The Professor Of Rock 'n' Roll, aka the Mighty Manfred Jones prefers the Bill Anderson version.
Leona Williams - I Wonder Where I'll Find You Tonight
Thanks, again, Andy Turner!
Porter Wagoner's The First Mrs. Jones is a perfect example of why he established a reputation for an artist who didn't shy away from intense topics. The song, written by Bill Anderson, is the story of a marriage gone bad and the resulting mayhem.
Seems like it's country music week around here...i just walked in from being on tour & am wiped out & sick as a dog but for many years this has always lifted my spirits this little number by Grandpa Jones & Ramona- I Don't Love Nobody
Jim Ed Brown - Lift Ring Pull Open (2:55)
That Jim Ed sure was a helpful dude. Here he's chiming in with directions, just in case you were too bombed to be able to figure out how to open a can of beer all by yourself.
As you already know, this is Country Music Week here on the Ichiban blog. Here are some promotional recordings for the big event made by some of the usual suspects and, perversely enough, some not-very-country acts like Connie Francis and the Kingston Trio, who were obviously striving for some crossover success. The 1961 promotional announcements were uploaded to Ichiban yesterday and can be found here.
SIDE A
Faron Young (:30)
Connie Francis #1 (:23)
Connie Francis #2 (:32)
Connie Francis #3 (:37)
Flatt & Scruggs (:26)
Patsy Cline #1 (:26)
Patsy Cline #2 (:37)
Patsy Cline #3 (:35)
SIDE B
Roy Acuff #1 (:36)
Roy Acuff #2 (:35)
Eddie Arnold #1 (:19)
Eddie Arnold #2 (:35)
Chet Atkins (:35)
Kingston Trio (:29)
Tommy Hunter (:37)
Gordon Lightfoot (:24)
Jim Reeves (:38)
Conway Twitty - She's All I Got
Here's Conway Twitty's 1972 version of She's All I Got, a huge hit a year earlier for Johnny Paycheck. Interestingly, Paycheck's version was a cover of pop singer Freddie North's original recording of the song, authored by Gary U.S. Bonds and Jerry Williams, known to you as Swamp Dogg.
Yes, it's Country Music Week here at WFMU's Ichiban blog, so listen in and see what it's all about! The 1962 promotional spots for this holy week can be found here.
SIDE A
Roy Drusky (:23)
George Hamilton (:24)
Ferlin Husky (:27)
Buck Owens (:29)
Minnie Pearl (:29)
Tex Ritter (:32)
Faron Young (:30)
SIDE B
Roy Drusky (:29)
Ferlin Husky (:29)
Buck Owens (:30)
Minnie Pearl (:28)
Webb Pierce (:24)
Tex Ritter (:30)
Faron Young (:15)
Go behind the scenes with Deke, Sugarballs and Cialas, The Rockabilly Gorilla!
"Deke Dickerson and Chris "Sugarballs" Sprague prepare for their Fall
2011 Tour by recruiting a new bass player--a gorilla they found picking
oranges for minimum wage. Through training and bribery, Grease Monkey
The Rockabilly Gorilla becomes the new bass player for the band. This
is the first installment in a tour diary documenting the exciting life
on the road of rockabilly musician Deke Dickerson."
You can catch their act at the Rodeo Bar in NYC this Saturday night at 9:30. Free!
George Jones - When The Wife Runs Off
Today George Jones turns 80 and tomorrow he'll be celebrating this milestone onstage at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Let's not exhaust this space to quibble over whether the mere existence and propagation of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is warranted or not. And we shall similarly pay minimal heed to the immutable truth that Paul Simon is in said Rock Hall not once but twice (as a solo performer and as half of Simon and Garfunkel), which to some may indicate he's been inducted either one too many times or two too many times. All that concerns this author is that as long as they let Rhymin' Simon in, those doors should open even wider to accommodate his late-'50s/early-'60s rockin' incarnations Jerry Landis, True Taylor, and Tico and the Triumphs.
It may be difficult to reconcile that the very same person who composed "A Simple Desultory Philippic" could also give birth to "Get Up and Do the Wobble," but one doesn't require a postage stamp contest à la Elvis to determine which manifestation of the singer and songwriter in question the typical Ichiban reader and listener would favor. So now that your preference has been duly presupposed, please enjoy this guaranteed Garfunkel-free trio of top teen tunes from the days when Paul Simon resided on the greaseball side of Music Town (all songs YouTube).
True Taylor — "True or False" (Big, 1958)
Here Paul yelps a rockabilly bopper that alternately could have been titled "Blue Moon of Kew Gardens."
Tico and the Triumphs — "Motorcycle" (Amy, 1961, Billboard No. 99)
Simon's sonata for the 'Sicle Set puts the "J.D." in early Jan and Dean.
Jerry Landis — "The Lone Teen Ranger" (Amy, 1962, Billboard No. 97)
His "Western Movies"-referencing dum-dum doo-wop ditty exposes a different kind of Olympics doping.
Sept. 28, 1966: Roy Orbison and actress Maggie Pierce promote the movie “The Fastest Guitar Alive.”
Here's Wendell Austin's hillbilly classic LSD, always worth hearing one more time. And you know who else recorded a pretty snappy version of this tune? Fuzztones front man Rudi Protrudi, on his country album It's A White Trash Thing. He may be much better known for his garage mayhem, but he definitely seems to have an affinity for the country stuff, too.
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