Harper Valley PTA, Part 1: Shelby S. Singleton
Cocaine & Rhinestones: The History of Country Music
English - December 05, 2017 06:01 - 1 hour - 65.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 7.9K ratingsHistory Music Music History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Two words to sum up the career of Shelby Singleton?
Publicity stunt.
You think all it takes to make a hit record is to find a good song and get a good performance of it?
That's cute. Have a seat and let an old-school record man show you how it's done. This is Shelby Singleton.
When it took driving a trunk full of records around the country to make them into hits, that's what he did. Then he became a producer. Then he became a VP at Mercury Records. Then he founded an independent musical empire in Nashville and really got to work making new enemies.
This episode is recommended for fans of: marketing, publicity, controversy, rockabilly, Supermensch (the documentary on Shep Gordon), George Jones, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, David Allan Coe, Margie Singleton, Jeannie C. Riley and Roger Miller.