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Steve Gorman
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Gilroy California
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 1:38 pm |
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| This tune is #18 on Bobble Seymour's Masters CD, played by Bobbe and Bob Saxton. It is driving me nuts because I have heard this tune before, possibly by someone else. It is (for me anyway) unbelievably catchy and toe tappin' but I cannot recall where I have heard it before. Does anybody know more about it? |
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John Roche
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England
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Steve Gorman
From:
Gilroy California
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 1:57 pm
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| Thank you John |
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Craig A Davidson
From:
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 2:30 pm
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| Anne Murray also had a hit on it in the 70's. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 2:46 pm
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| Another very similar song by Roger Miller called "Engine Engine #9" was also a pretty big hit! Our band would usually segue from one to the other, and sometimes we'd include the song that I often thought may have inspired both of them...a hit by The Mills Brothers called "Cab Driver". |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 6:34 pm
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| The tune was written by Sonny Curtis, of the Crickets. |
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 26 Jan 2008 8:22 pm
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Sonny did write that tune, and he was playing guitar for the Brothers at the time. I was lucky enough to tour with him in 1990, and he told me that he'd actually written two verses for the song (if you listen to trhe Everlys, you'll hear that they just repeat the one verse).
He pleaded with them to wait a short while while he finished the second verse but the Boys went ahead anyway; I guess it didn't matter as it became one of their biggest hits.
Needless to say, Sonny did the complete version of the song on our tour.
I've always loved Don Everly's guitar intro on that cut.
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 7:33 am
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| Speaking of the Everlys,,,I'm sure everyone is aware that their daddy was Ike Everly,,,predessor (or maybe contemporary) to Merle Travis and Chet Atkins,,,anyway,,very instrumental in the developement of that style of guitar. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 8:23 am
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...as well as Mose Rager (sp.?), another thumb-style original.
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Sonny Jenkins
From:
Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 11:10 am
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Yes,,,I think they were all (Mose, Merle, Ike) were from the same area of Kentucky.
I grew up in Lubbock in the 50s with Sonny Curtis (as well as the other Crickets and Mac Davis). He was a couple of years older than I was,,,and I always looked up to him as kind of my hero, local kid makes good songwriter. He also wrote the theme song for the old Mary Tyler Moore show,,and several more well known hits. There is another thread on the forum relating to Slim Whitman,,,I think that was Sonnys first "road" job the best I remember. He is a super talented guy. |
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Steve Gorman
From:
Gilroy California
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 2:39 pm
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This time yesterday I was listening to this tune and wondering where it came from. Today, I feel like an expert on it!
Thanks to all who have contributed the facts on this great song. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 5:53 pm
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| Sonny Jenkins wrote: |
| ...I grew up in Lubbock in the 50s with Sonny Curtis (as well as the other Crickets and Mac Davis)..... |
I think I mentioned that my assistant at work grew up in Lubbock in the 50s and knew Buddy before he became famous. Her best friend used to date Waylon's brother. It's a small world. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 9:27 pm
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More great Sonny Curtis tunes:
'The Straight Life' (Glen Campbell)
'I Fought The Law (And The Law Won)' (Bobby Fuller Four)
'More Than I can Say' (Bobby Vee) (Leo Sayer)
'He Was On To Something When He Made You' (Ricky Skaggs)
'Please Don't Ever Change' (The Crickets)
There are more, of course - on our tour we did his beautiful 'Old Rainbow Jukebox' and 'The Party of the First Part' among several of his lesser-known, but wonderful, songs.
He was also a fund of great stories about his days on the road with Glen D Hardin, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Maudlin, as well as the Everly Brothers. He did tour with Slim Whitman, having left Buddy Holly immediately before Buddy's first big hit. He teamed up with The Crickets again after Holly's death in 1959.
Sonny is also credited with playing the first-ever rock'n'roll solo on a Fender Stratocaster - that was 'Rock Around With Ollie Vee', and Sonny played Buddy's Strat.
He's had a fascinating and varied career, and remains one of my very favourite human beings.
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 10:29 pm
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| Don't forget that "More Than I Can Say" was also a hit for the Crickets. The phrase "Tell me please I gotta know" has a slightly different tune between the Bobby Vee and Crickets numbers: the word "me" is a semitone higher on the Crickets version... I remember at the time the musical press was asking how can Bobby Vee be a Crickets fan as he claimed when he was competing with them in the charts. I like both versions. |
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Roger Rettig
From:
Naples, FL
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 5:26 am
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A 'ps'....
All Lloyd Green fans should check out his work on the above-mentioned Ricky Skaggs version of Sonny's song. It's a wonderful steel part!
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