Marvin Caroll
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Marvin Caroll
Back in the 50's when Jimmy Dean was on CBS at 7 in the morning - 5 days a week, one of his Texas Wildcats was a steel player named Marvin Caroll. He pretty much was in the background and never really took a decent ride. Billy Grammer was the guitarist and certainly was featured along with Buck Ryan on fiddle.
Does anyone have any information on him? I have not heard of him since Jimmy went more modern and no longer featured a real country band. I am sure the likes of Smiley or Bobbe might know.....????
Does anyone have any information on him? I have not heard of him since Jimmy went more modern and no longer featured a real country band. I am sure the likes of Smiley or Bobbe might know.....????
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I remember the Jimmy Dean Show ,I use to watch it every morning. I just about made it to work on time, because i couldn't get my self away from the TV. I remember Marvin Carrol. I remember him playing a big Gibson Pedal Steel standing up. I also remember Smitty Erwin on banjo, Buck Ryan on Fiddle, Molly Bee, and another girl singer ,but i don't remember her name. I also saw Pete Drake on the show , with his talking steel guitar. Pete was always one of my fvorites. Boy i wish someone would make those old Jimmy Dean shows available to see again. The old Hee Haw shows are available.
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Ben, so funny you would ask this question here.
I was 14 years old and playing the WRVA Jamboree in Richmond VA. (just one night, while living in Norfolk VA.) I did meet Marvin, there. I was playing a triple neck Epiphone that my uncle Doug had rebuilt and added a "E to A" pedal on. Marvin was fastinated with it, we promised to always stay in touch, but I never saw or heard from him again. That was 1954.
I never forgot that show, my first big country jamboree radio show. I must have been good,,,,,,,,,,,,,, they never asked me to come back! (shouldn't have gotten so drunk I guess, maybe it was my cigar, or the blonde I was with,)
Bobbe
I was 14 years old and playing the WRVA Jamboree in Richmond VA. (just one night, while living in Norfolk VA.) I did meet Marvin, there. I was playing a triple neck Epiphone that my uncle Doug had rebuilt and added a "E to A" pedal on. Marvin was fastinated with it, we promised to always stay in touch, but I never saw or heard from him again. That was 1954.
I never forgot that show, my first big country jamboree radio show. I must have been good,,,,,,,,,,,,,, they never asked me to come back! (shouldn't have gotten so drunk I guess, maybe it was my cigar, or the blonde I was with,)
Bobbe
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Here is a clip from the Jimmy Dean Show, featuring Marvin Carroll on Steel, Roy Clark on Guitar and Buck Ryan on Fiddle, they do "Oklahoma Stomp":
click here
Kind Regards, Walter
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Kind Regards, Walter
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Here is the cast of the Jimmy Dean morning show as best I remember.
Billy Grammer - Guitar
Buck Ryan - Fiddle
Smitty Irvin - 5 string banjo
Mary Klick - bass and vocals
Marvin Carroll - Steel Guitar
Herbie Jones - Rhythm Guitar
Jan Crockett - vocals
Jo Davis - Vocals
George Hamilton IV - Vocals
The Country Ladds - Billy Graves and Dick Flood - vocal duets
Jimmy Groves filled in on guitar when Billy Grammer was on vacation.
Alec Houston and Elmer - ventriloquist and dummy
The popularity of the morning show led to an hour long Saturday noontime show. The music became more mongrelized to appeal to a wider audience and this show then led to the hour long prime time evening show. Billy Grammer by this time had his hit of "Gotta Travel on" and was not longer a member of the show but did occasionally return as a guest. Roy Clark was a frequent guest and eventually became a permanent on the evening show.
Jimmy has a piano that he played that was autographed by every morning show guest. I wonder what ever became of it. Lots of great autographs on it, Elton Britt, Carl Smith, Webb Pierce, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, and on and on.
I guess you can tell I was a fan. It was awfully hard prying myself away to go catch the school bus.
The show started with Billy Grammer doing a little thumb style and the whole gang singing......"Whenever the day is dawning and where ever we are seen, it's the whole gang saying Good Morning, Good Morning from Jimmy Dean".
Billy Grammer - Guitar
Buck Ryan - Fiddle
Smitty Irvin - 5 string banjo
Mary Klick - bass and vocals
Marvin Carroll - Steel Guitar
Herbie Jones - Rhythm Guitar
Jan Crockett - vocals
Jo Davis - Vocals
George Hamilton IV - Vocals
The Country Ladds - Billy Graves and Dick Flood - vocal duets
Jimmy Groves filled in on guitar when Billy Grammer was on vacation.
Alec Houston and Elmer - ventriloquist and dummy
The popularity of the morning show led to an hour long Saturday noontime show. The music became more mongrelized to appeal to a wider audience and this show then led to the hour long prime time evening show. Billy Grammer by this time had his hit of "Gotta Travel on" and was not longer a member of the show but did occasionally return as a guest. Roy Clark was a frequent guest and eventually became a permanent on the evening show.
Jimmy has a piano that he played that was autographed by every morning show guest. I wonder what ever became of it. Lots of great autographs on it, Elton Britt, Carl Smith, Webb Pierce, Johnny Cash, Porter Wagoner, and on and on.
I guess you can tell I was a fan. It was awfully hard prying myself away to go catch the school bus.
The show started with Billy Grammer doing a little thumb style and the whole gang singing......"Whenever the day is dawning and where ever we are seen, it's the whole gang saying Good Morning, Good Morning from Jimmy Dean".
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