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Topic: Jerry Byrd and the Emperor |
Kay Das
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Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2009 11:10 pm |
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If the Emperor were about to give you the thumbs down but were to grant you to listen to one Jerry Byrd tune before you went, which one would you choose? 
A forum friend recently sent me " La Golondrina" and I thought he played it incredibly pretty. I also like " Night Train" (his older version, not so much the recent one).
What is yours?
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 2 Feb 2009 11:16 pm oops!
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| That should read "Night Time" and not "Night Train". |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Posted 2 Feb 2009 11:51 pm
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It's hard to pick one tune, but I like Estrellita, Golden Earrings, Cold Cold Heart, Harbor Lights, every song on Hawaiian Beach Party (with vocalists) etc, etc...
I like Jerry's stuff from the late 1950s through the 1960s. The studios were getting great live sounds in that era... tube amps, and of course JB in his prime!
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 2:20 am
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It would be a choice between two of my favorite Jerry Byrd tunes: "HO'I MAI" & ANYTIME, ANY DAY.
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 10:04 am
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I'm going to be in the minority here (just like always). But I like the Unknown Hula that he played on the Marty Robbins TV show.
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2009 10:47 am
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Tiare No Tahiti (Hawaiian Beach Party cut)
KILLER harmonics |
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Chris Scruggs
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Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 1:19 pm
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| Today I would say,"Suprize Waltz" but tommorrow it might be anything! |
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Billy Tonnesen
From:
R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 4 Feb 2009 6:22 pm
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| Memories of Maria (great backup orchestra} |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Garry Vanderlinde
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CA
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 10:51 am Four tries...
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Doug,
I agree with you on the "Satin Strings of Steel" album, beautiful arrangements, steel guitar w/orchestra..... pity that he did not do more recordings like that one!
A small anecdote. I first purchased that CD in a San Francisco store while travelling in this country when I used to live overseas. When I got to open the jewel case, I found no CD inside ( manufacturer's error). A couple of months later when I revisited the store, I complained and they gave me another copy which I played in my rental car for the duration of my visit....only to forget it in the rental car CD player.... I then ordered it by mail... and got a copy that was defective....
But I got it right on my fourth try... |
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Billy Wilson
From:
El Cerrito, California, USA
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Posted 5 Feb 2009 7:33 pm
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| Pau Au Au Waltz |
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 8 Feb 2009 10:08 am Outstanding performances among many.......................
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While I feel Jerry Byrd presented some of his best and most outstanding performances while backing someone else in the studio......., the following tunes are some of my favorites that come to mind:
"Carefree"............"Invitation" in C-Diatonic.....and "Confessin'" with Tom Morrell and his fine band. All exceptional pieces of work.
The deliberate teasing in "Confessin'"........the slippery slide and what he does with it. AMAZING! |
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Kay Das
From:
Los Angeles CA
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Posted 8 Feb 2009 4:41 pm
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| I loved the " Sand" video on Youtube, great B11th soloing and ending. However, when Gary Aiko came on to sing, wonderful voice, Jerry switched over to C6th or something similar and, in so doing, I feel he gave away the dark, mysterious sound of the B11th tuning which is so much associated with "Sand", began to sound a bit "country". I wonder why he did that! However, he ended back on the B11th and that was good. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 8 Feb 2009 8:03 pm
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| I'd pick him and Marty Robbins doing Beyond the Reef. |
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Don Kona Woods
From:
Hawaiian Kama'aina
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Posted 8 Feb 2009 10:51 pm
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Kolopa was special for me and it was done at a Ho'olaulea in Hawaii.
Aloha, 
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Rick Collins
From:
Claremont , CA USA
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Posted 9 Feb 2009 9:53 am
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I've always felt that innovation is a gift and not all of us have it.
I do believe Jerry Byrd was a gifted innovator. He composed many tunes and did his own arrangement of other tunes.
Although Jerry Byrd played professionally for many years and was an instructor of the steel guitar,
these two things would not, by themselves, make him that unique.
The great number of recordings, which he made at the time he was pioneering his recording in the studio,
is what leads me to believe this.
To me, innovation is one thing that I just can't quite see "in my mind's eye".
Thomas Edison was a great innovator and held over 1,000 patents. Who can deny his uniqueness?
I put Jerry Byrd in this unique category.
I believe an innovator is someone who contributes something of great value to society
for the first time in the history of the world.
I cannot explain why this is so __ just thankful Jerry Byrd chose to do it. |
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