by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Ten: The first record recorded at the Gold Mine was the first Christian album by B J Thomas who was a major pop star at the time. That album went Gold and won a Grammy. Chris then signed Amy Grant at age 16 to his production company. No one could have...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Nine: Chris moved back to Nashville, where he eventually landed a job running the Nashville division of the Twentieth Century-Fox Music Publishing Company. He subsequently bought a new home in Brentwood, Tennessee for $25,000 using bank stock his Grandparents...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter 20: Every new parent believes their baby is beautiful. In the same way, every songwriter pours his heart and soul into composing a song and thinks their songs are beautiful. Like people, songs have a birth date, and many times must be nurtured along in order...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Seven: There wasn’t a bigger entertainment name on planet earth than Elvis Presley. Imagine Chris’s shock to hear that the “King of Rock and Roll” had heard a song Chris had written and that he wanted to record it! This chapter takes you to Elvis’s Vegas...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Six: Wayne Newton was synonymous with Las Vegas’s reputation for stellar entertainment. As one of Newton’s 5 personal musicians, Chris would spend the next 6 months of his life in “Sin City,” living in the penthouse of the famed Sands Hotel. But how would a...
by grandmothersprayer_e5ct05 | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Chapter Five: After securing a job as a banjo player in the Opryland Dixieland Band, Chris not only met the woman who would later become his wife but also fortuitously caught the attention of iconic musical performer Wayne Newton. Newton took a particular interest in...
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