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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 12:55 pm |
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When I was a kid, a local band, Slim Franks, used to play a specific tune for their theme. It was a tune
entitled "SOUTHLAND"..........
Any of you remember it?
Who recorded it? |
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 8:01 am
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Ray,
I'm at the point now that if you hum a few bars, I may remember the tune...names I don't remember very well.
Bill
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 8:52 am I can do better than that!
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Bill:
If you go to C6th tuning, with an "E" on top....
It starts out on individual strings:
4-3-2-1 (repeated two more times) then it gets complicated to 'splain but I'll hum it for yea.
Hummm, Humm, de dah.......... You know. |
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Charles Davidson
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Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 9:59 am
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Think I remember that tune Ray,I do remember very well a tune a lot of guys played a lot years ago,it was just called [SOUTH] I have a version of it by Herb Steiner,neat tune.DYKBC.
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 10:10 am
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Ray:
I assume you are talking about "This Is Southland", written by Les "Carrot Top" Anderson, Rudy Fischer, and Bob Wills. As far as I know, this tune does not have lyrics and Wills had the first recording. Bud Isaacs and Speedy West also recorded it.
"South" is a different song and was written in the 20's by Benny Moten and you hear it both as an instrumental and with lyrics. Dozens of bands did it, including Wills, Moten, The Plainsmen (with Joaquin), Les Paul, Chet Atkins, Spade Cooley (with Noel Boggs), Ernie Ford, Tex Williams (with Joaquin), Maddox Brothers, etc. |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 10:11 am After giving it some more thought............
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Thanks for the comments........
The "SOUTH" you refer to is 'just that'. A great, old time favorite instrumental. JERRY BYRD also has a great instrumental of this tune on Mercury lable.
I think the song that's giving me trouble was called:
"SOUTHLAND". I recall they did the second verse in harmonics and it was a real driving instrumental.
MITCH: Upon my return to the page, you had already commented on my post. I do believe you're 100% correct on "SOUTHLAND" and we used to get a radio show with "Les "Carrot Top" Anderson as a featured part of the show. Anyone have a copy of that? |
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 10:44 am Right On!
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YOU GOT THAT ONE RIGHT!
A lot of olde memories connected to that tune.....
Very simple, very simply played. I'd never have connected it with Wills however.
THAT TWIN FIDDLE SOLO......... was that ever done elsewhere? It was really familiar to me. THANKS for this trip back into the past. |
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Bill Ford
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Graniteville SC Aiken
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 11:09 am
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Yep...I recomember that one,used to try to play it. BF
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 12:00 pm
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Played that instrumental many times over the years. It was primarily played on the A6th tuning. When I got my first 3-necked steel (coming off a 6-string lap) I went to see Les Anderson when he was playing with Red Murrell at the Glendale Barn. I asked about his tunings and he readily advised what he would put on the Guitar and wrote them down for me.
The twin fiddle chorus became a standard for Bob Wills type Western Swing Bands that had two fiddles and was used over the years. I remember Bob using it in other of his instrumental recordings. |
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billchav
From:
Houston, TX USA
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 7:30 pm This Is The Southland
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Hey "LIGHTS OUT" Ray, that really brings back fond memories of over 50 years ago when taking lessons from Herb Remington. He taught me to play it in A6th and C6th along with most of the other great instrumentals he had played with the Texas Playboys.
I really enjoyed listening to you at the TSGA JAMBOREE.
I would like to hear the interview you gave later as I did not get to hear all of it at the time.
I hope you keep up your trips down memory lane posts.
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 15 Sep 2010 9:22 am Bob Wills This is Southland
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Hello everybody,
I am a new member in the forum, glad to be here!
I would like to get back to this older thread started by Ray Montee in 2009. I just found a website with Bob Wills lyrics at http://www.bobwills.com/lyrics.html. There are lyrics for his tune "This Is Southland" (lyrics by Rudy Fischer).
Now, I have never heard a recording of this tune from Bob Wills with lyrics. Was it ever recorded with lyrics?
Does anyone know something about this guy Rudy Fischer?
Sorry for the late posting- only one and a half year too late....  , but it took a long way over the ocean to arrive at the forum.... |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Jody Sanders
From:
Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 17 Sep 2010 7:01 pm
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| Back in the early fifties I was in a band working 5 nites a week in Gladewater, Tx. We used "This Is Southland" to open and close the show each nite. Bobby Garrett on steel guitar. Jody. |
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Winnie Rau
From:
Germany
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 7:21 am
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Hello bOb,
thanks for the info, but I gave away my cassette player some years ago....
Do you know if the vocal version is also on the CD "Take It Away the Leon Way" ?
cheers |
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