GEORGE STRAIT "LATEST,GREATEST,STRAITEST" MARCH 2000 2 HOUR RADIO SPECIAL NM

Description: NOTE: THIS IS AS LOW AS I CAN GO ON THIS ITEM, SELLING FOR A FRIENDNOTE: INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING IS STILL BEING AFFECTED BY THE VIRUS, PLEASE CHECK UNDER THE SHIPPING TAB TO MAKE SURE I SHIP TO YOUR COUNTRY BEFORE BIDDING/BUYING OR YOU HAVE A U.S. “DROP SHIP” ADDRESS... THIS CD COMES FROM MY TIME AT A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK WHERE I WAS THE MUSIC AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. A RECENT FIND FROM A BOX IN MY STORAGE UNIT.THIS IS A PHOTO OF THE ACTUAL ITEM FOR SALE, SORRY IF THE PICTURE(S) ARE A BIT BLURRY. I HAVE OTHER ITEMS FOR SALE, CHECK OUT MY OTHER AUCTIONS, THANKS! AS I MENTIONED ABOVE FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS I WAS THE MUSIC & PROMOTIONS CORDINATOR FOR A MAJOR NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK.... ALL CD'S COME IN A JEWEL CASE UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. NOTE: eBay HAS TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO REMOVE WHAT THEY CALL “OUTSIDE” LINKS, THESE ARE IN THE HTML DESCRIPTION, AND CAN'T EVEN BE SEEN IN MY ITEM DESCRIPTION, SO FROM NOW ON IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE ITEM &/OR ARTIST LOOK 'EM UP, ON WIKI & DISCOGS, ETC. FOUND ANOTHER BOX OF MAINLY PROMO CD'S NOTE: RECENT FIND OF SOME UNISTAR & WESTWOOD ONE RADIO SHOWS, MAINLY COUNTRY ARTISTS FROM 1990's & 2000's. NOTE: I DO COMBINE SHIPPING SO IF YOU WIN AN ITEM AND ARE BIDING ON ANOTHER, LET ME KNOW AND I CAN WAIT UNTIL THAT AUCTION RUNS IT COURSE.THANKS ARTIST: GEORGE STRAIT TITLE: “LATEST,GREATEST,STRAITEST” HOSTED BY LON HELTON LENGTH: TWO HOUR SHOW, WITH SONGS, INTERVIEWS AND NATIONAL RADIO COMMERCIALS. TRACK LISTING: SEE PHOTOS OF THE CUE SHEETS LABEL: WESTWOOD ONE RADIO NETWORK CAT.#: SHOW # 00-10 YEAR: 2000 AIRDATE: WEEKEND OF MARCH 3-4, 2000 CONDITION: THE CDS ARE IN MINT CONDITION. THEY HAS NEVER BEEN PLAYED/NEVER AIRED. THE CUE SHEETS WERE FOLDED SO CREASED (SEE PHOTO). THIS WILL MAIL OUT INSIDE A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC OUTER SLEEVE. THIS IS BRAND NEW, THIS IS HOW IT WAS MAILED OUT TO COUNTRY RADIO STATIONS. COMES WITH A SINGLE DOUBLE SIDED CUE SHEET. MORE INFO: FROM THE MUSIC LIBRARY OF A NATIONAL RADIO NETWORK. THIS RADIO SHOW WAS NOT SOLD TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. ARTIST INFO: RELEASED TO CELEBRATE HIS THEN NEW HITS COLLECTION OF THE SAME NAME. 18 May 1952, Poteet, Texas, USA. Country superstar George Strait is a throwback to the 50s honky-tonk sound of country music. He uses twin fiddles and steel guitar and his strong, warm delivery is similar to that of his idols Merle Haggard and Lefty Frizzell. He has made no secret of his influences, recording a fine tribute to Frizzell, ‘Lefty’s Gone’. Strait, the second son of a schoolteacher, was raised in Pearsall, Texas. When his father took over the family ranch, he developed an interest in farming. Strait heard country music throughout his youth but the record that cemented his love was Merle Haggard’s A Tribute To The Best Damn Fiddle Player In The World (Or, My Salute To Bob Wills). Strait dropped out of college to elope with his girlfriend, Norma, and then enlisted in the US Army. While there, he began playing country music. While at university studying agriculture, he founded the Ace In The Hole band (his 1989 US country number 1, ‘Ace In The Hole’, was not about his band, nor did it feature them). In 1976, Strait briefly recorded for Pappy Daily’s D Records in Houston, one title being ‘That Don’t Change The Way I Feel About You’. Starting in 1977, Strait made trips to Nashville, but he was too shy to do himself justice. Disillusioned, he considered a return to Texas but his wife urged him to persevere. A club owner he had worked for, Erv Woolsey, was working for MCA Records; he signed him to the label and then became his manager. In 1981, Strait’s first single, ‘Unwound’, made number 6 in the US country charts. After two further hits, ‘Fool Hearted Memory’, from The Soldier, a movie in which he had a cameo role, went to number 1. Strait was unsure about the recitation on ‘You Look So Good In Love’, but it was another chart-topper and led to him calling a racehorse Looks Good In Love. Strait’s run of US country number 1 hits during this period included ‘A Fire I Can’t Put Out’, ‘Right Or Wrong’, ‘Let’s Fall Pieces Together’, ‘Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind’, ‘The Chair’, ‘Nobody In His Right Mind Would’ve Left Her’, and ‘It Ain’t Cool To Be Crazy About You’. Strait suffered a personal tragedy when his daughter, Jennifer, died in a car accident in 1986. Managing to compose himself, Ocean Front Property became the first album to enter Billboard’s country music chart at number 1, and it included three more classic chart-toppers in the shape of the title track, ‘All My Ex’s Live In Texas’ (which demonstrated his love of western swing), and ‘Am I Blue’. The white-Stetsoned Strait, who also manages to run a large farm, became one of the USA’s top concert attractions, winning many awards