Detour...Muddy road ahead
dj25
anyone help?
dj25
dj25 <dr...@verinet.com> wrote in message
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Nancy Chapman
Dan Cutrer
Nancy Chapman wrote:
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> Detour theres a muddy road ahead..detour..pay no mind to what it
> said....* I forgot the rest.LOL.You could find this on Cowpie...
>
> ------
Am I correct in recalling it as a song written by Jack Drake (Pete's
brother, wasn't he) ETubb's stand-up bass player (the bass was a
stand-up, so, naturally, Jack did too ...) and road manager for decades
... Jack sang it on the ET Presents Texas Troubadors lp in the 60's.
The current Texas Monthly mag on Texas Music notes that in the early
60's ET realized he'd have to start playing for dances, that the
audiences for auditorium shows were all watching GUNSMOKE. Says he
hired Buddy Charleton, Leon Rhodes ... "to jazz up the original Tubb
sound without altering its core. Leon's boppish guitar solos seem to
float as Buddy's swung, the interplay between them was as simple and
powerful as a glass of cold water in the desert. Drummer Jack Greene
and rhythm guitarist Cal Smith both sang well enough to become stars
themselves. The music crackled and soared; there were no backup chorus
singers or string sections mucking up the sound, and out front, ET
sang stripped down country poems like 'Thanks/Thanks a lot/I got a
broken heart/That's all I got' And the sound sliced through the era
like a hot knife through butter."
Sad, no mention of Drake, or, for that matter, Johnny Wiggins, the
Singing Bus Driver, who ET called on after he'd done two or three songs
so he'd have a chance to catch his breath."
I saw this ET troupe at least a dozen times in '63-'65, would do most
anything to find the tapes I recorded at their live shows. Like most
teenagers then, I had no idea those tapes would turn out to be kinda
priceless.
Mitch Drumm
: Nancy Chapman wrote:
:>
:> Detour theres a muddy road ahead..detour..pay no mind to what it
:> said....* I forgot the rest.LOL.You could find this on Cowpie...
:>
:> ------
: Am I correct in recalling it as a song written by Jack Drake (Pete's
: brother, wasn't he) ETubb's stand-up bass player (the bass was a
: stand-up, so, naturally, Jack did too ...) and road manager for decades
: ... Jack sang it on the ET Presents Texas Troubadors lp in the 60's.
dan:
think it was written by steel player and western swing bandleader paul
westmoreland. i think westmoreland recorded it first with jimmy walker doing
the vocal. westmoreland is still alive iin his 80s as far as i know in the
sacramento area. probably best known as a radio pitchman in the 60s and 70s
as "okie paul", selling cars, travel trailers, etc.
there is a great patti page documentary on cable showing patti singing the
tune in the early 50s when she also had a hit with it.
Dan Cutrer
THANKS! Don't recall why I always thought Jack had written it, happy to
get the real story. Your comments are typical of one of the Great Joys
of this group ... where else could someone ask about an obscure country
song, and get an answer as complete as yours in a couple hours. Pity,
the rest of the USENET folks in 40,000 other groups don't know what
they're missing !
Or, maybe, they get what they deserve! <g>
Floyd T. Gentry
very old song. I was singing it at the age of ten and Ernest Tubb nor Patti Page
was first with it. A guy sang it and on the chorus a girl joined him. Could it
have been Margaret Whiting and her singing pardner. Get those encyclopedias out.
Its listed. I do not have one but we haven't got to the bottom of this one yet.
Floyd
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Floyd T. Gentry
time. I think I still know most of the words to it and haven't hear it in years.
Dan Cutrer
"Floyd T. Gentry" wrote:
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> Scuse me Dan, Detour was not an obscure song. It was a smash hit back in its
> time. I think I still know most of the words to it and haven't hear it in years.
You're right! What I meant to convey was ... to the great unwashed
populating the rest of the Internet and the universe, Detour is not
likely to be found on the tip of their tongues. Would urge that we
could pick any 100 of 15-year old users, perhaps one, naaahhhh ... not
even one ... would know of it.
Which makes this group all the more valuable ... there's more than a few
of us hereabouts who remember the song, know most of the lyrics, can
even dither meaningfully on who wrote it, sang it, etc.
Charles FORD
because of my not knowing I now find.
That the further I go the more sorrow I know.. I should have read that
"detour sign"..
Detour there`s a muddy road ahead detour, paid no mind to what it
said.. Now all these bitter things I find .. I should have read that
detour sign...
Ha ha As you can see I don`t remember it well... It was a good song
probably in the 40s...... chuck
Gary Barnes
Keep It Country
Gary
Gary Barnes
Lot of things I never knowed
And the cause of me not knowin,I now pine.
Trouble got in on the trail.
Spent the next five years in jail.
Should have read that detour sign
Detour,there's a muddy road ahead.
Detour paid no mind to what it said.
Detour now these bitter things I find,
Should have read that detour sign.
Keep It Country
Gary
TOM KAN PA
From: "Floyd T. Gentry" >>
<< Scuse me Dan, Detour was not an obscure song. It was a smash hit back in
its time. >>
tom kan pa
Jay Langford
All my hopes dropped with a thud
And I guess that my heartstrings are made of twine
Had no will power to get
from the hole that I'm in yet
Should hae read that Detour sign,
(cho)
When I got right to the place,
Where it said about face,
I thought that all my troubles were behind
but the farther I go,
the more trouble I know,
Should have read that Detour sign.
(cho)
This is pretty close as I haven't sang this song in quite a spell. This
and "Truck Drivin' Man" was fun to do.
Jay
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