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Denny Turner
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Oahu, Hawaii USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2005 10:06 pm |
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Thanks a million, Scott.
An "Eddie Arnold" experience is branded into my memory: The summer of 1950, I was 3 years old. Allot of the family and friends had met at the house just before sundown and were quite excited about going to the tobacco harvest festival that turned downtown Douglas Georgia ...about 4 miles away... into a huge party at night, centered on the tobacco auction warehouse (where 5 years later I would make my first job selling boiled peanuts Granma would cook ...to buy a $12 boyscout brass bugle). Allot of festive talk was going on about some guy named Eddie Arnold who would play music there. They left me at home with my young aunt babysitting. I guess about 9:00 PM my body's "batteries" had run down and I was dazing off in my bed (still my crib, with the outside rails removed); When all of a sudden a distant mystical music floated in the window next to my bed; Music that sounded like someone was pleasantly howling along with it. I was startled at it's spooky nature, but it was so mesmorizing I had to pull myself up by the crib-rails and look / listen out the window screen to investigate. I knew it wasn't a radio or grammyphone, ...it was something else new to me, coming from a long way off. The sound was mystic and mesmorizing as it's tone phase-shifted along with the night air breeze. I finally realized it was coming from the downtown festival. I pressed my face up against the screen to brace my tired and dazey body; I can still smell & taste the dust in that screen branded into my memory by the whole experience ...and the smell of the magnolia tree outside is there too along with the smell of fresh barn-cured tobacco that was the smell of south Georgia that time of the year back then. It was the first time that music had stopped all my other thoughts with such wonder and attention. My feet and legs began to move in time to the music and my knees would give-way at this uncoordinated experience (I never could "formally" dance!). I litterally fell down into the bed a few times in daze and exhaustion, but climbed back up to the window until the exhaustion got the best of me; And the next thing I knew Mom was kissing me on the forehead and tucking me in, ...and allot of excited festive commotion was again heard in the house, that faded away as I drifted back off to sleep.
That sound is "exactly" what is on the above soundfiles; And what started my love of the sound of old/real Country music; And that first experience is almost as fresh in my memory as that night I first heard it; A life treasure I hope is still there when I drift-off for the last time.
Aloha,
DT~
[This message was edited by Denny Turner on 29 August 2005 at 11:12 PM.] |
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 3 Sep 2005 6:13 pm
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Hi Scott, and thank you so much for bringing the Eddy Arnold programs to my attention. Danny says he was 3 in 1950, and I was 13 and had already taken 2 years of Hawaiian guitar lessons at the Halifax Hawaiian Studios in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Some of the music given over those two years, such as "I'll Hold You In My Heart", "To My Sorrow" (both of which I've recorded on my own steel guitar CD), "Be Sure There's No Mistake", "Bouquet of Roses" and seveal others really turned me onto to Little Roy with Eddy Arnold. I love it to this day. Ray Montee, in another thread, was talking about "personal sound" or a similar adjective, and Roy Wiggins certainly had his at the time. I also play Dobro with a Mennonite Bluegrass Gospel group, "The Peach Pickers", and I play the "crying steel guitar sound of Roy" in some of our tunes. The guys really like the simple old non-aggressive style.
Thanks again Scott, it's things like this that really make the SGF a nifty place. George in Peach Pickin' country, Niagara. |
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Jeff Strouse
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Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Posted 3 Sep 2005 6:36 pm
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| Cool! Thanks for the heads up! The only recordings of Eddy Arnold I like are the early ones with Roy. [This message was edited by Jeff Strouse on 03 September 2005 at 07:36 PM.] |
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George Rout
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 6 Sep 2005 6:55 pm
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| You're right Jeff. I still have an old 10" LP of Eddy which has my favourite songs on it (at least some of them), and I did not like him as a crooner. He, though, didn't want the "ploughboy" image. Smart man, he made a pile of dough!! Geo |
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Don Kona Woods
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