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Topic: October 1964, Los Angeles California. |
Jason Odd
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Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 22 Jun 2001 7:18 am |
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Hey all you SoCal pickers, I was checking out a website put together by Ace Tipton, an ex-club picker and a good buddy of the late Red Rhodes.
Ace has done a page with pictures scanned from a copy of the musicians union local #47 magazine dated October 1964.
http://www.acetipton.com/local47.html
There are many unidentified musicians in the pictures, if you scroll down you can see the names and click on them to see the little pictures. The quality ain't exactly crystal clear, but I thought some people would get a kick out of them.
That's Billy Tonnesson on steel behind Wynn Stewart and Hank Ross, Carl Walden on steel with Sammy Masters and the Golden State Boys include Larry Rice and future guitar slinger Bob Warford on banjo.
Who do you know?
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 22 Jun 2001 10:55 am
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Hey Jason,
I see Harold Hensley on fiddle with Doye O'Dell. Those are some great old shots for sure. It was great seeing that old shot of Blackie Taylor. He was a good friend of mine for many years out there. He had some great Xmas parties where we all got pretty well blitzed. I still miss the 60's and 70's in LA. I left in the mid 80's and it was still pretty good but not like the golden years. By the time I left, the after hours joints were all closed and there really wasn't a good place to jam with your buds.
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Have a good 'un! JH U-12
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 22 Jun 2001 3:07 pm
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Cool post Jerry, abd cool it was Harold!
Last night I looked at them while I was posting the topic and I actually wondered to myself if it was H.H. Thanks for that man.
You mentioned Blackie, his group was (and sometimes still is) called Blackie Taylor & The Southlanders.
The 1964 group in the picture features Tommy Allsup on guitar, Ray Derrickson on drums, He used to be with Stan Kenton. Jimmy Hendricks (vocals), Marvin Blanton on vocals and bass. This version played the 1964 Country Music Jamboree, but Tommy wasn't a regular part of Blackie's band.
It must have been a great gig with Johnny Bond, Wynn Stewart, Hank Ross {who used to play bass for Gene Davis and later worked in a band with Blackie), Norm Forrest, Sammy Masters & the Swinging Keys, Cliffie Stone, Jimmy Pruett (blind piano player), and many others as you can see on the site.
I love the shot of the Golden State Boys with Hal Poindexter (lead vocal and guitar), Larry Rice (mandolin), Eric White (bass), Bobby Warford on banjo, and Skip Conover on dobro.
What I love is how the group's really mixed it up, Carl Walden worked with Sammy Masters and Jimmy Bryant, Sammy Masters and Blackie Taylor later combined forces while Blackie had Hank Ross in his outfit. Billy Tonnesson even took over on steel in Blackie's band for a time and Blackie switched to regular guitar. I get dizzy just thinking about it!
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
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Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 22 Jun 2001 4:40 pm
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Jerry Hayes probably remembers Cal Worthington's name for Sammy Masters' Group.
Cal at one time was Sammy's father in law. Worthington Ford sponsored the local (Los Angeles) TV country show "Cal's Corral." One Saturday I was watching and Cal introduced the band as "Sammy Masters and the Chicken Thieves" The name stuck for several years, much to Sammy's chagrin.  |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 22 Jun 2001 11:52 pm
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Jim Bob, this is from an interview that Sammy did in 1999.
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| The Chicken Pickers name was used only for a short time. The Rockin Rhythm came along when I started recording for 4-Star and I used that name until I started recording for Lode Records. For several years I just went by The Sammy Masters Band. In the 80's my band became the Tulsa County Band which I still use today |
And speaking of Cal Worthington, try the following url. http://www.mydogspot.com/
I just realised that the Jack Rogers whose picture is there from the 1964 show on the page I initially linked, well there was a Jack Rogers who was part of the Palomino Club house band in the late 1950s, he played bass and led the band a couple of nights a week. It might be the same Jack Rogers? |
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Herb Steiner
From:
Briarcliff TX 78669, pop. 2,064
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Posted 23 Jun 2001 10:50 am
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Awesome site!
Somewhere in my files, I have an Overture photo of me playing with Garland Frady and Archie Francis in the 1972 Country Music Jamboree, in MacArthur Park. The Park was very close to the Mustang Room on Alvarado St. where I worked with Doye O'Dell.
FWIW, Max Herman (in the photo w/Cliffie) was the president of Local 47.
Regarding the MyDogSpot.com site, here's some info the SoCal guys probably remember: Cal Worthington's competition was a Don Rickles look-alike named Ralph Williams, and their commercials competed with each other on local TV, Cal on Channel 13 predominantly, Ralph on 5 or 11 as I recall.
Anyway, Ralph had an easy-going, Perry Como-type on-air salesman... do I recall his name was Chick Lambert (?)... who used to do the late night commercials when Ralph sponsored the all-night movies. Chick would bring his German Shepherd on camera, laying around the cars for sale, and it was all very folksy and family. When the dog got sick, people would write in to the dealership, when the dog died, it was tragedy for the community, you get the picture.
Cal wanted a gimmick so he parodied the pet thing, calling every menagerie animal in the world, tigers, elephants, etc, his "dog Spot." Ultimately, the parody took over the reality as Chick's dog thing was real but didn't last as long as Cal's schtick.
When the old dog died, BTW, Chick got a puppy and raised it on-camera as well. Funny what you remember from back then. 
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 25 Jun 2001 3:19 am
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Herb, I forgot the rest of Cal's site.
http://www.calworthington.com/index.htm
It's a shame that ol' Cal never thought to tape the shows, well actually Sammy Masters says that he tried to get Cal to tape the show, but no luck there. At the time no-one saw any point in taping a live show, oh the humanity.
Herb, you are too cool.
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Jim Bob Sedgwick
From:
Clinton, Missouri USA
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Posted 30 Jun 2001 3:49 pm
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Jason: You are correct. Sammy called his band the Chicken Pickers. Cal introduced them as the Chicken Thieves as a joke.
Cal has a weird sense of humor.[This message was edited by Jim Bob Sedgwick on 30 June 2001 at 04:50 PM.] |
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Jason Odd
From:
Stawell, Victoria, Australia
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Posted 30 Jun 2001 4:38 pm
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Jim Bob, I reckon you are rioght, from what I know Cal's weird humour seems to be everywhere, a real character.
Spot the elephant is my favourite at the moment.
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