KLAW Classic

Don Williams is the featured artist this week on the K-LAW 101 Classic Saturday Morning show. His song, 'That's The Thing About Love' reached the #1 spot on August 11th, 1984 - 28 years ago today. Williams' straight-forward, yet smooth bass-baritone voice, soft tones and an imposing build earned him the nickname 'The Gentle Giant' of Country Music...

Written in just 5 minutes during a session lunch break, today's KLAW Classic comes from 33 years ago this weekend.

When Ben E. King wrote 'Stand By Me', he had no intention of recording it himself. Written for the Drifters, who passed it by, King added it to the end of a recording session to fill some extra time.

Your KLAW classic today comes from the another classic artist celebrating a birthday.  Mel Tillis was born in Florida 80 years ago today as Lonnie Melvin Tillis.

Happy 62nd Birthday to Rodney Crowell!  Today's KLAW Classic comes from his album 'Diamonds & Dirt', which yeilded 5 Number Ones for Rodney.

Today's KLAW Classic is from 35 years ago today, but the song was on the charts as little as just 5 years ago. 'Rolling With The Flow'  was recorded by Mark Chestnut, but only made it to the 25th spot on the charts.  It took the 'Silver Fox' to take it to number 1 in 1977...

Ever wonder how Billy Craddock got the nickname 'Crash'?  Well it was way back in his high football days, that his team named him crash, a nickname that stuck both on and off the field.

Today's KLAW Classic came 32 years ago today from the Brothers from Darby Florida.

'Dixie On My Mind' is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams, Jr.  The song dipicts Hank supposedly giving big city life a try, but ends up stating the facts, he can't live without his 'Dixie'.

Today's KLAW Classic is from Woodrow Wilson Sovine, better known as 'Red'.  Way back in 1963, Red heard the singing of a minor league baseball player, Charlie Pride, who urged him to move to Nashville.

Happy Birthday to Hubert Neal McGaughey, Jr.!  We know him better as Neal McCoy, and he is our KLAW Classic artist for today.

The biggest hit of Johnny Cash's career is today's KLAW Classic!  Number 1 on this day in 1963, 'Ring of Fire'  began it's 7 week run at Number 1.