[78-L] Homer and Jethro--33 King sides only

Thu Jan 22 16:02:40 PST 2009

Hello, David:

I haven't been on the list since it went down, and missed your message,
below.  I missed a lot of unpleasantness, too, I see.

Anyhow, Homer & Jethro only recorded 33 sides for King, not 34.  As I said
in an earlier post, the flip side of King 620, "Managua, Nicaragua," is not
by Homer & Jethro, but by Fairley Holden and His Six Ice Cold Papas (the web
site you refer to does not show this fact). King 620 has the released matrix
of "Bill Bailey...", but there is an unissued version, which I list below.
Finally, King issued the same matrix of "Poor Little Liza Poor Girl" twice,
on King 773 and King 809.  Count' em off, there'd be a tombstone every...
whoops, wrong country artist!

10/1946 78 t. KING 571 (US) . Five Minutes More / Rye Whiskey
11/1946 78 t. KING 583 (US) . Boll Weevil / Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
01/1947 78 t. KING 596 (US) . Over The Rainbow / Ground Hog
03/1947 78 t. KING 615 (US) . Cielito Linto / For Sentimental Reasons
05/1947 78 t. KING 620 (US) . Bill Bailey Won't You Come Home [by H &J, mx
K2410]/ Managua Nicaragua [NOT by H & J]
06/1947 78 t. KING 623 (US) . I'll Close My Eyes / Symphony
10/1947 78 t. KING 659 (US) . Donkey Serenade / Fly Birdie Fly
02/1948 78 t. KING 682 (US) . Three Nights Experience / I Wonder Who's
Kissing You Now
03/1948 78 t. KING 695 (US) . Oh You Beautiful Gal / (Don't Telephone Don't
Telegraph) Tell A Woman
04/1948 78 t. KING 701 (US) . Gotta See My Mama Every Night / It Bruised Her
Somewhat
07/1948 78 t. KING 721 (US) . Glow Worm / It's Bloody War
09/1948 78 t. KING 731 (US) . Blue Tailed Fly / All Night Long
01/1949 78 t. KING 749 (US) . Goodbye Old Booze / I Feel That Old Age
Creeping On
05/1949 78 t. KING 773 (US) . Girl In Police Gazette / Poor Little Liza Poor
Girl
10/1949 78 t. KING 809 (US) . Always / Poor Little Liza Poor Girl
1951 SP KING / FEDERAL 10004 (US) . Night And Day / When It's Long Handle
Time In Tennessee
1951 SP KING / FEDERAL 10019 (US) . I'm Glad I Waited For You / Margie
mx K2823 Bill Bailey  unissued

Discographically beating a dead rainbow,

--Mark Hendrix

PS: None of this, of course, answers your original question as to why
whichever CD company that had access to this material, only reissued 24
sides.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 8:06 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Over The Rainbow" CORRECTION!
>
>
> 34 King sides here, not counting the King 45 reissue of a couple of sides.
> http://www.rocky-52.net/chanteursh/homer&jethro.htm
> Interesting site. It looks as if it shows release dates, not
> recording. And
> you'll see it when 78-L is up and running again.
>
> dl
>
> Mark Hendrix 78L wrote:
> > Hello, David:
> >
> > I'm simply counting the sides you listed plus the ones beyond
> those, listed
> > in Ruppli's discography, including the unissued take. All of
> the sides you
> > listed are in the discography, too. That makes 33.
> >
> > I don't know about, and didn't count, the sides that seem like
> Blue Pages
> > material, but would like to know more. ;) Ruppli doesn't have a
> title index
> > (thanks, thanks a lot), rarely lists accompanying musicians (cf. Cliff
> > Bolling's earlier question about Janet Brace), and besides, the
> titles David
> > Diehl mentioned are not listed under any Hank Penny session
> that I can find.
> > Mr. Ruppli's discographies are useful, but tend to be rather
> slapdash, in my
> > opinion.
> >
> > I'm sure Syd Nathan never reissued "Over the Rainbow" because
> he couldn't
> > bear paying the copyright royalties.  Too bad; it's a lovely
> version.  I've
> > only heard it on one of those Hawthorn broadcasts that Andrea Walsh
> > uploaded.
> >
> > As to your question "why a CD [company] would then issue only
> 25 and not go
> > for 'da woiks,'" you know better perhaps than anyone on this
> list what goes
> > on in the dark hearts of those who  reissue back catalog on CDs!
> >
> > --Mark Hendrix
> >
> > PS, sorry to hear about the shards in the mail!
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> >> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> >> Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:22 PM
> >> To: 78-L Mail List
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] "Over The Rainbow" CORRECTION!
> >>
> >>
> >> Re-sending this with the correct sender name! For those who tuned
> >> in late,
> >> we're talking about Homer & Jethro on King. Caller, you're on the air.
> >>
> >> Mark Hendrix 78L wrote:
> >>> David Lennick asked:
> >>>> Anyone keeping count?
> >>> 33 recordings, with one of these unissued.  Is that what you
> are asking?
> >>>
> >> That was what I was asking, because we'd had 26 noted previously
> >> and I wondered
> >> why a CD would then issue only 25 and not go for "da woiks".
> Does this 33
> >> include the "sitting in" material David Diehl mentioned?
> >>
> >> davdieh at aol.com wrote:
> >>> They also sat in on some sessions, Hank Penny for one. Don't
> >> miss The freckle song and Let me play with your poodle.
> >>>  David Diehl
> >> dl
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