Freddie Hart's "Easy Lovin'"

Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Who played the steel on this hit?

Carl West · From: La Habra, CA, USA (deceased)

I'm guess'in Walter Haynes . . but I'm probably wrong as usual

Carl West
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Mike Sweeney · From: Nashville,TN,USA

Reggie, It was Lloyd Green.

Justin Griffith · From: Taylor, Texas, USA

Lloyd Green who else?
Justin

Bobby Bowman · From: Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.

Mike,
You're in a better place to know than me, but I could have sworn it was Pete.
BB

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Red Kilby · From: Pueblo, CO, USA * R.I.P.

Hi Reggie, it was for sure, LLOYD GREEN<<<.
This was the only song ever to be song of the year twice, 1971 and 1972.
There is actually a cool story that goes with it also.
Freddy and the producer had a disagreement in the studio when it was time to cut the song. So they left and cooled down,and when they came back, Lloyd and the rest of the musicians had cut the music for the song,and the producer said OK lets go with that,its good enough.
So there you have it, Lloyd Green was the steel player on "Easy Lovin".

[This message was edited by Red Kilby on 04 January 2002 at 11:15 PM.]

Bobby Bowman · From: Cypress, Texas, USA, R.I.P.

I don't why I had Pete so much on my mind, but I sure do stand corrected. Thanks guys for straightening me out after all these years.
BB

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Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Thanks guys. Just a song etched in my mind from my childhood. I don't think that I ever knew who played on it. It would be Lloyd! Not surprising. Don't you think that it was different than anything you had heard at that time?

Paul Graupp · From: Macon Ga USA

Part of the sound in the Freddie Hart music was a Hammond B-24 organ. Anybody want to guess who was playing it ?? Actually he and Lloyd got the producers credit for the song since the arrangement was mostly their's.

In a later song they switch sides in a stereo pan. You can hear Lloyd in your left ear and XXXXXX XcXXX in your right ear going into the pan. Then it reverses after the pan for something like a train in a tunnel effect. I must have listened to it a million times. Both Lloyd and X-man were real studio innovators and made really good music togeather. X-man is probably better known for another instrument he is actually a star on. There's a clue in the X's.

Regards, Paul

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Larry Miller · From: Dothan AL,USA

Charlie McCoy, Harmonica man extrordinaire!

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Paul Graupp · From: Macon Ga USA

Larry; You got that too fast or I made it too easy! Your prize is next New Years Eve with WWBP !! And yes, McCoy is a super musician !!! I think HIS real name is Clark Kent !!

Regards, Paul

Tony Rankin · From: Land O’ Lakes, FL

Lloyd Green included an instrumental version of Easy Lovin' in his set at Scotty's International Steel Guitar Convention this past September, along with a number of other huge hits on which he played some really great steel guitar including instrumental versions of Tammy Wynette's D-I-V-O-R-C-E and a couple of Mel Street's songs; Borrowed Angel and The Town Where You Live.

If you are not familiar with The Town Where You Live, you owe it to yourself to find a copy of Street's album containing that cut. A great song and superb steel. The kind of steel playing that is overflowing with emotion.

Lloyd's ISGC performances alone were worth the price of admission. Lloyd will always be my favorite!

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

I can tell you guys why you thought it was Pete, because Pete told everyone it was him.
He did this just to pick on Lloyd! Lloyd ended up haveing to get the union contract out , make a copy of it, and put it on the bullitin board at Columbia Records! This is when we all started crossing Lloyds name off and each writting our own name in! But yes, it was Lloyd Green, but we all had fun ripping him off on the credit for it.Weldon and Pete started it I believe. I'm sure Lloyd will call me and let me know the details from his point of view.
I loved the lead guitarwork on the record. Billy Sanford, of "pretty Woman" fame played Curtis Mayfield style guitar on it. Charlie McCoy played organ. I think Harmon and Moore,with Pig Robbins rounded out the session. I don't remember who played rhythm guitar,but I think it was Ray Eddington, but Bobby Thompson was doing a lot then too.(so was Fred Carter)I also think it was cut at Woodland Sound Studios.(on lease by Columbia) Right Lloyd? Call me.
How 'bout this Jason Odd?
Bobbe

Larry Miller · From: Dothan AL,USA

Thanks Paul, for the lovely gift

I'd just unplug him. I remember alot of that session stuff from my old Country Song Round Up issues. I used to never miss an issue, but now I guess they're out of business. Bobbe, Pete did a real good tribute to Lloyd and Easy Lovin' on the song "I'm Not Goin' Hungry Anymore" on the Grammy Award winning album BEHIND CLOSED DOORS by Charlie Rich, and the song was written by Freddie Hart

Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Bobbe, my next question was who played the lead guitar. Thanks.

