JIMMY DEAN, BUDDY BUIE, BILL J. MOODY, WILBUR WALTON JR.
Date:
Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:03:45 -0500
Subject:
[ChampagneJam] All I want for Christmas...

Is an ARS DVD with all the surviving original band members performing. I know that the boys from Doraville deserve to retire (and some are struggling with health issues), but they've left one piece of unfinished business.
Let's rent the Fox theatre, invite all of their friends and supporters, and shoot a DVD.
Whattaya say guys, have you got one more left in you?
-Brian

JOSS STONE http://www.jossstone.co.uk/
WITH CHARLIE FELDMAN, Vice President Writer/Publisher Relations, BMI-New York from
http://www.celebrityaccess.com/news/profile.html?id=264

Hey Y'all:
I was doing some industrial strength espionage for a buddy of mine and came across this character, Charlie Feldman. These words from his celebrity profile caught my attention:

How did you get to the Muscle Shoals Publishing Company?

I used to know Eddie Hinton when I was a singer in a high school band that played all over the southeast. We were The Bassmen, and we traveled by my junior year in high school to Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and all through Alabama, including the University of Alabama and Auburn University. We used to bump into Hinton and his band as well as Johnny Wyker and the Rubber Band. Johnny Townsend of the Sanford Townsend Band was the lead singer of Wyker's band. Anyway, Hinton and I got to be friendly, and by the time I started college at Alabama, he was making his way in Muscle Shoals. I brought my band up to the studio, and Eddie and Donnie Fritts cut some sides on us that went nowhere, but it was the entree for my moving up to Muscle Shoals in my junior year of college with Steve Smith and Tim Smith.


Well Charlie has got to have the best job on Earth for old Bama fart from our generation!

So I picked up the lastest issue of BMI MusicWorld,sent to me courtesy of Robert Nix, and right there on page 41 was a picture of Charlie with RIHANNA http://www.rihannasite.com/
who just happened to drop by his BMI office at 320 West 57th Street in NYC. Then I find on page 47 I found OUR FELLOW UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNUS CHARLIE FELDMAN in one with Kate Nauta

and with Yummy Bingham in another. http://www.yummybingham.com/

This guy is definitely the next target for unsolicited email from THE SPAMMER FROM BAMMER!

I wanna go to NEW YORK CITY & hang out with CHARLIE!

ROLL TIDE! [very sad way to end the 2006 basketball season tonight]

On Wednesday, March 15, I got to hang out at Bama's Football Facility & watch 42 NFL coaches and scouts representing every team, grade Bama's players.
What a sensation to be glued on Brody while he threw about 15 completed long passes, then see him throw about 15 completed bullet speed short passes and then look over my left shoulder and see Bart Starr standing next to me. WHEW!

& what a pleasure to accompany my hero as a teenager, Buddy Buie on his Tuscaloosa visit!

Catfish Country did not record Buddy's interview on the radio but the jock said he'd make it up to us next time Buddy's in town.

Track 1 of Buddy's interview on WTBC is 19 minutes 13 seconds and Track 2 is 17 minutes 34 seconds.

I plan to transcribe them soon so we can read what Buddy had to say. Many thanks go out to WTBC's Wally Price, Dave McDaniel and Ronnie Quarles for everything they did for us in Tuscaloosa. http://www.wtbc1230.com/history.html


OPENING OF WTBC 3-15-06 MORNING SHOW WITH WALLY & DAVE

(Buddy is talking about living in New York City when he was a young songwriter giving us clues as to how life in the city inspired "Georgia Pines")

I go back to the hotel.
Put the key in the door &
the door won't open!

I go downstairs very irate & said
"MY DOOR WON'T OPEN!"

They said,"YEAH! If you'd pay your bill, it might open!"

[LAUGHTER]

They had my clothes and everything back of the counter!

[more laughter]



I plan to check next week and see whether we can get a video clip of Buddy's interview on Kip Tyner's Tuscaloosa television program.

Dothan Tiger football hero, Ray Hutto, sent me three shots which were taken at the reunion he held for all the veterans of PORTER'S FAIRYLAND/THE DIRTY BIRD/CHECKERS! I plan to publish these photos next week!

You know my Daddy Earl always taught me that women were made different from us menfolks. Earl always told me,"Son, they're not like us. They're just like a weathervane. They go which ever way the wind blows." Well, I'm here to tell you my late Pappy was wrong.
You'll believe it too after you read the posts by some of these Beaverteeth girls. Hell! They ain't "just like a weathervane."
THEY'RE "JUST LIKE A HURRICANE!"


