JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY MORGAN OFFICIAL BIO.
CREDITS:
* Billboard Magazine Country Duet of the Year.
* Grammy Nominees.
*ASCAP and BMI Awards.
*CMA Award finalists.
* They have logged 119 weeks on the the national Hot 100 charts in Country, Pop, and other genres.
*Jack & Misty have had about 90 single releases and 15 albums (LPs and CDs)
distributed worldwide on such labels as Mercury, Epic, Columbia, United Artists, RCA, Phillips, and three CD albums on Australia's major label, Omni Recording Corporation.
http://www.worldwentdown.com/omni/ .
*They have appeared on many national TV shows.
*Their recordings have appeared in movie soundtracks, a dramatic television series,
a number of TV commercials, and on numerous compilation albums.
SONGS:
*Their songs have been recorded by:
Englebert Humperdink, The Ventures, Buck Owens, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood,
Rolfe Harris, Henry Mancini, and others,
and have been performed on TV by Bob Hope, Dean Martin, and Lawrence Welk.
VITAL STATISTICS:
* Both born in May, at the Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, New York.
* Both have blue eyes and brown hair.
* Both had parents named John and Mary, and sisters named Virginia.
* Both have traced ancestors to the Alsace-Lorraine area of Europe.
* Both lived for a time in southern Ohio before moving to Florida, where they finally met.
* Misty plays piano and keyboards.
* Jack plays keyboards and slide guitar.
* They arrange and produced their own recordings.
FROM THE BOOK "FINDING HER VOICE" BY ROBERT OERMANN & MMARY BUFWACK:
Misty Morgan and her husband Jack Blanchard are so different that nobody can figure out exactly what they are.
Born in Buffalo, New York, Misty was a piano prodigy who entered professional music in pop combos of the sixties. In 1967 she married Jack, a wonderfully off-center songwriter, and they teamed up in Florida to perform jazz, rock, Dixieland, or anything else it took to put bread on the table. Misty hooked up all kinds of electronic devices to her piano, so the two never really needed more band members.
Jack and Misty developed a quirky "stoned" sound, something like Sonny and Cher lost in a poppy field in South Carolina. His "velvet saw" bass voice cuts across her warm dreamy alto, while underneath pulses a steady shuffle beat dotted with harmonica and steel guitar bubbles of sound. Jack's lyrics alternate between totally bizarre novelty nonsense and deeply felt social commentary. They call their distinctive creations "Jack and Misty Productions", so she can be credited as country's trailblazing female record producer. When the wacky "Tennessee Birdwalk" topped the country charts in 1970, Misty Morgan became the first woman in country music to have co-produced a Number One hit. The record crossed over to become a sizable pop hit, as well. The twosome followed this with the equally kooky "Humphrey The Camel," "Fire Hydrant #79," and "The Legendary Chicken Fairy".
But there is more to the beautiful brunette and her long-haired husband than that. "There Must Be More To Life (Than Growing Old)" and "Poor Jody" ruminate on aging. "Bethlehem Steel" is about a discouraged, homesick factory worker. "Big Black Bird" and "The Shadows Of The Leaves" have mystical love lyrics. "Changin' Times" laments the commercialization of modern life. The compelling "Somewhere In Virginia In The Rain" tells the story of a working-class pair's breaking up and reconciliation.
Jack's groaning rasp oozes with soul, while Misty's delectable, behind the beat phrasing anticipated the popularity of stylists such as Willie Nelson. Jack and Misty are still writing, recording, and performing concerts which feature original songs and light comedy.
THE OFFICIAL JACK BLANCHARD & MISTY MORGAN HOME PAGE:
http://jackandmisty.com
EMAIL:
cd@jackandmisty.com
