NITE LIFE steel

Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 5:05 am

A few days back there was some talk about who played steel on nite life by ray price. I went to wal-mart and found a cd ray price all his greatest hits. nite life was on it.#8 . That steel was terrific! song was published by GLAD MUSIC CO. originally. I f you want lyrics and CRD. go to this site..Bluegrassworld.com then go to LYRICS then to COWPIE bunkhouse archives then tosong corral then to letter of last name of artist P then to artist. all names beginning with P comes up. click on Ray Price. song list comes up click on the song you want. NITE LIFE. I did this on a web tv. by the way GRADY MARTIN did it Bob H

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Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 2 Oct 2002 6:16 am

Grady Martin did what? play steel on Night Life? Uhh... no he didn't

Mike Sweeney · Post by **Mike Sweeney** » 2 Oct 2002 6:43 am

Bob,
That was a real young Buddy Emmons on that record, one of the first things he cut with Ray. Grady Martin is on that record but as a guitar player[he didn't play steel].
Go to Buddy Emmons's website to see some great info and pictures of that era in Buddy's career.
Mike

Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 7:17 am

thanls Chris and Mike for the reply and info .. I was just going by what it said on COWPIE .Ha HA must have just been some COWPIE. I really like the cd though . I remember those songs of ray's and I havent heard them in years. I was still playing them when I got your replies. I was a young man when ray was at the top of my list back then. thanks guys . Bob

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 2 Oct 2002 7:30 am

Bob,
I too bought a Ray Price old hits type CD thinking it was the original cuts but,it was a rerecorded session,had nite life(the reason I bought it)but,was not Buddy E.Whoever played steel did pretty good tho.
Bill

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Bill Ford

Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 7:35 am

I was a truck drivin' son of a gun in those days.running from Salt Lake City to all parts of Cal. Hauling swingin beefto cal. and produce back to S.L.C. I sometimes went up to and stopped in Bakersfield and got acquainted with Tom Brumley. when he was with Buck. And over at the blackboard was Freddy Hart and another place with a good steel picker and singer don't remember his name..Tom was playing for fun at the Barrel Club when he had time. I knew some Brumleys in my home town. Tom said they were probably cousins of his. I was born in Eureka Springs Ark and lived there till I was old enough to go somewhere wlse. Well I still play my old Maverick 3and 1 . have a lot of fun Bob

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Chris Forbes · Post by **Chris Forbes** » 2 Oct 2002 8:06 am

Bob, may I recommend the new Ray Price album to you? I think you'll enjoy it if you like his old stuff. He's got a few of the old A team pickers (including Buddy Emmons) doing some fabulous stuff. The album is called "Time".

Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 8:14 am

thanks a lot Chris . I will lookfor it the next time we get to Wal Mart Super Center. the smaller stores don.t have as large a selection to browse. I wrote it down so I won't forget the title.. Bob

Gary Walker · Post by **Gary Walker** » 2 Oct 2002 10:31 am

I had the privilege of watching Ray Price introduce the song "Night Life" with that young Buddy Emmons in Fresno, CA when it came out in the 60s.
Bobby Bare preceeded Price and Buddy played for Bare. I didn't who the steeler was at the time but when it was time for Price, Buddy came out with his Cherokee Cowboys uniform and then I recognized who it was. When Buddy started "Night Life" I almost fainted, it was so cool and I was hearing it before it made air play.

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 2 Oct 2002 10:50 am

FWIW,I read/heard that it was Grady Martin that operated the tremolo fx on Buddy's playing on the original cut.

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 12:01 pm

Gary, thanks for that info.Iknow where Morro bay is and Fresno.I hauled a lot of produce and citrus and Grapes (raisins too) from that area to Salt Lake.I'll bet you are on cloud 9 Every time you hear Nite Life mentioned. Bob

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Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 12:09 pm

Kenny, I bet you have that right. Whoever had the job to write the label or what ever in that thing I read in Bluegrassworld must have got his tang tonguled up!!! some guys in this world don't know a steel guitar from a bedspring, so they become writers...ha ha Bob

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Bob Helms · Post by **Bob Helms** » 2 Oct 2002 6:11 pm

bOb, please close this thread. Thank you. Bob Helms

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