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Topic: The original Jerry Byrd Fan Club with Millie Annis.......... |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 16 Feb 2014 10:03 am |
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How many of you.......were in the original JERRY BYRD
Fan Club presided over by Millie Annis, Grand Rapids, MI.?
If you can recall when you joined and how long you were an active member, please share it with us.
I wonder how many of us are left........... |
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Roy Thomson
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia,Canada
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Posted 16 Feb 2014 11:13 am
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I was a member Ray starting in 1963 and maintained membership for several years?
Probably until it ceased to be?
The above is a page from a 1963 issue. 
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 16 Feb 2014 11:17 am About JERRY BYRD's original fan club..............
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THANKS ROY for the prompt response.
I just tho't it would be interesting to see how many of our forumites got started by membership in the JBFC. |
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Eddie Cunningham
From:
Massachusetts, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2014 3:18 pm Joined the flock in the late 40s !!
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| I had sent Jerry a letter c/o the "Opry". which he answered and sent along an app to join Millies JBFC which I did. I continued till the club ended. I wish I had kept all the journals!! Was a wealth of "Jerry" info on them !! Jerry always answered every letter he recd.!! I still have all his letters that I treasure !! - olde geeze - AKA Eddie "C" |
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Billy Easton
From:
Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2014 4:11 pm
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I belonged to the club in the 1950s.....too long ago to remember specific dates, but I did receive membership cards for several years as well as the newsletter from Millie.
Billy Easton
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 19 Feb 2014 2:44 pm Gee's..............
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And here I always tho't that there was a virtual army of loyal and dedicated admirers of Americas' finest steel guitar players.......each an early member of the Millie Annis Jerry Byrd Fan Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Oh well.......... I guess the older one gets, the more myths that come to light. |
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Ben Rubright
From:
Punta Gorda, Florida, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2014 4:01 pm
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Eddie (the old geezer).....it is good to see you posting. Once again thanks for the tape you sent me of Ray Schacht (Carol Stuart). I truly treasure it. I have been trying to find him on the internet but so far i have failed. Hope to meet you someday.
Best wishes, |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 19 Feb 2014 4:59 pm
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| Ray most of these folks would be in their 60s to 100s by now. I haven't checked the mortality but it can't be good in that age bracket. |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 21 Feb 2014 5:27 pm a good point you made there..........
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Well Stuart..........you've done it again. You're so logical, it sorta scares me.
Does this mean I'm likely the only 'old person' that's left from the original JBFC???
Gee's......what a revelation. |
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Stuart Legg
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Posted 22 Feb 2014 1:11 am
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Sorry Ray that was a little harsh.
I think Bo was around 10 to 14 yrs old some time around 1950 when his father Bishop Dwight Moody took him to see Sol Hoʻopiʻi at a church. Sol died shortly after that.
I said all that to say this. My father and my grand father played lap steel back then and Sol was the only one they could go see because Jerry and the others were playing in those “dens of inequity†night clubs.
Geez Ray your talking about steel guitar players who fought in World War II.
My Grandfather fought for years but they finally drafted him. |
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Wally Pfeifer
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2014 7:59 am
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What has this got to do with Millie Annis and the Jerry Byrd Fan Club? Not a bit! Can't we get back to the subject? I was a member of the JBFC from the very beginning.
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Dave Hopping
From:
Aurora, Colorado
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Posted 26 Feb 2014 10:01 am ANOTHER Hijack!
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| Got to rummaging around the Steel Guitar page on Facebook,and found a Youtube TV clip from 1964 posted by Wally Taylor of Ray playing "Swingin' on The Steel".Just superb.Ray might not necessarily be a Nashville cat,but he sure plays as "clean as country water". |
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Bob Gibler
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 28 Feb 2014 5:51 am The Jerry Byrd Fan Club
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Ray, My Father Bob Gibler Senior was an avid Jerry Byrd Fan from the start. I have about 260 recordings along with some Albums of Jerry Byrd on the Mercury label. My dad left me a stack of the Jerry Byrd Fan club magazines, the earliest ones I have are from 1966. Dad was a life long fan until his death in March of 2008. Here are a couple of those mags.
Best Wishes. Bob Gibler II |
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