About Jack and Misty

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Photo: Jack and Misty after their induction into Buffalo Music HOF October 2010

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Husband and wife Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan have been singing and making music together since the late 50s, ever since they first met in Florida.

Their lives have followed extraordinary parallel paths throughout their lives. They were born in the same hospital in Buffalo NY to parents called John and Mary and both had a sister called Virginia. They share May as their birth month and they can both trace common ancestry to the Alsace region of Europe. They have so much in common in looks that they have at times been mistaken for brother and sister rather than man and wife.

 

They met during their twenties in Hollywood, near Miami. Florida, where they were both playing piano in neighbouring night clubs.

They were married on 7th October 1963.

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They started making music together almost as soon as they met and Jack produced some recordings of Misty, who was then using the names Maryanne Mail or Jacqueline Hyde. In 1969 they wrote and recorded the song "Tennessee Birdwalk" which became a #1 hit. This song also earned them a Grammy nomination and the Billboard Duo of the Year award in 1970.  They had a total of fifteen songs in the charts during the 60s and 70s and they toured in every US state apart from Hawaii during these years. They also made numerous appearances on radio and television.

 

All went quiet from them for a number of years. Then, in the early 90s, they released a new album titled "Back from the Dead" on CD. Following on, in 1992, came their CD, "Back in Harmony".

 

During these quiet years many people had forgotten them .... but their loyal fans did not forget them and were delighted when, thanks to the Internet, Jack & Misty reappeared on the scene. A friend had given Jack his first computer as an anniversary present in 2000, enabling him to get online, and one of their staunchest fans, Jerry Withers, built a website for them around this time at http://www.jackandmisty.net/. 

Since being online, they have gained many more new fans as well .... myself included.

 

Jack has been running a business he calls his 'Music Hospital' for a number of years. Here he has restored and remastered songs for many other artists. He has also remastered most of his and Misty's songs. Thanks to OMNI Recordings in Australia, three more CDs of their songs were released between 2008 and 2009: 'Life and Death', 'Weird Scenes inside the Birdhouse' and 'Nashville Sputnik'. More recently, they have also released two new compilations albums of their songs on CD Baby, "Traveling Music", in 2009, and "One More Song Together", in 2012. This songs on this latest CD were produced by Mike Miller and were recorded at Ozone Studio in Jacksonville, Florida. Some of the songs on these recordings, although written by Jack, had never been recorded by them before.

 

Jack & Misty are uniquely talented country music artists. Their harmonies are both superb and distinctive, with Jack's bass voice blending so well with Misty's rich alto. Jack is an real artist with words having the ability to "paint a picture with words". He has composed the majority of the songs they sing and their songs cover the whole range of life's experience. They also have an album of fun songs (or "crazy" songs as Jack's describes them) called "Jack & Misty are Crazy". This CD is out of print, but most of these songs can be found on their SoundClick pages, as can their instrumental tracks from their "Masters of the Keyboards" CD.

 

They are both accomplished keyboard artists, playing much of their own background music. Jack also plays guitars, acoustic and Hawaiian steel. They have been accompanied on their recordings by some of the best musicians in the business. These include: Hargus (Pig) Robbins, Pete Drake, Lloyd Green, Buddy Emmons, Weldon Myrick, Buddy Spicher, Vassar Clements, Henry Strelecki, Junior Huskey, Bob Moore, Jackie Raye, Billy Sanford, Pete Wade, Jerry Shook, Doug Tarrant, Charlie McCoy, Bobby Thompson, Larrie London, Buddy Harmon, Ronny Caban, Pete Wade, Kelso Hurston .... and many others..

 

Jack & Misty have to be heard to be appreciated. Their songs just get better with the playing. They have something about them that gives them a "must listen again ... and again .... and again" quality. No how many times I listen to their songs I just NEVER, ever get tired of hearing them. I just grow to love them more each day. Many of their songs have recently been remastered by Jack to make them sound even better.