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The Woody Wright Singers (circa 1973)
On a flat-bed truck in a bank parking lot, WECO radio in Wartburg, TN hosted
a local talent contest. The winners would receive a two-sided single recording
from Cumberland Records in Oliver Springs, TN. Elaine Baker, Gina Gill
and myself had been singing with the Cedar Grove Baptist Church Youth Choir
in Kingston, TN. After we won that contest, Gary Prim became our piano
player. For the next three high school years, the four of us, along with
Elaine's brother Tommy Baker on drums and Dennis Watkins playing bass,
sang anywhere we could get ourselves invited. My parents bought an 8 passenger
station wagon to drag us and our trailer full of sound equipment through
the southern states. Woody Sr. loaned us the money (and we always recouped,
I might add) to record three albums after the contest single. The last
two were produced by a new kid on the Nashville scene; Joe Bonsall of the
Oak Ridge Boys. The Oaks band provided the tracks, and we were in heaven!
Gary, Elaine and Gina graduated in 74, Tommy and I did in 75, and Dennis
in 76. The WWS fell apart when Gary moved to Nashville and the girls started
college so Tommy and I joined the Scenicland Boys in Chattanooga. |
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