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08 Dec 05 - 08:01 AM (#1622616) Subject: Obit: Alberta Slim From: sian, west wales 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 |
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08 Dec 05 - 11:20 AM (#1622801) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: GUEST,Dale Yep, the real deal http://www.albertaslim.com/ |
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08 Dec 05 - 11:40 AM (#1622817) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: GUEST 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 |
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08 Dec 05 - 11:41 AM (#1622818) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: Louie Roy At least 4 of his cassettes or CDS are available from the music barn |
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08 Dec 05 - 12:44 PM (#1622886) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: kendall I remember hearing him when I was a boy. I can still hear him singing "When it's apple blossom time in Annapolis Valley" |
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08 Dec 05 - 01:28 PM (#1622937) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: SunnySister 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 |
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08 Dec 05 - 09:17 PM (#1623317) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: Beer 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 |
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09 Dec 05 - 01:46 AM (#1623426) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: open mike 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? |
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09 Dec 05 - 01:59 AM (#1623431) Subject: RE: Obit: Alberta Slim From: Q (Frank Staplin) Thankfully, I had several of his recordings, which my younger daughter has added to her country music collection. |