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Topic: Steel Guitar Instrumental - Artist # 1 in Billboard Mag. |
LJ Eiffert
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 7:43 pm |
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| Has any one out there ever seen or read of a Steel Guitar Instrumental being at #1 on any Radio Station or in Billboard Magazine,Cashbox or any other world Magazine chart for a Steel Guitarist doing a Instrumental.Let's say like,Paul Franklin,Jay Dee Maness,Buddy Emmons,Red Rhodes,Ralph Mooney,Lloyd Green,Jeff Newman,Jerry Hayes,Tom(Slim)Lattimer,John McClung and so on.>> Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 8:33 pm
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The last(first and only) steel guitar instrumental to make it to number 1 on the Billboard charts was "Sleepwalk" by Santo & Johnny. It was the Number 1 Billboard pop song for two weeks during September of 1959.
The only other Steel instrumental that has come close was ten years earlier. Leon McCauliffe made it into the top of the Hillbilly Hit Parade with "Panhandle Rag" in 1949.
Those are the only steel guitar instrumentals that I know of making into the top 40 on any kind of national charts.
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LJ Eiffert
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Posted 27 Jan 2008 9:14 pm
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| Very good Alvin,So who was the Steel Guitarist on " Sleep Walk ",was it Santo or was it Johnny? Also, was it honored as a Number 1 " Steel Guitar Intrumental " or just Instrumental song in that year.Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. |
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John P. Phillips
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Folkston, Ga. U.S.A., R.I.P.
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Posted 28 Jan 2008 7:49 pm
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What about Pete Drake, Didn't he have a talking steel record the did pretty well ?
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LJ Eiffert
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California, USA
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Posted 29 Jan 2008 3:54 am
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| Yes Pete Drake,Jay Dee Maness and so on,but,who had the first Million seller Steel Guitar Intrumental as that kind of an Artist with a Number #1 RIAA hit by BillBoard Magazine,Cashbox or any other trade Magazine in the world and or any award show.Here,like Jerry Douglas won for Specialty instrument (Dobro) award by the ACM,but,did he have a number #1 hit record in BILLBOARD Magazine as that kind of Artist? Not on local radio,But,National or world wide. We've had Guitarist like Chet Atkins,Roy Clark,Jim Bryant and so on,but again,no Steel Guitarist.If so,Who? Leo J.Eiffert,Jr. |
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