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We’ll miss the man with a
satisfied mind – Porter Wagoner passes away, “The thin man from
West Plains, Missouri ...” In the
old days, meaning before the WWW, you’d read someone’s obituary
in the paper or a news article, and for a moment you’d recall your
memories of that person. Then you’d turn the page and they’d be
gone. But today, with the WWW and instant access to all types of information
about people, you can immediately see a person’s life in full color and
sound. If I google
Porter Wagoner, I get thousands of hits, the most recent talking about how he
had been hospitalized with lung cancer,
and how many of his old friends had come to pay their last respects. The most
notable was his singing partner, Dolly Parton, who Porter discovered and
helped launch her career back in the 1950’s. Although Dolly left his
show after a few years and went on to become a country music superstar and
songwriter, she wrote the song “I will always love you” for
Porter, which has since become a classic cross-over hit love song for many
artists, including Whitney Houston. If I wiki Porter Wagoner, I
immediately see that his tv show ran from 1960-1981, and I see the regulars
cast, including the comedian Speck Rhodes, and Porter’s band –
The Wagonmasters, with Buck Trent on guitar and banjo. Here I see that Porter had 81 charted
records. If I go
to Youtube there’s dozens of Porter
Wagoner videos online, from the start of his career to recent years;
clips of the early performers on his show like his first what they called
“girl singers” in those days, Norma Jean, through his induction
into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982, up through his admission into
the hospital this month for terminal lung cancer. And if I
search for Porter Wagoner MP3 music, I can go out to mp3.com and
listen to and then buy any of Porter’s major hits. Porter
was one of the last of the older genuine country music stars; the guys who
played music just as a way of life, and played in school gymnasiums and honky
tonks, as opposed to the Garth Brooks college
educated entrepreneurs who have changed modern country music into a sub genre
of glam-rock. Porter
wrote his song A
Satisfied Mind after hearing
a country friend talking about how material riches meant nothing in life, and
how it was family, friends and loved ones that would give you a satisfied
mind. (music –
Frank Plays Satisfied Mind instrumental on guitar ) I’ll
always be a Porter Wagoner fan. For Raw Bytes This is Frank Delaney (C) 2007 MTA Micro
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