In the movie Coal Miner's Daughter, the true story of Loretta Lynn's early life and career, there's a sequence where Loretta and her husband Doolittle drive around the Southern states visiting radio stations and asking them to play her first record, on the Zero label, "Honky-Tonk Girl."
I was trying to find the actors who portray the DJs they meet - one I didn't think I would find because I don't believe he's credited in the film, but IMDB saved the day - he's an actor named Royce Clark, pictured at the bottom of this post.
There's a scene where he's interviewing Loretta (played by Sissy Spacek) on-air: he's smoking a cigarette - no "Mind if I smoke?" in those days... Loretta makes a mistake and says the word "horny" on the air - everybody is like, "What??!!"
She doesn't know what it means - she says, apologetically, "I didn't know it was dirty!"
A station manager stomps in and berates her and adds, "I ain't never playin' another record of yours on this station!"
As Loretta and Doolittle are on their way out, the DJ played by Royce Clark catches up with them and tells them, "Don't worry about him. If you're on the charts, you're gonna get played."
They don't know what the "charts" are; he tells them, and explains, "You're Number 14, nationwide!"
When the couple arrive in Nashville and park by the Grand Old Opry, Loretta worries that they won't let her in, to perform, because she hasn't 'paid her dues' yet. Doolittle says, "How they gonna keep us out?" Then the camera is up above them looking down, and Doolittle (played by Tommy Lee Jones) is looking up as he says in a wondrous tone, "We're Number fourteen - nationwide!"
Royce Clark
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