By Jimmy Hart
Happily filling a request with a little 80s popular culture WWF style!
When Andy Kaufman slapped Jerry "The King" Lawler and swore at him on overdue evening with David Letterman, the 2 males and the mythical supervisor Jimmy Hart have been the one humans aware about the deliberate (and unplanned) parts of the row, as published during this autobiography of "The Mouth of the South." starting with tales from his days onboard Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars as a singer with the Gentrys, Jimmy Hart bargains immediately discuss stardom and his front into the wrestling area as a supervisor. An insider's viewpoint on professional wrestling's such a lot outrageous personalities and fits fills this social gathering of the company and spectacle of such corporations because the global Wrestling Federation, global Championship Wrestling, combat Xpress, and the Xtreme Wrestling Federation. Wrestling lovers will take pleasure in those hardly informed tales of insider upsets, own victories, and unimaginable moments within the historical past of professional wrestling.
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Then, after what seemed like an eternity, the trailer flipped over, which in turn caused the car to go up onto its side. We had to get a tow truck to come out to get all of our wheels back onto the ground. The Gentrys limped back into Memphis with one side of the car looking like a hurricane had hit it — but we were lucky to be alive. After the success of "Keep on Dancing," our next single, "Spread It on Thick," didn't fare as well. It peaked in the first week of January 1966 at #50 on Billboard's Hot 100, while the B-side, "Brown Paper Sack," got some regional airplay.
Now, radio stations barely have enough material in heavy rotation to be able to put together their own Top 20 list. But in the sixties, so many records got airplay that Billboard had a "Bubbling Under" chart — it was created specifically for those singles that were about to crack the Hot 100. " So, we were still getting airplay in some areas — and we still had a loyal following. In 1966 we released a song called "Every Day I Have to Cry," which had been a #46 hit for a guy named Steve Alaimo back in 1963.
I booked the Gentrys into a club in the Ramada Inn in Memphis so we could stay in one place. I know that must sound ironic, now, coming from someone who's been on the road — and loving it — for the last 25 years, but traveling conditions then were not as they are now, and I had been gigging constantly since my senior year in high school. I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed every night, playing music for fans in my own hometown and taking a paycheck to the bank every week. What I had no way of knowing was that rock and roll was on a collision course with professional wrestling.