Tom Brumley '65 Christmas

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 5 Dec 2002 9:02 pm

A couple of years ago when Sundazed remastered and released many of Buck's albums on CD, I loaded up - one of which is the Chrismas album that Buck released in 1965. I'd remembered this album from when I was a kid, but hadn't heard it for years.

Been listening to it over the past week, and reconfirms for me that this album contains some of Tom's greatest steel - recorded in June 1965 when Buck and the fellers were white-hot - the album is just awesome, just loaded with Brumley steel, Buck and Don in perfect form and a great collection of songs, Buck wrote most.

My personal favorite is cut 9 "Santa Claus is Here Again" - Tom's magical with Buck and Don through the whole thing. Anybody else spend any time with this album?? I know is seems goofy to think of Bakersfield and Christmas in the same context, but the marriage was perfect in 1965! - Neil

Jim Florence · Post by **Jim Florence** » 6 Dec 2002 10:17 am

Yeah Neil, that album, but the group as a whole in those days. I was impressed enough to order a new ZB D-11, in 1967. Guess what Tom was playing at that time.
Jim
P.S. Also guess who owned the ZB company by the time mine was built. I've still got the ZB, Greg Jones is in the process of rebuilding it at this moment.<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Jim Florence on 06 December 2002 at 10:18 AM.]</p></FONT>

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 6 Dec 2002 11:07 am

I don't have the Christmas album but I recently recorded The Best of Buck Owens Volume 1 and Volume 3 from my LP's to CD. These albums are both from that same era. Vol. 1 was the first country record I ever bought and I haven't bought a non-country album since; not intentionally anyway.

I guess a lot of us here were diggin' Buck before Hee Haw and Merle before Muskogee.

I believe Vol. 1 is a lot Mooney, but Tom is on Vol. 3 and in the inside photo cover too. There are no written credits so I could be wrong. It sounds like vintage Tom Brumley on "Happy Times are Here Again", and of course on "Cryin' Time Again". And in what other genre could you get away with grammarical errors like "Where Does The Good Times Go"?

Another thing I notice about those recordings is you can actually hear the pick brush the strings on the rhythm guitar. I don't hear that much today... non-acoustic pickups I guess.

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Joerg Hennig · Post by **Joerg Hennig** » 6 Dec 2002 12:51 pm

Thanks Neil for pointing that out, I´ll see if I can get it for Christmas! Brumley´s one of my favorites these days.

Regards, Joe

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Janice Brooks · Post by **Janice Brooks** » 6 Dec 2002 1:22 pm

Had this on in the AM and a driver buddy came by. I told him the Buck don't stop here
LOL.

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Alvin Blaine · Post by **Alvin Blaine** » 6 Dec 2002 3:10 pm

There were two Buck Owens Christmas albums.I think only one has been put out on CD.

Every Friday morning after Thanksgiving day my mom would start to decorate the house for Christmas and she would put those two albums on the turntable and wake us up with Buck's Christmas songs. Last week I went out to visit for Thanksgiving and got woke up Friday morning to Buck. After 35 years those old records still sound great.

Butch Foster · Post by **Butch Foster** » 6 Dec 2002 5:35 pm

The other Christ. album is good also, lots of Tom's great fast licks and slow backup.

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 9 Dec 2002 6:52 pm

Buck's other, titled "Christmas Shopping" is indeed also remastered/reissued on Sundazed.... they have a total of 18 original albums of Buck and the fellers available there now - all at $11.98 a throw.

I've been spinning through the '65 album daily and can't get over how wonderful it is, such pure perfect Bakersfield...... "a pretty dress for mama and a pipe for dad, Santa sure knows how to make people feel glad"