[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum

[David Lennick]

And what's with these Canadian Cowboys actually being from Nova Scotia, eh? (For the geographically challenged, Nova Scotia is about as far from the prairies as you can get.)

 

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> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 21:24:59 -0700
> From: jackpalmer1 at att.net
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum
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>     Wilf Carter broadcast from New York on network radio before the war.  Someone at the studio named him Montana Slim.  Thought it sounded better for a cowboy, I guess.  A year or so later, while going home on a vacation he was in an auto crash and barely survived.  He required a very long recovery and was replaced on the radio program.  But he kept the name because it was better recognized in the US.   Jack
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> Carter's are easier to find then Hank's--but only in New England or upstate New York. I'm in Ohio so they don't get down here much
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> I'm not sure why they made him change his name to Montana Slim here in the US--one reaosn may be that US Bluebird already had the CARTER Family and BO CARTER [aka Bo Chatmon].
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> Note that both Snow and Carter recorded for Canadian Bluebird (B-4*) before
> hey were known in the US; I have a number of these records, but I suspect
> hey aren't easily found in the US?
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> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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> Wilf [slim] was more obscure--his popularity was basically limited to 
> Canada and in the Nortern areas of the US.
> but I was surprised that she had never even heard of Wilf Carter
> r Montana Slim.
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> ote that both Snow and Carter recorded for Canadian Bluebird (B-4*) before
> hey were known in the US; I have a number of these records, but I suspect
> hey aren't easily found in the US?
> Steven C. Barr 
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