Another Voice Lost - Jimmie Rodgers

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/jimmie-rodgers-singer-who-scaled-charts-in-50s-dies-at-87/ar-BB1d2sQp?ocid=sf

 

 

[Tex Jones, SASS 2263]

Terrific singer.  All those kids in the video are now grandparents.

[Rye Miles #13621]

RIP Jimmie Rodgers. Honeycomb was one of my first favorite songs as a kid!!

[Alpo]

I found two things amazing in that video. First, how many people were chewing gum. Wow. Second, nobody was singing along. Heck I was singing along while I was watching it.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

I’m not sure he was singing along, didn’t have a Mike.

[South-Eye Ned]

I’m 62.  I remember him for having gotten “into an auto accident” to the point where he needed a plate in his head.  He was actually beaten up by a policeman.  After a few surgeries, he showed up to perform on the Glen Campbell Show (which was a summer replacement for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) around 1968 or so.  Anyway, he didn’t perform much after that.

[irish ike, SASS #43615]

97.839% of the singers on TV back then were lip syncing. Notice no band or they were faking the playing.

[Subdeacon Joe]

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

I found two things amazing in that video. First, how many people were chewing gum. Wow. 

 

I wondered about that,  too.  Then I read the description on YouTube and that was from the Beechnut Hour *(something like that) television show.  Since it was sponsored by a chewing gum company it makes sense that the audience would be chewing gum.

 

*Saturday Night Beechnut Show, May 1958.