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Fact #16171

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Short story:

Joe Barry enters the Billboard Singles Chart in the USA with I'm A Fool To Care.

Full article:

Huey P. Meaux (producer) : Joe Barry's white, he's from a little town in Louisiana by the Gulf Of Mexico, Central America, He liked blues and country and rock'n'roll, he was like me. We both came from that area and it was just natural to blend that stuff.

I recorded him in New Orleans and he sounded like Fats Domino. Fats was riding in his car, and he thought I'm A Fool To Care was one of his records, but he couldn't remember recording it. I can understand that. Fats would go in the studio when he felt in the mood and he would just sing and play the piano. Dave Bartholomew would out the band on afterwards, and that is why Fats and his piano is way out front on all his records. I'm A Fool To Care is a standard that Fats knew, so he didn't know whether he had cut it or not.

I booked Joe into a Holiday Inn in Houston, which was close to a studio where I used to record. It was a new hotel, and I knew the manager well. Joe had this girlfriend he was in love with, but she quit him and went off with another guy. He went out and bought himself a whole bunch of pills, man, and got all pilled up. He got to hallucinating and to thinking that she was in the motel across the freeway, so he took a razor and chopped all the drapes into little bitty pieces, and he took the sheets and sent smoke signals to her.

He destroyed every piece of furniture, every mirror in that room, and the porter called me and said, 'Mr Meaux, you had better go see about Mr Joe.' I paid the bill and I went back to Texas and I never stayed there again.

Five years later I was on my way to Nashville and I was sitting next to a guy with a Derby hat and a cigar in the middle of his mouth. He said, 'How are you doing, Mr Meaux?' And he was the manager of the Holiday Inn that Joe had tore up, you know? He said, 'Don't be upset. Let me tell you what happened. I had photographers come in there and I took the pictures to the Holiday Inn convention in Memphis. I won the award for having the most tore up room in the history of the Holiday Inn. They blew one of the photographs up to 8 x 4 and put it on the wall.'
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