Buzz Cason
I was very pleased to hear from one of the legends of music, Buzz Cason and to share his memories of Hit Records of Nashville. ~Spike |
I sang on probably as many HIT records
as anyone and was on staff with Bill Beasley for a while When I moved to LA in 62 my songwriting partner and later to be publishing partner, Bobby Russell took over my lead vocals. It went downhill from there They were all pretty bad covers but Bobby was wasting his extremely talented mind doing those sessions but we all loved Bill Beasley and the money came in handy even though there were weeks Bill would kindly ask us to hold our checks for a few days. Get This, Bobby had a drawer filled with HIT checks he never cashed! My friend Bobby was very caring and generous..We lost him at age 52 way too early in his life. I look forward to the [Paul's] book It is incredible that there is even random interest in those sound alikes especially when most of the time they didn't even resemble the original. Bergen White did all he could to teach us youngsters how to so the song right but we usually botched them. I do remember being Ed Hardin on several Elvis covers. He [Ed Hardin] was one of HITs salesmen, I think. Bill named HIT artists after business associates and friends which I thought was clever at the time. Later in70,Travis Turk and I cut the first Jimmy Buffett demos on the barely adequate SPAR studios , some of which became his first album Down To Earth Hope some of this is helpful in the project. Buzz Cason |