View From The Front Porch
“Ozark Mountain Valley
Home”
By Stan
Hitchcock
It
was early morning, about 4 O’clock I reckon, during the Spring of 1968, when I
awoke with a start and realized I had been dreaming about a song. The words and
the melody were still running through my mind as I jumped up to get my
songwriter pad and my pen. As fast as I
could write, I put down the words on paper then grabbed my old J45 Gibson and
started singing the words to the melody I could still remember. It
seems strange now, dreaming a song into reality, but at the time it seemed just
as natural as anything. The song I wrote
then is called “Ozark Mountain Valley Home” and it is just a collection of
memories that I still carry of home and early life on the farm.

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Shocks of corn on a hillside farm.... Photo taken by Denise Hitchcock |
I
have been shooting some new Heart to Heart shows in the month of March and it
feels good to be visiting with my friends again. First show I did features Ron Elliott, one of
the fine steel guitar players in Nashville and a true road musicians who has
helped take classic country music to the world with stars like Stonewall
Jackson and Jack Greene. We use Ron on
BlueHighways TV to play BHTV Music Breaks and he has a world of fans out
there. I just wanted to feature a true
road musician to capture the view from the musicians behind the stars.
I
invited my friend of many years, the legendary Jerry Galen Foster, half of the
songwriting team of Foster and Rice that just broke all records of having hit records
from their songs in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.
I have some wonderful video from my old “Stan Hitchcock Show” from
1979-80 when Fos came up to Branson and worked my show and I wanted to show him
now and get the great stories of his career.
Dallas
Frazier was kind enough to come sit down at the piano in the recording studio
and perform some of his music. He is one
of my all time songwriting heroes and wrote one of my favorite songs of all
time, “There Goes My Everything”. He has
an amazing life story and I had to get it on the show.
Music
still runs true in the heart and mind of Stan Hitchcock and songwriters are
still my heroes and the love of the music never shall die along with my desire
to share the music with y’all.
Take a listen to my song, “Ozark Mountain Valley Home” from a live recording of the “Stan
Hitchcock Television Show” in 1980. 32
years must be a long time, judging by how my looks have changed, however, it
seems like just yesterday when I was young and the music never stopped.
Lord,
bless our country, protect us from our enemies, bless us with good health and
clarity of mind, draw us all closer together in faith and thank you for each
day that you gift us with.
Stan
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