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05-07-2007, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by renrich  Now you are talking-Hank Williams and Jimmy Rodgers. How about Ernest Tubbs and Tex Ritter. Reminds me of a story of where the term Gringo comes from. I have a recording of Tex Ritter singing an old song "Green Grow the Lilacs" which the story goes was popular during the Mexican War of 1846-48. It was said that the US soldiers having taken Mexico City used to sing "Green Grow the Lilacs" while marching through the streets and the Mexican citizenry started calling our soldiers Gringos. | Is that true???
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05-07-2007, 09:13 PM
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Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs (with little Ricky Scaggs). I would kill to have this old music with today's production quality. YouTube - Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Mama Carter - You are my flower YouTube - Foggy Mountain Special
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05-08-2007, 05:29 PM
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Country: | I have heard that is true and certainly that is an old song. Maybe I can look up the song and see when it was composed. | |
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05-08-2007, 06:00 PM
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Country: | Looked up the song and it is an old Irish song. There is a thread on the web about it being the source for the name Gringo but no confirmation. The interesting thing is that a Broadway play called "Green Grow the Lilacs" played in 1899 and was the inspiration for the much later musical "Oklahoma" Tex Ritter played in a rendition of "Green Grow the Lilacs" in the 1920s. Never knew he went to the Univ of Texas and had one year in lawschool there. Anyway, the song "Green Grow the Lilacs" may have been sung during the Spanish American War intead of the earlier Mexican War but since it is an old Irish song it ties with the large number of Irish soldiers in the US Army of those days. I am going to choose to believe the story since it hurts no one and is a good one. | |
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05-08-2007, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by renrich Looked up the song and it is an old Irish song. There is a thread on the web about it being the source for the name Gringo but no confirmation. The interesting thing is that a Broadway play called "Green Grow the Lilacs" played in 1899 and was the inspiration for the much later musical "Oklahoma" Tex Ritter played in a rendition of "Green Grow the Lilacs" in the 1920s. Never knew he went to the Univ of Texas and had one year in lawschool there. Anyway, the song "Green Grow the Lilacs" may have been sung during the Spanish American War intead of the earlier Mexican War but since it is an old Irish song it ties with the large number of Irish soldiers in the US Army of those days. I am going to choose to believe the story since it hurts no one and is a good one. | Ahhh - the old I believe button. I push that often 
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06-21-2007, 12:30 AM
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Of course I am living proof you can like country, hard rock and punk and not burst into flames or explode.
Best really old country: Hank Willians Sr.
Best 60s Country: Johnny Cash
Best 70's..way too many to think about...
Best 80's Alabama
Best 90s Chris Ledoux/Dwight Yoakam
Now: Jury's still out
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06-21-2007, 08:46 AM
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#38 | | Der Crewchief
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06-21-2007, 12:48 PM
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my dad used to put his old buffalo bill record on sunday morning brunch and it became a tradition in my house
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06-22-2007, 09:36 AM
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06-29-2007, 05:46 AM
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