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Topic: Is this Jerry? |
Mac McKenzie
From:
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Posted 6 May 2011 12:45 am |
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| A few weeks ago I posted that I had played a mish mash tape which led me to Jerry's Hula Lady. I played more of that tape today and there was a version of Moon Of Manakoora, the steel sounds very much like Jerry, no vocal, instead a whistler warbles the song. Does anyone know for sure if it is Jerry and who the whistler is? It is a bit like some years ago, we were arranging for Jerry and his playmates visit and I was writing to Jerry about which recordings we could use for publicity and mentioned that many years ago I had bought Red Foley's " Honey Be My Honey Bee " and the flip side was " Don't Make Me Go To Bed ans I'll Be Good ", never knew who did the beautiful guitar work until " Kaimana Hila " was released here. Jerry replied that he did not do that one, so I taped it and sent it over and said if it wasn't him, there is a very good imposter somewhere. He wrote back " Foley and I used to fight something terrible, nothing physical, just arrangements. They must have had that one in the can for a long time, I don't remember doing it, but, yeah, it's me allright." Mystery solved - now for this one. |
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Rick Aiello
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Berryville, VA USA
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Posted 6 May 2011 6:22 am
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Yes ... it's JB.
The whistler's name is Fred Lowery. |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 6 May 2011 9:50 am Re: Is this Jerry?
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| Mac McKenzie wrote: |
| I don't remember doing it, but, yeah, it's me allright." |
Way cool, Mac, you nailed The Master! |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 6 May 2011 4:33 pm
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JB didn't remember a lot of things he did. I told him I remembered him coming to Saginaw Mi once in the 60s. He said "Ive never been to Saginaw" Then I reminded him of who was with him, then he remembered 
I suppose he had been to so many venues and recorded with so many artists, that it wasn't possible to relate to all of them. |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 6 May 2011 4:48 pm
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So who was with him that time, Bill, if you remember... 
And isn't Saginaw one of those places you'd want to forget? |
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Mac McKenzie
From:
Auckland, New Zealand * R.I.P.
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Posted 6 May 2011 11:22 pm Is This Jerry?
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| Thanks Rick, for the info. " Yep! Sure sounded like Jerry allright." His memory wasn't too bad - he remembered me when we got over there. He arranged coffee, he paid and I told him I would pay next time - owed it to him for the rest of his life rather than do him out of it - and in conversation he said " The tax man can take all your money, but the one thing no one can take from you are your memories. Those are yours forever. " And memories i have. |
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Bill Creller
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Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 7 May 2011 8:29 pm
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Ron, one of the people in that bunch was a lady country singer, Melba Montgomery, don't remember the rest right now...
And you are correct about Saginaw being a place to forget! It's kinda like "inner-city" all the way to the city limits! Luckily I live 5 miles east of that "place"  |
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Wally Pfeifer
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 8 May 2011 4:16 am
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Here I thought Lefty Frizell was the only one living in Saginaw MI. Now we find out there's another famous person living in the suburb of Saginaw.
Wally 
I lost track. Is Lefty still living? |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 8 May 2011 4:50 pm
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| Nope, Saginaw killed him. |
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Bill Creller
From:
Saginaw, Michigan, USA (deceased)
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Posted 8 May 2011 8:35 pm
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| It kills people every week........ |
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 9 May 2011 10:20 am
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| Takes a whole week, does it? |
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