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you doing today?
Speaker 2: Hey, Good morning Arrow. I'm doing great.
Speaker 1: Hey, before we even get started, I want to congratulate
you on your many, many many years with Kimberly Dalton
and Parker, because not enough people are talking about how
long love really does last and it blossoms every single day,
and I swear we could be changing the future if
we would just talk about our marriages and how strong
we can be together.
Speaker 2: Well, I thank you for saying that. Kim and I
met on a USO tour. She was Miss Tennessee at
the time. What a knockout, and she still is with
our two boys thirty and twenty seven. Dalton is now
married and just announced he's and his wife are pregnant,
oh for first grand trial. And Parker's finished his Masters
and music at Miami. He's now home in Nashville starting
his musical career. And I embrace family. Kim and I
married thirty four years now. So it's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: It is a beautiful thing, especially when you start having
grand babies, because I mean, the thing about it is
is that that's the next generation and to inspire them
and to influence them to really take over with the
love that you have in your heart for not only
this nation but all people.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many videos I get from
like a six or seven year old waving a little
American flag going proud to be an American. Mary Vat
then I know I'm free, you know, And they can
sing every line of the song. You know what. That's
where patriotism starts. And those little kids, yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well look at what you're gonna be doing with
this song. Start the world over again. This is one
that I have got to see live in concert because
I want to watch the people as they sing it
with you. This is another one of those songs that
is going to become an anthem.
Speaker 2: Sir, Yeah it is. I was pleased. Actually, Mark Joseph,
the producer for the film Reagan, brought it to me
about two years ago. I drug my feet, I drugged
my feet. I have so much to do and and
he said, please you know, look at this and I
could not find a song in it. And I said, Okay,
the only way I'm going to be able to do
this I can't. I can't piece the puzzle together. I said.
There's a lot of larric here and the meaningful stuff.
I said. I knew Mike kurb I was on his
label for four years. I knew Ronald Reagan. I worked
on his campaign. I thought Dennis Craid did a great
job in the film. And I said, but let me
rewrite it. So into an original song, the only one
off the album songs inspired by the film, and it's
the only original that is by the singer. And so
I got to write it and sing it and it's
released as a single this week off the.
Speaker 1: Album Please Do Not Move. We'll be right back with
Lee Greenwood, the name of the song start the World
Over Again, from the movie Reagan, We're back with Lee Greenwood.
I'm just so glad that that that you're so open
to talk about that Ronald Ray was part of this,
and it comes from the movie, because I don't think
that movie got as much justice as it deserves. Because
people they need to put it back in the theater,
and we all need to go back in there, and
I think this song could do that. Just get it
back in there so we can experience it.
Speaker 2: My older son, Dalton's thirty, is a historian. Yeah, And
when you talk to a young person like that about
remembering the Reagan era, I remembered extinctly, well distinctly because
I lived it. And how inspiring he was for the country.
He swept the nation, I mean, and it wasn't just
because he knew how to tell a joke now and
then his altruistic point of view about remember mister Gorbachev
terardoun on that wall. I mean, freedom came, freedom came
alive and well during his presidency. And so you have
to remember the Reagan era. I don't know that even
the film can drag us back to that era. And
that's what happens with every president, and every president will
have his challenge, just like in forty three when we
had the attack on America, President Bush stood on the
rubble and said, we will find you wherever you are
in the world. Thank god he was the president at
that time. And so now we have President Trump, who
should have won the Nobel Priest Prize for his arbitrating
in the peace agreement in Israel at the Egypt Accord,
and every president will, but I've been tied to four
of them now over four decades. And so what a
great privilege to be able to be known for writing
this song which again ties Reagan to me to Trump
and four decades.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, it was such an interesting time period because
that was my very first election. I was an eighteen
year old punk kid who got married at the age
of eighteen and took on Reagan's America. And then I'll
tell you what, if I would have had a different president,
I don't think I would have the foundation that I
have today.
Speaker 2: Well there you go. You know, it's lead from the
top down in many instances, and we do what we're told.
But in the new generation, at least in the last
fifteen or twenty years, young people are going to question
the government. They're beginning to question like what we do
and how we tell them to do things, and rightly. So,
I mean, that's how you form a democracy. And so
from the founding fathers to today, I hope this country
can resolve its issues and move forward.
Speaker 1: When people start seeing the titles starting the world again,
or when radio says here's that song from Lee Greenwood
starting the World Again. You know, we're all going to
have our own interpretation of that. But there's more to
this song than just the title, isn't there.
Speaker 2: Yes, there is. Yeah, it's a reflection of time gone by,
but it's a promise of what's to come. And that's
the way I penned the lyrics. And when I wrote
the law, the one line that came from Reagan the
beacon of hope. I still want this country to be
a beacon of hope for people who come here. I
know that there's a rash leaving of young people who
have been given grants for colleges because they get a
free ride and they're going back to other countries again.
I hope that we can build once again that institution
of education. The people will start coming back and bringing
their talent back to the United States. But it's going
to take a bit. Wow.
Speaker 1: Well, they got to have your attitude, because I'll tell
you what. When you first appeared on the country music scene,
our industry was in big trouble. The urban cowboy movement
hadn't really happened yet, and all of a sudden, country
music was that thing that I think I listened to it,
and then here comes Lee Greenwood, and all of a sudden,
you put some fuel in that fire. And look at
where you're growing today.
Speaker 2: Everywhere. Yeah, it's exciting, and it was exciting then and
it still is now.
Speaker 1: It sure is. You've got to come back to this
show anytime in the future. Seven minutes with you, Lee
is just not enough.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that, and I like iHeartRadio. I like
what you do. And for you folks there in Charlotte,
I hope I get to come see you soon.
Speaker 1: You will, You'll be here because that's just you. I'll
see you when you get here. All right, my friend,
be brilliant today, Okay, Lee, yep.