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Wikipedia says: The 8th of January was a federal holiday in the US from 1828 until 1861, commemorating the U.S. victory in the battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815.
The tune "8th of January" was played long before Jimmy Driftwood wrote and Johnny Horton sang those words.?ÿ Here's a more traditional rendition, plus variations.?ÿ
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"On Top of Old Smokey"
I just took the time last week to google the lyrics to the Flintstones theme song. There were 2 lines that I had never quite figured out. That wasn't an available option when I was a kid.
I remember that one and I also remember my cousins had a record of their dad??s they??d play on their (the kid??s- whoowhoo-1966-ish) record player- of train songs. Wabash Cannonball - and the wreck of the Old ??97- that song terrified this 5 year old kid ever riding a train.
Had it on 45 too...
@bill93 Thanks for that. I don't know how anyone can listen to Mountain and/or Bluegrass music and not hear the pipes and other Irish/Celtic music.
"Please Pass The Biscuits" has a special place in my heart. Although Jimmy Dean's version is usually considered the benchmark, the song was written by one of my father's friends, Gene Sullivan.
Gene had a long-time partner, Wiley Walker, from their performing and traveling days in the '40s. Together they wrote another oldie titled "When My Blue Moon Turns Gold". They both settled in OKC and Gene opened a recording studio there. My father use to help Gene tweak his state-of-the-art three track hi-fi recording equipment. I can remember hanging out a number of times in the studio with Pops in the '50s. Gene even had his own record label, OK-eh records.
I never got to hang out at the studio when there were artists recording. And that's a shame. In the early '60s folks like Leon Russell and J.J. Cale use to come down from Tulsa to use Gene's studio. I remember it cost a whopping $20 an hour for recording time.
Wiley Walker passed away years ago. Gene ran a music store for years after he retired. I use to visit him there from time to time. He passed away in the '80s.
good times.. 😉
That was tough.?ÿ Decided it had to be one of these two songs.?ÿ Heaven knows I probably didn't even come close to singing the lyrics correctly as I was so young at the time.?ÿ It turns out the first offering came out two years ahead of the second so the first must have been the first.?ÿ Although when you live out in the boonies sometimes you are exposed to the new before the old comes to your attention.?ÿ Enjoy.
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The yellow polka dot bikini was the one for me!
It had a good beat and was easy to dance to...
It was a hit song at the time, all over the radio in 1955.
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More on Shelby Fredrick Wooley from IMDB
As he was born in Erick, Oklahoma in 1921 he was probably a classmate of Paden Cash. 😉 😉
Grandpa Jake and I would sing Take Me Out To The Ball Game.?ÿ He would listen to the Cubs on the radio like he was sitting in the stands.?ÿ
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love that song.?ÿ can't remember where (and can't find it quickly with google) i read a not-too-flattering quote about johnny horton from one of his contemporaries (again, the memory fails me): [paraphrasing] "he's so dumb he'd sing the list of ingredients off the side of a cereal box."
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mom was on a massive woody guthrie kick when i was coming on-line mentally.?ÿ so for me it'd be either "so long it's been good to know ya" or "hard travelin."
