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...attorney for Acuff-Rose Music, the company which owns the rights to the song, argued that copyright owners should be allowed to ban such parodies of their compositions. The rap version only seeks to cash in on the enduring popularity of the 1964 hit, attorney Sidney S. Rosdeitcher said earlier this week...
...KENNEDY CENTER HONORS (CBS, Dec. 26, 9 p.m. EST). Washington's black-tie crowd pays tribute to another passel of show-business greats. This year's honorees are Gregory Peck, Roy Acuff, Broadway and film veterans Betty Comden and Adolph Green, the dancing Nicholas Brothers and choral director Robert Shaw...
Standing in the wings, he was as nervous as cold water in a hot pan. Then Country-and-Western Veteran Roy Acuff introduced him as "a plain ole country boy from Illinois." And out onstage came Secretary of Agriculture John Block, 49, making his singing debut at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville. Block strummed his guitar and crooned a little bit of Crying My Heart Out over You and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain. America's top farmer was on key but had a little trouble keeping time with the Opry band. "I wonder how that fellow...
...wearing backless sequined tunics or rhinestone shirts. That fazed Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Chai Zemin not at all as he journeyed down to Nashville to learn about American country music at the source. Chai was feted by the who all's y'all of country. Roy Acuff sang about the Wabash Cannonball. Minnie Pearl taught him square dancin'. Johnny Cash gave the Ambassador his own guitar. Glamorous Barbara Mandrell did an impromptu duet with the envoy on banjo. Chai toasted mutual friendship, but he sashayed a diplomatic do-si-do around the hope behind the hoedown...
...school, John Prine. For five years and four albums, Prine has been hanging in there as a cult figure. He was pretty much the originator of A.C.--alternative country--the kind of bent-out-of-shape country music that comes easy if you had to grow up with Roy Acuff and Porter Waggoner and WSL-Nashville and Martha White biscuits and their goddamn commercials. The best of John Prine's songs are about what it is to grow up in and hate a rural town, hating Main Street and the Baptist preachers and Vietnam and racism, but alwasy coming back...