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Ron Hogan

 

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Post  Posted 17 Apr 2024 10:23 am    
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I’ve always loved this Jack Greene cut of I love you because. I guessing that it’s Day on steel.

https://youtu.be/ID7T2r7vcIM?si=j8CULbPjLiQt7xQH
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Pete Finney

 

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Post  Posted 17 Apr 2024 1:02 pm    
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Sure sounds like Jimmy Day to me too, though a lot of the comments on youtube swear it's Ron Elliot. Whoever it is, thanks for posting, that's so good
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Larry Dering


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Post  Posted 17 Apr 2024 4:28 pm    
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Ron and Pete, you are probably aware than Ron played quite a while for Jack Greene.
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Franklin

 

Post  Posted 18 Apr 2024 3:02 am    
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Jack Green's hits were played by Pete Drake.
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Donny Hinson

 

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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2024 6:11 am    
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Pete Finney wrote:
Sure sounds like Jimmy Day to me too, though a lot of the comments on youtube swear it's Ron Elliot. Whoever it is, thanks for posting, that's so good


Yep, I'd bet the farm that that's Jimmy! Nobody else played like that back then, with that expression and feeling. (Though Dicky Overby and John Hughey could have come close, in their later years.) And since that song was recorded back in the '60s, it ain't Ron Elliot, either. No way, no how.

And wow, that simple moving harmony @ 1:58 is just soooo nice! Mr. Green
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Bill Ferguson


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Milton, FL USA
Post  Posted 18 Apr 2024 6:31 am    
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I just pulled out my live recording of Jimmy Day playing this song.

I would bet my right hand that Jimmy is on Jack's recording.
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Pete Finney

 

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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2024 2:07 pm    
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Ron and Pete, you are probably aware than Ron played quite a while for Jack Greene.

Yes, I was lucky enough to hear Ron play with Jack on the Opry countless times back in the day.

On the "There Goes My Everything" album Drake played on the hit title song but Buddy Charleton played on a lot of the other tracks (Jack had been a "Texas Troubadour" with Charleton for many years before that song hit and made him a solo star).


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Don Euton

 

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Post  Posted 18 Apr 2024 5:18 pm    
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I remember being at Ray Praskies` Esquire Ballroom in Houston, TX., one night in the late 1960`s. Jack was just starting and did not have a band at that time. It was announced at that time by Jimmy Dryer, whose band was the house band for the Esquire Ballroom, that as of 2 weeks his band was going to join Jack Green and called the Jolley Green Giants. As I remember, Jimmy Dryer, who played fiddle and sang, was the front man in his band until they disbanded. I do not remember who was playing the steel in Jimmy Dryer`s band at that time.
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David Zornes

 

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Post  Posted 26 Apr 2024 11:20 am     Jack Greene
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The tone and phrasing speaks Jimmy Day. No one else had it then - or since! 😉
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Kenny Burford

 

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Independence, Missouri USA
Post  Posted 1 May 2024 9:36 am     Greene and Day
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When I grow up, I want play and sing like these two men. Jack Greene has always been one of my favorite vocalist and Jimmy Day was equally as great on the psg.
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