Jack was a good old boy from Kentucky who had moved to Illinois to get one of those good paying jobs working in the factory. He and I worked together for five years in a factory making semi springs.
We worked as a team on a blast furnaces that reached 2800 degrees to heat the four foot main plates for the semi springs. On the week ends he and I would play music and drink a little beer.
In the fall of 1962 Jack went to Nashville with two songs, he and I had wrote and put music to.
They gave him $400.00 for the two songs ,he came back home and in 1963 we heard our songs on Radio. Stone Wall Jackson sang one of them, the title of the song, Life to go!
Johnny Durham recorded the other song, the title of it was The shoe goes on the other foot tonight!
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