[78-L] "Over The Rainbow"

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Jan 18 19:45:30 PST 2009


So close....

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> Homer and Jethro recorded twenty-six sides for King, according to a British Archive of Country Music CD that collected twenty-five of them.
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 1/18/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Over The Rainbow"
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 9:02 PM
>> I ran across a King LP of H&J years ago and thought
>> I'd bought it but somehow 
>> it never turned up. 20 or 24 tracks, which probably means
>> mucho editing, but at 
>> least it wouldn't have had those rotten King surfaces.
>>
>> Anyone know how many sides they made for King?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>> Bill -
>>> I just found a nice copy of H&J doing "Over
>> The Rainbow" on King. Nice 
>>> arrangement and very funny. Also interesting in that
>> most of the 
>>> material I've heard of theirs on King has been
>> pretty straight - as 
>>> opposed to  the RCA days when their humor got much
>> broader. The flip is 
>>> a pedestrian version of "Ground Hog".
>>> Mal
>>>
>>> *******
>>>
>>> Bill Knowlton wrote:
>>>> The funniest version of "Baby," IMHO, is
>> by June Carter with Homer & Jethro.  
>>>> Shall we say, an "Appalachaian
>> interpretation?" a la Suzie Stump?  BILL KNOWLTON
>>>



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