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Topic: GREAT JERRY BYRD rendition"Sioux City Sue"...... |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 23 May 2010 2:57 pm |
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Currently playing on the JERRY BYRD FAN CLUB site on Jerry's Music Page, is a golden oldie "Sioux City Sue".......
Vocal is by Dick Thomas, the year 1948, the lable is Decca. For those old timers with the great EARS, you can tell this was cut at about the same time the early Jerry Byrd/Red Foley Decca records were cut. The tonal sounds and Jerry's licks are 'dated' from that era, agreed?
Hope you enjoy this kinda stuff. I have a great friend that has cont'd to dig this stuff up from a gold mine of treasure that he shares with me. I'm so grateful to be able to call him 'friend'.
Hope you enjoy it. See the LINK beneath my signature. |
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Roger Shackelton
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MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 24 May 2010 11:35 am Sioux City Sue
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HI RAY,
It would be much easier to access "Sioux City Sue" if you provided a direct link to it on your Forum post. 
Roger |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 24 May 2010 11:52 am
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You mean like this?
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 24 May 2010 12:38 pm
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Right on BRAD!
Thanks.
ROGER |
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Eric Davidson
From:
Kentucky, USA
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Posted 24 May 2010 4:56 pm
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| do you think he did this on a 6 or 8 string? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 24 May 2010 5:35 pm
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Another great number. By the way, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band have an instrumental recording of that number played on the pipe organ of the Carousel at the end of Santa Monica Pier on one their albums, and they give it a completely different name... I can't remember what it is now. I believe the album is "Symphonic Dream."
By the way, it's "Sioux City Sue".
Last edited by Alan Brookes on 25 May 2010 6:30 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 25 May 2010 6:30 am
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This song is actually "The Sister Of Sioux City Sue", recorded in December 1947 and released in early 1948.
This same artist (Dick Thomas) was a co-writer of and the first person to record the original "Sioux City Sue", in 1945. It was a top 5 record, immediately covered by several other artists.
You can hear the 1945 recording here:
http://www.siouxcitysue.com/siouxcitysue/Sioux%20City%20Sue%20page.htm
No sign of any steel guitar on "Sioux City Sue". |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 May 2010 6:35 am
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Wow, how about that for sending out vibes into the ether... ...at exactly the second Mitch was posting his notes on Sioux I was thinking about the mis-spelling.  Look at the time signatures on the postings. And they say there's no such thing as psychic transmission...  |
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 25 May 2010 7:15 am It was ONLY a test!
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What Mitch says is TRUE, True, true! And Alan, you are too.
The only way I can determine if my posts are sinking in is to check you guys on your 'comments'....thus, my apparent errors often receive more readership than do the rest of my text. THANKS guys! |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 25 May 2010 4:55 pm
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If you listen to the lyrics, he refers to Sioux City Sue as being from Nebraska, whereas Sioux City is just across the river in Iowa.  |
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Ray Shakeshaft
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Kidderminster, Worcs, UK.
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Posted 26 May 2010 4:46 am
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| The bit I found most impressive was JB's back up to the vocals. It sometimes seems that many people want to be the 'star' these days instead of contributing to a well balanced group sound. |
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Jon Nygren
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Wisconsin, USA
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Posted 26 May 2010 5:46 am
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| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| If you listen to the lyrics, he refers to Sioux City Sue as being from Nebraska, whereas Sioux City is just across the river in Iowa. |
Listen again...the guy drove his cattle down a trail starting in Nebraska and met sioux city sue in the state of IOWAY.  |
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Al Terhune
From:
Newcastle, WA
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Posted 26 May 2010 6:29 am Re: It was ONLY a test!
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| Ray Montee wrote: |
| ....thus, my apparent errors often receive more readership than do the rest of my text. THANKS guys! |
That's funny...because it's true. Often we don't see for the forest for the trees, although, yes, facts are facts and it's good to keep them straight.
Thanks for giving us these glimpses back, Ray. It's like finding Christmas presents that somehow got slipped behind the wall for 60 years. So, to put this in perspective (for me), Jerry was about 27 when he recorded this tune...
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Al
My equipment:
One heck of a Wife
The ghost of a red Doberman
Several pairs of reading glasses strewn about |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 26 May 2010 6:43 am
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| Jon Nygren wrote: |
| Alan Brookes wrote: |
| If you listen to the lyrics, he refers to Sioux City Sue as being from Nebraska, whereas Sioux City is just across the river in Iowa. |
Listen again...the guy drove his cattle down a trail starting in Nebraska and met sioux city sue in the state of IOWAY. |
Oops... you're right.  |
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