#vernon dalhart

[takeasadsongandanalyzeit]

The Fete

The earliest recording we have of John singing. Not strictly a Beatles recording, but it's certainly relevant.

This was recorded at Woolton Garden Fete on the day John and Paul officially met for the first time. (There are tantalizing hints that it wasn't the first time they met, but that's for another blog).

John was 16 when this was recorded.

Also performing with him were

Eric Griffiths - Guitar

Colin Hanton - Drums

Rod Davies - Banjo

Pete Shotton - Washboard

Len Gary - Tea Chest Bass

It's very cool to have any recording from that day and is pretty much a fluke that a fan would bring a recording device at all. They weren't exactly small.

Apparently, the entire set was recorded, but hasn't been released. Maybe it will be in the future. Who knows.

Here are the songs he's covering, if you haven't heard them:

It was recorded in 1926, but the most famous version was

As you can see, John changed it quite a lot. He made it more rock and gave it that Lennon flare. The Quarrymen would have absolutely rather done that version as seen here

but John was going to make it Rock n' Roll anyway.

This is Elvis' version of the second song. It's not originally Elvis of course, but this is what John was probably basing his version on.

This is the original

To be honest, John's version doesn't sound like either of these. As usual, John added his own thing and made the song all his own.

[vague-humanoid]

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Missing pronouns and double-entendres

Historians have traced the roots of country music at least to the 17th century, but the “big bang” moment for the industry didn’t happen until the 1920s.

In 1927, record producer Ralph Peer traveled from New York City to Bristol, Tennessee to hold recording sessions with “hillbilly” artists from the surrounding areas. The Bristol Sessions, as they came to be known, introduced the world to artists like Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family, foundational figures in what we now call country music.

That same year, in New York, an artist named Ewen Hail recorded “Lavender Cowboy,” a story-song about a boyish figure “with only two hairs on his chest” who takes on a group of outlaws and dies a hero’s death. Adapted from a 1923 poem by pulp writer Harold Hersey, “Lavender Cowboy” appeared in the 1930 film Oklahoma Cyclone and has since been covered many times, most notably by Vernon Dalhart in 1939. 

A couple years later, the Prairie Ramblers recorded “I Love My Fruit,” a Western swing-style novelty song so ripe with double-entendres that the group recorded it using a pseudonym. Attributed to the Sweet Violet Boys, “I Love My Fruit” is gloriously homoerotic, with lyrics that extol the virtues of (among other things) chewing on banana skin.

The 1960s saw the emergence of Wilma Burgess, a mainstream star who wasn’t able to be out but also never hid her identity. A protege of prolific producer Owen Bradley — who saw her as a potential successor to Patsy Cline — Burgess insisted on recording songs where the love interest was not referred to by gendered pronouns. When she did occasionally record songs addressed to male lovers, she did so under the agreement with Bradley that her next recording would be a song of her choice. Her songs “Baby” and “Misty Blue” both cracked the top 10, and she still holds the record for the most charted singles by a gay country artist.'

Burgess left the country music industry in the late 70s, but she remained active in Nashville’s queer scene, opening one of the city’s first lesbian bars in the early 80s. 

Queer country music’s “lost pioneer”

No queer country history would be complete without the story of Patrick Haggerty, the man responsible for what’s widely considered the first openly gay country album, Lavender Country. 

Haggerty grew up on a dairy farm in rural Washington, the sixth of ten children born to hard-working parents. Despite growing up in the repressive climate of the 50s, Haggerty has said his father was accepting of his sexuality, which was evident from a young age.

After getting kicked out of the Peace Corps for being gay in 1966, Haggerty decided to devote his life to activism, becoming involved with the Gay Liberation Front. His anger over the injustices of the era became the basis for Lavender Country, the 1973 album that would define his legacy.

The album, which Haggerty recorded with his band of the same name, is scathing and often funny, featuring would-be classics like “Back in the Closet Again” and “Cryin’ These C**ksucking Tears” delivered in a loose, folky style. 

With the support of the Gay Community Services of Seattle, 1000 copies of Lavender Country were created, advertised in gay periodicals, and sold at gay bookstores. Despite the limited number of copies, the album attracted a fair amount of attention in the gay underground. “Lavender Country” played at Seattle Pride and other gay events in the region.

The band disbanded in 1976, and Haggerty thought his music career was behind him. A self-described “screaming Marxist b***h,” he became further involved in activist circles, later co-founding the Seattle chapter of ACT UP and running for Seattle City Council and the state House of Representatives as an independent. 

the article goes into more, like Lang's Shadowland

[doyourememberrocknrollradio]

DEATH OF FLOYD COLLINS - Vernon Dalhart

[magicwingslisten]

Vernon Dalhart - Polly Wolly Doodle (1928).

