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Robbie Bossert
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Posted 23 Mar 2005 12:31 pm |
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Have any of Haggard's Stranger instrumentals been re-issued by anyone?
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Daryl Stogner
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San Diego, CA * R.I.P.
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Posted 23 Mar 2005 8:22 pm
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Maybe Larry Petree would know, he see's Norm pretty often. You out there Larry?
Daryl www.darylstogner.com
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Jason Odd
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 25 Mar 2005 12:11 am
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| No, the closest you'll find are the two 1969 live albums with Haggard where certain group members get a moment or two to shine. |
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Chris Forbes
From:
Beltsville, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2005 3:41 am
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Robbie Bossert
From:
WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A.
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Posted 25 Mar 2005 6:50 am
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That is shame. Too bad a lable like Sundazed or Razor And Tie doesn't pick up the rights to those recordings and reissue them like they did with The Buckaroos. Oh well, maybe some year.
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Steve Waltz
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Posted 25 Mar 2005 9:34 am
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I have lost my CD somewhere but if I remember correctly there were two instrumentals on a CD called "Swinging West", I think. It was part of a recent collection of Capital releases, one of the group was called the bakersfield sound and this one "Swingin West" was all instrumentals from california. It had some joe Maphis, The Strnagers and some others like Hank Garland. There is one amazing version of Caravan that was worth the record. The only strangers song title I can remember was " Champagne"
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 2:41 am
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Yes there was a Swing West #3 volume series back in the late 1990s, I'm not sure if they are still in print.
Razor & Tie seems to have all but dissapeared for the last few years.
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Ernie Renn
From:
Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 4:48 am
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Albums by the Strangers. Songs titles below each album title. Sadly, all are out of print.
1.) THE INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS OF MERLE HAGGARD'S STRANGERS
1. MAMA TRIED 2. DON'T TELL ME 3. LEAVING PHOENIX 4. WALTZ OF ENCHANTMENT 5. TENNESSEE FLAT TOP BOX 6. POPPIN' CORN 7. HAMMIN' IT UP 8. WHOOPER SNOOPER 9. TERRI 10. HOP AND A SKIP 11. SOMEBODY STOLE MY GAL
2.) INTRODUCING MY FRIENDS THE STRANGERS
1. STEALIN' CORN 2. MEXICAN ROSE 3. REPEAT PERFORMANCE 4. BIFF BAM BOOM 5. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR 6. STREET SINGER 7. WALTZING WITH A STRANGER 8. SING ME A HAPPY SONG 9. BLUE ROCK 10. WORKIN' MAN BLUES
3.) GETTING TO KNOW MERLE HAGGARD'S STRANGERS
1. CARAVAN 2. HAM BOOGIE 3. STORY WITH A HAPPY INDIAN 4. WALKIN' THROUGH MY HEART 5. DAY HAPPY 6. SCRAMBLE 7. EVERY FOOL HAS A RAINBOW 8. CALIFORNIA ON MY MIND 9. COMIN' HOME 10. SKIPPIN'
4.) HONKY TONKIN'
1. HONKY TONK 2. SLEEP WALK 3. JUST SIT DOWN AND CRY 4. I DON'T LOVE NOBODY 5. ME AND BOBBY McGEE 6. STUMBLING 7. RAUNCHY 8. WATCHIN' SCOTTY GROW 9. SLOW'N EASY 10. ALMOST TO TULSA
5.) TOTALLY INSTRUMENTAL WITH ONE EXCEPTION
1. COTTON PICKER 2. WHEN THE ROSES DIE 3. SITTIN' ON TOP OF THE WORLD 4. CHAMPAGNE 5. IT'S ONLY LOVE 6. CHEROKEE FIDDLE 7. COUNTRY GAS 8. SEE THE SUNSET 9. GOES WITHOUT SAVING 10. OVER THE RAINBOW 11. SWING HIGH
(Roy Nichols is my favorite 6 string player.)
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My best,
Ernie
www.buddyemmons.com
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Howard Tate
From:
Leesville, Louisiana, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 4:57 am
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Good taste, Ernie. Every fool is my favorite six string instrumental. Roy had a touch no one can emulate.
