Carl Smith?

Smiley Roberts · Post by **Smiley Roberts** » 14 Mar 2002 3:54 pm

Well,this is weird!! Today,(3/14) I go to the Skyline Med. Ctr. to visit a friend of mine, who had an operation. As I walk in the lobby,I run into ol' buddy,Charlie Dick, (Patsy Cline's widower.) He's standin' there, talkin' to this gorgeous,middle-aged lady. I 'jaw" w/ him for a minute,then he says, "Smiley,have you ever met Goldie Hill?" Well, ya coulda knocked me over w/ a feather! I said,"No,I haven't."(as I picked my jaw up off the floor.) I told her that she was the topic of discussion on this thread,& she couldn't believe it. I said,"Yup,your still hot!" Her reason for being there,....her brother,Tommy Hill,who wrote, "Slowly" for Webb Pierce,was being operated on. (I think). She is close to 70,& is,still,stunning!!

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Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 14 Mar 2002 6:07 pm

Smiley: I used to post some of these odd coincidences when they happened to me until it became apparent that I might be looking kinda dumb. But, as you can see for yourself, they do happen. I have now begun to just watch and enjoy them happening to other folks. And BTW, I enjoyed hearing about the DERBYS at the Bush/Emmons Extravaganza. That was so neat !!

Regards,Paul

Neil Hilton · Post by **Neil Hilton** » 15 Mar 2002 1:28 pm

Carl Smith was one of my grandpa's favorites when I was growing up in west Nebraska, I've always thought "There She Goes" was as classic a cryin steel honky-tonk song as has ever been cut - I think that was cut in '53-54 range, would that have been Seibert delivering that classic steel??

Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 15 Mar 2002 1:57 pm

Neil: I'm thinking YES !! My favorite of Carl's was called Mister Moon. JS does a very beautiful slant passage in that one. Wish I could say what he did but I was only a Kid; that year....

Regards, Paul

Gene Jones · Post by **Gene Jones** » 15 Mar 2002 2:17 pm

I was just out of basic-training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri in 195l, and was playing in a band 5 nights a week at the Wagonwheel near Waynesville. We did about half Carl Smith and the other half Marty Robbins so I got lots of experience playing that style on my triple custom Fender. (Bud Carter told me that he also played the Wagonwheel in the 1950s)....it seems like yesterday!

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Keith Woods · Post by **Keith Woods** » 15 Mar 2002 3:01 pm

Do any of you remember the Phillip Morris tour that Carl headlined? I got to meet the little guy in the bellhop suit who was famous for his "CALL FOR PHILLIP MORRIS' routine on the old cigarett comercials. He would come out and do his thing before bringing Carl on.

Don Walters · Post by **Don Walters** » 15 Mar 2002 9:23 pm

The first two are early Carl, but IMHO the rest are country classics! If you don't love most of these, you don't like country music!

Hey, Sir Geo, lets get together and do all of them in Wpg.

Hey Again! I just read the liner notes for the above CD and TODAY</> is Carl's birthday!! Born March 15, 1927 (it says).
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Paul Graupp · Post by **Paul Graupp** » 17 Mar 2002 8:57 am

And there yet another one of those COINCIDENCES !!

Regards, Paul

Bill Ferguson · Post by **Bill Ferguson** » 17 Mar 2002 3:04 pm

Strange I just saw this topic, and on my VCR, non other than Carl Smith from around 1995 on the Crook & Chase show, with Fred Newell playing a single neck Sho-Bud.

Great stuff.

Bill

George McLellan · Post by **George McLellan** » 20 Mar 2002 3:16 am

Don, no question about it, Johnny Siebert, and Don Helms are still now, and always did have the biggest influance on me. They both have a magic touch.

I'm really looking forward to pickin a few
of them with you Joe & Dean in Winnipeg!!!!!!

Now if I could only get my semi/senile brain to soak up some of those lyrics

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nick allen · Post by **nick allen** » 20 Mar 2002 5:58 am

Just came across this (on a website called "Take Country Back" that many of you would enjoy

) http://www.takecountryback.com/legends/csmith.htm

Nick

Rick Collins · Post by **Rick Collins** » 21 Mar 2002 5:28 pm

Johnny Sibert gets the best sound from a Fender Stringmaster steel guitar that I have ever heard. You do not know what a Stringmaster sounds like until you have heard him play live.

Rick