dave
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Post by dave on Aug 7, 2016 1:18:07 GMT
QC I have no idea on any of the questions except perhaps the "I could waltz across Texas with you" from Earnest Tubb's Greatest Hits.
I bow to you and your knowledge of the arcane and look forward to the answers. I will not attempt to look up any of the questions but will await your response with the answers.
I loved Earnest Tubb but certainly remember Bob Wills, Hank Snow, Roy Acuff, Sons of the Pioneers and many others since I listened with mom and dad to the Grand Ole Opry and plus they had all the 78 recordings I had to move to play my Ballad of Davy Crockett 45. I later acquired a taste for Col Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, the Carter Family, the Speers, the Cathedrals, Johnny Horton, Brother Dave Gardner and many other famous unknowns.
I wished I could listen to all the old tapes you mentioned and I suspect you would be right there with me! Regards Dave
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Post by quincannon on Aug 7, 2016 2:01:52 GMT
1) He's In The Jailhouse Now - Webb Pierce.
2) "T for Texas, T for Tennessee, T for Thelma that woman made a wreck out of me" T For Texas, and I thought that a gimmi as it is by none other than the Mississippi Blue Yodeler himself Jimmie Rogers.
3) "Waltz Across Texas" a signature song for Ernest Tubb.
4) "Music Makin Mama from Memphis, Tennessee" Hank Snow and the Rainbow Ranch Boys.
Bonus
"She's bound to go where there ain't no snow a fallin - One More Ride"
Written by Bob Nolan, and as was the plight of so many in the depression era Nolan was hoboing across country, and it is alleged that he wrote it while riding in a Santa Fe boxcar heading west (and to his eventual great success). It was later transcribed for broadcast by the Pioneer Trio, one of whose members was Leonard Franklin Slye, who was after 1938 known, literally to the entire world, civilized and uncivilized alike, as the great Roy Rogers. The Pioneer Trio changed its name to the Sons of The Pioneers when a radio announcer introduced them that way. When asked why later he told Nolan, Slye, and the other member Tim Spenser, that they were far too young to be pioneers, and the name stuck. Nolan and Slye had sung together for a short time before, but I forget the name of that group, but it was different from The Pioneers.
If you love country music as I do, and I am not talking about the crapola of today, you would be in hog heaven listening to those tapes, with the bonus that Gray also told the back stories, such as the one I related on The Pioneers.
I have a similar affection for the music of Glenn Miller, but most of his contemporaries leave me cold, with the exception of the Dorsey Brothers. Glenn Miller the commercial band, not the AAF band he led. They do not quite make the pre-war mark, and I think it is the vocals more than anything else.
If you like Bob Wills, get your hands on a copy of his biography "San Antonio Rose" That is a cover to cover back story.
All this said I gave my one musical accomplishment away recently, a 1952 Gibson acoustic, to my as of tomorrow ex-Rector. He is one hillbilly picking SOB, and had the guitar fully restored. Dropped by the house and showed me the restoration just last Tuesday. He leaves Monday for his new parish in Fairhope, Alabama.
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dave
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Post by dave on Aug 7, 2016 2:56:44 GMT
Thank you for the answers. I should have thought of the "Singing Brakeman" from Meridian as you mentioned Jimmie Rogers. I saw Hank Snow in person twice at the Old Grand Opry back in the late 60's. I was at school in Chattanooga and hitched to Nashville several times for the Opry where I saw all of the greats from Minnie Pearl to Ray Acuff to Loretta Lynn to Tex Ritter to Ernest Tubb and of course the Possum himself!
Mom and dad loved Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman but Harbor Lights was their favorite. I can't remember how often I heard "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye" while they stacked their records. God what I would not give to have one of those magic nights again. Regards Dave
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Post by quincannon on Aug 7, 2016 3:08:10 GMT
You do have them, again and again for they are always there, just as I do, and just as I expect you are having tonight
Sammy Kaye. He also had "Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition". I suppose you know the origins of that one as it deals with Pearl Harbor, aboard USS New Orleans.
