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Jack
Clement
on
favorite songs he's written) "I like 'Ballad of a Teenage Queen."
"In
spite of all the things the world has wrong with it, it does have
some good things to eat.
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Jack Clement's Ten Tips For Songwriters:
Remember
that experts are often wrong.
Experts
tend to be narrow and overly opinionated.
Experts
don't buy records.
There's
nothing wrong with waltzes if they're played right.
A
good song gets better with age.
Reveal
some of yourself with most of your songs.
Don't
get stuck on one song too long. Work on other songs as you go.
Learn
to grow from setbacks, delays, and getting your feelings hurt.
Write
the worst song you can think of.
Write
the best song you can think of.
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Birth
Name: Jack Henderson Clement
Induction
Year: 1973
Date
of Birth: 4/5/1931
Place
of Birth: Memphis, TN |
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Education:
Grade
School--Levi Grammar School (from 1937-1945)
High
School--Whitehaven High (from 1945-1948)
College--Washington
Bible College (1951)
College--Memphis
State University (from 1953-1955); concentrated studies on English
and Literature
Vocational--Nashville
Tech; took various courses in the 1980s |
Career Milestones:
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1953--began
career as recording artist for Sheraton Records in Boston |
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1954--returned
to Memphis and began playing steel guitar for a local country
bandleader, Slim Wallace; the two formed their own record label, Fernwood |
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1956--worked
as producer and engineer at Sun Records, beginning on June 15 |
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1959--after
leaving Sun, went to Nashville and became assistant to Chet Atkins
at RCA for a year and a half; he was considered to be one of
the first independent producers to work for a major label in Nashville |
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1959--created
first publishing company, Jack Music Inc. |
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1961--became
a partner with Bill Hall in the formation of Hall-Clement
Publishing; helped to start and establish careers of songwriting team
Jerry Foster and Bill Rice |
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1963--involved
with operations of recording studios in Beaumont and Houston, TX;
studio in Beaumont was where he cut the million-seller
"Patches" performed by Dickey Lee |
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1965--moved
to Nashville on February 1, centralizing his operations and ending
time-consuming commute between Nashville and Texas |
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1965--met
Charley Pride, beginning significant artist-producer relationship |
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1966--recorded
Charley Pride's first records |
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1970--opened
his own studio in Nashville in October, the Jack Clement Recording
Studios; one of the biggest selling records of the year was recorded
there, Ray Stevens' "Everything is Beautiful"; studio was
the first 16 track studio in Nashville (name changed to Sound
Emporium in 1980) |
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1970--produced
a full-length feature motion picture starring Agnes Moorehead,
Michael Ansara, Will Geer, Dennis Patrick and others, "Dear Dead Delilah" |
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1971--started
his own record company, J-M-I Records with Allen Reynolds |
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1978--released
his first album as an artist, "All I Want To Do In Life,"
on Elektra/Asylum Records |
Catalog
Highlights
Ballad
of a Teenage Queen
Guess
Things Happen That Way
A
Girl I Used to Know
Miller's
Cave
California
Girl and the Tennessee Square
Not
What I Had in Mind
The
One On The Right Is On The Left
Does
My Ring Hurt Your Finger
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Co-writer:
Don Robertson
- Artists:
Charley Pride
It'll
Be Me
Fools
Like Me
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Co-writer:
Murphy Maddox
- Artists:
Jerry Lee Lewis
The
Five Little Johnson Girls
I
Know One
Just
Between You and Me
Everybody
Loves a Nut
Let
the Chips Fall
Let
All Help the Cowboys (Sing the Blues)
The
Moods of Mary
Gone
Girl
Dirty
Old Egg Sucking Dog
Don't
Tennessee Waltz Out On Me
Freaked
Out Over You
Flushed
From the Bathroom Of Your Heart
Back
to Nashville, Tennessee
Now
I Can Live Again
I
Got a Thing About Trains
Comments:
Known
as Cowboy Jack
Major
producer--discovered and recorded Jerry Lee Lewis while Sam Phillips
was in Florida--also produced Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Elvis
Presley, and Charley Pride
At
his publishing company, Jack Music, Inc., Clement helped the careers
of Allen Reynolds, Bob McDill and Don Williams |