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Topic: Panhandle Rag - Who wrote it? |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 4 Apr 2009 11:33 pm |
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I looked on the Harry Fox Agency site, and it has the writers listed 3 different times.
1. Leon McAuliffe
2. Ronnie Durban
3.W. Pearce, L. McAuliffe
Which is correct. I need to get a license to record it and need to make sure I have the correct composer.
Forget #3, It's listed as "New Panhandle Rag"[/b] |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 4 Apr 2009 11:49 pm
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Always heard Leon McAuliffe wrote it.Regardless,I enjoy playing it. DYKBC.
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Richard Sinkler
From:
aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 12:10 am
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| Same here. Have no idea who this Ronnie Durban is. I guess I can google him (no dirty thoughts now). |
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Walter Stettner
From:
Vienna, Austria
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 12:14 am
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Herb Remington told me once that bob Wills had asked him to write an instrumenatl after Leon McAuliffe had come out with "Panhandle Rag" - Herb cam up with the famous "Boot Heel Drag". 
Kind Regards, Walter
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Mike Gross
From:
Manchester, Connecticut, USA
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 3:39 am
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Leon definitely wrote it and it was a big Columbia instrumental for him and his band. The W. Pierce in some credits was picked up from the Webb Pierce vocal version where Webb added the words and had a vocal version.
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Danny Naccarato
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Burleson, Texas
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 7:42 am
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At St. Louis, during the convention of either 83 or 86, I heard Leon talk about that. He said that he took the beginning of "Steel Guitar Rag" and turned it around, sorta backwards. Then he hummed it. Everyone who heard that, got a chuckle out of it..
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Casey Lowmiller
From:
Kansas
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 11:21 am
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As Danny stated, Leon took Steel Guitar Rag and turned it around to create Panhandle Rag...that's the story I've always heard anyways.
I would assume that "New Panhandle Rag" would have words to it. Just like "New San Antonio Rose" and "New Maiden's Prayer" etc., etc. That was the usual practice of Bob and his boys.
Casey
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Casey Lowmiller
From:
Kansas
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 11:23 am
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Casey Lowmiller
From:
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Posted 5 Apr 2009 11:23 am
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 6 Apr 2009 9:51 am LEON did another "Panhandle"..............
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Back in the early 1950's, LEON scribed another; "Panhandle Waltz".....a rather long tune done in A6th, I think it was.
It managed to land on TinPan Alleys top 10 list, as I recall, for several weeks. All the local 'pop' stations were giving it multiple air time each day.
Never learned how well it sold but it got really great air time by today's standards.
If anyone has more info' on this tune, I'd enjoy learning about it. |
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