CMTs 40 Greatest Men

Steel tryin · Post by **Steel tryin** » 30 Mar 2003 6:10 am

Dwight Yokum and NOT RAY Price. CMT is about as COUNTRY as NEW YORK CITY.

Justin Griffith · Post by **Justin Griffith** » 30 Mar 2003 6:24 am

Craig A Davidson · Post by **Craig A Davidson** » 30 Mar 2003 6:34 am

No Faron either.

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Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 30 Mar 2003 7:32 am

No Marty, Webb or Hank Thompson.
Worst inclusion was the Eagles.

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Kevin Hatton · Post by **Kevin Hatton** » 30 Mar 2003 12:54 pm

I have to agree. CMT is NOT country.

David Wright · Post by **David Wright** » 30 Mar 2003 2:17 pm

They put Jonny Cash as #1, That was the DUMBEST Flippin show I ever sceen, who ever came up with the list and it's order is a FLAMING FLIPPIN MOR-ON !!!!!!!!!

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Paul King · Post by **Paul King** » 30 Mar 2003 3:16 pm

No Faron Young or Ray Price? Johnny Cash as #1? Sounds like a conspiracy to me. I very seldom watch anything on their channel anyway. I am watching this show at the present time and I am surprised at their rankings. I have noticed what little I have seen there is hardly any steel guitar at all. I do not know where they got all their info but it appears they have shamed several stars....Paul

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 30 Mar 2003 5:04 pm

Yup! Johnny Cash..."Number 1"...what's so hard to believe?

Juat brace yourself for the next awards...Chad and Jeremy voted the "Number 1 British Rock Group of All Time", Roy Rogers voted the "World's Best Country/Western Guitar Player", George Goebel voted the "World's best Male Pop Singer", and Martha Raye "Foremost Female Entertainer Of All Time".

Hey...it could happen!

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Fred Shannon · Post by **Fred Shannon** » 31 Mar 2003 7:01 am

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Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 31 Mar 2003 1:13 pm

Hey Donny, what you got against George Gobel??

Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 31 Mar 2003 5:07 pm

George Goble,one funny guy and by the way
one heck of a guitar player,IMO

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Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 31 Mar 2003 8:50 pm

God....who cares? Who cares? Ya'll know inyour own minds who is number 1. Who is number 2. Who is number 40? And why 40 top
people? What ever happended to the top 100.
Or even 1/2 of the top 100 would be 50, and not 40!!!

Red flags should have gone up immediately about this "odd" number 40. They had this same same type show months ago with the 40 best females.

I watched this female one with a critical eye. Don't we all. The women's lineup seemed to square more favorably with me, than this greatest mens one, now.

But.....these award shows and best this, best that, worst this , worst that.....

What does it prove?????????? Nothing.

It's just one or two or three judge-jerks
casting their votes.

Who cares? I don't. And you don't! You all
are gonna keep on loving and believing in exactly what you have been for years. So, be strong, and let it all slide. You know what you like, I know what I like.

If we agree, then fine. If we don't agree, than that's fine, too.

But, I do have to say. I felt that the mens'
categorie of prominence was way off.

As far as real "country music" goes.

JMHO

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 1 Apr 2003 2:36 pm

Sounds to me like the judges at CMT are all in their early 20's or younger. Seems as though the names on the list are the ones that that age group have recently been exposed to and the ones absent haven't been in the "limelight" as much. Hence, unawareness. Too bad for Ray Price et al and for the judges.

Keep on pickin'!
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Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 2 Apr 2003 3:28 am

Since there is two threads on this subject I'll post my reply on both!

When I first watched this show it really bothered me. I couldn't understand how they would include "The Eagles", "Elvis", "Kenny Rogers" those aren't country acts. Then to leave out so many great names and have Jimmie Rodgers so low on the list.
Then I started thinking that besides Chet Atkins and Earl Scruggs of "Flatt & Scruggs" they were all singers. What happened to the musicians, the songwriters, the producers. Why didn't they call the show "CMT's 40 Favorite Male Singers"! Where were names like Harlan Howard, Fred Rose, Ralph Peer, Hank Cochran, A.P. Carter, Harold Bradley and about a dozen other writers, pickers, and producers. I would even add names that changed the sound of music like Leo Fender.
Then I went to work this week and realized something. I work in a Country band that plays on the strip in Las Vegas and most of the people that stop and listen to us are NOT country fans. Most of the request that we get from non-country music people are for songs by Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Allan Jackson, Hank Williams. All of these were in the top ten of the show. That's when it hit me, this list isn't for Country Music fans- It's for NON-COUNTRY music listeners.
People that aren't into Country Music don't care which singer used fiddle and steel or what singer influenced Merle Haggard or any of the history behind Country Music. But you can play them a recording of Johnny Cash or Willie Nelson and almost anyone in the world can tell you who they are.

So after realizing all of this the CMT show doesn't bother me now, I just decided to rename it to "CMT's 40 Favorite Male Singers for Non-Country Music Fans"

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 2 Apr 2003 1:37 pm

I no longer get CMT on my cable system. And if Merle Haggard isn't first on the list I don't even want to see it.

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Joe Casey · Post by **Joe Casey** » 2 Apr 2003 4:18 pm

I never got down to the top ten. I couldn't bear to see that crap.... Merle Haggard has to be number one or like retcop says it's all bullshirt.

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