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Topic: Rockin' On Ranch Party |
Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 30 May 2004 8:30 am |
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British Stomper Time Records ( www.stompertime.com ) has released a great 42 song DVD of the classic Ranch Party-tv shows. This is the same stuff that has been floatin' around on questionable video releases. These are claimed to come from the original kinescope material, and the picture quality on most of the tracks is indeed really good. Few tracks are kinda fuzzy though, but I can forgive that, especially when I saw Marian Hall soloing on her Bigsby-steel on fast and furious "Town Hall Boogie". Classic material by George Jones, Jim Reeves, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Skeets McDonald, Patsy Cline and many others.  |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 May 2004 11:10 am
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This is great news for me. I've had one of those "questionable video releases" for about 20 years now and it's not gettin' any better.
Are the DVD's the whole shows or just clips? The video I have has 10 complete shows on it. |
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Walter Stettner
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Vienna, Austria
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Bryan Bradfield
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Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Posted 30 May 2004 5:29 pm
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Jussi -
One track on the DVD is New Panhandle Rag, by Les Anderson.
1) My experience with this tune is as a vocal. Is Les playing steel guitar on this track, or spanish guitar, or no guitar at all?
2) Does Les appear playing steel in any of the other artists' selections? |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 30 May 2004 9:16 pm
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Bryan, Les sings the tune, Marian Hall plays steel on it. She was the Ranch Party house steel player and does all the steel backing on this disc. I don't think Les ever played any steel on these shows, I've seen a lot of them and never seen him doing it.
Alvin, these are individual tracks from various shows. |
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Bryan Bradfield
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Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Posted 31 May 2004 8:18 pm
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Jussi -
I thought that might be the case. I knew that Les dropped the steel to become a vocalist during that era. Interestingly, he maintained an interest in, and continued playing the steel guitar right to the end of his life. |
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Tim Whitlock
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 1 Jun 2004 4:56 am
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Jussi - Thanks for the heads up. Trying to watch my old 5th generation tapes has caused my eyesight to go bad (at least I think that's the reason  ). This is a good value for some great historic TV shows (and the inspiration for my own song called "Ranch Party"). - Tim |
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Dave Van Allen
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Souderton, PA , US , Earth
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Posted 1 Jun 2004 7:51 am
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| playable in USA area DVD players? |
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Jussi Huhtakangas
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Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 1 Jun 2004 8:59 am
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| Dave, yup, it's all regions, playable on NTSC! |
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