Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle "Well I Guess I Told You Off"
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The Carter Sisters kick off a Grand Ole Opry Show with a song about sisterly "love"
"I Guess I Told You Off " 1955 Anita and Helen Carter (accordion) are highlighted with a fiddle solo by Dale Potter, Becky Bowman is playing bass and Mother Maybelle is on guitar.
#Cartersisterscountrymusichalloffame
Back when Country music was still Country.
She’s throwing jabs 😮❤😂
Next to Anitas duet with Hank Williams this is the most charming thing on the internet and I mean the whole internet.
Fun
Have you heard them do Dixie Darlin?
Who is playing the bass violin? RelAted ?
That was one of the songs my mother would sing as she was quilting.
I can't get enough of looking at Anita Carter. If you're looking for the most beautiful 1950s women, she's on top of the list.
My dear Stefan,you are so right and when you think that the 1950s gave us Jean Simmonds,Grace Kelly and Virginia Maskel thats saying a lot
To je June
Sorry, she cannot hold a candle to her sister Helen
@@bobbeck5866 Very true, June looks great here too.
@@bobbeck5866that’s a hot take my friend
If brains were thousand dollar bills
I'd tell you what we'd bet
You wouldn't have enough
To buy a cup of coffee yet
Well, that ain't the way I heared it
But here's a though for you
Your's might as well be coffee grounds
For all the thinking they'll do
Well I guess I told you off
That ought to hold you for a spell
Furthermore if you don't like it
You can pack tonight, get out of sight
And go jump in the well!
Sometimes you make me so darn mad
That here's what I could do
I'd pick you up and shake you up
And bite you half in two
Well that ain't the way I heared it
And sister if you do
You'll learn right quick that you done
Bit off more than you can chew
Well I guess I told you off
That ought to hold you for a spell
Furthermore if you don't like it
You can pack tonight, get out of sight
And go jump in the well!
If common sense was ice cubes
You can take it straight from me
You wouldn't even have enough
To cool a glass of tea
Well that ain't the way I heared it
You're just a wasting breath
Huh, if them ice cubes was ignorance
You'd done be froze to death
Well I guess I told you off
That ought to hold you for a spell
Furthermore if you don't like it
You can pack tonight, get out of sight
And go jump in the well!
A blessed and talented family of the 20th Century!
That’s pretty cool
Wow Helen can really play that accordion 👍👍👍😊💕
Helen was the best of them all in every way.
She is a Doll.
Becky Bowman does a phenomenal job on the bass!
Where was June? This looks pretty early for her to be with Johnny Cash yet.
@@carmenhardy2629 What makes you think she was with Johnny?
@@carmenhardy2629 1955 was when she was in acting school in NY I believe.
she didn't know what to do with her hands-- so adorable
At none point, Anita was married to the fiddler.
I swear it was part of the act for her to be cute and childish? The facial expressions were excellent in my opinion and it all went together….
@@cityzen2717 diddling the fiddler
@@TahtahmesDiary She was doing an imitation of June who normally sounds and acts like this.
@@TahtahmesDiary ruclips.net/video/z9E2dT7gK7g/видео.html
I'm reminded of my favorite video of june carter saying "You had to sing in key cause if you didn't mama would look at you like you were a snake or give you a snake eye or something like that... 🙃
Hello Amy. How are you?
Great foot tapping tune from yesteryear by the greatest family ever
Christ Gordon Agree love it!
What a fun song!
The person who introduced them was country singer Carl Smith. He was married to June Carter. They obviously divorced and a few years later, June would rescue Johnny Cash from his issues with substance abuse and they would have loving marriage until "death do us part".
June was always so playfull . Real cute song
That is Anita Carter messing with her sister Helen playing the accordion.
@@tonylupo1764 Yes I thought it was June at first due to the naughty behaviour, however woke up it was Anita, what a stunner, this really shows her at her prime.
But she sounds like June here@@adrianfewster8391
Yes!! No editing out scenes. Thank you so much!
Yea that's exactly why I made this video because I saw that chopped up video with someone messing with this great classic performance and dubbing in his own piano smh .
Isn't it great how they kick off the show? They were top stars on the biggest Country show in the nation.
Agreed!
@@111JenA hello Jennifer. How are you?
