Our local country DJ was of two minds about the Everly Brothers. He loved their first hit, Bye Bye Love and played it often. But their next record was Wake Up little Suzie. He said they should not have gone that route and never did play them after that.
Sort of a little lost on me. Was it not country enough? Too Rock-a-billy? For that matter, did he play any Elvis or Jerry Lee? Áll this purity of genre issues is what drove Willy Nelson and Waylon to become 'Outlaws'.
He had a strict criterion for what is and is not true country music. I never heard Jerry Lee on there and I doubt that he played Conway Twitty before Twitty renounced rockabilly.
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Sun 12 Aug, 2012 02:45 pm
A wartime song by Ernest Tubb
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Sun 12 Aug, 2012 04:55 pm
T Texas Tyler - Just a Bummin Around
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Mon 13 Aug, 2012 06:47 pm
Leroy Van Dyke telling the tale of The Auctioneer
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Mon 13 Aug, 2012 08:52 pm
Claude King tells of The Comancheros
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Tue 14 Aug, 2012 03:44 pm
This is a George Jones song. But Jerry Lee Lewis does my favorite version
Seasons of My Heart
Don't Worry and Singin' the Blues - a Marty Robbins two-fer.
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Sat 18 Aug, 2012 06:38 pm
Johnny Horton - THe Battle of New Orleans
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Sat 18 Aug, 2012 08:14 pm
@edgarblythe,
I like this song. Both are great but I like this version a bit better as I find it haunting:
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Sat 18 Aug, 2012 08:20 pm
I didn't know Danny's version. It's a good one. There are a couple of other versions around that I like also. I have liked Charlie Rich since about 1958, so it's natural for me to like his way of doing the song. Charlie's Down By the Riverside also blows me away.
I remember hearing it on the radio a few times, but it came out at a time when I was on the move a lot and not hearing much. Never caught his name because of that, I suspect.
