Porter Wagoner and the Wagonmasters

[Peter Hackman]

Maybe can someone tell me whether Porter actually wrote the song "Satisfied Mind" that he recorded 50 years ago. I've always liked that number.

BTW, Merry Christmas to everyone on the board.

It was written by "Red" Hayes and Jack Rhodes. Hayes was a fiddler, i.a. with Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys.

[Salty Dog]

In the late 50's (perhaps early 60's) a fellow named Slim Rhodes had a country band with Spec (Slim's brother) as the bass player and clown and featuring a couple of Slim's sisters. #The show was broadcast on channel 12 (CBS) television out of Cape Girardeau, Mo. and was enormously popular. #As Porter's roots are also in SE Missouri (near West Plains), I always felt he modeled his TV show after the Slim Rhodes television show, especially since Spec was in both bands.

[pathfinder]

Thanks Peter, for 'capping' a very old debate between me and my brother!

[Willie Poole]

"How many times have you heard someone say, if I had his money, I could do things my way"...A great song and I still bellow it out once in a while...Glad someone on here still likes the old timey songs like I do....Willie

[pathfinder]

Amen to that, Willie. The old ones are truly the best ones. Talk about soul. Man, they'll make you go outside, scratch your armpits, and howl at the moon!