I'd like to tip my hat (if I was wearin' one) to Luther's brother Carl who also played with the man in black. Most folks know Carl wrote Blue Suede Shoes but he also wrote So Wrong (Patsy Cline) Daddy Sang Bass (a whole bunch of people) Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby and Honey Don't that some obscure group from Liverpool covered. Plus Carl had a wicked toupee.
It's amazing, is it not, how Country and Rockabilly singers always seem to have the worst hairpieces. I once saw Scotty Moore interviewed on television and . . . that thing on his head just kept pulling my attention from whatever it was he was saying about The King.
I think Hank Snow wins the worst toupee prize. Although I was highly amused to see one of his hairpieces on display at the Hank Snow Museum in his hometown of Liverpool, NS.
I think it's funny that Bing Crosby's hairpiece was well-known, yet his is one of the better examples. But no wonder he preferred to just wear a hat most of the time.
I think Hank Snow may be the winner. A lot of the country/rockabilly star's toupees sort of look like little hair hats. I think seeing Hank's toupee would be worth the price of admission to his museum alone
Perhaps a new category for If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger... Great Toupees Of The 20th Century or Toupees In Action..or..When Legendary Toupees oh....never mind.
Luther played the boogie, Marshall played the bass. Carl played the rockabilly, but he wasn't Luther's brother, nor related at all (source: "Man In Black", 1974, Zondervan, by J. Cash).
...by the way, what was the big fight that ol' Johnny and Marshall had in the early 80's, that led to Johnny firing Marshall? Johnny spoke about it in his book, "Cash", but he didn't give any specifics.
Marshall showed up as part of a J.C. & The Tennessee Three reunion appearance for an all-star PBS trib to the Man In Black, a couple of years before The Man expired. You could tell that ol' Johnny was a little pissed; Marshall stood there slapping his bass fiddle and popping bubble gum. Shouldn't've fired the home boy, JC.
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Luther played the boogie. Are you sure Marshall's last name isn't Gant?
sorry, I was thinking of Cecil Gant
but Luther still played the boogie.
Well, I just checked, and unless everybody's wrong, his last name is Grant.
And I was all set to do a 'mea culpa' for my sloppiness.
Thanks, though, for keepin' us honest.
tsl wrote:
sorry, I was thinking of Cecil Gant
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No problem. Like I said, I wasn't 100% sure myself.
but Luther still played the boogie.
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In the strangest kind of way, from what I hear.
I'd like to tip my hat (if I was wearin' one) to Luther's brother Carl who also played with the man in black. Most folks know Carl wrote Blue Suede Shoes but he also wrote So Wrong (Patsy Cline) Daddy Sang Bass (a whole bunch of people)
Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby and Honey Don't that some obscure group from Liverpool covered. Plus Carl had a wicked toupee.
It's amazing, is it not, how Country and Rockabilly singers always seem to have the worst hairpieces. I once saw Scotty Moore interviewed on television and . . . that thing on his head just kept pulling my attention from whatever it was he was saying about The King.
I think Hank Snow wins the worst toupee prize. Although I was highly amused to see one of his hairpieces on display at the Hank Snow Museum in his hometown of Liverpool, NS.
I think it's funny that Bing Crosby's hairpiece was well-known, yet his is one of the better examples. But no wonder he preferred to just wear a hat most of the time.
I think Hank Snow may be the winner. A lot of the country/rockabilly star's toupees sort of look like little hair hats.
I think seeing Hank's toupee would be worth the price of admission to his museum alone
Hank's toupees frequently mismatch his real hair in colour...like he'd just grabbed one at random out of the hairpiece bargain bin.
Stephen wrote:
Hank's toupees frequently mismatch his real hair in colour
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They mismatch everyone's real hair color.
Perhaps a new category for If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger...
Great Toupees Of The 20th Century or Toupees In Action..or..When Legendary Toupees oh....never mind.
Luther played the boogie, Marshall played the bass. Carl played the rockabilly, but he wasn't Luther's brother, nor related at all (source: "Man In Black", 1974, Zondervan, by J. Cash).
...by the way, what was the big fight that ol' Johnny and Marshall had in the early 80's, that led to Johnny firing Marshall? Johnny spoke about it in his book, "Cash", but he didn't give any specifics.
Marshall showed up as part of a J.C. & The Tennessee Three reunion appearance for an all-star PBS trib to the Man In Black, a couple of years before The Man expired. You could tell that ol' Johnny was a little pissed; Marshall stood there slapping his bass fiddle and popping bubble gum. Shouldn't've fired the home boy, JC.
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