Page 4A-KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Thursday. November 17, 1983
By GARY STEWART
Editor
If there’s one word that
describes country and western
singing sensation, Lee Green-
wood, it’s persistent.
He’s been in the business for
over 20 years and many times he
felt like he’d never make it to the
top. But he kept plugging away
and made it. He recently was
named Male Vocalist of the
Year by the Country Music
Association and just last week,
his latest single, “Somebody’s
Gonna Love You” reached
number one in the country
charts.
Greenwood, who stayed at
the Holiday Inn two nights last
week while doing shows at
Possum Hollar in Rock Hill,
S.C., recalled the times when life
wasn’t so rosy for nim.
His parents left him when he
was a year old and he was reared
by his grandparents on a farm
near Sacramento, Calif. As a
youngster, he knew he had to
find some means of getting off
the farm, so he turned to
baseball and music.
Although many felt he was
good enough to play pro
baseball, the day he graduated
from high school he hit the road
to Las Vegas with hopes of
Photo by Gary Stewart
CHECKING OUT - Lee Greenwood, right, Country Music Association's Male Vocalist of the
Year for 1983, is pictured above checking out after a two-day stay last week at the Kings
Mountain Holiday Inn. Holiday Inn employees, left, to right, are Robin Sabucco, Pamela
Scott and Leslie Sherrer.
becoming a singing star.
He worked as a cook, card
dealer, and picked up other jobs
to supplement his work as a
backup singer and instrumen-
talist for many different Vegas
acts.
Every time it looked like he
was ready to make the big step
on his own, something came
along to spoil his dreams.
In 1979, while working the
lounges in Nevada, he met Larry
McFaden, who was a band
leader and bass player for Mel
Tillis. McFaden had been play-
ing with Tillis for 13 years and
was dreaming of becoming a
manager.
He felt that Greenwood had a
golden voice and they agreed to
move to Nashville and record
some demos. to Nashville and
record four demos. In 1981-20
years after leaving the farm-
Greenwood signed a contract
with Jerry Crutchfield of MCA
Records as a writer and recor-
ding artist.
The work load now is almost
Lee Greenwood Makes It To The Top
He has worked Possum Hollar
on three occasions due to his
friendship with Gene Black, who
owns the club, but most of his
dates come at much larger
arenas such as the Charlotte and
Greensboro Coliseums. When he
left Kings Mountain last week,
he was bound for engagements
in Summerville, Ga., and Wheel-
ing, W. Va., and a date with the
Gatlin Brothers in Baton Rouge,
La.
Playing a
refreshing.
“It’s a very exciting audience
and energetic crowd,” he says.
“They always make you feel
welcome.”
Greenwood credits most of his
success now to his manager and
his fourth wife, Melanie, who is
a choreographer and dance co-
ordinator for cable TV’s “Dan-
cin’ USA.”
The only drawback to his star-
dom is that he spends very little
time with his children. But,
knowing how it felt to grow up
without parents, he makes the
small club is
unbearable. Greenwood and his
band members travel to concerts
all over the United States in two
large buses, and he’s been known
to rehearse all day long and slip
into a concert hall just moments
before going on stage.
best of that time.
“My only recourse now is to
take my wife or some of my kids
with me occasionally so they can
remember what Daddy looks
like,” he says.
Kyle Smith, School Board Member. teaches students of Sheila Sisk’s High School Business‘Class
getting first hand classroom experience during American Education Week. His:lecture included
helpful tips on making a good impression for a job interview.
5-Foot Stork Announces
Photo by Gail Shytle
News Of Couple’s Baby
When Steve and Susan Beam
brought their new baby, Dustin
Perry, home from the hospital
last week they found a hand-
painted 5-foot white stork with
bright blue hat and legs perched
in their yard at 6630 Harbor
Point Drive. The stork, lettered
with Dustin’s name and birth
weight, is a clever idea to an-
nounce Dustin’s arrival on
November Sth.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Put-
nam, maternal grandparents of
Dustin, arranged for the stork.
Dustin weighed seven pounds,
10 and one-half ounces of his ar-
rival at Cleveland Memorial
Hospital in Shelby.
He is the first child of the
Beams and is also grandson of
Mr. and Mrs. James Beam of
Cherryville and great-grandson
of Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Beam
of Cherryville.
The stork remained in the
Beam yard all last week and
friends and neighbors enjoyed
the treat and stopped by to see
the new family member.
! Susan Putnam Beam is a se-
¢ond grade teacher at Grover
School in Cleveland County.
Steve Beam works at Eaton Cor-
poration on Grover Road, Kings
Mountain.
Young Dustin is the eighth
randchild of the Hugh Putnams
f Cherryville and is the first
og
‘
grandchild in Steve’s family.
Hugh and “Jack” Putnam
made the stork themselves and
Mr. Putnam cut the pattern. It
was really a labor of love for the
doting grandparents but Mrs.
Putnam said that local folks can
borrow her stork and pattern or
obtain information on making
one for themselves by calling
Cherryville Country Corner
Florist, 435-2536.
PHOTO BY LIB STEWART
FAMILY GATHERS AROUND STORK-Steve and Susan Beam
and their first baby, Dustin Perry. gather around a five foot
stork which has been boldly perched in their yard to announce
the infant's arrival. The baby’s grandparents arranged for the
stork.
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