[78-L] Whitburn 1938 - was: Three Shif'less Skonks?

[Michael Biel]

From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> In case you need another version, the Light Crust Doughboys also recorded
> that song for Vocalion in '38, I believe. I can send an MP3 if you like.
> Cary Ginell
 
Did THAT version also have the line that they are from the hills of
Tennessee and they don't like flatland furriners at all?  I've never
heard this song before and I can't believe that some real Southerners
would actually sing and record a song that ADMITS the REALITY that
Southern Hospitality is a SHAM!!!!!!!  (Real hill people are hospitable
to those that grew up with them, usually in the same county, and
mistrust outsiders -- even those who are from the next county.  New
Yawkers might not like the people who live in the next apartment, the
same block, or are life-long New Yawkers, but they LOVE to greet and
help outsiders!  You want Southern Hospitality, come visit New Yawk. 
You want icy stares, come visit us down South, ya all!)

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


From: rjh334578 at yahoo.com

> Thanks to those who helped narrow this one down for me. RayK had a great copy.
> 
> I just knew there'd be a youtube of some gramophone plowing up a copy of this thing so we could watch the soundbox sway up and down and back and forth, and hear all the needle scratch and the echo of the room - with pictures of hillbillies - but we are safe, at least for the moment.
> 
> This website that Ryan found, however, is a most interesting website:
> 
> http://dentonwebservice.com/Whitburn/1938_168%20-%20Ted%20Weems%20&%20His%20Orchestra%20-%20Three%20Shif'less%20Skonks%20128%20M%20(3.10).mp3 
> 
> 
> It appears to me to be a web contractor's holding tank for stuff placed on clients' websites. In this case, it looks to be mp3 files of everything that Joel Whitburn identified as being on *his* "chart" list for all 1938. Great list of stuff, though. Anybody know for sure what this is?   Rodger

 Rodger Holtin wrote:
> > Can I beg sombody to send me an mp3 of the Ted Weems Decca of Three 
> > Shif'less Skonks? My son is a campus security officer and his crew 
> > just trapped three of those things, and it just seems appropriate 
> > to play that one for him.

From: J. E. Knox <rojoknox at metroeast.org>
> If you haven't already gotten your request filled...I can transfer my 
> copy this weekend and send it to you Monday. Take care, Joe