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Jeanne was my second cousin, she was a year younger than me. It was cool when we were teenagers know I had a singer on the radio. A couple of my buddies thought she was hot. Had a little sister Janie who performed with her. Thanks Chris , it has brought back memories.

Great Music!!!

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Cliffie toured with Lucky White and His Dude Ranch Playboys in the 1940s. Cliffie is on the cover of Lucky's Album: NO MUSIC NO BETTIES NO LUCKY. You can find his album here on youtube.

Keep on Shakin...

Also noteworthy is the driving rhythm section behind this unknown steel player who is absolutely HOT, and his arrangement of the song is quite unique and very good. The bass man and the drummer are into each other's grooves and the band is in the pocket. They sound very studio worthy. This steel player is adept and knows his instrument and employs many of the typical dynamics and steel guitar techniques of the day. Outside of using many of Noel Boggs licks (and a few of Leon McAuliffe's for good measure) the other tip of the hat to the original Bob Wills Texas Playboys recording from 1945 is his imitation of Jimmy Wyble's opening notes from his electric guitar solo heard at 0:18 (which Wyble lifted from Charlie Christian's solo on Benny Goodman's Sextet recording of 'I Can't Give You Anything But Love' from 1940!) from the Wills record as well as Wyble's 'walking up the strings' in ascending octaves heard here at 0:26. I'm thinking this may be a Les Anderson acetate! He was a very great steel player who was known to emulate both Noel Boggs and Leon McAuliffe who was his 1st steel guitar hero. He was a Texas Playboy off and on from summer 1943 until mid-1945 and he made numerous AFRS recordings with Wills as well as an Oct 1945 session for Columbia records where he cut his best-known steel guitar tune, 'This Is Southland' which was recorded by many steel greats and remains a standard. He also worked with Spade Cooley - often trading solos with Boggs on live dances and filling in when Boggs either quit or Cooley fired him. Mostly he was a vocalist for Cooley both at dances, on radio and recordings but he also was an able guitarist on the six-string electric standard guitar playing many of the 3rd part arrangements with Boggs and Wyble (in place of Cameron Hill who did not get on well with Cooley) Les Also made scads of solo records for numerous labels where he sang and played his steel, and was a regular on Town Hall Party. He was the legendary steel player who had a malfunctioning steel or amplifier right after Bob Wills hired him. He missed cues and was unable to play a solo when Bob pointed his fiddle bow and hollered at him, "Take it away, Les!" After the 2nd attempt an irate Wills came up to Les and said, "When I tell you to play, I want you to do something exciting!" The next song Wills hollered again pointing that bow and Les was still unable to get any sound out of his steel. Flustered, Les stood up and kicked his steel off the stage onto the dance floor. Wills never batted an eye, as he went to the mic and said, "Now that was exciting!" the next day Bob and some of the band took Les to a music store and Wills bought him a brand-new steel and amplifier just like the rig Noel Boggs and Joaquin Murphey were playing. Les told me when I interviewed him at the 1989 Bob Wills Days festival concert on the last Saturday in April that year in Turkey, Texas, "I was not a very good steel player. I had no confidence and all I knew was a few of Leon's licks and some of Noel's, especially, Noel's tuning. I was part Leon and part Noel, half and half. Bob told me to do my own thing, and I did that with him. He gave me the confidence to play. He made me believe in myself as a steel player. I was never worth a dime in any other band playing steel, not even my own. I was fortunate to be able to sing. A few of my records even sold and made the charts briefly. I recorded my tune 'This Is Southland' back in 1945 on a little label when I made my first records, but I played it so badly they never released it and the master if they had one is lost. It was probably destroyed because it was terrible. Later that year I recorded it with Bob, and he made that song happen because had not been for him, I never could have played it that well."

I believe these are recordings specifically made for World Transcriptions in 1953 which were made for radio and used as station break tunes all under the 2-minute mark. All of the tunes are instrumentals with very sparse commercial arrangements and no vocals which also speaks to the station break thing. Also noteworthy is the presence of fellow former pre-WWII Tulsa era Texas Playboys alumnus Wayne Johnson on alto sax (who left the band a year or so after 1953) and former Texas Playboys fiddler Keith Coleman who arrived on Leon's Cimarron Boys band in 1953 replacing the recently departed Bobby Bruce who returned to California to re-join Wills and his Playboys briefly right before commencing his lengthy career as a 1st call A-team session man out of L.A.'s AFM Local #47 and his numerous Hollywood film score appearances for the succeeding five or six decades. Coleman can be heard here twin-fiddling with Jimmy Hall who also left the Cimarron Boys in '53.

I really appreciate your channel. This is the only place I can find some of this beautiful music.

