Wow, very touching story.  It is wonderful that Alan could do that for him and his mom.  I am sure it meant a lot to both of them.  Thanks for sharing that story.

I think a lot of Alan's younger audience love that song.  It was released when Rachel was very little and she had just gotten a Bitty Baby doll (American girl doll for little girls) as a gift.  She always thought Alan was singing about her Bitty Baby which is why she started bringing Bitty to all his shows.  Little 'Bitty Baby' in a little bitty gown.....   I'd hold Rachel up over my head (can't do that now) and she'd sing and hold her Bitty Baby and usually she'd get on the big screen behind Alan as the 'pretty little girl' in the song.  He has signed her doll many times during encores.  At first he'd sign her clothes, but once Rachel dressed her doll in a 'little bitty WHITE gown' and I think maybe he didn't want to write on it, so he signed her HEAD.  Rachel considered it her Alan tattoo.  LOL   Rachel even had me help her write a note once to Alan, and she took all her birthday money and bought another Bitty Baby doll and wanted to give it to Dani to let her know how much it meant to have her Daddy singing/signing Little Bitty at all his concerts.   When Rachel FINALLY got to meet Alan she said to him 'I'm the Little Bitty Girl'  and he said 'It's Nice to Finally Meet You and you are ALL GROWN UP!"

I also remember watching a Rosie O'Donnell episode once.  Alan had released Everything I Love, the second song off the album after Little Bitty.  He and the Strayhorns were set to play it on her show and she asked them to please sing Little Bitty because (I think this is what she said):  It was her son's favorite song and they sang it in the bathtub every day (<--or something like that).  So they did switch gears and sang Little Bitty.

We saw Alan in Atlantic City last week and got the tickets at the very last minute.  We were 2+ hours from home and Rachel did not have her Bitty baby with her, so it was the first time in about 18 years she went to a concert without her.   However she and Paul did make it to the show in Hershey this past Saturday and she brought Bitty Baby along for that one.

Hope

Thanks for the link. We are playing it now.  I am enjoying hearing Alan's comments about the different songs after they finish playing.    Little Bitty is on now!!   Very special song for Rachel and her Bitty Baby.
Hope

Jimmy's singin' It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere again.   (No Alan)

Just watched a live backstage interview with Jimmy.  He had a big Hershey bar and was balancing it on his head. 

He said Alan had to get home fast or he would've been part of the interview.... he was commenting on how fast Alan was able to get on his bus ....I guess Rachel was right  when she saw it leave.   
 
Bummer he won't sing with Jimmy later on, but Jimmy's show will still be great  and its soo crisp and clear on this channel he provides.   

....   watching live feed now....its incredible!!!!!!!

Other updates:

He did sing GOOD TIME  and they held up our regular letters (not the colored ones we had to frantically make in Atlantic City last week).   Paul said they did get on the big screen, and then during the second time, Alan said to the camera man to make sure he got the G O O D T I M E  letters.   I guess he could see them just fine from the 25th row.


Also a cyber hello to Alan's manager who came over and said hi to Rachel and Paul, and probably was thinking....not that Bitty Baby Doll again!!!!  LOLOL

No encore.   Rachel said as soon as Where I Come From was over she saw Alan's bus move.   However, I remember when he performed with George Strait in Pittsburgh, that he came out later ...   in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and sang a couple numbers with George.  I am going to try to watch Jimmy's concert online at the link he has posted.  

Hopefully Alan will join him on stage at some point.


Link to live performance:

http://www.margaritaville.tv/live

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Where I Come From~~~

YAY!!! 

  A long long time ago before this song was ever released, Alan played this song AT HERSHEY... my kids were little but they knew ALL THE WORDS  because Rachel insisted it would be a #1 song the first time we listened to the album.

My kids stood up during the chorus every time and sang the lyrics back at Alan and the Strayhorns.  The band was pointing at them,  and even Alan was laughing!!!   

What a big hit it has become.

Way down yonder...........................   

      Chattahoochee ~~~

  I remember when he changed the words to

      We fogged up the windows in my old Pick-up
           I was willin' but she got the hiccups

It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere...  I am guessing Jimmy will come out  or IS out??   They just called me back but I couldn't hear what they were saying.... can hear the concert though... 

...   sounds like both of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He must be getting ready to do Good Time.  Rachel told me when it came on she was gonna hang up so she could hold up the signs!   (WISH I WAS THERE).   Hope Alan sees them holding up the letters as they are not as close to the stage as they usually are.

There's that incredible piano solo.......


 Remember When~~~ 

Here comes Monty putting on his Zac Brown hat...    can you guess what they're about to sing??


...   As She's Walking Away ~~

He's introducing the band.   Wonder if any friends or relatives are there from Pittsburgh this time......


oh cool cool cool   He's singing  Pittsburgh Steelers.......

Don't Rock the Jukebox ~~~~

  I am doing a wash (from being at the shore).  For once I don't mind doing it because I am being serenaded (sort of)
   by Alan!!     So cool!!!     



 

Where Were You!

      Lots of people in the audience singing and cheering!