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Topic: Long time musical question............ |
Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 30 Oct 2014 3:55 pm |
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On YOU TUBE, on the video of Chet Atkins playing Mr. Sandman=1954, there is a pleasant looking gentleman playing rhythm guitar during Chet's second chorus.
He's standing behind Chets' left side; or as viewed by the audience, to the right rear of Chet.
Do any of you know who this fellow is? |
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James Sission
From:
Sugar Land,Texas USA
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 30 Oct 2014 6:59 pm YEs............thank you
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That was the correct video.........thanx to you.
WHO is that man on the blond, cutaway rhythm guitar playing for Chet from the second chorus on???? |
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Ray Harrison
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Tucson, Arizona, USA (deceased)
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 8:45 am
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Don't know the guy, but Paul Yandell played with Chet for many years as his rhythm player and was a really fine lead player. Could play almost as well as Chet.
Paul is one of the unheralded, unheard of, great guitarist of our time.
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 10:44 am
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From comparing with other YouTube videos I would agree and say that is definitely Paul Yandell.
Kind Regards, Walter
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 11:33 am
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| That ain't Paul. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 12:23 pm
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Steve's right, it definitely ain't Paul, as Paul was still a skinny-as-a-rail teenager in 1954. I'm thinking it might be Tommy "Butterball" Paige, who played lead for ET back in the '40s. The time period would be abought right, and I found this pic of Tommy on the web.
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 4:10 pm
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I think I know who it is...
Last edited by Steve Hinson on 2 Nov 2014 4:20 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 4:16 pm
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I don't think it's Butterball either,Donny...it looks to me like a guy named Louis Innis,who recorded with Chet on his records along with Ernie Newton on bass.
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Ray Montee
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Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 2 Nov 2014 4:55 pm What perplexing question................
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I had originally tho't it was Louis Innis but when I saw him in Nashville at the RCA Studio, I saw a rather thinish looking fellow........
Butter Ball and Mr. Innis both parted their hair in just about the same place. Louis had a thin, narrow face and the fellow with Chet was kind of roly poly.
I'm satisfied and am leaning toward Butter Ball. I'd never seen him identified previously.
THANKS to each of you. |
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Jerry Hedge
From:
Norwood Ohio U.S.A.
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Posted 5 Nov 2014 8:00 pm
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| It could be Ray Edington. He did a lot of sessions in those days as a rhythm guitarist in Nashville. |
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Dennis Atkins
From:
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Posted 6 Nov 2014 7:41 am
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After reading this post, I did some research and found that in 1954 Ray Eddington did an album with Chet Atkins called A Session with Chet Atkins. A reasonable conclusion to the question would be that it was Ray on the video with Chet in 1954.
Hope this helps Ray.
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Clyde Mattocks
From:
Kinston, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2014 1:37 pm
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Not Ray, looks nothing like him. The time period suggests Louie Innis.
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Dennis Atkins
From:
St. Paul, Minnesota
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Posted 7 Nov 2014 11:18 am
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Here is a photo that I just came across on this website, http://dontfenceme.blogspot.com/. It is a picture from the downloadable album of Louis Innis.
This may or may not help identify the player in the video, but I thought it quite ironic that I was searching for a photo, and I came upon this by accident.
Also in the Encyclopedia of Country Music, it has an article on Louie Innis, but has not mention of his association with Chet Atkins, but mentions his association with Red Foley. |
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Steve Hinson
From:
Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2014 9:19 pm
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I still think it was Louis Innis...I've seen photos of him with an arch top exactly like that one...
I'm not sure Chet would have hired"Butterball". |
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