[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu May 20 21:39:18 PDT 2010


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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