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1948 Double-Neck Gibson Console Grande Owned and played by the late Don Helms. This is the original "Ole Red" that he used on almost all Hank Williams' hits, including "You're Cheatin" Heart", "Cold, Cold Heart", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Hey Good Lookin'",and dozens more. He also played on Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" and other hits by Stonewall Jackson, Lefty Frizzell, and The Louvin Brothers, just to name a few.
This a once in a lifetime offer to own the guitar that helped define the Hank Williams sound. reply to tmarc6@live.com
1948 Double-Neck Gibson Console Grande Owned and played by the late Don Helms. This is the original "Ole Red" that he used on almost all Hank Williams' hits, including "You're Cheatin" Heart", "Cold, Cold Heart", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Hey Good Lookin'",and dozens more. He also played on Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" and other hits by Stonewall Jackson, Lefty Frizzell, and The Louvin Brothers, just to name a few.
This a once in a lifetime offer to own the guitar that helped define the Hank Williams sound. reply to tmarc6@live.com
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Jerry, not Don
On the first recording (the best known one) of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", Jerry Byrd, not Don Helms, is on steel. (Recorded at Herzog Studios, Cincinnati, 1949.)
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"Ole Red"
It would definitely be great to own a piece of steel guitar history, but there's a part of me that feels that Don Helms' Gibson Console Grande, which was on so many of Hank's tunes, AND on stage with Hank, should be in a museum, like the Hank Williams Museum.
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Different person--Mark Helm rather than the OP here, Marc Helms...Mike DiAlesandro wrote:https://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=364077
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Back quite a few yrs ago here @ the opry on Saturday I met at a restaurant on Sat. morning the owner of the opry. He hollerd at me motioned me over to their table. Another couple were with them. Heasked me you are a steel player do you know who Don Helms is. I said yes he said let me introduce you to him. When I went to the opry Don and his wife were setting at a table invited me to sit down we talked about an hour. He told me had turned down an offer of $100,000 for it said it was going to go to hall of fame when he passed. He passed about 90 days later. A very nice gentleman. This was at Louisburg, Ks. about 50 miles south of Kansas City. It was at the Middle Creek Opry. Wes
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‘Ole Red’
I thought the same thing but waited till someone else agreed with my caveat emptor.Erv Niehaus wrote:How many of you think this for sale listing is legitimate?
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Don Helms did have a son named Timothy Marc Helms:
https://obits.tennessean.com/obituaries ... =115519723
No idea if this is the same guy. But the email is suspicious as hell: throwaway microsoft email
https://obits.tennessean.com/obituaries ... =115519723
No idea if this is the same guy. But the email is suspicious as hell: throwaway microsoft email
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Interesting. Maybe the Helms family regained possession of the guitar and are now looking to sell it.Bill McCloskey wrote:Don Helms did have a son named Timothy Marc Helms:
https://obits.tennessean.com/obituaries ... =115519723
No idea if this is the same guy. But the email is suspicious as hell: throwaway microsoft email
Maybe someone in Nashville could go to the Pastsy Cline museum, or at least talk to them to see if Don's guitar is still in their possession.
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Re: Collectors Dream
I'll take it! I've always wanted a collectors guitar. I just can't pass this offer up.Marc Helms wrote:1948 Double-Neck Gibson Console Grande Owned and played by the late Don Helms. This is the original "Ole Red" that he used on almost all Hank Williams' hits, including "You're Cheatin" Heart", "Cold, Cold Heart", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Hey Good Lookin'",and dozens more. He also played on Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" and other hits by Stonewall Jackson, Lefty Frizzell, and The Louvin Brothers, just to name a few.
This a once in a lifetime offer to own the guitar that helped define the Hank Williams sound. reply to tmarc6@live.com
Thanks,
Gary
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