From:
cindy
Date:
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:09:19 -0500
Subject:
Re: [ChampagneJam] Beaverteeth: An Early History

I know Frank, Mike Turner was a good friend and a name I haven't heard in a long time "The Flogg"we called him regarding his style on the B3....
and Thank You for the kind words about Jack Lane,my husband of 5 years,
another one I haven't heard from since 1983...
I do agree an awesome bass player, and quite handsome...
I was his patron and supporter for sometime. I met most of the players noted here during the time we were together.
No regrets..
it was a great time and great memories ...
Mike and Jack also played in a group from Montgomery, with Tommy Shaw (latter with Styx) and Ricky Parsons back in the day, also Jack & Mike played with Wayne Sauls (Bear) (later with Eric Quincy Tate)
Small World...
Cindy

To:
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
"Jeri
Date:
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:56:14 -0000
Subject:
[ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

Cindy,
It's a wonder you and I don't know each other !! I knew Jack Lane from his playing at the Country Green, he was with Gordon Dee and Moonrunnners Junction. The Country Green was down the road from C.W. Shaw's. Jack introduced me to Flog. I was at Studio One for a few Beaverteeth sessions and the Champagne Jam party, along with other gigs and showcases. Flog introduced me to David Adkins, Jeff Cheshire, Larry Hunter , Rodney Justo and John Rainey Adkins. We lost track of each other for a couple of years til I ran into David, Jeff and Larry playing with Randall and C.C. and the Peach Fuzz Band, at Timothy John's in Sandy Springs. David and I married in 1980. Divorced later...Lots of other names here lately are folks I know too !!!
Jeri



To:
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
p.waner
Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:23:34 +0000
Subject:
Re: [ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

The same here..I think i should probably know Cindy also.
Patti


To: Jeri
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
cindy
Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:09:19 -0500
Subject:
Re: [ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

I think you might be right, did I meet you in Dothan??,
and I do believe we kept company in Hollywood, at the hotel on Sunset for an afternoon after the STARWOOD, ARS show get together .I think, if not confusing you with someone else, you brought "special brownies"...maybe that was another one of David's wife/girlfriends...I was married to Jack when he worked at "Country Green" in fact we split due to his relationship with a female fan, who he also married for a shortwhile....
what can I say that's rock and roll....
Cindy


To:
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
"Jeri
Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:40:15 -0000
Subject:
[ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

I have never made special brownies...
tho I probably ate some at one time...
I'll bet it was the girlfriend before me. The first wife probably didn't make them either. I have met them both. The girlfriend/wife after me, started during my marriage ..
so I know how that feels..
I've heard that the current wife,(should be 4th) is the girlfriend who was before me...
Guess they were supposed to be together...
Is everyone totally confused now !?!?!?! LOL
By the time David and I got together, he was in the Peach Fuzz Band. Beaverteeth was a memory. We hung sometimes with Dean and his then wife Roxie...
Did you know Marty Ray, Gordon's son, who played drums? He plays for John Michael Montgomery these days...
JERI


To:
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
cindy
Date:
Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:12:44 -0500
Subject:
Re: [ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

Musicians are Heart Breakers!!!
You are right, I think it was the one before you...
the time line doesn't fit 1980..
If I recall , I threw the brownies over the balcony, the same balcony I pulled Ronnie off, as he threatened to Jump! What a night....
What a Week! What a Year!
Peace!
Cindy

tee hee!
best,
robo http://myspace.com/robertoreg

Unfortunately the Tuscaloosa News failed to cover the City of Tuscaloosa’s “Septic Tank Seminar” at Northside High School Tuesday night. For those who did not attend I will recount some of the highlights.

After a Power Point presentation on septic tanks reminiscent of old high school hygiene films minus the jerky music, a representative of the city attorney’s office read a statement prepared to head off any discussion about the city’s rights to impose their will on the people of the county by informing us that we live within the police jurisdiction, where Tuscaloosa claims “police power”, which “does not mean police service”. This sounded to me almost like authority without responsibility, and I began to wonder why the police were invoked anyway. Where is the crime? Then I recalled all those egregious criminals in Tuscaloosa who put couches on their porches and do not trim their bushes or cut their grass. The desperados who fail to register their septic tanks are doomed to join their ranks, and it will just be a matter of time before Tuscaloosa deploys its crack Squat Team to round them up.

