my next guest has uh won every award in the country music business and through the book
in the film Coal Miner's Daughter people all over the world have come to know the amazing
story behind This Woman's music she will be appearing at Hera's Atlantic City May 4th
5th and 6th and then at the Westbury Music Fair beginning May 13th please welcome Loretta Lynn
good to see you thank you very much for being here
I mentioned I mentioned this earlier you look terrific thank you you do too oh yeah you don't
need to say that but I appreciate it that's very nice what are you doing in New York aside from
all this working obviously is what you're doing here well David I've been wondering
what you've been doing at this time of the morning so I thought I'd come up and find
out yeah somebody like you never stays up this late dude you're in bed nine ten at the latest
I come in about the time the show comes on at night you know and then I get to watch your show
so now what do you do when you when you come into New York City and uh is it a nice place for you
to be do you enjoy it do you go out walking around do you what do you do guess what I've done I went
out we come in late last night yeah what we want to go down to the little drugstore on the corner
and guess who we'll run into now I'm the biggest fan in the world you know and I'd probably bug
anybody to death this is a famous person you're ready you better believe it just walk right up on
him Rod Stewart oh yeah this is yes I did pretty impressive not did you know him uh well I did then
I just I got a queen real fast yeah and uh I was standing there telling him how much I thought of
him you know and how I watch him all the time and this girl come walking up and she said she started
had a camera and uh he says no pictures please no pictures and she said I want a picture of Loretta
so she handed Rob the camera you take the picture so naturally he was gonna you know
what I thought oh gosh so he got down and he took the picture so he come back over and he
said to me that's the first picture I've taken in 25 years and you know I thought my goodness
my picture being taken by rods to it can I took the wind out of his sails didn't it
uh now did you come in by bus I know you traveled a lot by bus but you didn't come in that way well
my I have two buses on the road and the Latin soundtrack now so it looks like a light and a
soundtrack and two buses it looks like a carnival going down the road how big are these buses are
these these giant guys that you see they're the biggest ones yeah is that fun being on
one of those things well I would rather ride my bus than to fly but we we flew up here and
the buses will meet us tomorrow now what's the longest stretch of time you've traveled by bus
three three days and three nights Oh you mean a whole tour yeah oh six weeks um but you you've
had these things fixed up so they're oh they're just like a home speaking of home you own your own
town too I understand is that right yeah bought a city in Tennessee right yeah and hurricane milk
all right let me let me do this and then we'll come back and talk about the buying up cities
and towns all across this country we got a letter somebody who's going to sue us for doing ask Mr
Melman maybe maybe they'll sue us so we thought we'd do it once more tonight also Margaret Smith
will be here tomorrow the mayor of the city of course Ed Koch you know him better as Larry
have you ever uh have you ever met mayor Koch no I don't think she was just across the hall very
nice man he will be here tomorrow also Larry Holmes now you you uh you live in uh hurricane
meals Tennessee now what part of the state is that well it's between Memphis and Nashville
so roughly south central part of the state southwestern part of the state well I don't know
neither do I I don't know east west and south now and that you know a small town
hurricane Museum yeah oh very small I wasn't on it now um where did you where did you live before
you moved to Hurricane I lived in um right in Nashville yeah and and what took you to Hurricane
Mills why did you found this old home and it's an old Colonial home and I we just we were out
um driving around this is about 70 miles from Nashville and I seen this home and I want that
old house right there so dude said well maybe it's not for sale so we found out it belonged to the
banker in Nashville so he when we bought the place we didn't know the Town come with it but I get it
we didn't know I told we bought it that I I wasn't interested in the town but
um well I'm certainly glad to hear that now I would guess but I get a check from my government
every month for the post office now wait a minute let's back up here a second first of
all tell me about the house what about the house about your eyes well it was an old southern it
was an old southern Mansion but I've spent more money on that thing I could have built
10 Mansions uh you know all right so it's a big attractive house now it's a big ugly house now
now and and what did you get when you bought the town what is included well the store from with it
a little store the general store hardware store grocery store whatever okay and the
post office and the old meal that I have my museum in right now and uh a gift shop and
um we build onto the town and uh we have uh all kinds of little things well do you have a mayor in
the town a uh are you or like you with the queen of the town or no my old man ain't gonna stand for
that I think he's I think he kind of runs things but uh because he's there most of the time and
you but you get a check from the poster from the government for the Post Office there's about 250
people get their mail there but they don't live on uh you know they live off of my range yeah
yeah uh and and what's the exact population of Hurricane Mills uh just us and our tenants
this is very strange so it's a tiny little town but 250 people do get their mail there but they
live off of my place yeah they they live they kind of surrounded by seven miles that's interesting
you know we have some uh something else is very interesting these are photographs and I want you
to tell me uh what we're looking at how old they are and uh maybe we haven't even seen these all
right so all right here you go oh that's Mercy now this is you're just uh that was the that
was my first time that I've ever canned that I ever can I lived in the state of Washington
then what were you what are you what did you can there I won first prize I canned everything at
the big candy I wouldn't eat it vegetables uh fruits vegetables fruits small animals
how
delivery in that picture I was about 21. very very attractive young lady there oh
yeah yes ma'am what else do we have we have a couple more here oh me all right what is this
help me uh that was my first uh outfit when I started to sing um I saved them I was making
five dollars on a Saturday night to sing and I saved the five dollars up and I went to Seattle
and I bought that that the black shirt with big red roses and a black skirt with long Fringe a
white hat Annie Oakley wasn't nothing okay we have I think do we have one more all right and this
is oh no yeah your Shula's here uh yeah that was the first year I come to Nashville that was when
I first started singing too now why have you taken off your shoes there well I think too you know not
very good but I think and you just take them off do you still you don't wear high heels on stage
anymore yeah I wear high heels and do you still take them off if they hurt my feet yes all right
let me see what are we doing here you're gonna be uh at his uh I lost the dates on those fourth
fifth and sixth I think and then you're going to be at the Westbury Music Fair and I'm in at
the Kennedy Center tomorrow night oh that's right you're going down there right now modern uh he's
gonna be 80 years old yeah that'll be quite a few Loretta nice to see you again thank you very much