The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #45648   Message #1327548
Posted By: GLoux
15-Nov-04 - 02:02 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Going Up Home (to Live in Green Pastures)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Green Pastures
This is the response from Mark Moss of Sing Out!

Hi Greg -

The Ralph discography was a wild and interesting ride, made possible only
with the patience of input from the folks at Rebel/County and a lot of
reasoned leg work on our part. The problem is that there are SO many
uncredited reissues and compilations that it is virtually impossible to
really figure all this stuff out without *having* the actual recordings in
hand to make comparisons.

I can tell you that Ralph seems to have recorded the song several times,
both with Carter and following his passing.

When he recorded it sans Carter, it was usually titled "Going Up Home to
Live in Green Pastures." It seems that there were at least three recordings
spread across a number of samplers and albums: One with the Clinch Mt. Boys
(which I can track back to the 1971-1973 period he was recording for
Rebel), a duet with Larry Sparks recorded for Freeland in the early '90s,
and another duet with "Ricky Lee" live at the Smithsonian. (I'm not betting
anything valuable on absolute certainty of this guess ... it's just that
the info I'm finding would seem to indicate three separate recordings, and
I can't prove more.)

The only Stanley Bros. version I can find is from the late '90s compilation
on Hollywood entitled: _16 Gospel Hits_. That's recorded (or at least
listed) under the shortened name "Going Up Home." And like a lot of these
compilations, it has no discographical info that could shed light on the
year of the recording. (The only help here is that there are several
projects that claim to be "complete" sets from various label eras, and this
track is on none of them. There may be holes between those periods, but
those sets include output from Mercury, Columbia, Rich-R-Tone, Starday &
King.)

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.


I have heard from the other contact and he'll check when he gets home...

-Greg