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 Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think. You know, no one steered people`s careers in those days, I don`t think, like they do today.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I`ve inspired them.
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There wasn`t so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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I didn`t realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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Well, I didn`t really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn`t think I could do it.
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As I go back and listen, the other girls weren`t singing quite like I was.
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Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren`t singers, the girls who just tell me that I`m an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.
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It would be nice to say that I planned all of this, that this was exactly what I`d planned, but it was just one of those things that happened.
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And it wasn`t until `84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
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They`re dressing like in the 50`s when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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But, we didn`t have all the media that we do today.
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None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that`s when I brought Roy Clark in.
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If something pops in my mind and it`s easy, I write it.
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It would take them three days to tape a thirty minute show, and you just got so worn out, you did it however they wanted, just to get it over with.
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Again, I feel like the Lord has just caused it to happen; more publicity than I`ve ever gotten in my life, the last fifteen, twenty years.
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The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they`re bringing `em out for me to sign.
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So, it`s nice to know that you`ve inspired someone to do their life`s work.
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If I needed to record, I`d head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.
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I`d been working with Elvis, but I just recorded Country, so he, definitely, like you said, encouraged me to try it, but I didn`t, right then.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don`t try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
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So, television wasn`t really new to me.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I`d sing that.
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I`m still learnin`. I pick up something from every performer I watch.
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