Lane Brody: Yeah, exactly.
JoleneHost: Which is excellent, that's the best way to do life.
Lane Brody: Thank you.
JoleneHost: It is. One of the songs that you did, and I still hear it on the radio today, "The Yellow Rose of Texas," you recorded it with Johnny Lee. Do you think that song made any more of an impact on your career than any other song you did?
Lane Brody: Yeah, it did, because it was the first thing- it was the first time that I think everybody at least began to put the name with the face, with the song, and that was always my problem, and still is to a large degree in the United States more even than Europe, but for some reason I was kinda dubbed the Invisible Voice, I had people that would lipsynch to me, Susan Dey in her movies, you know, my voice was in a lot of motion picture themes, I was hired by some of the top composers, I was sort of doing what Maureen McGovern was doing, and then started getting the records. "Over You" did a lot because it was pop and country, and it was Oscar-nominated. It was the first Oscar-nominated song from a soundtrack album, and I sang it. That was really a neat thing, but I never got to sing it. You see, Betty Buckley sang it in the movie and she wanted money to do it for the soundtrack, and I was a new girl on Capitol/EMI out in Hollywood, so they sent the song over and they said do you like the song, and I said, oh, it's a fabulous song. So I sang it, and it was the single and the soundtrack album, but she sang it in the movie. Now, once the Golden Globes came and it was nominated for a Golden Globe, she got to sing it on the Golden Globes. Drat! No face/name identification. Then the Academy Awards came, and they got Mac Davis to sing it. And that's what they were doing, then, they weren't getting the artist that sang the song, and you know, drat again, here I am trying to get people to know that's my face, that's my song, and never got to do it. It was just the weirdest thing.
JoleneHost: So they hear you singing it elsewhere-
Lane Brody: But they didn't see the face and the name, yeah. And you know radio, it's just like there's the song and yeah. So I was like dubbed - I think it was Bob Oermann that's always called me the Invisible Voice. I'm the longest-running starlet in country music, you know, people can't figure out exactly who I am yet, but
JoleneHost: But they hear you lot!
Lane Brody: Oh, yeah, they've heard me! So, you know, the Internet's helped a lot, and now that I'm finally doing videos, took me twenty years, but now I've got three videos coming out. And "The Yellow Rose" video was the first video shot on film when we did it, and then I didn't do any, none, because of all this- I had a lot of problems which we won't go into, but just my integrity, I would not [inaudible]. So I got off my label and all that stuff. I did get to star in a Statler Brothers video, years ago, but now I got these three videos, so I think that at least now before it's all over are gonna finally put all that together, you know, who I am. But "The Yellow Rose" was awesome, it was a wonderful experience. Johnny Lee's like a brother to me, we keep in touch all the time. Had a lot of fun with it, but that in itself was an unbelievable story, that will be a chapter in a book. The whole thing, really, almost was not meant to happen in any way, shape or form. Everything conspired against it, but me in my innocence, I kept on moving forward with it, thinking innocently that it was supposed to be, but it wasn't in the eyes of Warner Brothers, or Johnny. Johnny didn't even know it was gonna be a single. He had no idea. It was "Say When" backed with "The Yellow Rose." I had told all the radio stations it was my next single, and when they got the record it was two-sided, it was "Say When" with "The Yellow Rose," and they all flipped it over, and they played "The Yellow Rose." And Johnny said that wasn't my record, my record was "Say When," but it came on at fifty, and then it just shot up the charts!
JoleneHost: It was a great record! It's a catchy song.
Lane Brody: Yeah! And I co-wrote that one, a lot of people didn't know that, but I never got credit for that. They said Gary Nicholson wrote it, who was the writer of "Say When." Oh, it was a comedy of errors from start to finish, the whole "Yellow Rose" project, and a lot of people didn't know that was my project. I was in Hollywood.
