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WHO WE ARE  Hitchcock Country is run by the husband and wife team of Stan and Denise Hitchcock, with offices just north of Nashville in Hendersonville, Tennessee.Stan Hitchcock is the C.E.O. of BlueHighways TV, a Dish and Cable Television delivered network which allows its viewers to turn off of the superhighway of day to day television programming and experience the arts, culture and pastimes of the real America. Stan was part of the founding team behind Country Music Television (CMT) in the 1980's and then he went on to start Americana Television Network in the 1990's. While at CMT Stan began his popular "Heart to Heart" television shows with some of country music's most interesting artists and songwriters. The show derives its name from the observation, which Stan holds, that music is created from the heart and what better way to find out about the people who create the music, and sing it from the heart, than in a Heart to Heart setting. While at Americana Television Network, Stan led a team of television professionals in developing a network filled with original programming during a period of time when network television repeats were the standard fare for new cable television network start-ups. Much of this programming is the basis for our home video product sold in our Country Store here at the web site. Many people know of Stan as the host of a nationally syndicated television show in the 1960's and 1970's, "The Stan Hitchcock Show," where they were introduced to many of the up and coming country music artists of the day such as Barbara Mandrell, Jerry Reed and Vern Gosdin. And some of you out there remember Stan Hitchcock as the recording artist for Columbia Records and Epic recording label in the 60's through the 80's with the top-ten hits of "Honey I'm Home," "Dixie Belle," and "Shadow Of Your Smile." (check our Country Store for a growing list of re-mastered CDs of Stan Hitchcock's audio collection.) A few of you go back far enough to remember a young boy named Stan Hitchcock, traveling the mid-western fair circuit with the man who discovered him, Red Foley. When you listen to Stan's version of "Night Watch" on his "Softly and Tenderly from The Old Country Church" CD you will understand how he can put the emotion into this Red Foley signature song. Stan Hitchcock has carried music and his dedication to quality entertainment into nearly every aspect of his life. A navy man, stationed on the U.S.S. Bryce Canyon during the 1950s, Stan organized a country band, which quickly became the ship's band. Visiting dignitaries were greeted to solid American Country Music upon boarding the ship during those years! Following the service, Stan joined his Uncle Bob Johnson in starting The Good Samaritan Boys Ranch just north of Springfield, Missouri. The Ranch depended on donations for its survival and Stan produced a regional radio show which presented good old gospel music and information about the boys ranch. Donations flowed into The Good Samaritan Boys Ranch, but also interest about this young voice, Stan Hitchcock. A radio station engineer sent an air check tape to Nashville and not too long afterwards Stan received an invitation to visit Columbia Records, executive Don Law, who signed him to a contract. Currently Stan Hitchcock and his wife Denise have one son, Scott, living at home with them and many children and grand children living in surrounding states.
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