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Topic: Do You Recognize This Player? |
Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 3:54 pm Now, I've been thinking.................... |
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| The third photo........hints that there might be some kind of blood relationship with Webb Pierce? |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Don McGregor
From:
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 5:33 pm
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I don't know who the guy in the third picture is, but I swear the guy in the first two photos is a dead ringer for a very young Alan Arkin. I don't know if he ever played steel, but he is a musician and songwriter, as well as a great actor and director, and he actually wrote "The Banana Boat Song" ("Day-0"), which Harry Belafonte had a tremendous number one hit with.
Now, I guess I have to learn it on steel.
Need me some steel drums backup, too.
"Daylight come, and me want to go home."
Don |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 7:27 pm
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That second pic, his left hand. When we were kids, we would always try to sneak that in a pic. This guy did a good job of it!  |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 28 Mar 2009 11:18 pm
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| When we were kids, we would always try to sneak that in a pic. |
Ah yes, "the finger" in the photo... a lot of kids did that back in the day. My high school yearbook (1968) has many group photos with several guys giving "the finger". It was a well planned conspiracy. About 50 students took part in it. Of course, I wasn't one of them.  The school was shocked when the yearbooks came out. They couldn't understand how the photographer did not notice it. It was quite a scandal in our town. Those were the good old daze!
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 4:45 pm
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I believe the first two pictures on top are photos of Eddie Alkire. I had a picture of Eddie Alkire and these are similar. His curly hair is the dead give-away.
The third photo or bottom photo is a picture of some other person, maybe impersonating Eddie.
Aloha, 
Don |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 6:44 pm
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Doug,
The middle photo marked Easton, PA is the one I have. Also, he had autographed the photo.
Now the mystery has been solved. 
Aloha,
Don |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 7:25 pm
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Doug,
I believe that if you look at the middle picture of each post where the photos are one can see that there is no differance. He looks to be at the same age in both photos.
It is convincing. 
Aloha,
Don |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 7:33 pm
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| Don McGregor wrote: |
I don't know who the guy in the third picture is, but I swear the guy in the first two photos is a dead ringer for a very young Alan Arkin. I don't know if he ever played steel, but he is a musician and songwriter, as well as a great actor and director, and he actually wrote "The Banana Boat Song" ("Day-0"), which Harry Belafonte had a tremendous number one hit with.
Now, I guess I have to learn it on steel.
Need me some steel drums backup, too.
"Daylight come, and me want to go home."
Don |
Actually, I think that line is, "Daylight come and she won't go home." Quitin' time, during the age being written about, was when it was too dark to work anymore.
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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George Keoki Lake
From:
Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 8:31 pm
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"Daylight come, and me want to go home."
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 10:10 pm
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| I swear the guy in the first two photos is a dead ringer for a very young Alan Arkin |
Ed, you swear because you possibly have an obsession with Alan Arkin. 
Aloha,
Don |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 29 Mar 2009 10:32 pm Ah, but now...
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| The mystery IS solved! |
...we need to know to whom he was giving the finger to...
Pretty cool 'mystery' thread, Doug! |
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Don McGregor
From:
Memphis, Tennessee
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Posted 30 Mar 2009 2:15 am
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I like Alan Arkin.
Too bad he doesn't play steel.
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