Going Down A Rabbit Hole

[crank]

I heard , somewhere, a snippet of the old song, Don't Fence Me In and last night I decided to learn it. Man there are a lot of different versions. I spend a couple of hours last night watching/listening to many, many people playing this tune. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters had a #1 hit with it and it took them all of a half hour to record it. Roy Rogers on a tv show riding Trigger in to the studio to perform. Jazz guys, fingerstyle versions. The Killers did version for a Nevada tourism ad campaign. Harry Connick Jr. recorded it ( I haven't listened to his yet). David Byrne recorded a terrible version for a Cole Porter tribute album.

Written by Cole Porter who used a poem by a guy name Robert Fletcher who worked for Montana Highway Dept writing historical marker plaques or something in 1934 for a film that never got made. Eventually in 1944 a film was made called "Don't Fence Me In". Oh and Gene Autry also recorded it. Ella Fitzgerald, Willie Nelson...

Here's Roy and Trigger

 

[Prince of Darkness]

Playing a Gibson Super 400, I believe

 

[GGJaguar]

Playing a Gibson Super 400

Yup. My dream archtop.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

I love listening to many versions of the same song. Back in the "pier-to-pier" downloading days, I would search for a song and then download every version I could find. For some songs I have almost 20 different covers!

 

[davidbeinct]

I love listening to many versions of the same song. Back in the "pier-to-pier" downloading days, I would search for a song and then download every version I could find. For some songs I have almost 20 different covers!

Last time I downloaded pier to pier I was twenty years old and in the Navy moving five gallon cans of haze gray paint from one side of the dock to the other.

 

[kitniyatran]

Here's Roy and Trigger

And in that Roy and Trigger are accompanied by the Sons Of The Pioneers, featuring the great Hugh and Karl Farr on violin and lead guitar. Anyone who thinks that's corny nothing to it music should listen to the early Sons Of The Pioneers recordings with the Farr Brothers, who were a pair of top jazz/ swing players who influenced a lot of great players of their time and after.

 

[kitniyatran]

And come to think of it the Sons Of The Pioneers themselves did some extended chord voicings in their vocal harmonies that were not all that common at the time.

 

[JohnW63]

Roys funeral was withing ear shot of my house. I think the remaining Sons of the Pioneers did a song.