Roy Rogers and Dale Evans - Happy Trails

Click on the picture above to enlarge it. It is a beautiful RCA Victrola 78 rpm record player.

In 1965 I went to a "white elephant" auction in the courtyard of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans. I think it rained or was going to rain. I do remember no one but me showed up. I saw an old time wind up Victrola. At that time nobody wanted them. You could not give them away. I had 2 dollars in my pocket. I bid 2 dollars and won the floor model full size old time wind up 78rpm Victrola in a large wooden cabinet. Then I had to carry it to our apartment by hand two blocks and up four flights of stairs. Then I went out looking for some 78rpm records. I found tons of them at a thrift shop in the French Quarter called Volunteers For America. In fact, a whole wall was filled floor to ceiling with 78rpm records. The price was 5 cents a piece. I bought twenty or so and took them home. The only one I remember now after all these years was Happy Trails by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. "Happy Trails to you, until we meet again".
Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you, 'till we meet again.

Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It's the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here's a happy one for you.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we're together?
Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

Tuba Skinny Fest Jazz 2014 Brittany France

Tuba Skinny Play New Orleans Bump On The Street In Brittany France

Marty Robbins - At The End Of A Long Lonely Day (Country Music Classics ...

I heard someone sing this song last Friday.
 Very sad if you listen to the words closely.

R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection

Robert Crumb New York Sketchbook From The 1960s

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And Robert Crumb gives the New Orleans band Tuba Skinny his seal of approval. See the post below this one for information about that.

Tuba Skinny Finally Gets On Nick Spitzer's Show American Routes Because Of Robert Crumb

I have been trying for 6  years to get Nick Spitzer to put Tuba Skinny on his radio show American Routes.org(also available on line on the computer) to no avail even though they live in his own back yard in New Orleans. So I was surprised they finally made it on his show but only because they visited Robert Crumb in France and played their music for him and he plays their music for Nick Spitzer in this weeks show on American Routes.

Listen to it here. Also you can hear Robert Crumb talk about them and his record collection and hear much more old time ethic music.
http://americanroutes.wwno.org/

September 24th, 2014 ~ This week on American Routes we spin some shellac and wax nostalgic with the iconic cartoonist, musician and record collector Robert Crumb, who'll share with us his love of musical times gone by. Then, we talk to educator and vinyl aficionado Jerry Zolten about the story of Paramount Records, started by a furniture manufacturer, whose recorded legacy is now contained in two swank suitcases. Listen To Hour 1 Listen To Hour 2 More Sharing ServicesShare This

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Open Bed: Chasin' Rainbows R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie Keep on Truckin' Hot Tuna Burgers, Grunt Sittin' on Top of the World Taj Mahal Dancing the Blues, Private Diddy Wa Diddy John Jackson Country Blues and Ditties, Arhoolie SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 1 excerpt: Keep On Truckin' Donovan What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, Pye Worried Man Blues George Jones The Unbroken Circle, Dualtone Hell Hound on My Trail Cassandra Wilson Blue Light 'Til Dawn, Blue Note Instrumental: Moana March R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders Chasin' Rainbows, Shanachie SEGMENT: R. Crumb Pt. 2 excerpt: Fox Musette Les Primitifs du Futur World Musette, Sunnyside excerpt: There! I've Said It Again Vaughn Monroe & His Orchestra Sentimental Journey: Pop vocal Classics Vol. 1, 1942-1946, Rhino excerpt: Bells The Beau Hunks Play the Original Little Rascals Music: 50 Roy Shields Themes, Koch excerpt: Lotta Lovin' Gene Vincent The Screaming End: The Best of Gene Vincent, Razor & Tie excerpt: I'm Comin' Virginia Bix Beiderbecke Singin' the Blues, Columbia Masterpieces excerpt: Down in the Cemetery Billy Bird excerpt: Hollywood Rag Cannon's Jug Stomper excerpt: Happy Days and Lonely Nights Charley Fry & His Million Dollar Pier Orchestra excerpt: Goofus Slim Lamar and His Southerners Instrumental: Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig/ Camptown Hornpipe Carolina Chocolate Drops Leaving Eden, Nonesuch Last Kind Words Blues Geeshie Wiley Before The Blues Vol. 2: The Early American Black Music Scene, Yazoo SEGMENT: R. Crumb pt. 3 excerpt: River Blues R. Crumb and His Keep On Truckin' Orchestra excerpt: Walking In the Parlor Al Hopkins' Bucklebusters excerpt: Lonesome Drag Tuba Skinny Pyramid Strut, self-released excerpt: Yellow Dog Blues Wise String Orchestra Walk Right In Cannon's Jug Stompers Best of Cannon's Jug Stompers, Yazoo End Bed: Yellow Dog Blues Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks Geoff Muldaur and the Texas Sheiks, Tradition and Moderne		Riverside Blues King Oliver's Jazz Band The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/Revenant Till the Seas Run Dry Dom Flemons Prospect Hill, Music Maker Don't Tear My Clothes No. 2 The Chicago Black Swans Those Dirty Blues Vol. 3, Grammercy Baby Let Me Follow You Down Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, Columbia Your Southern Can Is Mine The White Stripes De Still, Sympathy for the Record Industry Death Letter Son House Father of the Folk Blues, Columbia Careless Love Ray Charles Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, ABC Instrumental: Basin Street Blues Henry Butler American Routes original recording, Pullman Passenger Train Pullman Porters Quartette The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 , Third Man/ Revenant Way Up In NYC Loudin Wainwright III High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project, 2nd Story SEGMENT: Jerry Zolten Listen excerpt: The Bumps Jeanette James and Her Synco Jazzers The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Buck Town Blues Blind Blake The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: You Can't Do What My Last Man Did Ethel Waters The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Chicago Buzz Junie Cobb's Hometown Orchestra The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Find Me at the Greasy Spoon Coot Grant and 'Kid' Wesley Wilson The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Ada Jane's Blues Trixie Smith The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man Records/ Revenant excerpt: If I Had My Way Rev. T.T. Rose The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Come Right In Ida Cox & Lovie Austin The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant excerpt: Galion Stomp Lovie Austin The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records: 1917-1932 Vol 1 Jobber-Luxe USB, Third Man/ Revenant Instrumental: The Dream Ry Cooder Jazz, Reprise Big Ten-Inch Record Bull Moose Jackson Risky Blues, King Stack-a-Records Tom Tall Rockin' Bones 1950s Punk & Rockabilly, Rhino Rock and Roll Records J.J. Cale Any Way the Wind Blows: The Anthology, Mercury New Minglewood Blues Noah Lewis and HIs Jug Band Gimme dat Harp Boy: Roots of the Captain, Ozit New New Minglewood Blues Grateful Dead Grateful Dead, Warner Bros. End Bed: Walk Right In Duane Eddy Twangin' Up a Storm,

