Lillie Bates on her own American label

 
Lillie Bates
Marc Lewis And The Counts

28395 -  A Man Named Wallace (Lillie Bates, Pinpoint Pub., BMI)
28396 -  Dilemma (Lillie Bates, Pinpoint Pub., BMI)

American Records
Hope, Indiana [1971]

Bringing his campaign to Columbus in "whistle stop" fashion, Alabama Gov. George Wallace will be at Bakalar Municipal airport at 1 p.m. Monday for a 1-hour rally and press conference one day before the Indiana Presidential primary voting The airport rally is to begin at 12:30 p.m. with the public invited.

"There's a man from Alabama, George Wallace is his name. In the year of 1968, he  rose to national fame. "He ran but it wasn't meant to be. He'll run again in 72, just for you and me."  These words came to Mrs. Raleigh Bates of 624 Walnut street in Hope one morning as she was washing dishes. A fan of George Wallace since the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, Mrs. Bates says that Governor Wallace will win' Indiana in Tuesday's primary. When George Wallace arrives at the Columbus Bakalar airport ' at 12:30 'p.m. Monday, Mrs. Bates will be there to greet him . but doubts that she will have the opportunity to sing her song for him. ." "I did sing it to him in Toledo last fall," Mrs. Bates said. "I have a letter of appreciation from him

The song, "A Man Named Wallace," has been recorded on a 45-speed' record. Mrs. Bates ; designed the nameplate on the record in red, white and blue, and titled the recording "American Records".  Mrs. Bates recalls she left the dishes in the sink and completed the words to her song in about a half-hour. She then contacted Marc Lewis, a Hope guitarist,, and with a backup group, The Counts, Mrs. Bates recorded the song in Cincinnati. There are . 4,000 copies available and interested persons may call Mrs. Bates at 546-5550 to order the record.

Expenses of the recording have amounted to about $ 1,000 ' which Mrs. Bates has paid out of her own pocket. . The second verse of Mrs. Bate's song goes: "He knows that things in ' Washington aren't going right at all, and if they aren't straightened out, we're riding for a fall.

"He believes in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. If Nixon doesn't straighten out, he'll get in there and fighter Mrs. Bates and her husband were active in setting up a Wallace headquarters in Columbus for the 1968 campaign and have been faithful supporters ever since. Mrs. Bates was dressed patriotically in red; white and blue for her interview at The Republic. She also wore a jeweled American flag pin and jeweled flag earrings. ... '. , In another verse, Mrs. Bates sings: "Now we all know Mr. Nixon and the cabinet he chose. He isn't interested in doing right, this everybody knows. He's used by the insiders, of this there is no doubt. "

From an edited article published in The Republic from Columbus, Indiana, April 29, 1972