Cradle of the Stars: The Story of the Louisiana Hayride; Faron Young Interview [Part 3 of 3]

And I've read stories that you were right you know you get me or you guys you know I've started hearing about Elvis when he wanted a ride and it's about this young boy who was tearing him up. How when I went out I just see my family my mother and father were alive in the middle. And when I left that we were on Tuesday get it and I like Dale that I did it when I first made it it was a treatable case downstairs and some of us down in that building. And I don't know who he was and when he fell I thought oh I've been hearing about you here you tear him up here in this part of town. He said Thank you sir. A very polite person. And the next time I saw him was in Memphis we were doing a concert in Memphis and he came to the show when he was backstage. And asked to do don't say he's at all no sir they won't let me sign us at all yes they will and I want the promoter and getting all the same couple of tons which was a mistake because he would always welcome to come back. But we were over and I was was just

probably making a hundred dollars they had Scotty Moore and Bill Blackwood. And Alice used to room with me. What we do because it had the money and I'd go check in a room but had to give him the high side and he would take he and he can stay with me. It is it's funny because I watched him progress and gets a big we but we want to know too I think he will get like 400 hours a day and we ended up in Jacksonville Florida was the last day. And al this was to an audience that so much that nobody wanted to follow him. But they had a show but I think it was Hank Snow was the headline and then couple acts and also it was President now also became part of the shill for them by a lot of fog of all this stuff and we split the show up one time and just he and I won all of them did like that Myers and hike and some of the other while the show was too big on some smaller town. Now we went in I was with about 20 minutes while they were tearing over to

import and I had to go out go show because I was the better known artist at the time and I had to actually do the clout they didn't know that much about it. And he came out I said you're not through. I knew I wouldn't be in the ground that stayed and tried to saying with him people still stomping the floor want him by. So I'd made him go back out I said you got another 25 minutes. And it was just part of what is a what I'll do I said site I'm over again because he didn't know if I missed that. And he went out and after about 15 20 minutes he had nothing to do it with the audience he couldn't and he had all the show deteriorated it was only salvation I had though I had to say this but there was no way because the show would have been a complete flop if I did want out they started spraying the hot ham and I got my headlamp what will happen the show was over I really have the best professional way to do it I made him go back that I got a myth of him now. Later on in the years I woulda got enough of him but that time he wouldn't will know

what he really got hot. He stayed at Delta that I went out and sold my shoulder my people and the people and I was fine but when we got to Jacksonville I was a part that Mitt was got as close to a wall. And the girls came out of the stadium and grabbed one of the shirts and he wore a shirt from the national shirt shop he'd bought into and let no shirts and then when I was shooting basically painted that's where the bones close and somebody reached in Polish or and I mean he took in ripped it and give it a piece of it and when he did it was it that was it. They jumped on him like a bunch of turkeys on a cricket. I never see it if I live and if they were gay they would pull his hair out and the look of the police come away and stop it in time I got Elvis into the dugout. He was as white as a sheet and scared family because. I know what it is to be grabbed by cause from that point on I was put on the network news and what happened to him at going on it the only thing the girls were supposed to do with tears flowed all that was just

set up to do and be on the show with the mob or the three and $400 Western outi says with all the wrath down a lot I didn't want to tear my clothes off. The sailors were still wearing over $10 shirts even when he was making good money at the Macon five and I know that he would still buy those national shirt shop clothes because they made a real bridle out should look good for what he was doing and I was into the western wares to. And I had to police get me on office they wouldn't that I was knocking the teenagers out. At all it was just that if you only stay they want a piece to you and I sure do want their Michael was so at last I went with a which went out to Denver and Salt Lake City in Albuquerque New Mexico almost half and I thought about this the last time I work we need to what's the matter sir as if I was sure to begin with and Rhonda Jackson was on the right in saying the kids pay no attention to us whatsoever that the one popcorn box of the book is Hope for the too

and out of the crowd. People say a thousand gains they have to want to do country with I people couldn't hear us because the children wouldn't let him hear us and when I was going on it was just a mask and no it was I don't like evidence I don't know what that I got on I was just dreaming that I watched that sit there looked at stage and watch a little girl just look up and a drain going at it. Fight. And just pass out this from looking at this guy and I said we got no business on the show with you. Well we went down to Texas and work to show that I thought that throughout we're working with him to say he hired me he called me up and he said How much do you get in a day and I told him he said well I will double that and I thought well why would you pay to well. And he started calling me to live cheap. Now that may include call me Mr. Young and all I did is that I don't work at all and he said because you hit me one time at it will you let me stay in the room when I used to run

