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Topic: Best Honky Tonk Song? |
Thomas Stanley
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 12:08 pm |
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What is your favorite Honky Tonk Song?
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 12:28 pm
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You want just one? I don't think I can do that.
Heartaches by the Number, Streets of Baltimore, Six Days on the Road, Lost Highway, Your Cheatin' Heart, Together Again, Apartment #9, Old Violin, don't get me goin', I don't have that much time right now.  |
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 1:21 pm
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The topic title says "best" but the question is "favorite". Both impossible to answer; however, I'll throw one out for discussion - "Crazy Arms".
Lee, from South Texas |
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Andy Greatrix
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Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 2:28 pm
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When Love Was Green, singer, George Jones,
writer, Dallas Frazier. |
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 4:06 pm
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| The later 'up-tempo' version of Lefty Frizell's 'If You Got the Money'. That version has piano, fiddle, and non-pedal steel in it, as it should be with all 'honky-tonk' music. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 6:33 pm
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| The later 'up-tempo' version of Lefty Frizell's 'If You Got the Money'. That version has piano, fiddle, and non-pedal steel in it, as it should be with all 'honky-tonk' music. |
and it has to be the jukebox version, not the censored radio version.
The radio version says "dance to the music fine", but the original words are on the jukebox version, he sings "dance, drink beer, and wine". |
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Charles Davidson
From:
Phenix City Alabama, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 9:58 pm
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Please Mr. DJ,by Dale Watson,in fact ANYTHING by Dale,don't you know.
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Alvin Blaine
From:
Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 20 Oct 2007 10:22 pm
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| I don't think I could pick a favorite song, as for favorite honkytonk singers I would pick Skeets Mcdonald, Charlie Walker, and Gary Stewart. |
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Mark Edwards
From:
Weatherford,Texas, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2007 7:45 am
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| Green Snakes by the great Johnny Bush |
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Mark Durante
From:
St. Pete Beach FL
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Posted 21 Oct 2007 8:21 am
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| Pass the Booze |
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Frank Freniere
From:
The First Coast
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Posted 21 Oct 2007 8:22 am
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| Anything by Paycheck. |
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GaryHoetker
From:
Bakersfield, CA, USA
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Posted 21 Oct 2007 12:34 pm Best Honky Tonk Song
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"Close Up The Honky Tonks"... circa 1964- Buck and Don Rich
Unfathomable that it never was released as a single. |
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Andy Greatrix
From:
Edmonton Alberta
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Posted 21 Oct 2007 1:29 pm
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Don't forget Web Pierce, and all the hits he had in the fifties.
He was pure honkytonk. |
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Andy Jones
From:
Mississippi
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 5:58 am
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| Jim Ed Brown's "Pop-A-Top" and "Tear drops Don't Lie" by Justin Trevino.Those are just a couple of my favorites from hundreds. |
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David Doggett
From:
Bawl'mer, MD (formerly of MS, Nawluns, Gnashville, Knocksville, Lost Angeles, Bahsten. and Philly)
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 8:20 am
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Rednecks, White Sox, and Blue Ribbon Beer
Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music.
I Didn't Know God Made Honky Tonk Angels
Any Hank Sr. song
Any Patsy Cline song
Any song by George, Tammy, Loretta, Conway or Merle or Charlie Pride or Buck Owens, etc.
Any Web Pierce song
Any Ray Price song before Night Life
There are so many to choose from, who could say which is ones favorite?
Last edited by David Doggett on 23 Oct 2007 6:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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David Fields
From:
South Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 9:37 am Hank, Sr.
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Cheatin Heart....
The ulitimate Honky Tonk Song |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 10:20 am
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When it comes to pure honky-tonk, you just can't
beat anything by Gene Watson. ie: "Farewell Party" |
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David Fields
From:
South Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 10:50 am Gene Watson
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| Farewell Party seems to be everyone's favorite by him, but if I get a chance to do a cover of his I like to do 'Should I Go Home.' |
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b0b
From:
Cloverdale, CA, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 10:59 am
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| "Pass Me By (If You're Only Passing Through)". |
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David Fields
From:
South Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 11:06 am I must say this
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I guess when you look at all these great songs, and then I think of what is being recorded today I can't help but think........it is just not as good, not even close. In my opinion only.
And no....I am not real old, only 48, and I know that Carrie Underwood is good, but I can still listen to Merle Haggard sing over and over and over again 'The Bottle Let Me Down' but the second or third time with any of her songs was way too much for me.
In my opinion only. |
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Dave Van Allen
From:
Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 11:43 am
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The man asked for favorite- well I can't do just one... well here goes:
A-11- Paycheck's version / then Buck's
Just One More - Jones' / ET's
There Stands the Glass - Webb Pierce
Tonight the Bottle Let me Down- Merle/Mooney
Close Up The Honky-Tonks - Buck
Sittin' and Thinkin' - Charlie Rich/Ray Price
(We'll go) Honky Tonkin' - Hank
If I'm gonna Sink (I might as well go to the bottom) - Paycheck
I'll go down Swingin'- Porter
Who Will Buy The Wine - Charlie Walker
Honky Tonk-itis Carl Butler
The Lord Knows I'm Drinkin' - Cal Smith
Smokey the Bar - Hank Thompson
Six Pack to Go - Hank T
and so many many more |
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Bill Dobkins
From:
Rolla Missouri, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2007 3:12 pm
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Dreams of a Dreamer- Darrell McCall
Blue and Green- Earl Thomas Conely
You lay a whole lotta love on me- Con Hunley
I'm not over you - Dottie Jack
ECT ECT ECT.......
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 23 Oct 2007 3:45 am
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Pick Me Up on Your Way Down , Dim Lights- Thick Smoke, No Reason Now for Goin HOme, 3rd Rate Romance, Should I Go Home...A-11 , Only Hell MY Momma Ever Raised..
There are just way too many I like to mention them all
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 23 Oct 2007 8:51 am
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| Was there anything that was truely Honky Tonk without Del Wood (Polly Hazelwood) in the background? |
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Dick Wood
From:
Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 23 Oct 2007 9:54 am
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I'm ashamed of you all.
Not even an honorable mention for GARY STEWART?
Ralph Emery introduced him as the King of Honky Tonk singers one night. |
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