Richard Sinkler · From: aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana

I also remember thinking it was Pete Drake on Easy Lovin'. I remember reading an article about Lloyd, can't remember if it was in Guitar Player or Steel Guitarist magazine, where he talked about playing on that recording with Charlie doing the organ work. I was surprised, as it didn't sound like anything I had heard Lloyd do in the past.

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Red Kilby · From: Pueblo, CO, USA * R.I.P.

Hi Reggie, I didn't know if Bobbe would get right to your Question, but here is your answer, the guitar player was Billy Sanford,the piano player Pig Robbins,and I know Charlie McCoy was on the session also . I hope this helps. Take Care, and Happy New Year to all of you on the Forum.

[This message was edited by Red Kilby on 06 January 2002 at 07:08 AM.]

Jason Odd · From: Stawell, Victoria, Australia

I see I have outlived my usefulness here.
Now if I wasn't so lazy I'd figure out to do one of those unhappy 'smiley' faces..doh!

Larry Miller · From: Dothan AL,USA

Jason, to make a smiley face : then ) colon, right parenthethis

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

I just got a e-mail from Lloyd, I said Bobby Thompson played rhythm on this song(one of my three guesses) and as I already knew, Billy Sanford played lead. Bobby Thompson is one of the greatest banjo players in the world. It was Bobby that played on Hee Haw for 20 years and also did the theme song for this popular T.V. show. Any thing else?
Bobbe

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Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

This is the e-mail I rec'd from Lloyd:

Bobbe,
Part of your information is factual, part fanciful. I did, indeed, get a copy of the union contract
and put it on the bulletin board at Columbia studio "B" during a session Pete was on because he
was telling everybody he was on the record, "Easy Lovin". The rest of your story is accurate as
to the fact of desecrating the contract copy. Before it finally fell apart about 2 weeks later every
steel player from Speedy West to Cousin Jody was attributed as the player on the song, about
15 players as I recall. Hell, maybe that was you on the tune!
Seriously, we recorded the song at Sound Emporium Studio "A", the rhythm guitar player was
Bobby Thompson and the drummer, Jerry Carrigan. Most of the rest of the story, by both you and
Red Kilby, is accurate. However, there is much more to the story which I shall never say in print.
Suffice it to say, if I may borrow from Shakespeare, "All's well that ends well"!
While Pete and I were always competitors we were also friends, and this breech of etiquette was
soon repaired.
Despite what has erroniously been printed here, Pete and I were always the two busiest session
players from the 1960's to the mid 1970's when Sonny Garrish superseded both of us. Anyone
who says that Pete Drake was the most recorded steel player is simply uninformed. Pete
certainly thought I was, as he so often told me. But I suspect we were pretty even, both of us
having to turn down as many sessions as we took because we simply didn't have the time to
do all we were called for. The words on my Hall of Fame plaque in St. Louis are true. I didn't
need to hype my resume, nor would I have. Nor does this diminish the enormous volume or
the quality of work of Weldon Myrick and Hal Rugg, both of whom were always in the studio too,
cutting wonderful and original stuff. We four were busy dudes.
Bobbe, you have my permission to post this if you wish.

Lloyd Green

See why I love this guy! Bobbe

Paul Graupp · From: Macon Ga USA

Bobbe: Once again you have left me speachless. There is simply nothing else I could say following a post like that. My thanks to you, Sir !! And Lloyd: Again, words fail me ! Just: THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE !!

Regards, Paul

Reggie Duncan · From: Mississippi

Lloyd, thanks for setting the record straight. You add so much to the forum here.
And we only have one chance to get this information. That is NOW!

Mike Weirauch · From: Harrisburg, Illinois**The Hub of the Universe

Kind, honest, truthful and a true gentleman. THAT'S Lloyd Green! I want to meet this guy sometime!

Bobbe Seymour · From: Hendersonville TN USA, R.I.P.

Mike, you want to meet Lloyd? He told me he was going to whip your butt if he ever saw you!

(Just kidding, I know you and he are great buddys)

J. Arnold Kippenphoopher III

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