On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:14:13 -0500, RWC <
letsrock@opbox.com> wrote:
I find their other 7 sides released in 1951 to be lively but mundane
(yawn!) but for me this one side stands out as special, likely because
of the ethereal female background chorus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBf5-kzPdhI
Johnnie and Jack And Their Tennessee Mountain Boys
"Popular US country music duo consisting of brothers-in-law Johnnie
Wright and Jack Anglin. Active from 1938 until Anglin's death in 1963"
Around 1930 Jack and his brothers Van and Jim began performing as the
Anglin Twins and Red when he was 14. They became the Anglin Brothers
until 1939. Johnnie Wright was the brother of his wife and that's how
they met. Jack's wife, Louise and Johnnie's wife, Murial (Kitty Wells) performed together as Johnnie Wright and the Harmony Girls. Then
"Johnnie Wright and the Happy Roving Cowboys, now with Jack Anglin"
began as an act. The duet of Johnnie and Jack began in 1936. They
incorporated South American rhythms to some of their songs as South
American music was influential on pop music in America at the time.
WWII caused some changes with the group but after the war they began
perfoming together again. They were on the first broadcast of the
Louisiana Hayride with "Kitty Wells." Then they became a part of the
Grand Ole Opry in 1952. “Poison Love”, “Crying Heart Blues”, “Ashes of
Love”, and “Hummingbird” were some of their hits for RCA.
Jack died in a car accident on his way to Patsy Cline's funeral in
1963.
I first saw them perform on the Ernest Tubb tour in the 1950s when
they came to Dayton, Ohio and became a fan. Later, I got to know
another fan of theirs, Rick Danko, bassist and vocalist with the Band.
We used to listen to their records and dicsuss how influential they
were with their "rhumba beat."
Johnnie had a #1 country hit in 1965 with a Tom T. Hall song, "Hello
Vietnam."
In 2003 I saw Johnnie and Kitty perform at the last Lousiana Hayride
reunion at the Municipal Auditorium, in Shreveport from where it was
braodcast and got to talk to him for some time about his career in
music. As far as I am concerned there was nothing mundane about their
music. A group I was with in the early 1970s, Hungry Chuck, recorded a
version of "South in New Orleans." I have an autographed photo of he
and I together in the foyer of the Municipal Auditorium from 2003 when
he was 89. Both he and Kitty performed unti 2007. He passed in 2011
aged 97.
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