Stories Of Redd
It's funny how fond memories can be lost over a period of time, and that was the case with Redd Stewart when he came to visit me in the studio. I'll explain . . .
"It was in the middle sixties and I was doing the morning show on WZIP-1050 in Cincinnati, Ohio and our station was the only country music signal in the Greater Cincinnati area. One morning Mel Foree (best known for writing , "Know One will Ever Know") dropped in to visit and Redd Stewart was with him. I had never met Redd, but he handed me a copy of his new record and asked if I would play it on the air. Since we were live at that moment, I put the disk on the turntable and gave it a play. I was blown away and Mel laughed and said, "I knew you would love it". Redd knew that I truly liked the song, and I wasn't just saying I liked it just to make him feel good.
For many months I played "Dreaming Again" every morning on my show and when I left WZIP and they changed format, I took the record with me. I had copied it to tape and a cassette and I would play it on my home stereo every few days and when I went to WUBE in Cincinnati in 75 & 76, I would play it off of the tape copy (as the record had long since worn out), and then I moved to Kansas City in 77 and played it on WDAF many times until one morning the tape self destructed. I figured I would never be able to share the joy I got from "Dreaming Again" with my audience, and over the years I completely forgot the song, that is, until I got a note from Sharon and Billy a few months ago and I wrote you back asking if you possibly had a copy of it.
The CD arrived at my studio on October 1, I called my wife into my studio and asked her if she remembered me playing this, and she said yes but suddenly a light came on in my mind and I remembered how I had gotten the original disk, the interview and my interview with a gentleman who was in his late 40's when he asked me to play his new record. Memories are sometimes lost over a long period of time and such was the case with Mel, Redd and myself. I can't tell you how much I appreciate you sending me the "I Remember" CD and some of the great stories I can tell on my show about the time I met Redd Stewart and how he sat with a gleam in his eyes as I played his 45rpm record on a turntable in a studio in Cincinnati Ohio in the mid sixties.
My wife finally came to my studio door last night and shut it as she was trying to watch TV and I was playing "Dreaming Again" over and over and the story I just told you will be told to my listeners on XM- Satellite radio this coming Monday as I play your dad's song. I thank you for jogging my memory and bringing back a time in my 45 year career that I had almost forgotten forever."
Dale "Truckin' Bozo" Sommers
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