Sweet thing

Larry Robbins · Post by **Larry Robbins** » 9 Oct 2003 2:31 pm

Just listend to the old Ernest Tubb,Loretta Lynn tune"sweet thing"recorded 12-21-66. I dont know if its just me but,dang,I miss that style of country song...Dang I miss ET..
And how could anyone not just love Loretta?
She sure did a awful lot for country music!
Think about this ol song.I bet you got a big smile on your face!

See?!! Remember any others? I bet you do..How about "who's gonna take the garbage out when I've packed my bags and gone?"....Any others?

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Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 9 Oct 2003 2:37 pm

you better take my advice and if you blink more than twice, you better have something in your eye.

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 9 Oct 2003 2:43 pm

Larry: Now I can't figure out who did the original on that tune and it's killin' me !!

Regards, Paul

Billy Easton · Post by **Billy Easton** » 9 Oct 2003 2:54 pm

Paul...
Didn't Nat Stuckey record that tune? Don't remember if there was a female on it or not.

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Dale Bessant · Post by **Dale Bessant** » 9 Oct 2003 4:13 pm

I can remember learnin' this years ago and I do believe the version I was learning it from had just a male vocal on it, who it was I cannot remember....

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 9 Oct 2003 4:17 pm

Written and recorded by Nat Stuckey. Also recorded by Mel Tillis(1967), George Jones(1967), Jerry lee Lewis &Linda Gail Lewis(1970), and Jimmy Dean and Dottie West in 1970.

Cowboy Copas did a song in the early 60's called "Sweet Thing" but not the same song as this. It was written by Buddy Starcher.

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Jason Powers · Post by **Jason Powers** » 9 Oct 2003 4:47 pm

One of my very favorite ET and Loretta songs is a ballad called "Beautiful Unhappy Home" written by Johnny Russell and Teddy Wilburn. (steel by Buddy Charleton) and I also love "Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be' Their duets are not as well known as Conway and Loretta's, but they cut some fine records. Jason

Glenn Suchan · Post by **Glenn Suchan** » 13 Oct 2003 8:06 am

Graham,

Buddy Starcher's "Sweet Thing" is one of my all-time favorite country songs. Back in the mid-seventies Steve Young (writer of "Seven Bridges Road" and others) did a cover of it on his Renegade Picker album featuring the fabulous pickin' of Buddy Emmons.... Chill bumps from here 'till sometime next week! The CD has been re-released on BMG Records. Check-it-out!

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn
www.kevinfowler.com

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 22 Oct 2003 1:39 pm

Is this ;

Sweet thing I'm writing this letter to you
The pages will be covered in tears

We recorded a version this spring.
Very nice tune.

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 30 Oct 2003 4:48 pm

Loretta Lynn - A TRUE country music icon!!! Close your eyes and imagine being on her front porch when she was growing up. She and all her siblings sitting around with a big glass of iced tea - strumming and singing. Does anyone know if Crystal G's music style resembled Loretta's early in her career?

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 31 Oct 2003 6:25 am

I've always wondered why they sang so different since they were sisters. Maybe Crystal trained her voice. I like Loretta's singing more than Crystal's.

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 1 Nov 2003 6:10 pm

Crystal always gave me the impression that she was too good to do real country.JMHO

BF
BTW who played psg on ET&Loretta (Rugg?)

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Jason Powers · Post by **Jason Powers** » 1 Nov 2003 7:33 pm

Bill,
Buddy Charleton did all the steel work on ET and Loretta's duets. In fact, it was the entire Texas Troubadour band and also, I believe, Jerry Smith on piano.

Jody Sanders · Post by **Jody Sanders** » 2 Nov 2003 1:26 am

The reason for the difference in Loretta and Brenda Gayle AKA Crystal Gayle is that Loretta grew up in Butcher Hollow and Crystal Gayle grew up in Indiana . They talk a good bit different in Indiana than they do in Butcher Hollow. Jody.

Donna Dodd · Post by **Donna Dodd** » 2 Nov 2003 6:08 am

I didn't know that, Jody. Do you happen to know the age difference between the two? Did they have different family relationships, or did the family move? Thanks!