Beautiful Photograph Of The Corner Of Rue de Buci And Rue de Seine in Paris France

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 Some More Pictures In That Location.

Happy Birthday Rachel Lefebure Stewart! September 12, 2014

The above picture was taken last September on her birthday. She was on a trip to the south of France.
It was taken on September 12, 2013.
And this one below is the companion to the one above.

Happy Birthday Rachel. You will always be my sweetheart.
She would have been 74 today.
 The picture below was one of her favorites. It is one of mine of her also.
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More Pictures Of Rachel Stewart.... Happy 74th Birthday Rachel On September 12, 2014.

The three pictures above are of Rachel in New Orleans in 1965. The one where she is sitting on the grass was taken in Jackson Square.

Happy Birthday Rachel Stewart

September 12 is Rachel's birthday. She was born on September 12, 1940.
She would be 74 years old on September 12, 2014. She only made it to March 8th, 2014 and died at the age of 73 years and 6 months.
 We all miss her so much,.
Happy Birthday Rachel. We are all thinking of you on your birthday.
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We Went To The Gary Winogrand Exhibit At The National Gallery Of Art In Washington D.C.On The Last Day

Regis and I went to see the large Gary Winogrand exhibit at the National Gallery of Art on the last day. The video below really caught my attention.
Also a letter his wife had written to him long ago when he was broke and unknown.
This letter was the original and was exhibited under glass in a case. It would have been from the 1940s or 1950s.


Judy Teller(his wife at the time) wrote this to him. I think it really is a good example of a woman suffering  from the lack of responsibility from an aspiring artist or writer or whatever.





“Dear Garry, this is to set the record straight. Since you seem to have a great deal of difficulty keeping hard facts in mind as a basis for discussion, and also since you show no desire for rational discussion, maybe this will help you. (As for my tone of voice, I have been trying for the last year and a half to discuss and resolve our differences in what has been, for a least a good part of the time, a normal tone of voice. To no avail.
I would like to have children. For the past four years, I have heard you spewing grandiose dreams (i.e. the big new year’s eve party in the big studio, the big money, gigantic success at money making operations, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.) Followed by feeble attempts (or not attempts at all) to realize these dreams. I am now almost twenty-eight. The time I have to wait while you bumble is nearly exhausted. The question, moreover, is not whether you can make a large fortune. The question is whether you can make a decent living.
Including the payment of my analyst bill. (In our culture, men are expected to provide the women they marry with their necessities. I would say it magnanimous on my part to be asking for this for a limited time: the time during which we might have and raise two children to school age.) But my analyst bill is not even relevant at this point. What is extremely relevant is the money you owe the government in back taxes. Your inability to pay the rent on time. You constantly running out of money. Your credit rating. And most of all, your flippant, irresponsible, nonsensical attitude towards these very real problems. (“I’ll wait till the government catches up with me. Why should I pay them any money now?) You seem incapable of exercising your mind in any cogent way…”

The DayThe Music Died February 3, 1959 Outside Clear Lake And Mason City Iowa

http://attic.areavoices.com/2014/01/31/before-the-music-died-in-1959-it-lived-in-duluth/

This morning I talked with a man who told me that he had flown with his father in this same plane with the same pilot on the morning of the day of the crash. February 3, 1959. He had paid 6 dollars to the same flying service to take his father for his father's first airplane ride. Later that night there was a bad snowstorm and the pilot who had failed his tests for flying on instruments and was only 21 years old crashed the plane and Richie Valens and the Big Bopper and Buddy Holly all died.
Just a footnote to Rock and Roll history.
Also as the story goes a 16 year old Robert Zimmerman who later became Bob Dylan had seen this Rock and Roll show on Jan. 31st in Duluth Minnesota.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died