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Thread #143756 Message #3320926
Posted By: Ron Davies
10-Mar-12 - 10:50 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Giddy Up Jericho (Smiley Burnette?)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Giddy Up Jericho (Smiley Burnette?)
"simple video clip" from an old Gene Autry movie--probably 30's or 40s, therefore at least 70 years old, done at a rapid pace. Nobody need be reproached for not getting all the words. Sounded to me as if there was something about "sleep in a teepee--not me", in addition to the text SRS has extracted.
Smiley Burnette was a hugely underrated talent--multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. As I recall, he also wrote "Riding Down the Canyon", one of the most delightful "Western" songs ever. Smiley says he sold it to Gene for $5---Gene bought it in advance:. "I said to him as he was drivin': Hey, how'd you like to buy a song?"---a song he hadn't written yet.
Wondrful book on Gene (with info on Smiley), as well as early "Western" music, "Western" movies, the early music business and a whole host of other stories: Public Cowboy No. 1 , by Holly George-Warren. Above story is on p 127.