Who played steel on Best Little Whorehouse movie soundtrack

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 29 Jan 2011 8:19 pm

Just watched it and am curious.

Couldn't find credits anywhere.
Thanks

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 30 Jan 2011 7:44 am

Dave, here's all the credits I could find at allmusic.com. You might recognize a steel player's name in there, I didn't.

Clint Allmon
Pamela Blair
Peter Blue
Mike Bradley Engineer
Ben Brogdon
Lisa Brown
Gerry Burkhardt
Jay Bursky
Tom Cashin
Carol Chambers
Craig Chambers
Don Crabtree
Mickey Crofford Engineer
Dom DeLuise Performer
Charles Durning Performer
Joan Ellis
Henderson Forsythe
Lynn Frazier
Jay Garner
Becky Gelke
Carlin Glynn
Carol Hall Composer, Lyricist
Delores Hall
Jack Hayes Orchestration
Michael Holleman
Bradley Clayton King
Donna King
J. Frank Lucas
Susan Mansur
Jan Merchant
Teresa Merritt Performer
Edna Milton
Jim Nabors Narrator, Performer
George Osaki Art Direction
Candy Parton Performer
Dolly Parton Performer
Gregg Perry Orchestration, Producer
Louise Quick-Bowen
Ernie Reed
Burt Reynolds Performer
James Rich
The Rio Grande Band
Herb Ritts Photography
Marta Sanders
Mike Scott
Paul Ukena, Jr.
Ernie Winfrey Engineer
Jerry Yoder
Debra Zalkind

Yep, Marty is right.
http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=79250

Marty Muse · Post by **Marty Muse** » 30 Jan 2011 7:48 am

That would be Austin, TX's own Lynn Frazier. He played on the soundtrack and played the show on Broadway. Great steel player!

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 30 Jan 2011 8:21 am

I did that show in London in '81 when it came to the West End. We had the two leads from the Broadway show (Carlin Glynne and Henderson Forsythe) as well as the US production team.

Trouble is, we didn't have Lynn Frazier - just me! I did my best but didn't come close, so had to figure out my own way to play it. Wonderful playing from Lynn and each time I get to do the show again I'll refer to that soundtrack CD for a reminder of how high he set the bar.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Jan 2011 8:24 am

Thanks guys.

Russell Powell · Post by **Russell Powell** » 30 Jan 2011 9:19 am

A little off topic: but I saw BLWIT on Broadway and Harvey Shapiro (now Harvey Sharp) had taken over on steel and he was fantastic.
During the overture, in his solo, he broke with what he normally played and stuck in a bunch of BE licks and looked up and smiled at my wife and I (he knew where we were sitting)-pretty funny

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 30 Jan 2011 9:54 am

Josh Dubin played the Broadway show after Lyn,Then Harvey.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Jan 2011 11:46 am

A little off topic: but I saw BLWIT on Broadway and Harvey Shapiro (now Harvey Sharp) had taken over on steel and he was fantastic.

No worries about going off topic.

And to go even further off topic:

The reason I even rented that movie was to study Burt Reynolds. A theater company I work with is doing the Tammy Wynette Story "Stand By Your Man" and even though I have no interest in acting I was.....um....volunteered by the director to play the part of Burt Reynolds in the play, as well as play the pedal steel and guitar.

Wish me luck.

The wife also brought home Boogie Nights!

I studied that one real close too..........

Tonight is The Longest Yard. Good thing I'm home sick on the couch this weekend.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 30 Jan 2011 2:56 pm

I played my big red Sho-Bud on some of the production numbers in the movie version with Dollly Parton and Burt Reynolds. We did those at Record Plant in L.A. before the movie was shot. I seem to remember that the leader on at least some of these was a guy who came out from Nashville and I think he was Dolly Parton's band leader. In post production I played some underscoring sessions at Warners 1 with a full orchestra, and Pat Williams composing/conducting.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Jan 2011 3:58 pm

Nice job Earnest. The wife liked your playing too.

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 30 Jan 2011 4:25 pm

Dave Zirbel wrote:Nice job Earnest. The wife liked your playing too.

Thanks Dave but it was probably somebody else playing the stuff your wife liked.

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 30 Jan 2011 4:26 pm

I don't remember anything about that movie except mega Dolly standing in the door way, and in not much else. That was a good movie.

Dave Zirbel · Post by **Dave Zirbel** » 30 Jan 2011 6:45 pm

I don't remember anything about that movie except mega Dolly standing in the door way, and in not much else.

Wait, you mean to tell me there was steel guitar in that movie.....

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 31 Jan 2011 5:21 am

Hey Dave,
Check out 'W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings' for some more cool Burt Reynolds stuff.

Also I think Harvey Shapiro (Sharp) played steel on the first few Steve Forbert albums.

Ed Iarusso · Post by **Ed Iarusso** » 31 Jan 2011 6:46 am

I've got a recording (album) of the Rio Grande Band with Doug Jernigan as the steel player.

Stu Schulman · Post by **Stu Schulman** » 31 Jan 2011 10:37 am

I just remembered Wayne Addleman who plays with Trace Atkins played on some of the Record Plant tracks.He is also a reader as is Ernest!

Franklin Lehlbach · Post by **Franklin Lehlbach** » 21 Sep 2012 11:09 pm

Lynn Frazier rocks!!

Michael Tyne · Post by **Michael Tyne** » 22 Sep 2012 11:52 pm

Lynn Frazier is a truely great player and he is in the band photo on the Album. There you go all these years I thought it was Curley Chalker that did the soundtrack.I noticed someone using a digital delay one of the live New York shows which sounded great.