from the Country Music Association, but it was only in 1989 that he became their Entertainer Of The Year. Further country chart-toppers during this period included ‘Famous Last Words Of A Fool’, ‘Baby Blue’ and ‘If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)’ (from If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)); ‘Baby’s Gotten Good At Goodbye’, ‘What’s Going On In Your World’ and ‘Ace In The Hole’ (from Beyond The Blue Neon); ‘Love Without End, Amen’ and ‘I’ve Come To Expect It From You’ (from Livin’ It Up). The latter two topped the Billboard singles chart for an impressive five weeks apiece. After releasing 1991’s excellent Chill Of An Early Fall (which included the number 1 singles ‘If I Know Me’ and ‘You Know Me Better Than That’), Strait enjoyed a major commercial success with a starring role in the movie Pure Country. The soundtrack included two more chart-toppers for the artist in the shape of ‘I Cross My Heart’ and ‘Heartland’. The magnificent box set Strait Out Of The Box, released in 1995, demonstrated how consistent the artist had been over the years. Among the previously unissued tracks was a bizarre duet of ‘Fly Me To The Moon’, featuring that well-known honky-tonk singer Frank Sinatra. Meanwhile, new albums Lead On (1994) and Clear Blue Sky (1996) were as good as anything Strait had recorded previously, the latter making its debut at number 1 on the Billboard country chart. Carrying Your Love With Me, another excellent collection that provided him with his first mainstream chart-topper, put Strait up there with the leading male country artists of the 90s even though the creases on his jeans remained dangerously straight. His status was confirmed when he picked up awards for Best Male Artist and Best Album at the 1997 CMA Awards. One Step At A Time (1998) and Always Never The Same continued the fine run of albums and were major country and mainstream hits Strait entered the new millennium with his popularity as great as ever, and even permitted himself a rare foray into uncharted territory on 2001’s The Road Less Traveled with its use of a vocal processor. Strait’s two releases in 2003, a live set from the Houston Astrodome and the hard country collection Honkeytonkville, played it straight down the middle. The following year’s compilation set 50 Number Ones celebrated the remarkable commercial success of one of the living giants of country music - he has enjoyed more number one hits than any other country artist apart from Conway Twitty, although the total includes chart-toppers from the R&R and Gavin charts in addition to the more commonly cited Billboard data. The album also topped the mainstream charts. Strait, meanwhile, put any thoughts of slowing down behind him with a string of platinum selling releases, with Somewhere Down In Texas (2005) and Troubadour (2008) both reaching the top of the mainstream album chart. Strait is probably the most consistently successful country artist ever, in that he never puts a foot wrong, either in his recordings, stage performances or his personal life. He was elected into the Country Music Hall Of Fame in 2006. MORE ON THE NETWORK: Westwood One was an American radio network hat was based in New York City . At one time, it was managed by CBS Radio, and was later purchased by the private equity firm The Gores Group Due to purchases, mergers and other forms of consolidation in the 1980s and 1990s, at one time or another, it had ownership stakes in or syndication rights to some of the most famous brands in network radio, including CBS,NBC, Mutual,CNN , Fox and Unistar. The company was one of the largest producers and distributors of radio programming in the United States. It broadcast entertainment, news, weather, sports, talk, and traffic programming to about 7,700 radio stations across the United States. The company was the top provider of local traffic reports in the US through its subsidiaries,Oaktree Capital, through its Triton Media Groupdivision, merged with Westwood One in October 2011. Triton then folded Westwood One into its Dial Global subsidiary. The Westwood One name was initially retained for most sports programming. However,, Westwood One's sports programming was branded as "Westwood One on the Dial Global Radio Network."After the NFL Playoffs concluded, the Westwood One name was removed altogether in favor of the Dial Global Sports Network, and the sports website was relocated to www.dialglobalsports.com. On September 4, 2013, Dial Global announced that it was renaming itself Westwood One, citing greater brand recognition The company takes its name from an earlier network also named Westwood One a company founded in 1978. The company was, at various times, managed by CBS Radio, the radio arm of CBS Corporation and Viacom. It was later purchased before merging with Dial Global in 2011. In December 2013, Dial Global was, in turn, acquired by Cumulus Media. Prior to the sale's completion, Dial Global re-assumed the Westwood One name. After the completion of the purchase, Westwood One was merged into the Cumuls Media division (the former ABC Radio Networks). 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