Sacrelige!

Robert · Post by **Robert** » 7 Sep 2001 3:45 pm

I'm listening to some old Eddy Arnold as I write this - "Don't Rob Another Man's Castle", etc. - I know I'm opening myself up for a good bashing here, but I've never been too crazy about "Mr. Ting-A-Ling". It's that damned trilling/descending lick: it makes me nuts! Maybe these songs wouldn't be the same without it, but that lick is for the birds . . .

Rob

Larry Miller · Post by **Larry Miller** » 7 Sep 2001 4:17 pm

Commence Firing!

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Earl Erb · Post by **Earl Erb** » 7 Sep 2001 4:29 pm

Hey Robert, Little Roy told me just before he passed away that he recorded those licks just to pi$$ you off.

Wait...let me take cover...now shoot.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 7 Sep 2001 4:56 pm

Everybody to their own opinion. Little Roy was the reason I took up steel. I would buy the Eddy Arnold records just to hear Little Roy.

BTW, most of those records were cut in Chicago.

kyle reid · Post by **kyle reid** » 7 Sep 2001 5:14 pm

Robert! Why do you listen to them?

Robert · Post by **Robert** » 7 Sep 2001 6:11 pm

They're good songs, sung by a great singer. It's not even ALL of Roy Wiggins' playing that I don't like - it's just that one pet lick that he used so often. BTW - "Steel Guitar Rag" was cut in Chicago, as well. And some great Roy Acuff, too.

Rob [This message was edited by Robert on 07 September 2001 at 07:13 PM.]

Earl Erb · Post by **Earl Erb** » 7 Sep 2001 7:29 pm

Hey Jack, you won't believe who I saw a couple of weeks ago at the Long Hollow Jamboree?...Mary! She and her husband came out to hear the band. After Roy closed his store on Broadway she went to work at ET's Record Shop for awhile then went to work for the state until she retired. Had not seen her since around 1976.

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 8 Sep 2001 3:21 am

Earl, I didn't know she was still around. I knew she went back to the ET shop but that's the last I heard.

If you see her again, say hello for me. She was the one that really kept everything together at Little Roy's store.

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 8 Sep 2001 8:12 am

Hmmmmmm...let's see,

"Robert" from Chicago...

No last name...

No e-mail address...

Probably doesn't deserve an answer...does it?

Robert · Post by **Robert** » 8 Sep 2001 11:22 am

Donny:
Read my post titled "Gene Had The Right Idea"

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 10 Sep 2001 2:34 pm

Checked it. Still,no last name or e-mail.

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Frank Estes · Post by **Frank Estes** » 11 Sep 2001 7:16 am

After realizing that Eddy Arnold would not pay a single dime toward Little Roy's tombstone, I have absolutely no use for him.

I suggest you just record the steel parts off the recordings and then burn the original recordings.

I am thankful to Mr. Weirauch for giving us the opportunity to contribute.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 11 Sep 2001 7:55 am

Frank; Let me add a bunch of dittos to your comments, Amen !!

Regards, Paul

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 11 Sep 2001 8:52 am

Little Roy made Eddy Arnold, although Eddy would not agree. When I worked for Roy back in the early 70's he was still good friends with Eddy and lived close to Eddy in Franklin, Tn. However, Eddy didn't want to be associated "with those hillbilly's at the Opry". That alone soured me on Eddy and I wouldn't have considered asking him to donate to Roy's fund.

Eddy is sort of like the A-Hole song, "where you born an A-Hole or did you just get that way". Eddy just got that way....

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 11 Sep 2001 11:09 am

I heard a story once,that Eddy,after going "pop",was being introduced on a stage show,& the announcer intro'd him as "The Tennessee Plowboy",(the name he started his career with,) & he refused to come out on stage.

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Robert · Post by **Robert** » 11 Sep 2001 11:46 am

Forumites:
I've asked Janice to close this thread - I started it, and I'm sorry I did, as it's turned ugly. If I'm responsible for unwittingly making it so, then I'm sorry. For those concerned with my anonymity - I've contacted Bob about rectifying that situation by changing my ID at some later time, when the news is less grim and matters such as these don't seem so trivial.

Thanks,
Rob