[mollybangtheband]

Our Episode 28 poster. Listen to a special new episode of our radio show tonight, Sunday, 5/14/23 at 10pm only on @shadypinesradio ! Please download the app - it’s free! Or listen on shadypinesradio.com ! Here are some of the great songs we will be listening to this episode:

1. When it Comes to Your Love (The Beau Brummells)

2. Another Wam Bites The Dust (Veggiebeats Mashup)

3. White Sheep and Small Light (Nobukazu Takemura)

4. Little Bitty Corrine (Freddy Cannon)

5. Darkened Highways [SCAD Version] (Keith Kozel and Friends)

6. The Taking of Pelham 123 Main Theme (David Shire)

7. Marianne (Mike Clifford)

8. Worth Writing Home About (These Tits I Saw) [Shady Pines Studio] (Minda Lacy)

9. Velvet (The Toadies)

10. Before Six (Larry Frazier)

11. Soul Sauce (Shirley Scott)

12. Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony (Ween)

13. I’ll Be with You When the Roses Bloom Again (Vernon Dalhart)

14. 93: Me and Fred and Dave and Ted (The Magnetic Fields)

15. 101 Strings (Rich Gilbert)

16. How Long Has This Been Going On (Ace)

17. Wicked Little Town (The Breeders)

18. Slam (Onyx)

19. Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)

[jonathanmorse]

Wreck, topple, scald, gash; then sing, play

Wreck, topple, scald, gash; then sing, play

Toward a theory of art: https://archive.org/details/78_the-freight-wreck-at-altoona_vernon-dalhart-co-fred-tait-douglas-carson-j-robis_gbia0191876b/THE+FREIGHT+WRECK+AT+ALTOONA+-+VERNON+DALHART+%26+CO..flac

[midnightrook]

The Prisoner’s Song - Vernon Dalhart (1925)

[adyemusicology-blog]

Hello again! Today was an eventful day, as I’m finding days at this internship usually are. This morning I drove 30 minutes north of Danville to Chatham, VA to visit the Pittsylvania County Historic Research Center and Library to look through the library’s holdings. It’s a very small place so I thought I’d be done in a few hours, but I got sucked in adding Pittsylvania County history books to the regional history bibliography I’m building that I almost lost track of time! I need to go back there to get into their genealogy collection. This afternoon was a very special experience, and one dear to my musicologist heart. I visited the home of Kinney and Bonnie Rorrer, two residents of Danville. Kinney is a retired history teacher, local music historian, and avid phonograph and 78 collector. He told me about the history of labor songs in Danville, like how striking mill workers in 1930 would bring portable phonograph players to the picket line so they could play David McCarn’s “Cotton Mill Colic,” released earlier that year. 

I also learned about Blind Luther Clark, who owned a record store in Danville and recorded a folk song in the 1920s about the failed tobacco pools (co-ops that tried to cut out the middleman). Clark’s lyrics mention Danville’s Banner Warehouse and tobacco auctioneer Sam Robertson by name. Kinney played me a recording of Clark’s song, a tune so rare that you can’t even find a low-quality digital version on YouTube!

Of course I had to ask Kinney what he knew about “The Wreck of the Old 97,” probably the most famous tune about Danville. Most people consider it a Johnny Cash song, while some may associate it with Vernon Dalhart, who recorded the wildly popular version for RCA Victor in 1924. In reality, Dalhart was likely the third to record “Wreck of the Old 97.” The definitive version is Henry Whitter’s recorded in 1923. In fact, Dalhart gets a few lyrics wrong, likely because he (1) wasn’t familiar with trains or the train route, and (2) was confused by Whitter’s mountain accent! Kinney has an enormous phonograph collection, all in playing condition with records and wax cylinders set up and ready to go. He played a few for me and absolutely blew me away. It was amazing to see the treasures hidden away in a basement in Danville, known to only a handful of record enthusiasts and old music fans.

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(I randomly got sad cause Os and Ed spent 10 years away from each other and imprisoned)

[queerpyracy]

One particular moment stood out when The Highwomen—an all-star project featuring Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris—debuted at the 2019 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island. Carlile, a queer Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and producer, introduced the group’s song “If She Ever Leaves Me,” a sweet, sly homage to a pair of women who prefer perfume to cologne, as “the first gay country song.” Though the crowd whooped in response, Carlile got one thing wrong. Queer country artists have been making their voices known for decades, stretching back to the 1970s (and depending on how you read Vernon Dalhart’s banned-from-the-radio 1939 tune, “Lavender Cowboy,” much earlier).

As Willie Nelson sang in 2006 when he covered Latin country musician Ned Sublette’s 1981 hit, “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” “What did you think all them saddles and boots was about?” “There is so much in country music for us to draw on,” Karen Pittelman, who fronts Karen & the Sorrows, says. “There’s a tradition of powerfully grappling with gender and sexuality ever since Kitty Wells’s callout that it wasn’t God who made honky-tonk angels. There are men weeping and wearing rhinestones. There are women getting in fistfights, singing about birth control, and murdering their abusers. There’s this call to be true to yourself, no matter what anyone else says.”

