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scott murray


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Post  Posted 8 Oct 2011 12:39 pm    
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Wikipedia says 1954, but I thought it was '53...?

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Bent Romnes


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Post  Posted 8 Oct 2011 2:58 pm    
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I have always heard 1953...
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Don Euton

 

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Post  Posted 8 Oct 2011 5:52 pm    
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According to an insert I have from one of Webb Pierce`s CD`s, list " Slowly", as (NA 3181, Decca 28991), Nov.1953. Looks like it was released in 1953, but it may not have been a hit until 1954.

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Jim Palenscar

 

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Post  Posted 9 Oct 2011 7:15 am    
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I have a copy of the 78 in the shop signed by Bud Isaacs Smile
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Cal Sharp


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Post  Posted 9 Oct 2011 8:26 am    
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Per the inestimable Bobbe Seymour's newsletter 2/15/10:
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One of the very first and most important milestones in the history of steel guitar was the smash hit song “Slowly” sung by Webb Pierce in 1952 and featuring the Bigsby steel guitar of Bud Isaacs.

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Joe Naylor


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Post  Posted 9 Oct 2011 12:42 pm     Bud said -
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Bud said, " November 29th, 1953 " that's good enough for me.

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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 10 Oct 2011 8:06 am    
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Webb Pierce cut "Slowly" three times with three different steel players. The first two recordings were unissued by Decca. The third recording with Bud Issacs was released and became a #1 Billboard hit.

These are the session dates (All were at Castle Studio):

4/21/52 "Slowly" (Jimmy Day: steel guitar - Decca unissued)
7/30/53 "Slowly" (Bob L. Moore: steel guitar - Decca unissued)
11/29/53 "Slowly" (Bud Issacs: pedal steel guitar - De 28991 - ED 2145 - DL 5536 - DL 8295)

Decca released the Bud Issacs "Slowly" on 2/6/54. It was #1 Billboard for 17 weeks and spent 36 weeks on the Billboard charts.

Sources:

(1) "Webb Pierce 1951-1958 - The Wondering Boy" (Bear Family BCD 15522)

(2) "Top Country Singles 1944-1988" (Joel Whitburn)

All three recordings are on the Bear Family Box Set.
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Bobbe Seymour

 

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Post  Posted 10 Oct 2011 8:41 am    
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Yes, 1953 is the year, I was growing up fast at that time and I was ahead a year! Laughing
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Joe Naylor


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Post  Posted 10 Oct 2011 9:30 am    
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Wow, Robert you had facts and I had memory from talking to Bud a few years ago. He told me then not to tell anyone what we were drinkin that day - and gave me that grin - then at his 80th birthday party I was emceeing the show and asked him if I remembered right about that and some other stories. He gave me that grin again and said it's OK not to tell um we were drinkin Ice Tea now ---- it don't matter I am 80 now.

Always great just to get him talkin - we have some great photos of him setting on a steelseat at last years Phoenix show - just talkin and grinnin' he said when I said that - Buck and Roy said Pickin and Grinnin but I guess I am now just talkin.

Great fun and memories

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