El Vira

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 5 Oct 2002 9:30 pm

I need to know who wrote Elvira, and what's more important, Who was the first one to record it with the Oompapa Oompapa Oompapa Mau Mau
bass singer. Clue, It wasn't the Oaks ; even though I saw them claim credit for it. Tain't so, I had to help do that song when working with Charley Shaw in 1966, several years before the Oak Ridge Boys did it.
Jim

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 5 Oct 2002 9:46 pm

Dallas Frazier - The same guy that wrote "Alley Oop", "Mohair Sam", "There Goes My Everything", and one of my favorites "Fourteen Carat Mind".

Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 5 Oct 2002 9:48 pm

Dallas was the one that had it out in 1966!

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 5 Oct 2002 9:49 pm

Thanks , did he do the Oompapa thing too?

Bob Knight · Post by **Bob Knight** » 5 Oct 2002 9:50 pm

There are 33 Titles
First Previous 1 2 Next Last
ELVIRA BMI Work #370641
Songwriter/Composer Current Affiliation CAE/IPI #
FRAZIER DALLAS BMI 10803339

Publishers
ACUFF ROSE MUSIC INC (A R PUB BMI 249648426

Artists
KELLUM MURRY
KENNY ROGERS AND THE FIRST EDITION
OAK RIDGE BOYS

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 6 Oct 2002 3:10 am

Jim.....thanks for the memory. I had forgotten it, but Charlie Shaw was doing Elvira when I worked with him also! It's got me looking for an old television tape that I think has that song on it! www.genejones.com

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 6 Oct 2002 4:41 am

Small world ain't it Gene. I was stationed
at Tinker in those days. Try this for memories. Jack Beasley, KLPR TV, Tim Holt, Bob Woods, Lew Houston, Doug Campbell, Mathis Bros Furniture, to name a few. Great days for country music.
Jim

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 6 Oct 2002 4:54 am

Jim you are so right.....there's not an unfamiliar name in any of those that you mentioned!

Gene

Jerry Overstreet · Post by **Jerry Overstreet** » 6 Oct 2002 7:09 am

Remember Willie Rainsford? He did a bang up job on this song and many others. Had a powerful voice and played around Nashville a lot in the70-80's...haven't heard anything about him in the last several years. Saw him a hotel lounge in Nashville while attending Jeffran,
and I believe it was with Jim Vest and the Nashville Cats.
Don't know if he ever recorded it though, and don't recall any "oompapa".

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 6 Oct 2002 7:40 am

Hey Gene, just think how many of those names are no longer with us.

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 6 Oct 2002 10:06 am

Only the Mathis Brothers are still here.

I wonder if they still have any of those old Buck Owens shows that they sponsored and taped at WKY-TV during those early days?) www.genejones.com [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 06 October 2002 at 11:17 AM.]

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 6 Oct 2002 7:22 pm

Gene, I don't have a videotape, but I do have an audiotape of the mathis Bros
Buck owens show with Merle, Bonnie,Don
and a very young Tom Brumley, and Tom plays an instrumental that will knock your hat in the creek. This tape is very brittle, and it's reel to reel. I think I might be able to engineer you a copy if you'd like. I should know you as I picked around there from 65 to 67. Don't know how I missed you, I was on both tv stations most weekends.
Jim

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 6 Oct 2002 9:24 pm

Jim...I don't know how we missed each other either. I was with the original staff band at the Diamond Ballroom in 64-65 with a tv show on Channel 4,(or was it 9), then with Conway Twitty until I went with Jack Lee & The Drivers about 1967 and we were on the circuit for about 4 years playing all the clubs in the metro and around Oklahoma....also did shows with different people on Jack Beasley's television station, then did a television show with Henson Cargill on Channel 5...and then quit music in 1970 and didn't play again until 1983. Doug Campbell was a friend of mine...hitched a ride on the Merl Lindsay bus with us in 1964 from Nebraska when he first came to Oklahoma City.....and on and on...I'll bet we could exchange some GOOD stories! Hope we can get together sometime.

Thanks for the offer on the tape, but I have dozens of reel-to-reel's that I never get out to play anymore. I keep thinking that someday I'll transfer them to CD, but I probably never will! Gene www.genejones.com [This message was edited by Gene Jones on 06 October 2002 at 10:29 PM.][This message was edited by Gene Jones on 06 October 2002 at 10:40 PM.]

Jason Odd · Post by **Jason Odd** » 7 Oct 2002 4:12 pm

Gene, do the CD transfer.. it'll be cool.