Jimmy Day on "Community Jamboree" (1959)

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 14 Sep 2023 9:22 am

"Community Jamboree" (1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or758vRoHPQ

Certainty posted here before, but this is the first time I've seen it!

Jimmy Day is beyond words. You can see why he was The Man.

Does anybody know Ray Price's harmony singer?

Charlie Hansen · Post by **Charlie Hansen** » 15 Sep 2023 5:50 am

I believe that that's Curly Putnam.

Bill Cunningham · Post by **Bill Cunningham** » 15 Sep 2023 8:01 pm

Jimmy’s C6 playing seems influenced by Bob White on the Hank Thompson records. Heavy on the Maj9 pedal and big chords. Or was it the opposite?

robert kramer · Post by **robert kramer** » 16 Sep 2023 4:31 pm

Thank you both for your replies. I did some digging, and I think it's Ray Sanders singing harmony with Price on this video. The timeline of Price's backup singers and online images seem to point to Sanders.

re: Bob White and Jimmy Day, I don't know enough about the history of that era of steel, but after a quick look at Bob Wills's and Hank Thompson's seesionography w/ Bob White, it would seem Day got the C-6th sound heard on this footage from Bob White. Jimmy Day E-9th was all his own.

A rough chronology of Price's 50s & 60s harmony singers could be: Van Howard, Roger Miller, Ray Sanders,
Donny Young/Johnny Paycheck, Willie Nelson, Darrell McCall, Pete Wade, Charlie Harris, (I'm sure I'm missing someone).

Don Euton · Post by **Don Euton** » 18 Sep 2023 4:53 pm

Jimmy Day played on the original "Heartaches by the Numbers" recording and many other of Ray Price hits of the mid, late 1950's and early 1960's.
Don Euton