Harbor Lights is one of those that you have to trip off stage to mess up. Kaye had his. Crosby had his, and later The Platters had a mega hit of it in the late 1950's showing that a good old song, and smaltz never wears thin.
Digressing. Did you know that the Pioneers and Crosby signed their contracts with Columbia on the same day?
Crosby also had a hit with New San Antonio Rose, but my favorite of his was "Delores" with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, backing him up, followed closely by "Bells of Saint Mary's"
PS: If Benteen asks for my phone number and you have it, give it to him. If you do not have it and want it call PM me or ask Tom or Steve. Tom and I do far more, and get more accomplished, off board then we ever do on.
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carl
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Post by carl on Aug 7, 2016 14:58:38 GMT
Don't overlook "Wildwood Flower" by Mother Maybelle.
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Post by quincannon on Aug 7, 2016 19:40:18 GMT
That Carl, would be like trying to overlook a bull elephant in a five by seven bathroom.
When I mentioned "One More Ride" yesterday, and it is by far my favorite of the Pioneer songbook, I was flipping through the net to make sure I had the lyrics just right for the quiz. I ran across a version of One More Ride by Johnny Cash and Marty Stuart, along with Doc and Merle Watson. Cash did it on one of his early Sun albums, and it was OK, but Cash and the other three just nailed the song the way it should be sung in the one I ran across yesterday. It is on You tube if anyone is interested.
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Post by deadwoodgultch on Aug 10, 2016 12:29:51 GMT
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Post by quincannon on Aug 10, 2016 14:14:37 GMT
Didn't know that cowboys herded cattle in Downtown San Antonio. That must give the River Walk tourists a bit of a pause.
Nice to hear the song nonetheless. Thanks Tom.
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Post by Elwood on Mar 3, 2023 0:50:06 GMT
What! No one likes the Blues Brothers version of Ghost riders? Not a fan of it. Try B Movie Boxcar Blues instead. They also did a cool version of J. Horton’s Sink the Bismarck for the movie but it was not used. You can find it on YouTube
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Post by quincannon on Mar 3, 2023 2:31:56 GMT
Good country music stopped when Bob Wills and Patsy Cline died. It has gone down hill ever since.
Not Sink the Bismark, but the Jimmy Driftwood version of the Battle of New Orleans is much better than the version that became popular. If you really want pure country though go back to the old fiddle tune "The Eighth of January" which both versions are based on. If memory serves there is a cut of it on the Asleep at The Wheel album Remember the Alamo
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Post by Elwood on Oct 7, 2023 18:01:35 GMT
Not Sink the Bismark, but the Jimmy Driftwood version of the Battle of New Orleans is much better than the version that became popular. If you really want pure country though go back to the old fiddle tune "The Eighth of January" which both versions are based on. If memory serves there is a cut of it on the Asleep at The Wheel album Remember the Alamo Reading this thread again. I didn’t realize Horton’s version was a cover. Listened to them over on YouTube. Driftwood’s and some instrumental ones. Johnny left a couple of verses out. Singing about Gen. Packingham. Very cool. We visited the New Orleans battlefield back in January. Fascinating. Much the same as it was in 1815.
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Post by quincannon on Oct 7, 2023 18:15:24 GMT
Driftwood was one of those second/third tier country artists.
Back in the day, Bluegrass on WAMU in DC was in afternoon drive time. The host was the late Jerry Grey. He also had a country and western show on Saturday as well. Jerry, whom I met personally at a Riders in the Sky concert, probably knew more about both than anyone on the planet. That is where I first learned about Driftwood. He also introduced me to the Australian legend Slim Dusty. I could listen to Slim Dusty all day and never tire of it. Dusty's Waltzing Matilda is just magnificent if you like country music
Alas, I am now engaged in Tosca.
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