@@111JenA Hello , how're you doing, I hope you are doing fine. I'm David from Houston, Texas. Where are you from? You seems like a real Country girl😊🌹
Love those dresses.
The recoloring makes it look great!
Lol I love how anita tryed to mess with her instrument the look she gave her and they stared Lol
She was imitating June.
See this performance with June and you'll see the imitation that Anita is doing not only with her hand movements but the voice, too. ruclips.net/video/z9E2dT7gK7g/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/3zFrEkFI0l8/видео.html
If I'm not mistaken that Fiddle player that stepped up was a young Dale Potter who was married to Anita from 1950-53
Dale Potter and Anita Carters marriage was annulled weeks after they married in 1950 and Anita married one of Potters friends Don Davis on Anita's birthday March 31 in 1953 Don was a steel guitar player that worked with George Morgan on the Opry and these Gannaway shows Also he had worked on Hank Williams early MGM recordings and a lot of other studio recordings over the years. He wrote a book titled "Nashville Steeler" that you can find on Amazon.
@@tonylupo1764 Both Dale and Don worked on Hank recordings
Wonderful ! enjoyed very much !
Hello Virginia. How are you?
🌷Oh that wicked sweet girl!Picking on her sister like that! Bet she told her off later!🌻😇🎶💙💚
Hello Mary. How are you?
June,ever the comedian. ❤
Beautiful song! Bravo performance! Thanks for video! 😄 Valentina.
Aleksandr55881 Aren't they fun?
Hello Aleksandr. How are you?
@@mikebartek3592 Thank you! Good.🎶
That's good. Where are you from?
@@mikebartek3592 Russia.🙋 Valentina is my name.😁All the best for you!🐧💝😊
Helen was a very good accordionist!
❤️❤️❤️. Someone help me. Who is playing the bass violin?
I want the same tie
I guess June was off on a tour at the time this show was recorded, forcing Anita into the comical role that June might otherwise have done.
That's what I was thinking
Why does Helen say Sorry at 0:42 any ideas? Anita was certainly in a mischievous mood in the rest of the performance. I would guess Mother Maybelle had something to say afterwards.
Thank you Tony, for posting this
Very astute observation, I never noticed that before , I sure would like to ask them. They were so close, especially Anita and Helen .
I think it's part of the act. Being appalled about the mean things the other one says.
At 0:42 Helen doesn't say sorry, she calls Anita a smarty. Due to that little line in the song that Anita had just sang.
@@onions8777 I agree, it was "smarty".
Here is the studio version of "Well I Guess I told You Off" Enjoy , all 3 girls sing on it I believe
ruclips.net/video/v1xqH_gRvHU/видео.html
Tony Lupo wow thank you so much for the post and sharing!
@@111JenA, You're very welcome
Helen gives her that long look, it lets on some friskiness we don't get to see when Junie's there.
Shawni Ysais the song is called I guess I told you off, see the link between their acting... Do you also think that’s Anita’s completely natural voice too lol
To me it seems that Anita is doing June's role.
@@cross_fire935 Exactly. Anita's definitely impersonating June, and she does an excellent job.
Where on string Bass ?
YE OLD HABA DASHA!
Great...was that June in front of Mother Maybelle?
June is not in this video.
From left to right Maybelle Anita Carter, Becky Bowman (bass) and Helen Carter (accordion)
Who's the woman on bass?
Pub Cheese That is Becky Bowman a family friend ,she took over on bass when Anita decided that playing bass wasn't lady-like and was singing a lot of solo and duet songs in the mid 50s
Thanks Tony.
Tony Lupo thanks was wondering the same thing!
Tony Lupo no that one was mother Maybelle’s mistress, Violet Scheinringer.
Her name is Becky Bowman. She is my second cousin.
Man they were so entertaining. Even without June
What’s with the whistle at the beginning?
Blowing the whistle by the solemn old judge George Hay was a tradition that he started to start the Opry.
Was that June pokin' at Helen's accordion @ 1:03 and Anita on Bass telling her to stop ? lol
Anita Carter is singing lead and poking at Helens accordion, and that is family friend and bandmate Becky Bowman playing bass and telling Anita to stop messing with Helen
@@tonylupo1764 Oh that Anita ,.. thanks for clearing that up Tony !
