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Topic: Leonard Blush Steel Player |
Rick Campbell
From: Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 6 Feb 2010 11:09 am
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Does anyone know who Leonard Blush's steel player is? What kind of guitar does he play?
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Bent Romnes
From: London,Ontario, Canada
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Lee Baucum
From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 6 Feb 2010 12:46 pm
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Andy Griffith and Barney Fife used to like to listen to Leonard Blush on the radio. As I recall, he took voice lessons from Eleanora Poultice, the same lady Barney took lessons from. Leonard was quite the celebrity in Mayberry. |
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Rick Campbell
From: Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 11:24 am
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Lee,
"Leonard Blush, Leonard Blush, is that all you think about". You're right, he did take voice lessons from Eleanora Poultice. Eleanora said "He just walked in here off the street one day. Two years later he sang the Star Spangled Banner at the opening of the County Insecticide Convention. The rest is history."
Howard Morris (Earnest T) was the voice of both the radio announcer and Lenoard Blush.
Sorry for the off topic in steel players. I just want to see of there were any Andy fans out there than would recognize Leonard's name.
Danny Huchins, Charlie Pride's piano player for the past 30 years, is a huge Andy fan and we were discussing these things on Friday night at a gig. Danny knows a lot, and I mean a lot, about the show. The names of all the character actors, dates, etc... It sparked my interest.
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Lee Baucum
From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 2:19 pm
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My wife and I are huge fans of Andy and the gang. There's an episode on right now. I wonder who's going to win the beauty contest this time.
By the way, I think I remember seeing a steel guitar (Dobro) on one of the episodes. It was a bluegrass band (not the Darlin's) that was being recorded for an album.
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 3:24 pm
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There's a Forum member named Jim Lindsey.
From a newspaper article I wrote 15 or 20 years ago:
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When the Opry was still downtown jam sessions like these used to go on all the time at The Den and Tootsie's and The Wheel on Broadway, at the old Sho-Bud store, backstage at the Opry, in hotels during the annual DJ convention, and in Printer's Alley. Guys would stay up picking all night until the sun came up, high on speed, and invent licks and write songs that'd be on the radio in a month. You could park your car downtown and walk around and see Buddy Emmons, Jimmy Bryant, Doug Jernigan, and Paul Franklin and you could learn more about your axe in one night than you could learn in a year's worth of music lessons back home with Miss Poultice, and tourists and musicians from out of town would go home bragging about all the hot picking they had heard from the Nashville cats. |
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 3:48 pm
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By the way, I think I remember seeing a steel guitar (Dobro) on one of the episodes. It was a bluegrass band (not the Darlin's) that was being recorded for an album. |
That was Episode 19, first season, "Mayberry on Record". Roland White, from Nashville, played mando in that band, but I don't know about the dobro player. _________________ C#
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Latest ebook: Steel Guitar Insanity
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Lee Baucum
From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 3:52 pm
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I remember seeing a photograph from that episode. Maybe in one of the Steel Guitar World magazines? |
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Lee Baucum
From: McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 5:03 pm
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That's the photo I remember. Where did you find it? |
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Cal Sharp
From: the farm in Kornfield Kounty, TN
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Rick Campbell
From: Sneedville, TN, USA
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Posted 7 Feb 2010 5:30 pm
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Cal Sharp wrote: |
Clarence White's band, the Country Boys, seemingly the band in question.
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That was Mr. Maxwell's record company, National Records.
The Country Boy's were also known as The Kentucky Colonels. Scotty Stoneman did a live album with them in LA. If you're a fiddle fan and ever get the chance listen to it. It's classic stuff. Scotty sings "Once A Day", and "Wound Time Can't Erase" and played fiddle breaks that were outstanding.
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Drew Howard
From: 48854
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Posted 8 Feb 2010 6:46 am
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