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Topic: Is Rose City Chimes named after Portland, OR? |
Chris Scruggs
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 4 Mar 2012 2:52 pm |
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I just heard Portland referred to as "The City Of Roses" and was wondering if it's the city Bobby Garrett named Rose City Chimes after.
Stupid question, I know!
-Chris |
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Bob Tuttle
From:
Republic, MO 65738
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Posted 4 Mar 2012 2:56 pm
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| Rose City Chimes was named after Bobby's home town of Tyler, Texas, known as the Rose capital of the world. |
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 4 Mar 2012 3:08 pm
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For years I thought it was named for Pasadena, CA.  |
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Chris Scruggs
From:
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 4 Mar 2012 4:29 pm
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| Thanks! |
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Dave Grafe
From:
Hudson River Valley NY
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Posted 4 Mar 2012 8:55 pm
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| Portland is the home of the International Rose Test Garden, as well as Paul Allen's Rose Garden Arena. I don't believe that Mr. Garrett ever visited either. |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 10:05 am
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| Amarillo is also known as the "Yellow Rose of Texas." |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 10:20 am
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| Frank Freniere wrote: |
| Amarillo is also known as the "Yellow Rose of Texas." |
Not to be contentious, but where did you hear that? I guess it could be possible, but I've lived here over 40 years, played all over the Panhandle, and never heard of that town referred to in such a favorable way. 
Amarillo (Spanish for "yellow") was named because of the yellow wildflowers that grow in Palo Duro Canyon, just south of town.
The "Yellow Rose of Texas" of legend was the mulatto girl, Emily West, who supposedly seduced Santa Anna before the battle of San Jacinto, thereby distracting him enough so that Sam Houston's army won the battle and secured our independence from Mexico.
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Herb Steiner
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Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 11:54 am
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Oh well, who am I to doubt Wikipedia?  Thanks for the edification.
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 11:58 am
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| My point is, I'm not making this stuff up. Wikipedia is. |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 3:17 pm
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Gotta admit, I never thought about looking up "Amarillo" in Wikipedia. I figured I'd had about enough of that town during the years I've lived here in TX.
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Joe Naylor
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Avondale, Arizona, USA
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Posted 5 Mar 2012 8:49 pm
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I agree with Herb on this one. I built lots of feed mills for cattle feed lots there and had not heard any thing about YEllOW ROSE OF TEXAS -
by I still bet it still smells the same - I have questioned Wikipedia several times -
Joe Naylor
www.steelseat.com
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J Fletcher
From:
London,Ont,Canada
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Posted 6 Mar 2012 8:32 am
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| Only, or onliest, version of this tune I've heard, was by Buddy Emmons with The Texas Troubadours. Thought he owned it...Jerry |
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Bobbe Seymour
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Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Mar 2012 11:15 am "Rose City Chimes"
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I think every steel player has recorded it at one time or other, even Russ Hicks has it out now, without the "travis style" interlude.
Mine is on the opening of my website, with the "Travis style".
http://www.steelguitar.net/audio/rosecitychimes.wma
Bobbe |
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Charles Curtis
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Posted 6 Mar 2012 12:59 pm
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| I like Herb's story best. Imagine getting caught in such a predicament. Ha. |
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Joe Alterio
From:
Irvington, Indiana
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Posted 9 Mar 2012 6:56 pm
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| Red Rhodes' version of it with Michael Nesmith recorded in 1970 is the best version I've heard of it. Red owned that song...he played it on every solo show I've had the luck to get a copy of, including each ISGC. |
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JACK HEERN
From:
MURPHYSBORO,IL. USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 5:04 pm
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| Speddy West told to a bunch of us that Bobby wrote the song in about five minutes for a filler on an album that was one song short |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 10 Mar 2012 5:43 pm
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| JACK HEERN wrote: |
| Speddy West told to a bunch of us that Bobby wrote the song in about five minutes for a filler on an album that was one song short |
That's what I heard also. On the original cut, Johnny Gimble takes a hellacious mandolin solo, incidentally.
When Garrett was inducted into the HOF, his acceptance speech ran kinda long, cause he thanked everybody he knew and then some. Mooney was standing next to me and said "Garrett spent more time writing that damn speech than he spent writing Rose City Chimes!!"
Thought I was gonna die laughing!!!
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