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Topic: Eddie Dean, with Andy Parker&Plainsmen, "Let's Go |
Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jun 2009 9:38 pm Familiar sound therein.................. |
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The last break Juaquin takes........is an all familiar.....JERRY BYRD phrase......note for note.
Great music1 Thanx for sharing! |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 8 Jun 2009 9:52 pm
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I'm almost convinced he was playing the steel 'live' on that video...however, there's no way a concertina squeeze box could possibly sound that good! Knowing what I little I know about accordions, I think they were all just going through the motions to an earlier produced sound track. Comments ????  |
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Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 6:08 am
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| I'm with you on that George. Although, if you watch Joaquin's hands, they look like they are playing the actual solo that is heard, Especially when he does his last lick, but honestly who knows? I dont! Maybe he memorized his solo he did in the studio, then recreated it for the filming? |
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George Keoki Lake
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Edmonton, AB., Canada
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 7:12 am
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That's entirely possible. Back in the early days of B/W TV, a small jazz group I was performing with was to do an outdoor gig...(no electric outlets nearby). We did the actual sound trac in the studio, then pantomined our playing on the outdoor site for the camera as the crew played back what he had recorded. (I was playing electric bass at the time). The end result was very convincing, particularly if you ignored the fact my electric bass had no cable attached !  |
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Mitch Drumm
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Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 2:28 pm
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Thanks for posting that film clip--I had not seen it.
Here is a Plainsmen still from the film, Black Hills:
Joaquin upper right; Charlie Morgan lower left, George Bamby upper left, Andy Parker lower right, Eddie Dean next to Parker. Not sure who that is on Joaquin's right. It may be the Plainsmen bass player, whose name escapes me at the moment. Presumably a non-Plainsmen with the jug.
Here is the IMDB's screen credits for "Earl Murphy":
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0614231/
I haven't seen any of these films and don't know if Joaquin plays in any of them. He may, but it may all be pantomime.
Eddie Dean did record "Let's Go Sparkin'" for Mercury, as well as a song called "On The Banks Of The Sunny San Juan". Joaquin is supposed to be on them, but I have not yet tracked them down. "San Juan" has been reissued on a CD, but unfortunately there is no Joaquin on the track, so I think the CD track is another version of the song cut earlier for the Majestic label, without Murphey. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 4:27 pm
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When it comes to George Bamby, I'm of the opinion that he could run a tiny concertina thru a set of bag pipes with a hyperactive kid jumping on them and make it sound great.
The Plainsmen are so underheard and appreciated that it always make's me glad to see someone post about them. They could do the simplest Son's Of The Pioneers type of mellow tunes to early houserockin' and never miss a beat. |
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Anthony Locke
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Texas, USA
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 8:11 pm
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| Mitch, thanks for posting that link, I've never heard of those movies either, but it apppears that some of them do feature Joaquin, as "Musician," of "member of The Plainsmen." Andy Parker and the Plainsmen were a top notch band and it IS a shame that there isn't more out there of them, at least that I know about...I hope i'm wrong! |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 9 Jun 2009 8:49 pm
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Mitch:.
I think the "Jug" player was a "sidekick" or Comic Relief to the star of the movie. I think part of his name was "Roscoe". Seeems like I had seen him in other of these types of Westerns. Last name might have be Ates or something like that.
Just looked up Roscoe Ates on the Internet. He was sidekick to Eddy Dean in 15 Western Films. Started life out as a concert vi0linist but due to his stuttering became a Comedian.
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c c johnson
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killeen,tx usa * R.I.P.
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Posted 10 Jun 2009 1:57 am
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| Eddy Dean was known as "the golden voiced ". There was a dj in the St Lois area named Cal Tinney that would play Dean's records more than others.cc |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 10 Jun 2009 1:22 pm
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| Many of us Steel Players in So. Califonria were privileged to play gigs where Eddy Dean was the Star of the Show. He was a first class person and great entertainer. He always played a electric guitar and had his version of Guitar Boogie. |
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Dan Sawyer
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Studio City, California, USA
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Posted 13 Jun 2009 11:44 am
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| That is definitely a piano-keyed accordion, not a concertina. there is also an audible string bass on the recording. So they were mime-ing to a recording. |
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