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Carl's Scrapbook: The 80s: Original Songs
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It
was on the last night of one of those early treks to Music Mecca (Nashville)
with Herb McCullough, that I (still suffering from my "wannabe
a star" syndrome)
met Larry Morton while we were hangin' out at Hilltop Recording Studio.
I had been determined to get some kind of recording deal and Morton
seemed
interested.
Larry was, at that time, the guitarist for Danny Davis and the Nashville
Brass and had some limited success in developing artist Con Hunley who
had recently defected and signed a major label deal. We listened to my
demos and Larry seemed to be impressed, so we agreed to talk later, by
phone. We finally decided (?) to record and release "Take Me home
With You", a song my then wife and I had actually written in 1978, just
before I went to work with the Bellamy Brothers. At one point the Bellamys
had talked about recording it (they were performing it in their shows)
but it just never happened.
During the course of 1980, we recorded the music tracks at Central Sound Studio in Auburndale, Florida and then finished the recording (vocals and fiddle) and mixed the project in Nashville. The song was released on Mortons' Prairie Dust label toward the end of February 1981. Unfortunately, neither party, ourselves or the Mortons, had required a written agreement of any kind and in the course of the songs release and promotion, a lot of things got very confused and misunderstandings abounded. Eventually words were exchanged and the whole thing fell apart. Even with the mess, the song did manage a #91 on the Billboard chart.
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