![]() So I said, 'You wait here and I will come back. "And I thought, 'Oh, well, I can't spend a lot of time with him,' because that outfit was so strange to me. Roman, I like you're music, and I thought maybe we could talk.' And for a man to wear a lace shirt in those days was quite shocking. I'll never forget the first time I saw him because he was wearing a pink lace shirt, and black pants. We were at the disc jockey convention in Nashville in 1955. When I met him - he was, I think 19, and I was 20 - he had known of me because I had a couple of recordings out. "He was just a lovely, charming young man. Can you talk about your relationship with Mr. There were rumors that you and Elvis were dating, but you denied that. That just touched me and I just fell in love with it." And there was something about the stories and the and the music itself. And he had this collection of Hank Williams records and Jimmy Rogers records and he played them for me. "And I felt so badly and so guilty that I used to go over every day and bring him, you know, lunch or something. So, up he went, and down he went and my horse stepped on him and broke his leg. And I told him - the friend - not to try to jump on behind me, which he didn't listen. I had a horse who was gilded very late and very sensitive in the back area. "A friend of mine introduced me to the music through odd circumstances. ![]() You can hear the full interview by clicking the LISTEN button at the top of this post.Ĭan you explain how a girl born in the Bronx and raised in Brooklyn came to be infatuated with country music? This is an excerpt of an edited transcript of that conversation. Roman - now 88 and living in Connecticut - joined WUNC recently to discuss her career, moving from Brooklyn to Nashville, country music, and her encounters with the genre's biggest stars. Her albums, "Mimi Roman, The First of the Brooklyn Cowgirls" and "Kitty Ford, Pussycat" are being re-issued by Sundazed Music. She also played the Grand Ole Opry many times.Īlong the way, Roman hung out with Elvis, The Everly Brothers and June Carter, while opening for the likes of Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb and Bill Monroe. Roman was signed a record deal and worked with legendary Nashville guitarist Chet Atkins and renowned producer Owen Bradley - who helped establish "The Nashville Sound" and produced music for Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and many others. Roman fell in love with country music when a friend played her some Hank Williams records, and away she went. Sorry about that, Jack.Mimi Roman was a country music star in the 1950s.īeing from New York may seem like a disqualifier, but she grew up with horses in Brooklyn in the 1930s and 40s. I just don't know why Hamilton is a bastard, when a "star" like Pete Rose (also given a song here) destroyed Ray Fosse's All-Star career with an entirely avoidable collision in an exhibition game and is lionized for it. A later song is sympathetic towards Carl Mays whose pitched resulted in the only fatality in the history of MLB. Conigliaro was notorious for hanging over the plate, and it was as much his own refusal to move back after repeated warnings from coaches and teammates as it was Hamilton's pitch that cut his career short. Right after there's a song calling Jack Hamilton a bastard because a pitch got away and hit Tony C in the eye. I admire all those guys and have no problem with how they played the game. There is a song here called Chin Music, which glorifies pitchers like Gibson, Maglie, and Drysdale who were famous for pitching inside and moving hitters off the plate. Now, if I may get on my soapbox for a moment.And this is not aimed at the Baseball Project as much as fans in general. That said, I'm certainly glad the Project took time to make a second volume, so I'll give them the old thumbs up. The only critcism I find is sometimes the need of the writers to cram in statistics impedes the flow of the songs. Of course, like with most sequels, the fact we knew what to expect, eliminates the surprize experienced discovering the first cd. Here on Volume 2 we find more of the same. Volume One was quite a treat, my personal favorite being the Harvey Haddix song. It is very encouraging to know these tales of baseball lore are being passed on to a younger generation. As Good As The Second Game of a Doubleheader
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