Then a city representative made the mistake of asking if anybody had any questions. After a couple of routine queries, a naughty seminarian stirred the pudding by suggesting that it might be considered un-American to impose regulations on people who have no representation among the regulators. This novel idea was met with a raucous round of applause. He then continued by daring to demand the release of a study of the Lake Tuscaloosa’s water quality conducted by the USGS, the Alabama Geological Survey, and Lamoreaux and Associates. He said that he had heard from a source connected with the study that it did not find the septic tanks a significant source of pollution. I heard people around me muttering something about chicken houses and berries.

Then the guy said that he had spoken with Mayor Fretwell of Northport, which Tuscaloosa is trying to bring on board in this adventure. He said that Mayor Fretwell assured him that Northport would look at the facts before they started slinging regulations around, which is more than a certain nearby city did.

Then a woman across the lunchroom from me really lit into the moderator. I couldn’t hear her very well because of all the hubbub around me, but I think she was making some rather direct comparisons between this registration program and some of the stuff commonly found in septic tanks.

I began to think that a few people might not be so keen on this registration business. It was getting pretty loud in there and the moderator was droning on saying nothing, so I decided to leave since the lunchroom tables were too big to turn up and get behind if things got out of hand. If anything interesting happened after that, maybe another correspondent will fill us in.
whit!


Subject :
The Septic Tank Seminar.


Hey Aura X 2,
What a great piece of journalism. Ever since I left T Town back in 70 or so, I have lost countless hours of sleep worrying about all the septic tanks I had turned my back on and all of those yet to be buried in the hallowed ground of Ole' T Town.

I'm finally at peace knowing that the "Spammer from Bammer" is on the case; and indeed who better to lead the great unwashed masses against this aboration of the American Freedoms we cherish and love.

That's right! You are certainly a man who knows the consistancy and aroma of Shinola and associated differences there of. A man who has first hand knowledge of methane production, not to even mention a firm grasp of when the "working man and woman" are being run over by a city government who wants to control, regulate and, God knows, even prosper from the citizenry's collective contribution of the fruits of irritable bowl syndrome.

This would mean that instead of a family returning unto the earth the very nitrogen rich essence of carbon based life forms, City Fathers would prefer to hook every one up to the T Town sanitary sewer lines and charge said residents a sewerage charge based not on actually measuring output of each individual dwelling but on an extrapolated formula guaranteed to grind the "little people" underfoot and swell city coffers. A damned disgrace if I ever saw one.

You go get em' Oh Great Poopy One!,

Show them carpetbaggers that they don't know who they are dealing with!
Show em' that we aren't gonna take this shit from them and that they ain't gonna' take our shit from us!
Power to the Prolitariate!
Up the Ass of the ruling class!
Let's all finally get our shit together!
best,
rbiii

HEY YA'LL:
Right now I'm sitting here listening to THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA sing "AMAZING GRACE". Fortunately, this is cut #6 from a super new CD from Panama City Beach called SONGS ROBERT SHOULD LIKE... [is that not kewl & stuff or what?!!!}

I love the song but it reminds me of the church burnings. Has that bunch been taken out and shot yet? I hope so.

If any of you received the BUDDY BUIE PRESS RELEASE I sent out yestiddy, I wanna let cha know I made a big bad mistake.[how unusual!} Buddy Buie did not have anything to do with writing "I Love The Nightlife" or "Pac-Man Fever". Those records were put out by one of Buddy's companies, B.G.O. Records.

If anybody out there in InternetLand knows how to put an Mp3 on myspace.com, please tell me what I need to know because I'm in the dark and this is important.

In closing, it just so damn kewl to be me! I'm sitting here listening ALEXANDRA LEAVING by Leonard Cohen and I'm thinking, "I didn't get up today thinking that I'd have PANAMA CITY
http://www.jdweeks.com/postcard.html
& FLORIDA'S MIRACLE STRIP http://www.upress.state.ms.us/inside/floridas_miracle_strip/words.html
in my grimy little paws.
best,
reg




http://www.tuscarts.org/bama%20theatre.html
Date:
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:32:07 -0800 (PST)
From:
"David Allgood"
Subject:
Re: On Wednesday, March 15, Producer/Songwriter BUDDY BUIE Will Be In Tuscaloosa!
To:
"robert register"

Hi Robert:
Thanks for the info on Buddy Buie. I grew up in Atlanta and am quite familiar with his work with Bill Lowery, as well as all of his accomplishments with the ARS and others. This should be a great event!
If Buddy is scouting locations, I hope he'll consdider The Bama Theatre for The Atlanta Rhythm Section concert. We have over 1.080 seats, incredible acoustics, beautiful interior, full-service bar...the list goes on. If he has the time, I would love to give him a personal tour of the theatre while he is here. In the meantime, he can take a virtual tour at http://www.tuscarts.org/ - just click on The Bama Theatre link.
Thanks again, and hope to see you on Wednesday!

