Keith Whitley-Live from the 1988 Golden ROPE Awards-"Miami, My Amy" (Part 1 of 7)
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Eternal thanks to the entire Whitley family for recently unearthing this gem from their family archives. They have given me their expressed permission to post this entire concert to share with my fellow Keith Whitley fans here on UA-cam.'
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The annual Reunion of Professional Entertainers (ROPE) is held in Nashville, Tennessee to recognize and honor classic country artists, country musicians, and country music industry executives for their lifetime achievements. Awards are given in the following categories: Entertainer of the Year, Musician of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and the special presentation of the Mac Wiseman Nightingale Award for service and dedication to the aging and ailing members of the organization, among others. The 1988 awards show featured Keith Whitley and his band Miami as the featured entertainment for the evening. He was introduced to the stage by Grand Ole Opry presenter Keith Bilbrey. (It is interesting to note that, at the 2004 awards show, Keith's widow Lorrie Morgan was featured as the entertainment along with her then-husband Sammy Kershaw.)
This excerpt was taken from page 459 of the 2004 book "The Encyclopedia of Country Music" compiled by Paul Kingsbury, Laura Garrard, & the Country Music Foundation. The excerpt was written by Walt Trott:
"The Reunion of Professional Entertainers (ROPE) is a Nashville-based organization created to care for fellow country music entertainers in time of serious illness, death, or other unavoidable distress. Federally chartered in 1983 as a nonprofit organization, ROPE accepts for membership those who have worked in the music industry at least twenty-five years. Since its beginnings, membership has grown from an initial 70 members to 700. Gordon Terry, a founder and first president, helped initiate a trust fund and a death, health, and welfare insurance program. An early mission of ROPE was to build a retirement center for needful seniors. Five-term ROPE president Mac Wiseman has served on the CMA's steering committee to explore the possibility of making this dream a reality. During Wiseman's tenure, a Friends of ROPE program was approved to allow fans and friends of entertainers to contribute as organizational boosters. ROPE holds quarterly social gatherings, conducts benefit concert fund-raisers, sponsors annual Golden ROPE Awards, and runs an annual Fan Fair booth. Address: ROPE, 50 Music Square West, #700E, Nashville, TN 37203."
If there is any one voice that can represent country music, this is it.
royms2000 Yes. thank you. He is the definition of country music. Even though he can sing anything.
You nailed it buddy 👍
thanks so much MAMsMom97!!! You always have the BEST KW footage!
oh my god this is such an awesome video!!! Thanks for the vid
Long Live the legacy of Keith Whitley
Thank you, Shay, for stopping by. The plan is to have all 8 uploaded by before the weekend of the 25th so that I can upload a performance by Jesse, Keith's son, at last year's memorial motorcycle ride they have for his dad & uncle in time for this year's ride. I really want to do the ride this year. I've never taken part in it before.
Randy who? Oh, That Randy! This was after Randy left in the beginning of '88 and was replaced with Lou Toomey. This concert was from the fall of '88.
MAMsMom97 Do you know why Randy left?
@Vegas Sports Bitch you better shut that shit the fuck up before you get got..
I don't appreciate being called a liar.
We have a Yahoo! group that has been in existence for almost a year now. You just go to the website that shows on the video, or go to my channel for the link. We also branched out recently to Facebook, as well, if you do Facebook. You just key in the words Keith Whitley Association into the white box with the magnifying glass icon at the top right hand corner of the screen. It should be the first thing that comes up in the search. Whichever one you join, make sure you tell us you're RebelGibson!
What's even more annoying is when someone steals my video and claims it as theirs. This was done by request from Dwight Whitley, Keith's brother, who asked me to upload the videos. If you have a problem with it, call him, or you can keep the video up on one tab and go do something else in another tab.
@BrennanBarrier Thank you so much for the kind words! And many thanks for supporting Keith.
The scrolling bar has no effect on the music which is the main purpose for playing this video. If it bothers you that much, don't look at the video, just listen to the music.
The very best singer of all time
It's crazy; that Tele was the same one he'd used for years: He sold it to a guy, who proceeded to paint it blue, change the pickups and tuners, and when Keith saw it, he went crazy and said he'd pay anything or trade any guitar for it. The original pickups were put back into the guitar, and the tuners were used to make a lamp.
I'm grateful for the video, but very disappointed with the extremely distracting advertising bars. Why ruin a piece of history like that? If you want your ad on there, do a tasteful, short ad on there, then let the video play focusing on Keith.
GREAT
DDR
Anthony is right..but God I loved this guy!!