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Topic: 1954 "STEELERS"- How many still around???? |
Ed Naylor
From: portsmouth.ohio usa, R.I.P.
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Posted 11 Nov 2003 5:11 am
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Going thru some old materials last nightI wonder what happened to some of these players. BOB "Windy" WINGROVE-Ontario-JIMMIE JINKS"Southern Flames Band"Ga.-COY MARTIN "Green MT Boys"Michigan-LEROY McDANIEL"Melody Rangers" Florida-DANNIE SNEED "Don Sneed Foursome"Wash.-VERNON BRINKLEY"Cain Street Cowhands"Ga, Tn-MEL GARDENER "Potomac Valley Boys ,Baltimore-I will add more later. Ed Naylor Steel Guitar Works |
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Richard Sinkler
From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 11 Nov 2003 1:16 pm
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I was born in 1954. Does that make me a 1954 steeler? |
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Billy Easton
From: Nashville, TN USA
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John Steele
From: Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 11 Nov 2003 3:10 pm
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Bob Wingrove (Ontario) is still active, and was one of the steelers featured on the wonderful "Northern Steel" CD. Bob's feature is "Moonglow".
-John |
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Gary Walker
From: Morro Bay, CA
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Posted 11 Nov 2003 9:41 pm
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Bobby Black and his brother Larry played on a San Francisco TV station in 1953 and they were the most knocked out part of a great band. They still are fine players. Sure wish there were films of those super shows. |
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John Davis
From: Cambridge, U.K.
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Posted 12 Nov 2003 10:31 am
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I have a 45 rpm Sun records recording made in 1956 with John Hughey on it, I reckon he must have been playing more than two years when he did that!! It is good! |
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Don Patterson
From: Richmond, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 12 Nov 2003 2:41 pm
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Glad to hear Bob Wingrove is still playing. Back in the 70's I was a young TV cameraman on a show called "Country Way" produced in Ottawa Canada. Bob was the steel player on that show , a great C6th man, not to mention a very funny guy too. He showed up with a 1929 dobro one night and I was so impressed I found out how he tuned it, went home and raised the strings up on an old flat top and used a spark plug wrench as a bar. I was hooked. Bob sure caused me to spend a lot of money on steels over the years, I even bought my first pedal steel from him. A really great guy. |
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Ernest Cawby
From: Lake City, Florida, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 15 Nov 2003 11:30 am
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La. hayride 1949 with Sammy Barnhart does that make the grade. In the 50s with Smoky Metcalf who wrote Mind your own business.
Ramer String band in the early 40s.
ernie |
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Mark van Allen
From: Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 15 Nov 2003 12:11 pm
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I was born in '54, Ed, and last I checked I'm still around...
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