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[gameraboy2]

Woodrow Wilson Sovine - Red Sovine

[callmemana]

You know what’s kinda funny to me, how people say they hate or dislike country music because it’s only about a guy losing a girlfriend or wife and drinking his sorrows away.

But if you listen to some of the older songs it’s more than that. They tell stories about soldiers who didn’t make it, missing an opportunity, a baby being born and how they changed the parents’ lives, mental health, abuse, death, the way your view on love changes as you age, disabilities, battles, how the good book can help you find a higher power, ghosts.

The people who are saying that they don’t like country music are probably only listening to the newer artists, not taking the time to go back and see the older generation and hear the stories they have to tell.

If you’re interested I can add a few songs to listen to! 🥰🤟🏻

[kdo-three]

Red Sovine - Juke Joint Johnny (1957) Lattie Moore from: "Juke Joint Johnny" / "No Thanks Bartender" (Single) "Juke Joint Johnny: Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight" (2012 Bear Family Records Compilation)

Country | Rockabilly | Honky-Tonk

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Red Sovine: Vocals Studio Musicians: Unknown

Produced by Owen Bradley

Recorded: @ Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee USA during 1957

Released: March of 1957 Decca Records

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Juke Joint Josephine

[countryhixes]

Red Sovine - Old Pipeliner

[bmobepip]

mr. frantic (recorded live), ronnie self

a-side 1. bop-a-lena 2. rocky road blues b-side 1. flame of love 2. wtol radio interview

about the artist eighteen-year-old ronnie self is one of the youngest stars to share the spotlight on the popular touring "philip morris country music show," which also includes such country music veterans as carl smith, red sovine, goldie hill, and gordon terry. as one of the newest candidates for stardom, ronnie has already established a solid foothold towards a successtul career with his fast-moving columbia record of "ain't i'm a dog." it wasn't always thus. at the age of 7, ronnie made an attempt at songwriting. it didn't come off. eight years later, he auditioned for radio. the comment: "too weird." ronnie kept plugging and now, hundreds more rock n' roll fans every day are glad he did.

tracks 1-3 recorded live on the philip morris road show, 1958 track 4 radio transcription - wtol toledo, ohio, 1958

this material is dubbed from previously unissued acetates. thanks to malcolm chapman, lloyd hicks, barney koumis, vicki self and bob irwin. cover by pete ciccone

[injunjoeisticklish]

Big Red made some classic truck driven songs!! They never get old.

[fatmagic]

[dearyallfrommatt]

“Colorado Cool-Aid”

From Johnny Paycheck’s 1977 album Take This Job And Shove It. This album hit Number Two while the famous title track (written by David Allan Coe) was his sole number-one hit. This song, originally cut by Red Sovine (”Teddy Bear”) hit 50. Way things used to be, you couldn’t get Coors beer east of the Mississippi River. This is also the basis for Smokey & The Bandit so Coors was a big deal in the late ‘70s.

[mywifeleftme]

1: Various Artists // Keep on Truckin'

Keep on Truckin' Various Artists 1979, Realistic Records

America was big rig crazy in the mid-to-late ‘70s, as this novelty compilation attests. Released on Radio Shack’s in-house Realistic label, Keep On Truckin’ collects a hodgepodge of sides by trucker country stalwarts. There were dozens of similarly themed comps on the market at the time and while there isn’t anything particularly special about this one, it’s a fun representative of a forgotten fad.

Social and economic factors played their parts in moulding the figure of the long-haul trucker into the era’s diesel-powered avatar of individualism, but it wouldn’t be an American story without some help from the advertising world. Omaha-based ad man Bill Fries created the character of singing truck driver C.W. McCall for a regional series of television commercials hocking Old Home Bread. Fries provided talk-sung narration for the ads, in which the affable C.W. (a dead ringer for, uh, documentary film performer Steve Holmes) flirts with blonde waitress Mavis Davis over various buns, rolls, and cakes.

The spots were a local phenomenon, but even Fries was surprised when the cash-in singles he released as the C.W. character became national hits. By the time “Convoy” reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1975, trucker country was everywhere. (For context, this would be like if a 2000s Folgers commercial had sparked renewed interest in incest.)

In fairness, the account above is a bit of an oversimplification. Singers like Dave Dudley (who sounds kinda like Don Gibson and shows up twice on Keep On Truckin’) had been recording songs about truckers since at least the mid-1960s, and most of the best numbers here are by genre veterans. My fav is Dick Curless, a tough-looking one-eyed bastard with a bass-baritone to rival Johnny Cash. His strutting “Drag ‘Em Off the Interstate, Sock it to ‘Em, J.P. Blues” drips with condescension for crooked rural police, even pulling out a siren-mocking slide whistle during the chorus.

The most memorable tune, however, is “Teddy Bear’s Last Ride,” a deranged 1976 single by the otherwise unknown Diana Williams. Earlier that same year, Red Sovine had a major country hit with “Teddy Bear”, a maudlin story song about “a little cripple boy” whose trucker father had been killed in a highway accident. The lonely child turns to talking to random truckers over his CB radio for comfort. As you'd expect, after he gives his address out over the air dozens of them quickly descend upon his home to “ride little Teddy Bear” before his mother gets home. (He's delighted.)

Diana Williams’ hastily cut ‘sequel’ was written and recorded without Sovine’s involvement. She doubles down on the treacle by killing Teddy Bear off and depositing his corpse into a black mack truck that serves as a makeshift hearse. There’s something endearingly bald-faced about Williams’ attempt to ring out any last droplets Sovine’s original might have left hanging in the listener’s tear ducts.

Keep On Truckin’ throws in a song about a drag race between a diesel and a flying saucer, a Glen Campbell recording from 1962, and a heap of serviceable-at-worst ‘70s honky tonk in a Waylon Jennings vein. That’s something like the platonic ideal of a dollar bin darling. Honk if you’re lonesome tonight.

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[rockabillyfootnotes]

the philip morris country music show, c. 1957

from left to right (standing): biff collie, ronnie self, johnny sibert, mimi roman, goldie hall, carl smith, red sovine, webb pierce, dale potter, tom pritchard, sammy pruett, unknown. — the people kneeling are prob. the country boys, the person in the middle is probably a philip morris employee.

[gameraboy2]

Teddy Bear - Red Sovine

[juhnkit]

Motivational Music in the Morning ... Red Sovine & The Gadabouts, Oooh How I Love You (Official Audio Track) (1959)

[1264doghouse]

The Phillip Morris traveling country music show featured Carl Smith, Red Sovine, Goldie Hill & Ronnie Self.

[hypocriticaltypwriter]

Daddy's girl by Red Sovine is very David and Annie coded BTW

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vi7HCCDbwI