Tune Req: 'Wheels'

Subject: 'Wheels'
From:
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 02:17 PM

Johnny Duncan put out a 45 back in the 60's on Leader 814, "Wheels"/"Raindrops". Does anyone know if his version of "Wheels" had lyrics? If not, WHO did the song with lyrics?...someone did. Please e-mail me if you have info about this. Thanks, "Rose, The Record Lady" http://recordlady.webgcs.com/main.htm

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 02:59 PM

Have tried several perms of "Johnny Duncan-Wheels-Raindrops"on google and all I could come up with is that he dueted with Janie Fricke
sorry dave

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 03:03 PM

This is not the Parsons/Hillman song you are talking about, is it? "We've all got wheels to take ourselves away".

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From:
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 03:09 PM

I have no idea how the lyrics might go...just that it's done to the tune of the original instrumental version of "Wheels" that was a hit in '61 by The String-A-Longs and also done by Billy Vaughn in 1961.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 04:44 PM

Still lookin
Here is some info on Sam McGee I found with a sound clip of him playing "wheels" Click here

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 05:00 PM

The people in the String alongs were Jimmy Tomes, Richard Stephens

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 05:26 PM

The sound links on the Sam McGee site don't work for me. Anyone else have any luck?

"Wheels " enjoyed a renewed popularity in the UK in the seventies, when some body builder won the "Opportunity Knocks" TV talent show several times in succession by flexing muscles in all parts of his body to the accompaniment of this tune.

Murray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: wildlone
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 05:30 PM

I think that Norman Petty wrote the lyrics "tell the World" to "Wheels

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From:
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 05:44 PM

Johnny Duncan WAS involved with Norman Petty, and recorded for him '59 and early 60's before he signed with Columbia, so perhaps the Johnny Duncan recording of "Wheels" on Leader 814 WAS a vocal version of the song!!!Doesn't anybody out there have that record?...I NEED a copy of it in ra or MP3....Thanks!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 05:51 PM

The sheet music to Wheels (Tell the World) by Norman Petty is available from this site. (Scroll down until you come to "Stringalongs").

Murray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Louie Roy
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:28 PM

I have the words to Wheels by Johnny Flamingo & Norman Petty written and recorded in 1960.If this is what you want I will post Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:41 PM

A catchy piece - have it in a collection of "Surf Music."

Only words I've heard were from square dancing...the ending refrain...."Men cut back.....promenade and everybody turn."

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From:
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 07:58 PM

I NEED a ra or MP3 file of the song, NOT the lyrics only, so if anyone can come up with that, I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Rose, "The Record Lady" [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 08:13 PM

OK, now I have the damn tune stuck in my head. SOUND WORM ALERT!! I have no way to MP3 what is in my head, sorry!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Louie Roy
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 09:59 PM

Wheels the way I pick it it is a good dance tune especialy if it is played as a fast hoedown,but this tune came out in the 1940s and is one of my wife and I,s favorite dances. also have this on tape but I lack the knowledge to email Louie Roy

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Sorcha
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 10:06 PM

Two step in my part of the world, Louie. Or maybe a double 2-step. Damn tune. Stuck in my head.....

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: Louie Roy
Date: 30 Dec 01 - 10:51 PM

Sorcha,you are probably correct for the correct beat such as a two step or a double two step,but this tune when played real fast has a step of its own and my wife and I call it the toledo.We also like to dance it with Ski Boot on after a day of downhill skiing Louie

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: wildlone
Date: 31 Dec 01 - 04:57 PM

I found this Click here on mp3.com
If you search for "wheels" on that site Click here you can find 190 titles with wheels. happy hunting***BG***
dave

Subject: RE: Tune Req: 'Wheels'
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 31 Dec 01 - 05:15 PM

The only "Wheels" I know was the Flying Burrito Brothers':

http://www.guitaretab.com/gtab/t/6529