Pride said that the song was handed to him minutes before the session, but that seems unlikely because producer Jack Clement had Buddy Spicher and Johnny Gimble lined up to play western swing twin fiddles. In May, Cochran, Nelson, and Hal Smith sold Pamper Music to Tree Music for $1.6 million, and Tree's Buddy Killen pitched Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone? to Charley Pride for a session on August 26, apparently unaware of the Turner cut. I think it's the most equally cowrittten song I've ever written.” It was copyrighted on Februand first recorded on April 29 by New York Jets NFL player, Bake Turner, who was signed to Kapp Records in Nashville. “And then,” said Martin, “I had to go to Atlanta and Kirby went, and we finished it on the way. They kicked it around for several months on the phone and in person. He was leaving a session one day when someone asked, “Is anybody goin' to San Antone?” The title stuck in his mind, and he suggested it to another Pamper writer, Glenn Martin. “I got a few things cut and then I wrote 'Is Anybody Going To San Antone?'” said Kirby. In ‘68, Cochran and Nelson bought Ray Price’s share of Pamper. They both wrote me saying 'Come to Nashville,' so in 1967, I made the big move.” Kirby joined Cochran and Nelson at Pamper Music. “Willie got to liking my songs, and I don't remember how, but Hank Cochran got to liking them too. “During the 1960s, Willie Nelson used to come out to Albuquerque and he got me to go and play in the band,” Kirby said later. Kirby moved on to Albuquerque in 1955, and claimed that Buck Owens and Rose Maddox recorded his first song, Down To The River, but if that's the case he sold it to Owens. (See our 1952 volume for Lister's recording of Williams' There's A Tear In My Beer). Session musician, songwriter, and recording artist Dave Kirby was from Brady, Texas, where his uncle, Hank Williams' front man Big Bill Lister, mentored him. Edgin, June Evelyn Page, Hurshel Wayne Wiginton: vocal chorus 'Johnny' Gimble: fiddle Norman Keith 'Buddy' Spicher: fiddle D. Green: steel guitar Billy Linneman: bass John P. With Charley Pride: vocal Jack Eubanks: guitar Billy Grammer: guitar/leader Lloyd L. Recorded Aug(18:00-21:00) RCA Victor Studio, 806 17th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee Producer: Jack Clement Charley Frank Pride (March 18, 1934 – December 12, 2020) Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
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