Lloyd Green in 1957

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 21 Aug 2004 1:51 am

Dear Friends,

I just posted a clip pf the first recording Lloyd Green ever played on on the website. The song is "Too Much Water Under The Bridge", sung by George Jones.

Here is Lloyd Green at age 20, more than six years before he started his amazing career as session player in 1964...
www.lloydgreentribute.com/vocalclips/georgejones1.mp3

Kind Regards, Walter

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Graham · Post by **Graham** » 21 Aug 2004 7:18 am

Walter:
Guess that begs the question "did Lloyd play on the following", all on that first Mercury album

You Never Thought
No Money In This Deal
Just One More
All I Want To Do
Gonna Come Get You
Uh, Uh, No

Some good picking on all these songs.

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Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 21 Aug 2004 7:46 am

No, he didn't!

That song "Too Much Water Under The Bridge" was the only side he recorded before 1964, when he started to record as session player in Nashville.

Kind Regards, Walter

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Graham · Post by **Graham** » 21 Aug 2004 7:57 am

Wonder who was the player on these other 6 songs?

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Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 21 Aug 2004 8:14 am

Probably Buddy Emmons? I think he recorded a lot with George Jones on those Mercury sides.

Kind Regards, Walter

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 21 Aug 2004 9:16 am

Wow! What classic style! Does anyone hear pedals?

Thanks, Walter!

Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 21 Aug 2004 9:23 am

Graham, depends on which version we're talking about. Even though released on a Mercury album, it might have been a Starday recording. I think Mercury bought all the Starday cuts when they signed a deal with George Jones. I don't have that first album, but Possum recorded some of these songs twice in the 50's. First in Pappy Daily's Starday studio in Dallas, in which case the steeler is probably Herb Remington, Then few years later in Nashville, where Jimmy Day and Buddy Emmons took care of the job. The easies way to regognize where the song was recorded, is the higher fidelity and less echo on Nashville recordings. The Starday sessions have a very distinctive sound, no matter who the artist was, you could usually tell when the song was a Pappy Daily recording.
Incidenatlly Walter, our band has been playing that song for some 15 years now, we even recorded it years and years ago. For some unexplainable reason however, I wasn't able to sound quite like that

[This message was edited by Jussi Huhtakangas on 21 August 2004 at 10:27 AM.][This message was edited by Jussi Huhtakangas on 21 August 2004 at 10:33 AM.]

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 21 Aug 2004 9:54 am

Jussi,

I would love to hear your version. Don't worry, I tried to sound like Lloyd but soon gave up!

I think the song (which went to #13 in the charts) was recorded for Mercury, it is included in the first Mercury album of GJ ("14 Top Country Favorites"). The production situation in those years was quite unique. GJ was with Pappy Daily and Starday, then on January 1, 1957, a contact between Starday and Mercury became effective, combining Pappy Daily and Don Pierce in being responsible for George's career. This strange situation only lasted until July 1958 when both parties dissolved. GJ hung on to the contract with Pappy Daily for management and producing. He also continued to reside in Beaumont, TX until 1959, only coming to Nashville for recordings

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Graham · Post by **Graham** » 21 Aug 2004 2:14 pm

Jussi:
The songs I listed from that album were all done by Mercury. I believe 4 others were from his first 2 LP's with Starday and the remaining 4 don't have a lot of steel in them and a couple of them sound like they could have been done by Starday but they are not on either of the first 2 LP's.

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Jussi Huhtakangas · Post by **Jussi Huhtakangas** » 22 Aug 2004 12:23 am

Hmm, seems like I need to do some serious ebay huntin'. Graham, what's the title of that album, is it the White Lightning LP with a pic of GJ in a cowboy hat?

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 22 Aug 2004 5:06 am

Jussi:
Check your email.

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