Waldens 6k !!!!

:laughing: It’s hard to get your sentences in order when your thoughts are flying all about.

It sounds like Dale Evans had been through quite a bit by the time she and Roy Rogers got married in 1946. He was her fourth and last husband. They were married an awful long time.

She wrote ā€œHappy Trails to Youā€ in 1950.

I think Lyle Lovett should concern himself with his own life!

Well, it don’t really flow, but I guess I got some paragraphs in there. :laughing:

I don’t know if Lyle Lovett has a problem.

I just like to think Roy and Dale were happy together. :laughing:

There’s hope for us all.

Slan,
D. :wink:

Ya know Cynth you just don’t do well with irony!
:blush:
I’m sure that Lyle didn’t mean anything bad about Roy…or Dale.

I’d bet that you don’t know much about Lyle… :laughing:

Go listen to a couple of clips!

Western music ended up with a bit of female yodeling, thanks in part to Patsy Montana, I guess. But my favorite for that style was the wacky Judy Canova, shown here in a publicity shot for ā€œOklahoma Annieā€.

:laughing: Well, let’s say I finally got our house cleaned up and then it burned down. Wouldn’t that be ironic?

As long as Lyle didn’t mean anything bad about Roy or Dale, I’ll settle for that. I don’t know much about Lyle, but at least I do know who he is. It seems like I read an article in The New Yorker about him—he seemed nice enough. I think he was living in Texas in some little town that wasn’t too far from some big city. With a woman.

Darwin, your Judy Canova picture has disappeared.

Strange. I still see it. It came from here: http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/judycanova.html

The next-to-the-last photo on that page includes my mother’s old boyfriend, Don ā€˜Red’ Barry.

My favourite C*W cowboy song:

I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boys Don’t Cry

Riding on the range,
I’ve got my hat - on,
I’ve got my boots - dusty.

I’ve got my saddle
On my horse.
He’s called…T-t-t-t-t-trigger
Of course.

I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

(woman’s voice)
Riding on the chuck … wagon,
Following my man.
His name is Ted,
Can you believe that?
Camping on the prairie
Plays havoc with my hair.
Makes me feel quite dirty,
Though we all do sometimes

I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

Looking like a hero,
Six-gun at my side,
Chewing my tobacco.
Out on the horizon,
I see a puff of smoke.
Indians on the warpath,
(Indian voice) White man speak-em with forked tongue.
Or not.

I wanna be a cowboy
and you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

My name is Ted,
And one day
I’ll be dead yo yo.

Now, how can you possibly beat that? :smiley:

djm

It looks like he was earning his pay in that picture! I thought Ellen Corby looked familiar—I had to look her up. She was the grandmother in the Walton’s. Judy Canova looks like one wacky gal! :laughing:

djm, er…is that one of your own cowboy songs?

Cynth! You’ve never heard that song? I think it was really popular in the '80s. And now, thanks to djm, I’ll have it running through my head all night :stuck_out_tongue:

:laughing: :laughing: I guess the last sort of popular music I listened to was in the '60’s, so I don’t know any later songs. This seems to have such strange words, and the ending: :laughing:
My name is Ted,
And one day
I’ll be dead yo yo.

What does ā€œI’ll be dead yo yo.ā€ mean?? This makes about as much sense as diddy wa diddy!

All this talk of western swing but no mention yet of the first and (arguably) the best of all, Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies.

http://users3.ev1.net/~wbthomp/brownies.html

Leon McAuliffe plays the most raunchy steel guitar I’ve ever heard, outside blues.

:laughing: I have no idea what it means…I never thought about it really. I don’t think that part stuck out so much when you listened to the song. But it is a rather silly song even when sung :laughing:

The whole song is silly, delivered in a deadpan voice with a few sound effects and a driving disco beat. ā€œAnd one day I’ll be deadā€ is basic deadpan poetry (it rhymes, that’s enough), and ā€œyo yoā€ is making fun of a common vocable in rap music. I remember we were rolling at our desks when this came out, even the boss.

djm

:laughing: Well, it sounds like it might be entertaining. I’ll have to see if I can find a clip that at least gives me the gist of what it sounds like.

I’m very happy for you, Walden.

Now meet the grandfather of western swing, Emmett Miller.




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