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Plankowner Posts: 9165 Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | |||
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COMSUBBBS Posts: 2974 Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: RE: Hank Williams Live July 13th 1952 Sunset Park, West Grove, PA Rare Live Performance Recording. Ric. You are so right this is indeed an audio treasure that is rare. Considering this was 1952 the sound quality is excellent on all its tracks. I may have mentioned it before but my dad got me hooked on Jimmie Rodgers's blue yodeling songs from an early age. My old man could yodel and sing with the best of them, including Jimmie. He never did it professionally and just sang songs at home and occasionally at his local pub using a banjo or piano. Years after his hero passed, he used to complain there was no one around to take Jimmie’s place. In those days it was strictly 78 rpm records available so the demand and choices of tracks were somewhat limited in the UK. I had a few boyhood mates who were Merchant Navy sailors sailing from Liverpool to New York and Montreal on Cunard and Canadian Pacific shipping lines on a regular basis and got them searching for stuff for my dad and paid them on receipt by way of a few drinks and cash. This was about the time that technology took a leap and we got the 33/1/3rd rpm long-playing vinyl albums. The local boys came up with a couple of treasures that had forty of Jimmie’s songs on two LPs and I gave them to my dad. I also slipped in a Hank Williams album with the thought that here was a worthy successor to Jimmie’s crown for him. For the first time, it seemed that Dad had heeded my recommendations and showed an interest in Hank Williams and his music. He became an avid fan by buying a big stereo player unit playing their stuff and staying so till his dying day. PS: My dad was not a big drinker but he liked his weekly visit to our local pub “Lord Nelson” on either a Friday or Saturday night as the mood took him. He often implored my Mum to come with him but she always declined as she didn’t consider it very ladylike to be in a bar. After closing time Dad would come happily back home with stuff my Mum had requested him to get Ike a small bottle of port wine and a couple of bags of crisps for her. He would put these down and sing “Hey good looking, what you got cooking, how about cooking something up with me?” This would embarrass her at first but eventually, she would break up with laughter at his antics. Being just an eight-year-old kid, I wasn't to know that those exchanges would lead to the arrival of my kid brother Harry. Happy days. Pedro  | ||
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