Whoops, Anita messed up. She sang, If "common sense" was ice cubes, you done be froze to death. She should have said, If them ices cubes was ignorance, you done be froze to death.
I forgive her.
Tidbit "That ain't the way I heer'd it" was previously made popular by the Old-Timer( Bill Thompson) on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio.
nope in the studio recorded version June says the same , so i guess it aint no mistake :)
Bill Thompson did do a skit where the go to phrase was "That ain't the way I heard it" The Girls took that phrase and skit idea and wrote this song. They named the song "I Guess I told You Off"
Actually, it makes sense the way Anita sang it. She's answering Helen's previous verse. Helen sings just before that, "If Common sense was ice cubes, you can take it straight from me, you wouldn't even have enough to cool a cup a tea." (Indicating Anita doesn't have much common sense.) So Anita answers, "That ain't the way I heared it, you're just a wasting breath, 'cause if common sense was ice cubes, you'd done be froze to death". (Meaning Anita says she has so much common sense, that if it was ice cubes Anita would be froze to death just being near her.)
@@39thala
If you search websites for the lyrics of this song, you will find each one of them write
"If them ice cubes was ignorance you'd done be froze to death".
If common sense = ice cube, and you have no common sense, then you would be warm.
If ignorance = ice cube, and you are ignorant, then you would be frozen.
Neither is one bragging about themselves, they are belittling the other.
Each line, like the other lines in this song, is a dig at the character of the other and not a comparison to one another.
@@pubcheese5045 , But that's just it, she did not sing the "Ignorance" lyric,. She changed it, which was my whole point of explaining what she could only have meant by changing the lyric as she did. It still ended up with the same result, that the other person (Helen) would be 'froze to death'. Anita just took a different path lyrically to make that point.
I’m a little confused. I’m thinking that the sister playing accordian is Helen (often seen as a blond); June (the one pretending to pick on Helen), and that another lady is playing bass. I don’t see Anita. Does someone know the name of the lady playing bass (filling in for Anita)?
June is not in this video, Anita is the one singing and messing with her sister Helen (accordion)
Family friend Becky Bowman is playing the bass.
@@tonylupo1764 Thank you, Tony, for explaining this to me!
Who is playing the bass?
Becky Bowman , she joined the Carters when Helen was pregnant with her 2nd child in 1952
@@tonylupo1764 Thanks!!!. Can not understand why she was anonymous or actually introduced as one of the Carter Sisters.
@@Jesussaidhewillreturn They were recording and were billed on the Opry tours under the name The Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle so Becky was part of the band. She was with the Carters for about 6 years 1952-1958/9 She is standing in for June in this video who was studying acting in New York at times. So their group was introduced as the Carter Sisters or Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters or even the Carter Family
Janette Carter, A.P.'s daughter. I asked that question too, & I almost went crazy before I figured it out.
I was wrong. It was Becky Bowman.
How about those bass chops!
Is that Anita imitating June?
It's just Anita having fun with the song with her sister Helen and friend Becky Bowman on bass.
@@tonylupo1764 No, she's imitating June. Here's June acting with her sisters and her mannerisms are the same as Anita's in the video above. ruclips.net/video/z9E2dT7gK7g/видео.html
@@tonylupo1764 Here's June talking: ruclips.net/video/r-JRle2tfAo/видео.html
@@tonylupo1764 Here's June singing the song. Notice how her voice sounds. You can tell Anita was doing her imitation. ruclips.net/video/JBYt1wQkBos/видео.html
Andrew on the studio recording that you posted June and Anita alternate on the lyrics with Helen chiming in as well. They all 3 sing on the studio version.
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This is one of my favorite Carter songs because Anita is so out of character. She's acting like June.
You're correct as June sang that part on the studio recording I believe. I'm impressed with your intimate knowledge of the Carter Sisters and their personalities. You're going to like the book I've been working on about the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle band era (1943-1956) going on 8 years with research going back 11 years. They really were "The Fab Four of the 40s" drawing record crowds to their personal appearances.
@@tonylupo1764 Thanks. I'm absolutely obsessed with the Carters. They are the greatest singing group of all time. I was wrong about who the bass player was. I thought it was Janette Carter. I'll be waiting for your book.