“One of the greatest people I’ve ever been around.”
Nashville, TN — Multi-award winning singer/songwriter David Frizzell fondly remembers working with the late, great Dick Clark. Frizzell made appearances on American Bandstand, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and many other shows produced by the entertainment icon.
“Dick
Clark was one of the greatest people I have ever been around,” Frizzell
recalls. “He always had a warm smile on his face and was so genuinely
sociable.”
The
country music legend recalls Clark as a consummate professional who
loved his work and surrounded himself with a like-minded people.
“His
whole team was comprised of the most efficient people I’ve ever worked
with,” Frizzell notes. “Dick Clark surrounded himself with professionals
who knew exactly what he wanted and did it right the first time. I
never worked with anyone who had it more together than he did.”
It was during the Dick Clark produced 17th
annual Academy of Country Music Awards in 1982 that Frizzell and his
then duet partner Shelly West were awarded just one of their ACM awards
for Top Vocal Duet. With Frizzell in Hollywood, West accepted the award
by satellite from her hospital room in Nashville where she had just
given birth to daughter, Tess. Clark looked on as Frizzell and others
onstage in Hollywood attempted to shield Shelly’s mother Dottie West
from seeing the baby on the screen. The family wanted Dottie to meet her
new granddaughter in person.
Clark
died on April 18 after suffering a heart attack following prostate
surgery. The radio and television personality had previously suffered a
stroke and had Type 2 diabetes.
David Frizzell is currently touring in support of his latest single, “Say Hello To Heaven,” which is being used to raise awareness for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (madd). The Frizzell family lost David’s niece in a car accident with a drunk driver in 1998. Additionally, his book “I Love You A Thousand Ways: The Lefty Frizzell Story” was named one of the Top Music Book of the year by CMT and has been nominated for the Award for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
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enjoyed success with “L.A. International Airport” and a Top 40
rendition of “I Just Can’t Help Believing.” Frizzell headlined in Las
Vegas, paving the way for other country acts in the city.
the early 1980s, Frizzell founded the musical duo of Frizzell &
West with Shelly West, daughter of country superstar Dottie West. Their
recording of “You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma” made its way to Clint Eastwood, who insisted on adding the tune to the soundtrack of his forthcoming film, Any Which Way You Can. This duo signed with Warner Bros. which released the song as a single and it became a smash hit.
record is a country music standard, and has been featured on CMT’s 40
Greatest Drinking Songs in Country Music, making #17 in the countdown.
Also, making #6 in CMT’s countdown of the 100 Greatest Duets is “You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma.”
has won numerous performing and recording trophies from the Academy of
Country Music, Billboard and Music City News. He has been nominated for
three Grammys, both as part of Frizzell & West and as a solo artist.
producer of the popular Frizzell & Friends series of projects,
David brings together some of the top performers in the business for
both live and recorded projects.