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Topic: Jay McDonald..credit where credit is due |
GaryHoetker
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Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 13 Jul 2012 1:38 pm |
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No offense to my very favorite musician Ralph Mooney but something's been bugging me lately. There are several Buck Owens songs shown on Youtube where the great Jay McDonald is featured but Mooney is mistakenly credited by some of the posters. Some of those songs are "Getting Used To Losing You", "Over and Over" and the following duets with Don Rich "Sweethearts in Heaven", "Cottonfields", "Diggy Liggy Lo", to name a few. You can certainly understand why some would think it was Mooney on those recordings...because Jay was that good.
Buck was a smart man and realized the significance
of continuing that particular Fender 1000 style sound during that wonderful era. There are still a lot of great steel artists deserving of induction into the SGHOF. Some are sadly forgotten. Jay is one of them, IMO. |
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John Alexander
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Kevin Hatton
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Buffalo, N.Y.
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Posted 14 Jul 2012 6:29 am
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| There must have been some bad blood there because he quit playing steel guitar and became a Las Vegas dealer. He sounds great. |
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GaryHoetker
From:
Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 14 Jul 2012 9:27 am
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| Thanks so much John for posting Jay's superb rendition of "Release Me". The tone, melody and the emotion he supplies in that solo defies description. It just doesn't get any better than that. To Buck's credit as well, he made a point of placing his band front and center, on his LP's. |
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