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Topic: Jack Greene and Jimmy Day |
Ron Hogan
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Nashville, TN, usa
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Pete Finney
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Nashville Tn.
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Posted 17 Apr 2024 1:02 pm |
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| Sure sounds like Jimmy Day to me too, though a lot of the comments on youtube swear it's Ron Elliot. Whoever it is, thanks for posting, that's so good |
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Larry Dering
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Posted 17 Apr 2024 4:28 pm
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| Ron and Pete, you are probably aware than Ron played quite a while for Jack Greene. |
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Franklin
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Posted 18 Apr 2024 3:02 am
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| Jack Green's hits were played by Pete Drake. |
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Donny Hinson
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Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 18 Apr 2024 6:11 am
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| Pete Finney wrote: |
| Sure sounds like Jimmy Day to me too, though a lot of the comments on youtube swear it's Ron Elliot. Whoever it is, thanks for posting, that's so good |
Yep, I'd bet the farm that that's Jimmy! Nobody else played like that back then, with that expression and feeling. (Though Dicky Overby and John Hughey could have come close, in their later years.) And since that song was recorded back in the '60s, it ain't Ron Elliot, either. No way, no how.
And wow, that simple moving harmony @ 1:58 is just soooo nice!  |
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Bill Ferguson
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Milton, FL USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2024 6:31 am
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I just pulled out my live recording of Jimmy Day playing this song.
I would bet my right hand that Jimmy is on Jack's recording.
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Pete Finney
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Posted 18 Apr 2024 2:07 pm
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| Ron and Pete, you are probably aware than Ron played quite a while for Jack Greene. |
Yes, I was lucky enough to hear Ron play with Jack on the Opry countless times back in the day.
On the "There Goes My Everything" album Drake played on the hit title song but Buddy Charleton played on a lot of the other tracks (Jack had been a "Texas Troubadour" with Charleton for many years before that song hit and made him a solo star).
Last edited by Pete Finney on 19 Apr 2024 7:33 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Don Euton
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Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Apr 2024 5:18 pm
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I remember being at Ray Praskies` Esquire Ballroom in Houston, TX., one night in the late 1960`s. Jack was just starting and did not have a band at that time. It was announced at that time by Jimmy Dryer, whose band was the house band for the Esquire Ballroom, that as of 2 weeks his band was going to join Jack Green and called the Jolley Green Giants. As I remember, Jimmy Dryer, who played fiddle and sang, was the front man in his band until they disbanded. I do not remember who was playing the steel in Jimmy Dryer`s band at that time.
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David Zornes
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 26 Apr 2024 11:20 am Jack Greene
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| The tone and phrasing speaks Jimmy Day. No one else had it then - or since! 😉 |
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