
we saw a huge old plane coming in with no landing lights
and no runway lights.
Just the moon.
It seemed to be flying low over the road, facing us…
too low for comfort.
As we got closer the plane seemed to be standing still,
and we drove right up under it.
I said “What the hell?” and we got out and looked up.
It appeared to be a rusty Douglas DC-3 cargo plane
from World War Two,
just hanging there a hundred and fifty feet above us.
There was no sound whatsoever, not even crickets.
We took off fast.
Later I mentioned it at a family dinner.
My mother remarked
that The Opa Lock Air Field was where planes took off
that were lost in the Bermuda Triangle.
Jack Blanchard.
Copyright © Jack Blanchard 2005 to 2016
This weeks #1 on the IndieWorld Country Record Report
Donna Cunningham – “Made In Texas“
– Century ll Records
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#1 for October 2016
Why You Wanna Do That – Lomax
Coday Records/KAL Entertainment
Where It All Began…And Continues
KHP Music
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Music Charts Magazine® History
– Song for the month of September 2016:
Johnny Cash
“Saturday Night In Hickman County”
Hickman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,690. Its county seat is Centerville.
Hickman County is part of the Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Hickman County was named for Edwin Hickman, an explorer and surveyor who was killed in an Indian attack at Defeated Creek in 1791. The county was established in 1807, and named for Hickman at the suggestion of Robert Weakley, a legislator who had been a member of Hickman’s surveying party.
Throughout the 19th century, the county’s industry revolved around iron furnaces, which made use of the county’s natural supply of high-quality iron ore. Early furnaces included Napier’s furnace near Aetna, which was destroyed by Union soldiers during the Civil War, and furnaces built by the Standard Coal Company in the 1880s.
Hickman natives include songwriter Beth Slater Whitson and Grand Ole Opry personality Minnie Pearl. William F. Lyell was a corporal in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on August 31, 1951.
The county is the subject of the Johnny Cash song, “Saturday Night In Hickman County,” and the Hickman community of Grinder’s Switch is indirectly mentioned in the song, “The South’s Gonna Do It Again,” by the Charlie Daniels Band (one line refers to the band Grinderswitch, and their song “Right On Time”).
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickman_County,_Tennessee
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This weeks #1 on the IndieWorld Country Record Report
Allen Karl – “It’s Too Early To Cry In My Beer“
– Century ll Records
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To watch the video for each song (where available) click on the titles.
THE HOTDISC BRITISH & IRISH TOP 10
|
The Hotdisc chart is compiled from DJs and industry professionals’ ratings of songs currently being promoted on the Rush Released CD. They are not airplay charts, as airplay charts cannot work in Europe because there are no terrestrial country stations. The hundreds of country programmes on air which we service are likely to play a particular song only twice at most in a three month period, therefore rendering airplay charts insignificant in Europe. It works well in America where there are plenty of non-stop country stations but it does not work here. Any Airplay Chart you may see claiming to provide this service is bogus and Hotdisc does not condone these charts at all. They are misleading at best for the reasons stated.
The Hotdisc charts are put together weekly using ratings supplied by DJs who give scores to every song on the last three months’ editions of Rush Released. The scores are averaged out per week to give an accurate guide to the songs which are being championed by the industry. The aim is to showcase the songs which the industry professionals are flagging up as quality songs. This is a very useful exercise as it is free of politics, hype and rigging and done solely on merit!
Copyright © 2016, Hotdisc, 21 Redpath Crescent, Galashiels TD1 2QG, Scotland. Used with permission from HotDisk.
This weeks #1 on the IndieWorld Country Record Report
Bradley Winfield Parker – “Tribute To Merle“
– Albeit Records
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