Bobbe Seymour - was it ****** *****?

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 7 Feb 2002 8:01 am

Bobbe,

There was a question posed here a couple of months ago regarding the identity of the steel player on Elvis Presley's 'Can't Help Falling In Love' - there were a few guesses, but you said they were all wrong!

I think it was Bernie Lewis......

If I'm right, do I get any of those recycled .011s that you sell - you know, the ones you've tied back together - ?

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Roger Rettig
Emmons LGIII(S10/D10)& MCI D10

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 8:28 am

I'll fax you a copy of the union contract.
Bobbe

Rex Thomas · Post by **Rex Thomas** » 7 Feb 2002 12:57 pm

Alvino Rey?

Rex Thomas · Post by **Rex Thomas** » 7 Feb 2002 1:03 pm

Hold the recycled .011's.

Roger Crawford · Post by **Roger Crawford** » 7 Feb 2002 3:06 pm

Jimmy Day ?

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 3:35 pm

It was Willie J. Hackmyre. He was drunk, or drinking heavely at the time. He did many Nashville sessions on his Silvertone lap steel but ended up selling it to the recently departed, Big Joe Talbert. He was shot two years later by a jelous husband while trying to pick up the guys wife in a bank while making a deposit with money he got in a hold up at a gas station in Madison Tn. I think he was drunk then also. Yep,Willy was not much of a steel player either, strange decisions he made in life.
The only thing he can really be credited for is putting Elvis where he is today!

bObbbbbbbe

Tony Rankin · Post by **Tony Rankin** » 7 Feb 2002 3:55 pm

I kind of thought it was him, but I didn't want to be the first one to name him.

Didn't Willie also play on another Elvis tune?

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 4:09 pm

Yes, he played on several tunes that weren't very popular. "You Ain't Nothin' 'cept a Dashound" and " Tutti Frute Flavored" and "Fulz Rushed Out". I think he also stared on the great Elvis hit,"American Biology". " Tennessee Rain" was stolen by the state of Kentucky and re-released north of the Tn. border as bootleg copys.
ANYTHING YOU EVER WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MUSIC,----------- just ask!

Prof. J. Felton Jarvis III <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by BobbeSeymour on 07 February 2002 at 04:10 PM.]</p></FONT>

Michael Garnett · Post by **Michael Garnett** » 7 Feb 2002 5:06 pm

I don't remember any of those songs... I must have gotten the "Weird Al Yankovic" knockoffs by the names of "you ain't got nuttin but them puppy-dog eyes," "Tutte-Fruitte-seymour" and "American Triathlon"

Garnett

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 6:00 pm

Do you remember: "Get Out of the Wheatfield Grandma, your Going Against the Grain?" or the old favorite : She was only a Stableman's Daughter but all the Horsemen new her?" (say it fast)
Remember the old Hank Williams song: Mansion on the Hill? Elvis had one called: "I loved my Little Shack up in the Hills" A total ripoff! Hank and Elvis are argueing about this today!
Yep, Willy was a great player, not famous for his playing, just for who he played with. Like so many of us.
(Do you believe I admitted this?)

R.K.S.

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 7 Feb 2002 6:23 pm

Mr Sargent At Arms, would he by chance have been the one who did the ride on the old 40's tune "Get Off The Cookstove Grandma, You're Too Old To Ride The Range" ??? --

Steven Knapper · Post by **Steven Knapper** » 7 Feb 2002 6:39 pm

ANY THING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MUSIC ----JUST ASK!! OK Bobbe, how much do you know about Michael Nezmith and Red Rhodes. The First National Band and the other stuff Mike did?? Gotja I'll bet!!! Little or nothing I'll bet (and I got a 5 dollar bill in my pocket)!!! Steve (The Lizard King, hissef)

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 6:45 pm

I know a lot about Micheal and the great "Red" Rhodes. Send me that $5.00 and I'll make you a little smarter!(and poorer)
Bill Myrick, Do I know that song? Are you kidding? I did the DEMO on it!!! I'd have been co-writer, but I couldn't find a pencel.
(or spell).

Bobbe Seymour · Post by **Bobbe Seymour** » 7 Feb 2002 6:47 pm

Roger,don't ever start a post with my name in it! See what happens!!

Rex Thomas · Post by **Rex Thomas** » 7 Feb 2002 7:47 pm

Leg Pullage?

Steven Knapper · Post by **Steven Knapper** » 7 Feb 2002 10:52 pm

If it includes any Red licks or tab, I'll send ya 10 bucks!!

Bill Myrick · Post by **Bill Myrick** » 8 Feb 2002 4:53 am

Then there's my favorite for longest song title award--- "When you're smoochin with your honey--
and her nose is kind of runny---
you may think it's sort of funny--
but it's snot" !!
Darn thing really affected me as a youngster--coupled with the fact it was rumored girls had cooties--

Bruce Derr · Post by **Bruce Derr** » 8 Feb 2002 7:58 am

Hey Bill, that reminds me of that tender love ballad, "He stole my gal, then left her behind for me."

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 8 Feb 2002 8:19 am

Bobbe

You'll thank me for this in time - all these guys will eventually buy a guitar from you in sheer gratitude for your gems of musicological history.

No commission will be due to me, but I will expect the higher grade of recycled .011s - the ones you actually solder together.....

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Roger Rettig
Emmons LeGrande (S10/D10), recycled MCI D10

Rex Thomas · Post by **Rex Thomas** » 8 Feb 2002 8:52 am

Actually I thought it was Alvino Rey. I understood that Willie was the steel man on "The Shades of Night were falling fast, but I got a pretty good look anyway." Sorry, my mistake.

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 8 Feb 2002 9:11 am

I liked the intro and the break Willie played on the song"I Wonder Whose Kissing Her NOW,I Would Have Kissed It,But Couldn't Find Her NOW".That song brings a tear too a glass eye.

Ray

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Steeling is still legal in Arizona

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 8 Feb 2002 9:41 am

Did Shot Jackson play steel guitar on the "hotdog song" by Kitty Wells,___"The Wiener of My Heart"?

Fred Jack · Post by **Fred Jack** » 8 Feb 2002 9:46 am

If you want to know sumthin just "as'ole bobbe". regards, fred

Billy Johnson · Post by **Billy Johnson** » 8 Feb 2002 9:58 am

So BoBE, when you and Francis Scott Key recorded the "original" version of the the "Star Spangled Banner", what key did you guys record that in?? You were on that one too,Weren't You??

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