What a great string of quality music. Thank you, thank you. Tommy Edwards, Roy Orbison, Hoagy Carmichael, Ernest Tubb. All great and too long gone. I grew up in the Oklahoma oilfields in the late 40s and early 50s. My parents worked long hours at hard jobs, but every Friday night, there was a dance somewhere. And they had to go. Western swing, waltzes, boogie woogie, schadishes. They were usually held in schools, roller rinks, meeting halls. Everyone with kids would pull their cars right up to the outside wall. All the windows in the place would be open so the parents could dance by, look down from the window and check on the kids asleep in the front seat. I have loved the old style music ever since. So very thankful for the magic of recording music.
I have long been delighted by the music of Earnest Tubbs. I remember that for a week I had been sick while in college. When I got back a Geology professor asked where I had been. Kidding I said I had watched a bunch of western movies (true) one of which featured a geologist pursuing a comely lass across Texas. Professor said that's not how you learn geology. I said you should have seen the lass. The music of Tubbs was featured in that movie.
What a great string of quality music. Thank you, thank you. Tommy Edwards, Roy Orbison, Hoagy Carmichael, Ernest Tubb. All great and too long gone. I grew up in the Oklahoma oilfields in the late 40s and early 50s. My parents worked long hours at hard jobs, but every Friday night, there was a dance somewhere. And they had to go. Western swing, waltzes, boogie woogie, schadishes. They were usually held in schools, roller rinks, meeting halls. Everyone with kids would pull their cars right up to the outside wall. All the windows in the place would be open so the parents could dance by, look down from the window and check on the kids asleep in the front seat. I have loved the old style music ever since. So very thankful for the magic of recording music.
ReplyDeleteI have long been delighted by the music of Earnest Tubbs. I remember that for a week I had been sick while in college. When I got back a Geology professor asked where I had been. Kidding I said I had watched a bunch of western movies (true) one of which featured a geologist pursuing a comely lass across Texas. Professor said that's not how you learn geology. I said you should have seen the lass. The music of Tubbs was featured in that movie.
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