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Who played steel on Floyd Tillman's old recordings? A friend said it sounded a bit like Bob Dunn.

Lee, from South Texas

Brother Lee,
Early on, in the 40's and some of the early 50's it was J. D. Stanley. Then around '53 or so, I'm pretty sure that Herb Remington did most, if not all, of the Tillman sessions.
BB

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Lee, Herb has a tribute album titled Herb Remington istruementally Salutes Floyd Tillman. Great listening. Bill www.billchaviers.com <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by billchav on 10 February 2005 at 09:16 PM.]</p></FONT>

I believe it was Herb. At the time I was playing steel with Richard Prine and the All Stars in Beaumont, Tx. Richard and Buck Henson (Bass) had been on the road with Bob Wills. We played at Club Forest in Beaumont 6 nights/wk and had a daily radio show. I replaced Deacon Anderson who was enjoying great success with his song, Rag Mop. Richard wrote a number of hits too: When You're Near Me, recorded by Jo Stafford. ---j---

Deacon Evans and Frankie Jurasek could possibly be on some of the records. Deacon was in Floyd's band at one time. Jody.

Mr Tillman sure was a song writer DELUXE..
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Allen Moore

Obviously a guy who recorded for the better part of a century worked with a lot of steelers. Which era, or recordings, were you specifically interested in?

The early Decca stuff (1940-41) has Bob Dunn and Ernest "Deacon" Evans playing like Dunn.

The big hits on Columbia that established him like "Slippin' Around" all feature J.D. Standlee. J.D. died in 1951 and is not very well remembered today.

The later Columbias (1950-54) feature Herb Remington.

There were a lot more after that.

"At the time I was playing steel with Richard Prine and the All Stars in Beaumont, Tx. Richard and Buck Henson (Bass) had been on the road with Bob Wills. We played at Club Forest in Beaumont 6 nights/wk and had a daily radio show. I replaced Deacon Anderson who was enjoying great success with his song, Rag Mop."

Wow, could you tell us more about that? Who was on fiddle? Cotton Thompson or Robert Shivers maybe? Did you work with any other groups in the Beaumont/Pt Arthur area during this period???

My father worked with Floyd Tillman during WW II. Dad was in the Army Air Corps at Randolph Field. He played accordion and trumpet with the band. I don't know if he was on any of the recordings, though.

Floyd Tillman had a unique style.
Erv