Western swing videos, de-Flashified
In writing the previous entry, I came across an old draft, from October 2006, with embed code for four YouTube videos featuring western swing: Noel Boggs playing "Alabama Bound" as a steel guitar solo, Bobby Koefer with Truitt Cunningham and the San Antonio Rose Band performing his extremely animated version of "Hawaiian War Dance", Tommy Duncan, and then a clip from a TV special featuring Merle Haggard with members of the Texas Playboys. The video embedding incantation looked like this:
<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBA-PdrCAEc"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CBA-PdrCAEc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
You may note that this relied upon a Shockwave Flash browser plug-in, a technology that was sent to the gallows a few years ago for its wayward ways. I put this here as a reminder to myself that there are likely many old YouTube links back in the BatesLine archives that I need to update.
Some of the videos were deleted long ago, but I took a guess, and I've put them all after the jump.
Noel Boggs, playing "Alabama Bound" and imitating a train's wheels on a steel guitar:
Bobby Koefer and "Hawaiian War Dance"
I'm not sure which Tommy Duncan video I had -- it's long-gone -- but here he is singing "It Makes No Difference Now" on Ranch Party, hosted by Tex Ritter. There's a twin-necked guitar here, too:
Finally, that clip of Merle Haggard and the Texas Playboys, from the 1978 NBC television special "50 Years of Country Music": On stage are Tiny Moore (mandolin & fiddle, Johnny Gimble (fiddle & mandolin), Merle Haggard, Joe Holley (left-handed fiddle), Skeeter Elkin (piano), Eldon Shamblin (electric guitar), Herb Remington (steel guitar), Wayne Johnson (saxophone), Alex Brashear (trumpet), and Johnnie Lee Wills (tenor banjo). I don't recognize the bass player (Teddy Adams, perhaps?) or the drummer. This video is especially fun for watching the energetic style of southpaw fiddler Joe Holley, who played for both Johnnie Lee Wills and Bob Wills's bands. The whole three-hour special is on YouTube (Part 1, Part 2).
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