[78-L] Follow-Up Songs

[Cary Ginell]

This reminds me of a routine Johnny Bond did at one time in a recording with Cowboy Copas for Starday. The gimmick is that they're sitting around, playing guitar duets. Bond starts off by playing "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes." Then Copas picks "The Wild Side of Life." Bond's turn comes and he selects "The Great Speckle Bird." Then Copas does "I Didn't Know God Made Honky Tonk Angels." The gag is that all four songs - big hit songs for the Carter Family, Hank Thompson, Roy Acuff, and Kitty Wells ALL had the same melody. The payoff comes when they decide to make up a song on the spot and both play the same melody again. Copas says it's a great melody and asks Bond what he was going to call it. "I don't know, I can't think of a title," Bond dryly says.

Here's the routine - sorry that it's on a cassette from YouTube. I'm too lazy to dub it from my copy of the LP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJFn1pI1mGY

Cary Ginell



On Sep 26, 2013, at 1:43 PM, "Joe Scott" <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> The CD A Corn Licker Still In Georgia by the Skillet Lickers on Voyager consists entirely of a series they recorded from 1927 to 1930.
> Speaking of George W. Johnson, he and his peers got to do follow-up recordings that were as close to the previous one as possible. I wonder if anyone at the time had the "alternate takes" mentality that some of us have had since, and enjoyed collecting and hearing different versions of the same tune?
> Joseph Scott
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> "Minnie the Moocher" and "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" come to mind. Oh, and Vaughn Monroe followed up "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" with "Thank You, Mr. Florist." Randy ------------------------------ On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 9:38 AM CDT Kristjan Saag wrote: >Eddie Calvert tried to follow upp his 1953 hit "Oh Mein Papa" with a >similar number, the (partially) self-penned "My Son My Son" in 1954. >A few years Tommie Connor & Johnny Reine wrote a follow-up to "Lili >Marlene": "The Wedding Of Lili Marlene". It was a big hit for Anne >Shelton in the UK and a minor hit for The Andrews Sisters in the US. >Does anyone know of other such obvious follow-ups, theme-based or >otherwise connected? >Kristjan _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
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