David Allgood
Manager, Bama Theatre
205-758-5195 x5
205-222-7781(cell)

KENNETH GRIFFITH WROTE:


photo courtesy of http://paulcochran.com
The '77 version of BEAVERTEETH
L TO R: Jeff Cheshire, David Adkins, Rodney Justo, Larry Hunter, Mike Turner, John Rainey Adkins


On one trip to Atlanta, I remember cutting a couple of songs for Wilbur Walton when Studio One was new. David played drums, Paul Goddard, the great ARS bass player, played rhythm guitar, I played bass, and I think Dean Daughtry played piano. I bet Wilbur still has those tapes.

image courtesy of James Hodges
The Japanese version of 24hrs. features a psychodelic Wilbur sporting a deep tan.
He be done bleached out by now.


After Larry and Lamar left Beaver Teeth, David moved to guitar, Frank Tanton was added on keyboards, and Charlie Silva came in on drums and lead vocals. Charlie was a great drummer and singer, but his biggest talent was that he could do something called the "helicopter" with a certain part of his anatomy. This also made him quite popular with the ladies. That version of Beaver Teeth only lasted a couple of months, but we did record some sessions at Studio One, with Ronnie Hammond as the engineer. Frank and I then left the band. I was replaced by Jack Lane, who had to have been the best bass player in the world--he was phenomenal. Clark Craits took over the keyboard job. Jack Lane was the bass player for several months, and when he left Jimmy Dean, another really great bass player took over that job, keeping the bass chair for several years.


B.J. Thomas with BEAVERTEETH when they played The Bitter End in New York City
l. to r.: Rodney Justo http://www.teddwebb.com/showcase/where_are_they_now/rodney_justo.html, David Adkins, John Rainey Adkins, B.J. Thomas, Jimmy Dean, Charlie Silva, Jon Stroll http://yourmusicconsultants.com/



After I left Beaver Teeth, I played with almost every band in Dothan: Norman Andrews and the Concrete Bubble, Wilbur Walton, Jr. and Blackhawk (we played one summer at the Hang Out in PC), Strawdawg, MG and the Capers. In my mid-twenties I went off to school at Auburn to study agronomy and have never played professionally again, though I still play and try to keep up my chops.



This is a long letter, and somewhat self-indulgent, but my life has crossed that of a lot of the people's whose stories you've been posting here, and I think I may have filled in a few details.



Thanks for reading. I still wish I could find that ARS CD!



KENNETH


In ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com,
cindy_a._reilly@... wrote:>>
I know Frank, Mike Turner was a good friend and a name I haven't heard in a long time "The Flogg"> we called him regarding his style on the B3....and Thank You for the kind words about Jack Lane, my husband of 5 years, another one I haven't heard from since 1983...

I do agree an awesome bass player, and quite handsome...I was his patron and supporter for some time. I met most of the players noted here during the time we were together.

No regrets..it was a great time and great memories ...Mike and Jack also played in a group from Montgomery, with Tommy Shaw (latter with Stick's ) and Ricky Parsons back in the day, also Jack & Mike played with Wayne Sauls (Bear) (later with Eric Quincy Tate)
> Small World...

To:
ChampagneJam@yahoogroups.com
From:
"Jeri BurnsAdkinsCooley"
Date:
Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:56:14 -0000
Subject:
[ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

Cindy,
It's a wonder you and I don't know each other !!
I knew Jack Lane from his playing at the Country Green, he was with Gordon Dee and Moonrunnners Junction.

The Country Green was down the road from C.W. Shaw's. Jack introduced me to Flog.

I was at Studio One for a few Beaverteeth sessions and the Champagne Jam party, along with other gigs and showcases. Flog introduced me to David Adkins, Jeff Cheshire, Larry Hunter , Rodney Justo and John Rainey Adkins.

