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Subject: The Cisco Special! From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 24 Oct 10 - 11:55 PM I'm currently entering this fifty year old Cisco Houston LP into my laptop. Several songs have a chorus or background singers. One of the voices I think I hear is the bass of Lee Hayes (he wrote the liner notes for the album), especially on This Land (Is Your Land). Any old-timers, here, know if it is he? |
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Subject: RE: The Cisco Special! From: GUEST,Doc John Date: 25 Oct 10 - 11:22 AM Try Jim Clarke on the Cisco web site, there's just about everything known about Cisco there. I haven't discovered this information myself. www.ciscohouston.com/ There are a lot of gaps in Cisco Houston information which have not yet been closed. |
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Subject: RE: The Cisco Special! From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Oct 10 - 01:14 PM John- And report back when you've checked. I also have a fondness for Cisco's singing and am hungry for more details of his life. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: The Cisco Special! From: Art Thieme Date: 25 Oct 10 - 03:07 PM ...and he sang like he talked too! Yep, it was Lee Hays on that LP. "This here killin' o' deputy sheriffs has just gotta stop!" ----- and other places on it as I remember it. That was on Bad Man Lee Brown. Cisco sang "The Colorado Trail" on that one I think. Just beautiful. When Cisco sang with Woody he sort of did adopt a less pretty style--sort of sang like Woody thought a folksinger ought to sound. Just my opinion. Art |
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Subject: RE: The Cisco Special! From: Joe Offer Date: 25 Oct 10 - 03:22 PM What label was it on, John? Can you post the list of songs here? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: The Cisco Special! From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 25 Oct 10 - 03:50 PM Thank you all for your help...I knew you'd know. Here is the requested info: Cisco Houston, "The Cisco Special" Vanguard, VRS-9057 (mono), 1960 Album notes by Lee Hays. This is the last project Houston recorded before his death. Although the album was released 'post mortem', the notes read as if he were alive, then. Tracks as listed; ( ) my additions: A1 -- Badman Ballad (Badman Blunder) A2 -- Hard Traveling A3 -- Nine Hundred Miles A4 -- Way Out There A5 -- (On Top of) Old Smoky A6 -- This Train (Is Bound for Glory) A7 -- Talking Dust Bowl A8 -- This Land (Is Your Land) B1 -- Old Dan Tucker B2 -- Colorado Trail B3 -- Old Blue B4 -- Chilly Winds B5 -- Dark as a Dungeon B6 -- I Don't Mind Marrying B7 -- Big Rock Candy Mountain |
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