“Wine Me Up” #2 Country 9/13/1969

A Top 5 country hit this week in 1969 for Faron Young. He played a deputy sheriff in a 1956 movie titled “Hidden Guns.” Thus, his band was called the Country Deputies. At one time, Roger Miller and Willie Nelson were in his group. The story goes that in those days, the always broke Willie offered to sell Faron a song he’d written for $50. Young gave him $500 outright instead and said to keep the publishing rights, as Faron agreed to record what he felt was a hit. The tune was “Hello Walls” and the first royalty check was for nearly $10,000, launching Willie’s songwriting career.