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Topic: Buddy or Buddie ? |
Chris Schlotzhauer
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Colleyville, Tx. USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 6:25 am |
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I know this has been discussed before, but I was in Nashville at the Hall of Fame and saw this in a display.
I know "Buddy" is correct, but why did someone make this guitar with his name misspelled?
Buddy's jazz album also had his name spelled "Buddie".
BTW, the Hall of Fame is incredible. I can't believe I waited all these yeas |
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 6:39 am
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"Someone" didn't do it. Buddy himself chose to do it. He has explained that, at the time, he liked the symmetry of "Buddie Emmons" with each name having 6 letters. I guess he fell under Pat Martino's numerology craze for awhile... 
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Brint Hannay
From:
Maryland, USA
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David Nugent
From:
Gum Spring, Va.
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 10:15 am
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| I believe that Buddy also did a similar monogram on the front of Bobby Garrett's Sho-Bud after he and Shot completed it. |
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Jim Cohen
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 11:23 am
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Wow, now at least I have something in common with Buddie 
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Steve Hinson
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Hendersonville Tn USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 3:00 pm
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Is that the"Half a Mind"guitar?
Pete Drake had that guitar in a glass case in the upstairs hallway of his studio when I came to town in the'70s...it had"Pete Drake"on the front then,on a leather strip over"Buddie's"name...that guitar has a cigarette lighter and a flip-out ashtray on the back apron...Pete gave it back to Buddy,who gave it to the HOF. |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 6:58 pm
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I think this is the “Half a Mind†guitar and possibly Emmons’ first Sho-Bud – a Permanent with no end plates and slots for the strings instead of roller nuts. When Eddie Stubbs interviewed Buddy & Hal Rugg on his WSM radio show - Buddy stated he thought the steel guitar lost its sound when they went from slots to rollers. The guitar was built in 1957 as a D-8 and when Pete Drake acquired it from Emmons he had Shot convert to a D-10.
Emmons was on the Ernest Tubb band late 1957- early 1962 and this possibly would have been the first guitar he took on the road to promote the new Sho-Bud pedal steel.
"Half a Mind" is the first use of split pedals on a recording:
11 June 1958 [20:50-00:50] Bradley Film & Recording Studio, 804 16th Ave. South, Nashville 3, TN - Ernest Tubb (Billy Byrd, Grady Martin, Howard Johnson, Buddy Emmons, Jack Drake, Farris Coursey, Floyd Cramer. Producer: Owen Bradley)
380 105038/NA 10292 HALF A MIND 9-30685/DL 75006 BCD 15688 CCM-194-2
381 105039/NA 10293 NEXT TIME 9-30952 ED 2691/BCD 15688
382 105040/NA 10294 GOODBYE SUNSHINE, HELLO BLUES 9-30759/BCD 15688
This looks like another Sho-Bud Permanent - a D-10 with endplates filmed on a 1961 Pet Milk Opry. Could this also be the Sho-Bud that Emmons added chromatic strings to for Price’s “You Took Her Off My Hands†recorded September 26, 1962 - the first use of chromatic strings on a recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWmbFXJDHrM
Finally - here is the "Night Life" Sho-Bud Fingertip. "Night Life" was recorded February 22, 1963 - 4 months after “You Took Her Off My Hands.†Production started on the Fingertips around 1963.
Photo by Roger Shackelton (Fall 1962 Sioux Falls Coliseum - Sioux Falls, SD)
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Roger Shackelton
From:
MINNESOTA (deceased)
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Posted 24 Sep 2014 9:14 pm
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I Gave Buddy This 2nd Photo, When Scotty's Convention Was At The Chase Park Plaza Hotel.
The Picture Was Taken In The Fall Of 1961 at The Sioux Falls Coliseum, In Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Buddy Had Only Been Playing For Ray Price For A Short Time.
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2014 3:23 pm
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| Don't know about Way Down South, but up up here, "y"was for boys, and "ie." was for girls. So Robert would be Bobby, Roberta would be Bobbie. |
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robert kramer
From:
Nashville TN
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Posted 25 Sep 2014 8:34 pm
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 25 Sep 2014 8:42 pm
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| Not the way it was commonly done here in Northern Ohio. "ie." was definitely considered as the feminine. |
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Rich Upright
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 4 Oct 2014 12:30 pm
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
| Wow, now at least I have something in common with Buddie |
So do I! (Richard Upright)
I once heard through a reputable source that "Buddy" is his legal name, NOT a nickname. Is this true? |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 5 Oct 2014 9:20 am
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| Rich Upright wrote: |
| ...I once heard through a reputable source that "Buddy" is his legal name, NOT a nickname. Is this true? |
Re-read this, Rich...
| Buddy Emmons wrote: |
Just for the record, I first married when I was 17 years old, which required my mother to find my birth certificate in Mishawaka, Indiana and send to me. After weeks of waiting, my mother called and told me the holdup was due to my name being entered erroneously at birth. It wasn’t Bud or Buddy Gene. I was born Betty Jean Emmons. Had I used that name, I'd probably have been classified as a pretty good steel guitar player for a girl. Kinda wish I had now that I think about it. Anyway, I've had several people not believe Buddy is my real name. maybe I should have changed it to Horace.
The spelling Buddie was used as a teenager so I would have six letters in the first and last name. Talk about insecurity. |
So the answer is, his name is Betty.
Notice, by the way, that when he joined this Forum he joined under the name Buddy Emmons. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 6 Oct 2014 8:01 am
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Russ Wever
From:
Kansas City
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Posted 6 Oct 2014 10:13 pm
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Looks like they got the steel guitar image reversed
on the cover, nevermind that this is definitely not
steel guitar being played on the album within!
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