Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin "Mel" Tillisis an American country music singer and songwriter. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth8 August 1932
CityDover, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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I have a painting up in Washington, D.C. at the House of the Temple for the Scottish Rite, and those prints are selling for $250.
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But the teacher would let me sing, you know. She'd take me around to different classes and let me sing. And I could sing without stuttering.
Well, you know, back then there wasn't many albums, it was the singles. You sold singles.
You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.
Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.
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You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music.
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And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
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And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
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But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
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But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.
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So when I leave here at the first of the year it'll become... well, it's already open on Sundays as a church. But it'll be a full-time church.
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Or in the early days we didn't have the bus, we had a station wagon.
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And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.
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I've got a sock drawer full of songs that I've started but, you know, I'm doing two shows a day here and it's just hard to sit down and finish them.