We lost track of each other for a couple of years til I ran into David, Jeff and Larry playing with Randall and C.C. and the Peach Fuzz Band, at Timothy John's in Sandy Springs.

David and I married in 1980. Divorced later...
Lots of other names here lately are folks I know too !!!
Jeri---



From:
p.waner
Date:
Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:23:34 +0000
Subject:
Re: [ChampagneJam] Re: Beaverteeth: An Early History

The same here..I think i should probably know Cindy also.
Patti

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HEY Y'ALL:
My name is Robert Register http://robertoreg.blogspot.com and I am helping producer/songwriter Buddy Buie promote a new record called "THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED".

This email is to inform you that Buddy will be in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday, March 15, to promote this record which honors the memory of America's Winningest College Football Coach, Paul "Bear" Bryant.

We have received nothing but praise for this inspirational recording & with your cooperation, we feel that Buddy's visit to Tuscaloosa will be the start of a strong campaign to effectively promote "THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED" so that one day this song can join other tunes associated with Bama Football such as "Yea, Alabama!", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Deacon Blues" & "The Tide Is High".

In a world where Coach Bryant is routinely and casually slandered on radio talk shows, this recording reminds us of just how much we miss this great man and how much he still means to us to this day. As we approach the 25th anniversary of his death in January of '08, "THE DAY BEAR BRYANT DIED" strikes an emotional chord within us and brings a tear to the eye of "friend and foe alike."

While Buddy is here to meet retailers and give interviews to media outlets, he will also be scouting out venues for an Atlanta Rhythm Section concert to be performed in Tuscaloosa next fall during football season.

Buddy with his wife,Gloria, inside their home on Lake Eufaula

Without a doubt, Buddy Buie is one of the greatest musical talents Alabama has ever produced. His work as tour manager for Roy Orbison, producer of The Classics IV and manager/producer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section have placed him not only in the Alabama Music Hall of Fame but also the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Buddy has clearly made his mark in the world of popular music by writing along with his partners over 350 songs including "Georgia Pines", "Spooky", "Traces" [performed more than 5 million times on radio & television], "Stormy", "Everyday With You Girl", "So Into You", "Imaginary Lover", "Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight", "Do It or Die", "Doraville", "Back Up Against The Wall", "Champagne Jam", "Dog Days", "Rock Bottom", "I Take It Back" and "Mr. Midnight". Not only is Buddy's music heard on TV ads and cable shows such as "Six Feet Under", his songs have been featured in many major motion pictures including "Just Like Heaven"[2005], "Lost In Translation[2003], "Run Ronnie Run"[2002], "Fire Down Below"[1997], "Fandango"[1985] and "The Chicken Chronicles"[1977].

If you would like to meet Buddy on Wednesday and help him promote a superb recording that honors Coach Bryant's memory, please contact me at Pake Realty Company 205-759-1906.

best,
Robert Register


Here's the lyrics of the song "The Day Bear Bryant Died" By Buddy Buie & Ronnie Hammond:

Voice over of Coach Bryant:
"I've said this before, of course,
I've said anytime I've had the opportunity that I wouldn't trade places with anyone in the world because of the privilege of being here at The University & passing my time here.

I WILL never put anything against your education. We want that to come first.

ON THE OTHER HAND WE WANT FOOTBALL!!!!

To be second!

We want football to be second!

Because we feel a very strong obligation to you and we feel like you should to The University because it works both ways.

First of all,
we want you to write home!

THANK YOU!


lyrics of "The Day Bear Bryant Died" by Buddy Buie & Ronnie Hammond

I'll never forget the day
That I heard the news
Bear Bryant has died!!!!
Funny, I thought he'd refuse
I watched as they laid him to rest
In Old Alabama
OH how I cried
The day Bear Bryant died

ROLL TIDE!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!

The Nation Cried
Friend and Foe Alike
The Legend Lives On
THE HERO IS GONE!
Oh how I cried
The Day Bear Bryant died.

The day he was born
GOD gave us one of a kind
& I'm glad he did
'Cause heroes are so hard to find
Many a fine young man
He led into battle
He taught them to win
He turned boys into men

ROLL TIDE!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!

The Nation cried!
Friend & foe alike
The Legend lives on!
The HERO is gone!
OH! How I cried
The Day Bear Bryant Died.

ROLL TIDE!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!

The Nation cried
Friend & Foe alike
The Legend Lives On!
THE HERO IS GONE!
OH! How I cried
The Day Bear Bryant Died.