Obit: Alberta Slim (26 Nov 05)

Subject: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: sian, west wales
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 08:01 AM

To be honest, I had never heard about this singer before today, but anyone who has a paragraph like this in his Obit in the Globe & Mail must have been one interesting guy.

"In the late 1940s, Mr. Edwards started a travelling circus and used Regina as a home base while he toured the country with his menagerie, including his fortune-telling horse Kitten, an elephant who played the harmonica, a dog who sang harmony and a bicycle-riding chimpanzee."

Yodelling ain't what it used to be.

siân

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: GUEST,Dale
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 11:20 AM

Yep, the real deal


http://www.albertaslim.com/

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 11:40 AM

http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/12/06/Arts/alberta_slim_obit051206.html
Yodelling cowboy dead at 95 - CBC

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Entertainment/Music/2005/12/06/1340556-sun.html
'Alberta Slim' dead at 95 - Edmonton Sun, looks to be the same article as the one in the original post

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=e79bb1dd-6208-4b93-848f-029a4c6d50e8&k=65045
Alberta Slim's gone, but the yodel echoes on - Edmonton Journal

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: Louie Roy
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 11:41 AM

At least 4 of his cassettes or CDS are available from the music barn

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: kendall
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 12:44 PM

I remember hearing him when I was a boy. I can still hear him singing "When it's apple blossom time in Annapolis Valley"

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: SunnySister
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 01:28 PM

What a life! He was still working and enjoying singing well into his 90's. Amazing. So glad that he passed peacefully.

My thoughts are with his wife of 63 years (63 years!!!!) and his family and friends.

Thanks, Sian, for sharing about this incredible man.

SunnySister

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: Beer
Date: 08 Dec 05 - 09:17 PM

I was comming back to Montreal from London Ontario and read the article on his passing in the Toronto Globe and Mail. I happened to aquire a number of his song sheets at a local auction. Now I will place this article with them. But what made it very (not sure what adjective to use) weard, real,strange, ironic, was I was riding the rail in comfort and thinking how it must have been during the depression riding the rails.
Beer

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: open mike
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 01:46 AM

thanks for the info--too bad to hear
about him after the fact...wish I
could have heard him in person!


what and where is the music barn?

Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 09 Dec 05 - 01:59 AM

Thankfully, I had several of his recordings, which my younger daughter has added to her country music collection.