Looking back on my show, "Stan Hitchcock's Heart to Heart", I guess
what I was creating is a Time Capsule of Classic Country Music. I
started it in 1986, and did the last ones last year, in 2012.
That is a long span for a television show to last, and it happened as
the Classic Country Music, that we all love, was being changed, forever.
I was able to start the show while so many heroes were still with us.
The show was never more than friends, getting together over a couple of
flat tops, with the stories and songs that were the foundation of our
music.
I look back at Tom Brumley, Buck Trent and Cal Smith, when times were good and they were our Artists to love, Keith Whitley, happy and on a roll with his music, Hank Thompson, who had been so important to our early music creation and was still singing fine, Buck Owens, relaxed and happy, content with his place in the business of music, when he handed me a guitar he had made for me, engraved: "To Stan, Friends are forever....", and he was right, that's what friends do, they last forever. Glenn Sutton, one of the funniest guys I ever met, and also one of the most talented. He produced several of my early Epic Records, we wrote songs together, he would travel with me, just to play rhythm on the show, and to party afterward, and help keep me awake on the drive home.
The list goes on and on, through the years, Dan Seals, Garth Brooks, an early Alan Jackson, Glen Campell, Ferlin Husky, Charlie Daniels, Bill Anderson, Sammi Smith, The McCarter Sisters, Dolly...we all shared a time of friends and music, and it was good.
Some are still with us....some are gone, but like Buck said, "Friends are forever."
I look back at Tom Brumley, Buck Trent and Cal Smith, when times were good and they were our Artists to love, Keith Whitley, happy and on a roll with his music, Hank Thompson, who had been so important to our early music creation and was still singing fine, Buck Owens, relaxed and happy, content with his place in the business of music, when he handed me a guitar he had made for me, engraved: "To Stan, Friends are forever....", and he was right, that's what friends do, they last forever. Glenn Sutton, one of the funniest guys I ever met, and also one of the most talented. He produced several of my early Epic Records, we wrote songs together, he would travel with me, just to play rhythm on the show, and to party afterward, and help keep me awake on the drive home.
The list goes on and on, through the years, Dan Seals, Garth Brooks, an early Alan Jackson, Glen Campell, Ferlin Husky, Charlie Daniels, Bill Anderson, Sammi Smith, The McCarter Sisters, Dolly...we all shared a time of friends and music, and it was good.
Some are still with us....some are gone, but like Buck said, "Friends are forever."
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