your car with you he never forgot that and it broke my heart to tell it that we're not doing you any good and you could put a juggler our dog act out in front either then or die and you don't need this kind of money for us cannot exist people in pain within us into what we get the Amarilla takes as a brand new Cadillac limousine. And I always said he still has some old raggedy limousine it was just while or when the kids come around back to the auditorium and they say there's a big brand new and there's all this all would know that the new one was there and they proceeded to dismantle it. They never laid a hand on his car. They never touched it already the car he is they told mine to base. They took the rides and the hook ups and regularly Specter name of the pioneer that it is in Mahler's the car. We'll get back to that and I will get within sure gonna pay for what it was. He laughed about it was funny

because the kids figured surely that's they have a current record where there's fire as it was just the opposite. I thought it was funny. Yeah really. He cannot be a one night after that if you got hot in the math and I don't believe in one operator he bought him a tuxedo and he came out was all how'd I get the picture we took back then and he won our days and plans and he didn't care that opera. I've never seen that kind of applause and Hank Williams It is amazing what he did. Thank you. You mean what you mean let him go back. Yeah right. By letting me write bad that was just that was the

policy because they the opera wouldn't let you there less you were not that a rat would take me about you. He was doing Blue Moon of Kentucky instead with a different but it got everybody going but he was considered that first portion of the country saying that I thought he was up and coming country singer. What kind of a country flavor but you know rock n roll really never got to be a jack that this man did it. Even though Bill hated in the comics were created for you know that help us with the cane. And Elizabeth had so much talent he could sing in the thigh. Biggest thing Country Bluegrass Gospel anything you want to email with that would say I never realized until I have it no one and I didn't have I didn't pay that much attention to do it when he died in the morning it came on. I set out and cried my that and of course we were playing solid tributes of his songs. And it never hit me out this is funny I have

all these you 20 something years and I just now realized how much talent that boy had I knew he had talent I didn't know how much until he was gone. Just amazing. Not that anybody else knew it I think I just don't know if I did I didn't realize that he could do anything they could do anything you like. He was so I went down to say money when he bought Graceland we were still working and they were fixing to paint and doing different things but it's wimpy and I went down one time to see him and he had bought a lot of scuba gear daven gear and that's it. I was late and I said you bought all that must been 3000 without and I with a wet suit and oxygen tanks now are going to swim. He said yes and I like to drown it with you don't know how to use they got it in to get some water and there's a lot of these that I'll never use again he said you can have that and I thought I thought I don't want that

I didn't have a pool with us I don't want it but Al this was a funny guy if he had anything to say I like that he said take it you've had it you know it's a boy it's a beautiful ring it's all you like that here so I watched it because I was doing pretty well you know I've made a lot of money and I didn't want to take anything from each other and I knew that a lot of people played that way can bore What a beautiful motorcycle. Oh you like that and it just really give the key to it. So I really watched like the scuba gear. That's why the guys all do you want it. I cruise again hated the boy I love that new Cadillac as my favorite car color now more about a car he gave it to me. But he would embarrass me so I would and I made sure I didn't that say I lacked in it I gave you. The whole prospectus the whole pie of my life started there it had

to. So if you get a something moving around around it have to start in the middle of the hay ride and it spun out from it and I learned a lot about stage presence. I learned a lot from with peers who was like violently and hollers Logan and all the staff OK the gays and I have about it tell me that I was just a young kid I drove on New Years yet so it dealt me a long way and I did a lot of things to watch and people that I always did I watched people and I'd try to take the best thing it did them. I think all of us I am a tiger. At first I think I need a guardian with a tank and I got it. Imitating art and George Morgan I think it well finally got a style. When you're a baby you learned a wall when you watch people walk. First you crawl and you see people walk you get at me while that thank you about is an imitator. Then you turn into all what you own safer way of walking or you know with all the always sang like you do imitate somebody. Well in a way it has to be somebody because nobody could just be more knowledge that you've

got to see something that's happened so I learned it had to be the very sea that was planned with a raffle for Iowa's career and I'm glad it I got to do. You have a good level for 14 hour shows. I mean yeah well. We got to go to Florida hope you know or is

trying to find their America. Yeah I guess another place to do that more than. Just a. Little. Jack got all I got to let a lot of fun. Well a lot of fun with this. I've been all over that at a live recording studio

and he owns a golf course you go outside lift you out of gob come in rigor nose out. It's not like we do it nice to look or you know you got to have a good or two three hours with us I don't get that what we got one to play god who likes to do so we ran it off you know we take all they could do it resolve the bus and or you get more damage to both the ice and let it be on. What do you ride the surf and drag the. Playboy fire. Boy George boy for. Me.

Lolol. And they are side. By. Side. OK you're just hard work. You need to write like that smart me up.

I have two favorite entertainers in my life. One was Marty Robbins and those guys just the Grays. That's why labor site went live like scaling down third. I mean yes of course I got here but I'm going to go see what I got here. Well I worked with him you know like a college friend.