Jack Edwards
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JACK FACTS...
• Born just a few miles from where James Dean had his famous car wreck in California
• My birthday is the same as Ingrid Bergman
Elliot Gould
and Michael Jackson
• Learned to read by watching television commercials….my first sentence was Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
• Went to elementary school in Ely, Nevada, the birthplace of Pat Nixon, the wife of Richard Nixon
• Played center field in Little League baseball and caught less fly balls than I dropped
• Lived in Houston, Texas the night JFK came there before going on to Dallas the next day
• Went to the same high school in New Orleans as Stephen Stills of Crosby Stills and Nash
• Appeared in high school productions of the musicals, South Pacific, Lil Abner, Oliver and Oklahoma
• Moved to Nashville in the mid seventies to write songs…the first cut I got was a song called Louisiana Lonely by Mel Tillis and later recorded by the Burrito Brothers
• Produced hundreds of demos for country artists…on one session the drummer was Joe English, who was a member of Paul McCartney and Wings
• Sang on stage at the Volunteer Jam in Nashville in 1982, just a half hour after getting married in a recording studio
• Sang backup on a remake of Bobby Helms classic Jingle Bell Rock, remade by Bobby Helms himself
• Conway Twitty once heard a tape of my songs and asked me why I wasn’t rich..I told him it was because he hadn’t recorded any of my songs..so he recorded one….
• A number of now famous country stars used to sing demos and sang on some of mine…T Graham Brown, Trisha Yearwood, Joe Diffie and Alan Jackson
• I went on the road for a few days with Dobie Gray of Drift Away fame
• I’ve written songs that have been recorded by Mel Tillis, Pam Tillis, Conway Twitty, Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra and Don Ho…yes, THAT Don Ho
• I wrote a song recorded by bluegrass star Claire Lynch that was on a Grammy nominated album…and all songs on a Grammy nominated album are considered nominated too
Here's a version, by Suzie Glaze and the Hilonesome Band of the song I wrote with my friends Sonya Yancey and Steve Sheehan that Claire did on her Grammy nominated album, Moonlighter
• My dear friend Billy Strange played guitar on tons of hit sixties records, produced Nancy Sinatra and co-wrote, among other things, "A Little Less Conversation" by that kid with all the potential from Tupelo....
and HERE's A SPECIAL BONUS.......
JACK EDWARDS' ORIGINAL AUDITION TAPE FOR NASHVILLE STAR!
(please note that Jack is not wearing his stage makeup in this clip...)
PSST1 It's not REALLY Jack....and dont attempt this at home!
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