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Topic: Steel Guitar Crime Spree from 1945 |
Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 29 Aug 2020 9:14 am |
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Posted by Pete Blecha on Facebook
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| "Just unearthed a November 1945 issue of the "Platter Chatter" record-biz magazine as published in Seattle. It featured this bit about a fellow who they exposed for impersonating the steel guitar great, Lani McIntire. I wonder if 75 years later now, this group can ID the culprit from his photo?" |
Only the wacky world of steel guitar would have a fake Hawaiian steeler on a musical crime spree!
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Jack Hanson
From:
San Luis Valley, USA
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Posted 29 Aug 2020 10:20 am
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| A page from the Rice Miller playbook. Thanks for sharing, Andy. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 5:48 am
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I often impersonate a steel guitar player. 
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 6:05 am
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Doug,
Thanks! 
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 10:31 am
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"Yeah, that's the ticket! I was on all of Jerry Byrd's records .... and I was married to Morgan Fairchild!"
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Glenn Wilde
From:
California, USA
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Posted 30 Aug 2020 6:44 pm
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| That no-count scoundrel! |
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Steve Marinak
From:
Man O War Cay, Abaco, Bahamas
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 4:27 pm
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This was a common thing in entertainment back then. I recall reading there were a number of Ella Fitzgerald's, and many soul singers all booking gigs under the star's names.
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Scott Thomas
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 5:43 pm
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Ah, the days when it paid to impersonate a Hawaiian music band leader.
I can see how this sort of impersonation would have been easier back then. Good thing Platter Chatter was on the case! |
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 31 Aug 2020 8:30 pm
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A variation of it goes on yet today. You have no idea how many people I've met in bars that wrote "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
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Willis Vanderberg
From:
Petoskey Mi
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Posted 8 Sep 2020 7:48 am
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I had a guy walk in to the club we were playing and on the next break came and sit down at our table.
He asked if we would let him sing a number or two.
Then he casually mentioned that he wrote Hearbreak Hotel. Of course I was a little skeptical of tbat.
But we had him up and he did two numbers. Not too bad either.
Turned out his name was Tommy Durden and he along with Mae Boren Axton did write the song.
I may Not have the spelling right but close. |
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Mitch Drumm
From:
Frostbite Falls, hard by Veronica Lake
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Posted 8 Sep 2020 10:05 am
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| Willis Vanderberg wrote: |
Turned out his name was Tommy Durden and he along with Mae Boren Axton did write the song.
I may Not have the spelling right but close. |
Durden it is.
Here's a couple of pix of Tommy---from about 1948 when he played steel for Tex Ritter. Left to right: Rusty McDonald (of "Faded Love"), Spud Goodall, Tex, Boots Gilbert, Durden; and then about 10 years later with rockabilly Jimmy Franklin's band out of Detroit.
Decent singer too---look for a tune called "Hula Boogie" on youtube, with Herb Remington on steel.
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Don Barnhill
From:
California, USA
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Posted 9 Sep 2020 8:00 pm
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The thing that gets me is the bilking of “hundreds of Dollarsâ€! In today’s market that could get you a couple of nice meals. 
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Don Barnhill
From:
California, USA
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Posted 10 Sep 2020 1:49 am
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
Well, like we always say, if you're good at it, you can make literally tens of dollars playing the steel guitar.  But nooo! I had to get me a "day job"... |
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Joe Cook
From:
Lake Osoyoos, WA
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Posted 11 Sep 2020 5:15 am
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Mae Boren Axton was Hoyt Axton's mother. So, the circle is complete?  |
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Don Barnhill
From:
California, USA
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Posted 15 Sep 2020 4:39 pm
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I remember seeing Hoyt Axton at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach, CA a couple of times.
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Steven Paris
From:
Los Angeles
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Don Barnhill
From:
California, USA
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Posted 16 Sep 2020 3:17 pm
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| Steven Paris wrote: |
| Best not to be imitatin' Little Walter! |
Sounds like a Blues song.
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