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[ohiomysteries]

Ep. 144 - The crash of the USS Shenandoah

In 1925, The US Navy's first zeppelin - the USS Shenandoah - was ripped apart by turbulence over Noble County. The 14 crew killed included her Ohio-born captain, Zachary Lansdowne. But after area residents stripped the crash site of its wreckage, investigators had little physical evidence to explain the spectacular disaster.

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Music: The Wreck of the Shenandoah, by Vernon Dalhart.

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The wonderful @buster-keaton tagged for some top ten lists.  Thank you so much for the tag.  These are not necessarily in order and not so much a true top ten so much as ten of each I really like :-)  For the books I’ve got some series titles listed and generally I enjoy the whole series so it doesn’t necessarily mean just that one book out of the series.

Top 10 movies:

Steamboat Bill Jr.

The General

Frankenstein (1931)

The Bride of Frankenstein

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Arsenic and Old Lace

The Maltese Falcon

Stranger on the Third Floor

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

Design for Living

Top 10 books:

Miss Mapp - EF Benson

Mapp and Lucia - EF Benson

Tish - Mary Roberts Rhinehart

Carry On, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

The Mangle Street Murders (a Gower Street Detectives book)  - MRC Kasasian

The Opium-Eater (Thomas and Emily De Quincey mystery) - David Morrell

Dickens' Fur Coat and Charlotte's Unanswered Letters: The Rows and Romances of England's Great Victorian Novelists  - Daniel Pool

Something New - PG Wodehouse

Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities: The Illustrated Police News 1864-1938 - Linda Stratman

Dracula's Spinechillers Annual  (it is a book I've had since I was a kid, my Nana gave it to me and it has incredible sentimental value as well as being cool)

Top 10 musicians:

David Bowie

Morrissey

Johnny Cash

Al Bowlly

Muse

Vernon Dalhart

The Smiths

Eddie Peabody (just discovered him recently)

The Hillbilly Moon Explosion

Johnnie Ray

Top 10 TV shows:

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

The Simpsons (the earlier series, mostly the '90s and earlier 2000s, I kind of fell off around 2007)

Gotham

Poirot

Jeeves & Wooster

Whitechapel

Peaky Blinders

Houdini & Doyle

Father Brown

Death in Paradise

I tag anyone who would like to participate :-)

[sherman-brothers-playlist]

“Lindbergh, the Eagle of the USA” (1927), by Al Sherman and Howard Johnson, performed by Vernon Dalhart.

Recorded May 23, 1927 - two days after Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo trans-Atlantic flight.

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Are The Pop Songs In ‘A Star Is Born’ Supposed To Be Unhealthy? One Of

