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Topic: steel player on Best Little Whorehouse? |
scott murray
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Asheville, NC
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Posted 9 Jan 2019 9:54 pm |
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playing a big Dolly tribute next weekend and I just watched the movie for the first time, I'm ashamed to say! lots of steel throughout, anyone know who it was?
nothing listed in the credits or online that I can find
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Bill Cunningham
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Atlanta, Ga. USA
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Posted 10 Jan 2019 4:01 am
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I believe it was the Rio Grand Band and Jernigan was on steel. There is a LP on Rounder Records by this group but it's not a soundtrack of the movie. They did the Broadway production but by then there were some personnel changes including Doug leaving and Lynn Frazier playing steel. This is my understanding......
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Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 3:35 pm
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Bringing this thread back from the depths...
Just listened to the original soundtrack in prep for possibly playing the show. The steel playing is great but doesn't jump out as any easily identifiable player.
More to the point, the tone sounds like a couple of possible suspects but then the playing style isn't a style I identify with any of them.
Anyone ever figure out for sure who the player is? |
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Herb Steiner
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Spicewood TX 78669
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 4:27 pm
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It is most likely Lynn Frazier on the Broadway show recording of BLWIT. I have no idea of who the player is on the soundtrack of the Dolly movie.
"Whorehouse" was a great source of income for many steel players in the 80's and 90's for sure, and probably still keeping steeler working to this day. I did it back in 1985, with Ruta Lee and Peter Palmer in the leading roles.
I think that by the mid-nineties, "Always... Patsy Cline" had moved to the forefront of steel player thespian opportunities.
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Earnest Bovine
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Los Angeles CA USA
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 5:46 pm
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| I remember doing some pre-recording (on steel) for that movie with just a rhythm section at Record Plant in the very early 80's. Then quite a while later we did some underscoring and other sweetening with a larger group at Warners 1. |
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Olaf van Roggen
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The Netherlands
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Chris Bauer
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Nashville, TN USA
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Posted 22 Jan 2024 7:20 am
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Roger Rettig
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Naples, FL
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 9:44 am
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I got that chair for the London West End run at the Drury Lane Theatre.
I got the steel-book (transcribed from Lynn Frazier's original cut) and nearly had a heart-attack. The NY MD, though, reassured me and told me where I could 'improvise' and where I had to play harmony with the fiddle.
Lynn, of course, had winged it for the most part and he sounded like a terrific player. I didn't envy the copyist who'd had to notate it all, but I can see that book now in my mind's eye, forty-plus years later.
'Tadpole City'!!
I did a US tour in '04/'05 but that was it. Herb is correct, of course, in that it used to be a go-to gig for a steel player. I'm sad that it's become outdated (possibly the profanity limits its suitability, unlike 'Always, PC'?) because I think it has some good tunes. We ran for six months in London with the Broadway leads, Carlin Glynn and Henderson Forsythe, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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W. C. Edgar
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Posted 24 Jan 2024 4:54 pm
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Jimmy Powell from Wichita played the road show for a few years
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