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Sol K Bright , the master of the National Hawaiian Tricone . Thanks Chris for posting this great music .

thanks for sharing this...corny but a product of the times and musical. I don't think the women are faking their instruments. If they are, coaching was great. and i so want Merle's guitar.

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Smuggler's Cove brought me here. Wonderful.

I have a CD with all of these songs on it with the same players. I think it is called Billy Jack Wills Live in Sacramento. I found it in a used record and book shop in San Francisco.

I believe Vance Terry was around 17 years old at the time of this recording. He was an absolute master of the steel guitar even at that young age.

Amazing. Also I love the description that only gives medium, fast or slow... probably to help the DJs to decide.😊 thanks as always!

How does it compare to the 45rpm PTP 12 inch, Ortofon SPU version on RUclips? Maybe yours is more naturally dynamic(i.e. 24 bit)?

Vance Terry was the best pedal steel player that ever lived.

Hi Chris, I put up a couple of more clips on dad @FirstTeleUser - Hope you are well, and thank you keeping dad and Speedy's name alive for all players to enjoy. John Bryant

Best time is the time is with my friends ,Tex Ritter and Earnest Tubb!!❤🙏🙏🌹🌹

Love ya ,Tex!!..

Hi Chris, you might want to check out documentary footage I put up - I hope everyone enjoys. Send me a note to say hello. John Bryant (JB)

24:26 Red River Valley by Range Riders: Jimmy Bryant, Billy Liebert & Darla Daret. Jimmy Bryant - Electric Guitar 🎸 Billy Liebert - Accordion & Piano 🪗

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Brilliant! Right on time! I could listen to it all day.

Beautiful makes me almost shed tears one of the greatest voices of country ever 🥲

I totaly have forgotten about this until it came poppin' up today. I reckon my old post from six years ago and have to confirm, Chis, this is super cool! Thanx for the upload!

Amazing ! some rare stuff , thanks Chris for posting this historic music . I am the proud owner of a 1928 National Hawaiian German Silver style 1. That looks like a style 2 in the photo . Incredible instruments

Thanks for the great posting of Sol Hoopii playing the National Hawaiian Tricone guitar !

The National Hawaiian Tricone guitars are sometimes mistaken for electric guitars , they have that slightly distorted electric sound, long sustain and incredible dynamics , from a whisper to a scream ! These Hawaiian non fretting guitars like the one Sol is shown with in the picture with the neck and body made as one piece have that sound that the Spanish style fretted instruments don't really have . That is why the National Tricone was designed, for playing with the steel bar . National Hawaiian German Silver Tricones are incredible instruments. I own a 1928 National Hawaiian German Silver Tricone #945 . National Resophonic instruments can build you a brand new one on a special order . Truly a magical instrument beyond compare .

Excellent video of a true legend. With an instrument hand built by another legend, Paul Bigsby. This instrument is shown extensively in the book "The Story of Paul Bigsby" by Andy Babiuk, (FG Publishing, 2008). This book shows practically all Bigsby's instruments, included his famous Bigsby vibrato. It's a book hard to lay down once you start reading it. Very highly recommended.

Great musical example for future singers.

Norma Jean used Dorothy Dandrige as an inspiration when creating the blonde bombshell. You can literally see the mannerisms that inspired her Marilyn Monroe character in this clip. I wish they could have gotten a picture together, they even died around the same age in the same way.

Bought a lap steel with a Lace pickup just so I could copy the Bernie Kaai sound. Love it.

Fantastic!!!! Thanks for this!

Watching this performance makes me want to have adult relations with Dorothy.

Huge Roy Lanham fan.......love the Whipporwills

Thankyou C! Hawaiian is all I am winen for.

Perhaps the greatest picker of all time; if country ain't your piece of cake, this man alone must convince it is.. As in yesteryears Jerusalem, it showes Kentucky is the center of the earth..

Refreshing

Best idea today: search "pedal steel album"

The song had been originally recorded by Ella Mae Morse and released earlier in 1942. I find it rather amazing that Dorothy Dandridge did a version, on film no less, that same year.

I bet they had listened to Django at some point

First track is pretty frantic.

She is still one of the most beautifullest woman in the world. Good gosh golly.

The sweet defeat of delete . . . I win & you have no idea. Aloha!

Too speedy for the average man!

I had never heard that recording. Thank you for sharing. I love the Hammond S6! Some say mockingly the chord organ is to music what painting-by-numbers is to painting. I don’t understand why anyone should ridicule artistic hobbies of any kind. Many young kids acquired a taste for music playing on those inexpensive instruments.

This is real musicianship. I doubt that any of today's "super guitarists" could even come close to this level without electronic gimmicks.