British pop music is widespread music, produced commercially in the United Kingdom It emerged in the mid-to late Fifties as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. ^ Collins, pg. 11 As well as, Collins notes that early pseudo-country musicians like Vernon Dalhart who had made their title recording 'country music songs' weren't from the hills and hollows or isispurton30.wikidot.com plains and valleys. These recording stars sang each rural music and city music, and most knew extra about Broadway than they did about hillbillies. Their rural image was usually manufactured for the second and the dollar. In contrast, http://www.magicaudiotools.com/ Collins later explains, each the Carter Family and Rodgers had rural folk credibility that helped make Peer's recording session such an influential success; it was the Carter Family that was Ralk Peer's tie to the hills and hollows, to lost loves and found faith, however it took Jimmie Rodgers to connect the publisher with some of nation music's different beloved symbols—trains and saloons, jail and the blues. It may be argued that the difference between World and Folk music is difficult, harboring a fair quantity of overlapping. In essence, World music is contemporary music carried out and created all all over the world, however falling simply short in affect to develop into well-liked music, for instance RaÏ, Afrobeat and Highlife. Nonetheless, these world music genres are sometimes evolutions of much older geographically linked Folks music. In different words: World music is usually the modern evolution of historical People music. What is especially fascinating about rockabilly is that it has spurred its own group of subgenres that take the -abilly" combining kind They are mainly styles of rock music that are heavily influenced by 1970s punk rock, together with the aptly named punkabilly: a mix of punk rock" and rockabilly"; psychobilly, a mix of psycho" and rockabilly" that provides heavy metallic and blues to its influences, often features an upright double bass in accompaniment, and contains imagery-laden lyrical content usually perceived as being of a taboo nature; and gothabilly, which has similarities in style to psychobilly but adds a moodier, gothic musical tone. There seems to be no ebbing of the emergence of even more rockabilly subgenres. Exhausting rock-influenced thrashabilly and trashabilly, as well as surfabilly, which blends rockabilly with parts of laidback surf music , have all continued to grow in recognition. Often thought-about essentially the most formal and restrictive of all genres of singing, classical and opera singing actually require the greatest quantity of freedom. A lot of it is sung with uncontrolled vibrato and whole emotional release. It's, nonetheless, the least conversational of all genres. As a result of it lacks the intimacy of that conversational high quality with the audience (suppose folks music), it has the tendency to give audiences the impression of admiring a good looking portray from afar. The anti-disco backlash, mixed with different societal and radio business elements, changed the face of pop radio within the years following Disco Demolition Evening. Starting in the Eighties, nation music started a gradual rise in American essential pop charts. Emblematic of country music's rise to mainstream reputation was the commercially successful 1980 movie City Cowboy The continued recognition of power pop and the revival of oldies within the late Seventies was also associated to the disco backlash; the 1978 film Grease was emblematic of this trend. Considerably paradoxically, the star of both films was John Travolta , who in 1977 had starred in Saturday Evening Fever , which stays one of the vital iconic disco movies of the era. Because it seems like through the '70s and '80s, especially with female singers, you do not hear it quite as much as you do in music from the '90s and the 2000s. So we will stay up for studying this more sooner or later and having not solely extra male and female singers included in our research, but additionally music from completely different many years and to see if there is a totally different correlation between whether perhaps people choose the type of expression that was used of the music when they were rising up than possibly something that's extra popular at the moment. Pop rock is a fusion style used to explain customary verse-chorus Pop music that may also be categorized beneath Rock for its use of guitars, drums, and propulsive rhythms. The genre manifested on the tail finish of the 1950s as a extra radio-pleasant different to Rock & Roll and R&B , consisting mainly of white performers similar to Roy Orbison and Del Shannon Over the subsequent decade, pop and rock continued to mix collectively and create new subgenres like Vocal Surf and Beat Music Within the Nineteen Seventies, pop rock turned both rougher ( Power Pop ) and smoother ( Delicate Rock ); within the 1980s-90s, it fused with some Various Rock to make Jangle Pop and Britpop Right this moment, pop rock remains an active, vast-ranging genre with much crossover between other pop kinds. It takes a robust debut tune to knock the Queen of Pop, Taylor Swift, off the highest of the pop charts. And that's what Cardi B did with the historically successful "Bodak Yellow." The swaggering hit marked the first time a feminine rapper scored a solo No. 1 tune since Lauryn Hill in 1998. It makes complete sense, too, as the tune takes Cardi B's no-fucks-given approach to life that made her an Instagram and reality star. If that is not the right encapsulation of common culture in 2017, then I do not know what's. The one-string guitar is also called the Unitar Though rare, the one-string guitar is typically heard, notably in Delta blues , the place improvised folk devices have been in style in the Nineteen Thirties and Forties. Eddie "One String" Jones had some regional success. quotation wanted Mississippi blues musician Lonnie Pitchford played the same, do-it-yourself instrument. In a more modern fashion, Little Willie Joe, the inventor of the Unitar , had a rhythm and blues instrumental hit in the Fifties with "Twitchy", recorded with the Rene Hall Orchestra.

The worst bands in music history, ranked by music followers (and haters.) This listing contains the most awful bands to hearken to from throughout the historical past of recorded music, advised and voted on primarily based on quite a lot of metrics, together with fashionable bands least deserving of their fame and fortune, artists who shamelessly ripped off other, superior acts and just bands that do not know how you can play their devices or write songs. Obviously, the vast majority of decisions will probably be rock bands, however any "musical group" or bands are technically eligible. Suppose the worst band of all time is a jazz band? Hate polka bands as much (or extra) than Nickelback? Suggest your least favorite group or artist by making your personal listing and together with them! Featuring 90s boy bands , crappy singers, and even individuals who were once thought of within the high 10 artists of the 12 months, this listing has them all.

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Since the 20s are soon to be upon us. I made this flapper themed playlist of my fave song from this era. <3

I'm Crazy Over You - Jay Wilbur  

Who's That Knocking At My Door - Annette Hanshaw 

My Sin - Annette Hanshaw 

That's My Weakness Now - Helen Kane 

Hug Me Kiss Me Love Me - Helen Kane 

The Beanbag Song - Helen Kane 

Hard Hearted Hannah - Vernon Dalhart 

Let's Misbehave - Cole Porter 

Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue - Art Landry    

When You're Smiling - Jack Hylton 

illustration by Anne Harriet Fish.

[thefrogholler]

Happy Birthday Vernon Dalhart! – multi-award winning country singer/songwriter – hits include – Wreck of the Old 97 – Prisoner’s Song – 1970 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame – 1981 Country Music Hall of Fame – (4/6/1983 – 9/14/1948)

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