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re: Old Timey -- a thread for pre-rock country, folk, and blues
Posted on 9/17/12 at 4:35 pm to Kafka
Posted on 9/17/12 at 4:35 pm to Kafka
Al Dexter - "Pistol Packin' Mama" (1943)
"Pistol Packin' Mama" is notable as one of the first songs, after "You Are My Sunshine" had blazed the trail a couple of years earlier, to cross over from country music onto the pop charts. Bing Crosby's cover would go to #1 and sell over two million copies.
The song was so popular the Duke of Windsor was caught humming the tune in public, and Irving Berlin wrote in his score for Annie Get Your Gun: "But men don't buy pajamas, for pistol packin' mamas, oh you can't get a man with a gun...". Life magazine would eventually refer to the song as "a national earache".
It made a lot of people who'd never paid much attention to country music aware of the genre.
Al Dexter:
The song was so immensely popular it inspired a film the same year it was released:
A WWII airplane:
"Pistol Packin' Mama" is notable as one of the first songs, after "You Are My Sunshine" had blazed the trail a couple of years earlier, to cross over from country music onto the pop charts. Bing Crosby's cover would go to #1 and sell over two million copies.
The song was so popular the Duke of Windsor was caught humming the tune in public, and Irving Berlin wrote in his score for Annie Get Your Gun: "But men don't buy pajamas, for pistol packin' mamas, oh you can't get a man with a gun...". Life magazine would eventually refer to the song as "a national earache".
It made a lot of people who'd never paid much attention to country music aware of the genre.
Al Dexter:
The song was so immensely popular it inspired a film the same year it was released:
A WWII airplane:
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Posted on 9/22/12 at 8:37 pm to Kafka
Rev. A.W. Nix - "Black Diamond Express To Hell" (1927)
Part 1
Part 2
Mostly a sermon, with some singing by Rev. Nix and a chorus near the end of Part 2. Compare his vocal to Blind Willie Johnson - "John The Revelator" (the female vocal on this is amazing -- remember this is 1930).
"Death May Be Your Christmas Present"? A possible influence on Mott The Hoople ?
Interesting article on black gospel of the '20s and '30s
Part 1
Part 2
Mostly a sermon, with some singing by Rev. Nix and a chorus near the end of Part 2. Compare his vocal to Blind Willie Johnson - "John The Revelator" (the female vocal on this is amazing -- remember this is 1930).
"Death May Be Your Christmas Present"? A possible influence on Mott The Hoople ?
Interesting article on black gospel of the '20s and '30s
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