Nashville Convention Center Stepstones

As we have seen a few days ago, Carol visited Nashville.   She says, "The convention center has these stones installed in steps to entrance. Just took photos of a few".   

Though most would say that Blue Suede Shoes was an Elvis song, the original songwriter and recording artist for this song was Carol Perkins who released this song in 1955.   Elvis recorded it and released it in 1956.

Dolly Parton is the songwriter and recording artist for "I Will Always Love You", recorded in 1973 and released in 1974.   The song was written when Dolly decided to part with Porter Wagoner to start her solo career.   Whitney Houston recorded it for her movie "The Bodyguard" in 1992 and became a huge hit.  It was reported that Dolly Parton earned over 10 million dollars royalty from this cover.

Peggy Sue was not written by Buddy Holly though he was the original artist recorded this song in 1957.   The songwriters are Jerry Allison and Norman Petty.  Peggy Sue was Jerry Allison's girlfriend and future wife.   

Bobbie Gentry is the songwriter and recording artist of Ode to Billie Joe in 1967.   It became a huge hit and Bobbie Gentry became a huge star.  However she was not interested or comfortable being in the limelight, all she wanted was to be a songwriter.  She performed and remained active for a while, retired in 1982 and never seen in the public eye again.

Stand by Your Man was co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill, Tammy Wynette recorded it in 1968 and became Tammy Wynette's signature song.   As we probably recall that this song was even mentioned in CBS "60 Minutes" segment during an interview of the Clinton's, and later caused a displeasure from Tammy Wynette.