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

[Cary Ginell]

It shore does, neighbor!

Cary Ginell
On Jun 25, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Michael Biel wrote:

> 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
> 
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