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Topic: Steeler on Bozo Darnell"s Your Steppin Stone ? |
GaryHoetker
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Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2009 10:40 am |
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The song is now on youtube...search for Bozo Darnell and click on Memories of the Past. Has the sound and tone of a Fender 1000. Bozo did a great job on this one. There's a very funny picture too with Bozo and Wynn Stewart on stage. Anybody have any recollections about Bozo they might share. Thanks.
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Tracy Sheehan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2009 11:33 am
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I first met and got to know Bozo around 1960 in Odessa Tx.He was a great front man.I have never heard the record but his steel player at the time was Sonny De Jersy also fron La.He was a great country steel player and played a fender 400.
The last time i saw Bozo was when i played some week end jobs with him in 1991.He was living in
Wichita Falls,Tx.and me in my home town west of there.
The band i was playing with in Odessa,Tx. was not doing very well.The band leader asked Bozo one night if he had any idea what was wrong as it was a good band.Bozo told him he had to talk to the people,get to know them,ect.He said you can't just stand there,play and sing.Any one can put a quater in the juke box and hear the finest musicians in the world.The front man started talking to the people and we started selling.
He said i am not a musician,i am an entertainer which he was.But he did play lead and fiddle.I have a cassete tape a friend of mine taped the last time i ever played with him in Weatherford Tx.Never saw him again after that.Tracy |
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Jody Sanders
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Magnolia,Texas, R.I.P.
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Posted 26 Jul 2009 11:47 am
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| In about 1954 I was in Odessa, Tx. and myself and Bill Callahan played a gig or two with Bozo at a bar in Goldsmith. The Buckhorn was the name of the bar ,I think. Bozo was a good entertainer. Jody. |
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Ellis Miller
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Cortez, Colorado, USA
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Posted 26 Jul 2009 12:03 pm
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Thank you for posting the link, Gary. It was good to remember what a fine recording "Stepping Stone" was.
I worked with Bozo Darnell from time to time during the late 60s / early 70s in the Four Corners area - Cortez, CO; Farmington, NM; once at the Caravan East in Albuquerque. He had released "Stepping Stone" and "Down Came the World" about that time. Bobby Barnett had covered "Down Came the World" and Waylon covered it shortly thereafter.
My memories of Bozo Darnell are very positive and I enjoyed the time I spent with him. I would suggest that he was one of those entertainers who had the talent to be a star, but it just wasn't in the stars. Unfortunately, there is just not enough room at the top for everyone who deserves to be there.
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 6:01 am
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I think Bozo and Wynn used to do a thing where Wynn would come on stage in a wig while Bozo kicked off "Sweet Thang".
Bozo recorded a classic version of "Sha-Marie", later done by Wynn. Don't know who the steeler is for sure, but if it isn't Ralph Mooney, it's the best impersonation I ever heard.
Here are a couple of pix. Anybody recognize anybody?
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Bob I. Williams
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Sun City West, Arizona, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 8:56 am
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| Good to read this thread on Bozo. I did a bar room, bandstand scene for a movie, with Bozo somewhere in the mid 70's. Is Bozo still with us? Steping stone was a good song. BOB |
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Tracy Sheehan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 27 Jul 2009 11:32 am
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| Bozo passed on several years ago.Tracy |
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GaryHoetker
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Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 6:59 am
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Thank you all very much for your insight and memories.
This Forum is food for the soul and a valuable resource for those who still care very much about traditional country music.
Thanks again and God Bless !!
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GaryHoetker
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Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 1:19 pm
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| Received an e-mail from Bozo's son, Reuben. The steeler is Sonny DeJersy who played a Fender 400. Thanks again for all those who posted. |
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Tracy Sheehan
From:
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Jul 2009 8:04 pm
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Here is a little triva about Sonny De Jersy.One time when he was playing at the Golden Nugget they had Sonnys fender 400 painted gold.They also had some band trailers painted gold for the bands that played there.Sonny had a great sense of humor. later he had Help Stamp Out The Steel Guitar Rag painted over the gold on the front of his steel.
I could tell some great funny things he and i did but would have to put it under fiction as no one would believe it.Again.Boy,those were the days.Tracy
Aw what the heck.Here is one.When we were both playing in Odessa with different bands we shared a motel apt together.As i was at the time learnig country steel Sonny was helping me.I was still hung up on the C6th.Any how Sonny went to La to get his car and before he left he showed me how to do a great country up tempo lick.I worked on it until he got back and could hardly wait to show him how well i could do it. When he got back he came into the club i was playing in and i layed the lick on him.He walked up to the band stand and said hey Tracy,get some of that @#@#$$%& treble off your amp and left.
How could you not love a guy like that.LOL
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