Yep- - - -that's how I got to hang out backstage at the Ryman Auditorium as a little kid with people like Little Jimmy Dickens, the Carter sisters, Stringbean, Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, and a few others. A few years later, I worked on Marty Robbins' 34 Ford coupe "Devil Woman" with the 312 Ford engine before he started driving a bunch of hotrod MOPARS at the Nashville Fairgrounds 1/2 mile oval track. I got to meet Jim Reeves at the WSM radio studios one day, and Tex Ritter rode the elevator I operated in the WSM building to his nightly radio disc jockey job in the mid-1960's. Growing up around Nashville in general, and the entertainment business in particular was "interesting"!

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Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!