{"id":67636,"date":"2017-11-04T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=67636"},"modified":"2017-11-04T07:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:00:08","slug":"jack-blanchards-column-the-tear-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/04\/jack-blanchards-column-the-tear-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blanchard’s Column: The Tear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jack Blanchard’s Column: The Tear<\/strong>\"dividers_60\"<\/h2>\n

I’m sending this week’s column early\u00a0<\/strong>
\nas I may be tied up with medical problems starting tomorrow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

CAREER ADVICE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Misty and I had a steady job with our band\u00a0<\/strong>
\nin a classy Coral Gables supper club,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nplaying light jazz dance music,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nand occasionally slipping in one of our own songs.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWe had made a couple of records that got local airplay,\u00a0<\/strong>
\nbut we were getting nowhere with amazing velocity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dick Gillespie was a regular customer.<\/strong>
\nHe was witty, in the Robin Williams style,<\/strong>
\nand owned a local country music radio station.<\/strong>
\nHe had won an Emmy for producing the Colgate Comedy Hour.\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAn intelligent guy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I asked him one night why we weren’t getting anywhere.<\/strong>
\nWe were good musicians, I said,<\/strong>
\nwe sang well, looked okay, and made nice records.<\/strong>
\nWhy didn’t he see that, and help us?<\/strong>
\nHis answer hurt our feelings and saved our life.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said, “You have nothing to sell.<\/strong>
\nNobody is interested in the things you mentioned.<\/strong>
\nPeople won’t walk across the street to see a good-looking musician,<\/strong>
\nbut they’ll stop for an auto accident.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

More importantly, he said,<\/strong>
\n“Go home and develop an unusual style,<\/strong>
\ncostume yourselves to attract attention,<\/strong>
\nand change your name if necessary.<\/strong>
\nTry singing different ways until the style is pronounced.<\/strong>
\nStyle is more important than good singing.<\/strong>
\nGood singers back up artists with style.<\/strong>
\nChange your attitude.<\/strong>
\nGo for stage presence.<\/strong>
\nBe whoever you want to be, but be unique.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then he added,<\/strong>
\n“You can’t do this here in the town where they know you.<\/strong>
\nThey won’t accept it.<\/strong>
\nGo to a new place and walk in the door in your new way,<\/strong>
\nno matter how self-conscious you feel,<\/strong>
\nand they will think you were born that way.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Misty Morgan changed her name from Mary Blanchard,<\/strong>
\nwe dressed pretty wild,<\/strong>
\nworked up a lot of new material and attitude,<\/strong>
\nand went to Key West to try it out.<\/strong>
\nWe thought we’d be laughed at, but they not only accepted us,<\/strong>
\nthey packed the place to see and hear us.<\/strong>
\nWe had a recording contract within two weeks,<\/strong>
\nand a Pick in Billboard within a couple of months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We found out that the roles we were playing<\/strong>
\nwere more real than playing dinner music in suit and gown.<\/strong>
\nNow we can’t think of ourselves the old way.<\/strong>
\nWe’ve been who we are now over half our lives.<\/strong>
\nIt’s us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dick Gillespie gave us the best advice we ever got,<\/strong>
\nso we pass it on to other striving artists.<\/strong>
\nIt works.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jack Blanchard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan… <\/strong><\/p>\n

Home Page: http:\/\/www.jackandmisty.net<\/a> Awards: Grammy, Billboard, CMA, BMI, ASCAP.<\/p>\n

Mastering & restoration studio: 352-530-2068.<\/p>\n

Email: jackandmisty@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Jack Blanchard, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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