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Howard, 'Les Paul Recording, Zum S12U, Vegas 400, Boss ME-5, Boss DM-3
http://www.Charmedmusic.com
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Robbie Bossert
From:
WESCOSVILLE,PA,U.S.A.
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 7:53 am
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WOW Ernie.......That's enough great music to put together a nice little box set..... Let's hope....
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Dave Zirbel
From:
Sebastopol, CA USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 8:06 am
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I got to see Norm play Hammin' It Up for sound check a few months back when we opened for Merle. It was way cool!
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Randy Mason
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 9:44 am
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| When I was playing drums with Merle in the late '90's, we were sound checking, and me and Redd were jamming on "Hammmin' it Up" and Merle grabbed the bass guitar and played it with us and never missed a note. Redd and I had a big smile on our face. |
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Kenny Drake
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Leesburg, Virginia, USA
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Posted 31 Mar 2005 10:05 am
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| The Strangers may have few instrumentals out there, but the Buckaroos had an album out in the late 60's that was killer. Most of Buck's hits sans vocals. Don Rich, Brumley, et al. They were the top guns of their day. I wish I still had that album. |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 1 Apr 2005 5:37 am
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I'd suggest that five albums of mostly instrumentals would be somewhat more than a few, however if you're suggesting that the Buckaroos were more prolific, they put out an album every year from 1966 to 1972, and about half of those were instrumentals once you average it out.
The first one is on CD via Sundazed, and as it's been mentioned on this forum more than a few times, Sundazed has issued a collection of Don Rich feature cuts from those and Buck's albums, vocal and instro alike.
So, overall the Buckaroos are slightly better represented in the reissue market.
But not much better. |
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Terry Downs
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Wylie, TX US
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Posted 11 Apr 2005 4:46 pm
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Howard Tate,
I have the Roy's instrumental versions of
- Every Fool Has A Rainbow
- Stealin Corn
- Hammin it Up
on "The Guitar Styles of Roy Nichols" DVD if you are interested at:
http://terrydownsmusic.com/Roy_Video/RoyVideo.html |
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Ernie Renn
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Brainerd, Minnesota USA
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Posted 11 Apr 2005 11:29 pm
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I've got Terry's Roy Nichols instructional DVD and it's great!
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My best,
Ernie
www.buddyemmons.com
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 12 Apr 2005 4:48 am
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Does Capital still have control of The Strangers back catalog?
Maybe now that Merle is back on the Capital Label he can help get those reissued. |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 12 Apr 2005 6:43 am
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The majors very rarely let their masters go to anyone other than to lease them out.
Especially with country music.
Buck Owens would be a major exception after he renegotiated his deal he got the rights to his masters, etc.
Plus, from 1969 onwards he cut his own stuff and other artists via his own studio and leased the material to labels.
Majors will lease the material and rights to albums (you can lease the material as a comp, or lease the album, artwork and all), Haggard's albums have been reissued by Koch, Bear Family and BGO, and that's straight reissues of his albums, not the gazillion comps on many, many different labels.
After Koch worked his albums for years, especially the first two, Capitol did their own reissue atround the time they reissued a whole heap of Glen Campbell albums.
Still no frills, no extra sleeve notes or credits, no extra racks despite the plethora of outakes, unused sessions and b-sides available.
Sundazed has began a reissue series of West Coast material, Red Simpson, Don Rich, Buck Owens, Kay Adams, Jimmy Bryant, etc.
The Don Rich and Bryant sets are comps with a lot of tracks and extensive notes.
The Owens albums have a lot of extras in the sleeve notes and some extra tracks from the same period as each reissue.
The Dick Curless, Red Simpson, Kay Adams CDs are straight budget reissues on the 1960s albums with no extras bar the fact that they're remastered and actually available.
Haggard does not appear to be a part of all of this. Whether Koch or BGO picks up the Stranger's albums reamins to be seen, I'd not bet any money that Captiol would even bother to do it themselves.
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Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
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