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Topic: Onie Wheeler |
Drew Howard
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Posted 28 Jan 2010 5:22 pm |
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"John's Been Shucking My Corn"
Is this Lloyd on steel? |
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Tracy Sheehan
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Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2010 8:27 pm Onie Wheeler
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Does any one know if Onie wheeler was on the old cow town hoedown in Ft,Worth,Tx.back in the late 50s?.
the name sure rings a bell and i can't place him. |
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Don Walters
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Saskatchewan Canada
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Posted 29 Jan 2010 11:35 am
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| He's listed as composer for a song called "Run 'Em Off" on a Lefty Frizzell CD I have titled Look What Thoughts Will Do |
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Jeremiah Wade
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Bladenboro, NC
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 6:10 am
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Onie used to travel with Lefty and open up his shows on the road, I have a couple of his recordings, but they seem fairly hard to find. I think a lot of pickers names in the swing era have been forgotten, what a shame.
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 8:09 am
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I think he was most famous as Karen Wheeler's father, at least that's what I've heard he said once.......
Now someone'll probably ask "Who's Karen Wheeler"...I don't know, beats me.....JH in Va.
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John Clark
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Arkansas, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 4:16 pm
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| ONIE PLAYED FOR ROY ACUFF IN 70'S AND 80'S I THINK. HE ACTUALLY DIED ON THE OPRY STAGE DURING THE MIDDLE OF A SONG. THAT'S WHAT I CALL PLAYING RIGHT UP TO THE END. |
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Ray Riley
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Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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Posted 30 Jan 2010 6:52 pm Onie Wheeler
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I remember him from the song "Onies Bop".
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Last edited by Ray Riley on 31 Jan 2010 5:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Jeremiah Wade
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Bladenboro, NC
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Posted 31 Jan 2010 6:41 am
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You should try to find a copy of "Booger's gonna getcha" , always good for a smile.
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Jody Sanders
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Posted 31 Jan 2010 2:59 pm
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| Hi Drew, Don't know if it was Lloyd on steel. I worked one show with Onie when he had "Run 'EM Off" playing well on country radio. Around 1951,52 or so maybe. Jody. |
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Andrew Brown
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Houston, Texas, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2010 5:24 pm
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| Bear Family has a CD devoted to his '50s stuff. Great singer. |
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Clyde Mattocks
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Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2010 9:51 pm
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Great record of "I Saw Mother with God Last Night". Benny Martin doing some cool pedal steel-like moves on the fiddle.
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Bill Fisher
From:
Oklahoma, USA
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Posted 31 Jan 2010 10:12 pm
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Karen Wheeler was on the Wilburn Brothers show a few weeks ago, and sang Mule Skinner Blues. She mentioned she was Onie's daughter. What a coincidence her name would appear here.
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robert hays
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sikeston mo. usa
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Posted 1 Feb 2010 7:39 am Onie Wheeler
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Rick Sinclair and I just did an interview with Karen Wheeler last tuesday Jan 26th on KWKZ 106.1 pure country radio, and she was a delight to talk to. Onie was born and raised in the bootheel of missouri and when I was a teen ager I worked in the cornfields along side of Onie,this was before he went to nashville but he was doing shows locally,and soon left the bootheel for nashville. I knew A J Nelson also and remember them from local shows back in the 50's there is a wealth of info on Onie and Karen on this web site WWW.karenwheelermusic.com .She is still very active and has a brand new Gospel C D that is available on the web site .
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