Sweet Daddy

"Mr. Irresistible."
Sweet Daddy Siki  is a former championship 'rassler who was a terror in the squared circle. Born in Texas, he emigrated to Canada in the early 60's where his legion of followers packed the Maple Leaf Gardens to witness him deploy his signature "coco butt" move.
In this action shot, Siki, and "The Sheik", are working over Handsome Johnny Barend.

 

During the latter years of his pro wrestling career, Sweet Daddy released a series of  serviceable country music records that largely featured covers of Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Charley Pride tunes. The LP "Sweet Daddy Siki Squares Off With Country Music" is a favorite of record cover collectors.

Amazingly enough, Sweet Daddy can still be seen and heard weekly leading the karaoke show at the "Duke", a  Toronto bar situated on Queen Street East and Leslie. Neat article about his royal highness at 501 Queen Streetcar
Special thanks to  Kliph Nesteroff for the assist.

Sadie's Favorite Boyfriend.

Speck Rhodes was an American treasure, even if Porter Wagoner was the only one who ever laughed at his jokes. He also sang.

Rebel Music

This atrocity made the rounds some time back with various junk music purveyors. I must've been drunk that month. The good folks here at PCL are more than happy to pick up the scraps and share it with our minions.

The James "Rebel" O'Leary family were a local outfit out of the bustling metropolis of York, Pennsylvania who were well known for plugging in wherever and whenever duty called. This take on the Ernest Tubb standard, "Walking The Floor Over You" is proof positive of their prowess.

"Don't Sell Daddy Any More Whisky "

Ms. Molly O'Day & The Cumberland Mountain Folks warble another tune about the devil's nectar and the old man’s done got another brick in his hat.

That darned infant ain't too pleased either.

Hello Vietnam

Think the USA is going to hell in a hand basket these days? Corporate greed and economic hoo-ha got you down? Screw that.

Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells take us back to the days when we were leading the fight to stop those stinkin' commies from overtaking our blessed ways.

Dance To The Music

Ben Smathers, the leader of the Stoney Mountain Cloggers drawls on with this mancentric yarn about blind dates and spinach teeth disorders.



"I Spent A Year With Her Last Night"

Thanks: Frances Favorite 45's

Flatt & Scruggs

Streak of Madness

Desperation personified.
Yuma's crack team of research geeks has been unable to uncover the origins of this barn burner. Little help?





Stolen at Some Local Loser

The Gold Guitar (1966) Trailer

"Theatrical trailer for The Gold Guitar, directed by J. Hunter Todd and featuring: Del Reeves, Bill Carlisle and Hugh X. Lewis. A New York record company want to steal the Nashville Sound and use if their own artists."

Mamie Van Doren, still a troublemaker

Mamie Van Doren is of course a favorite for any PCL'er.
I know it's often considered rude to discuss a woman's age. But, I don't think Mamie cares much about such earthly things, since she just have embarked a new career as a country singer. In three days this force of nature will celebrate her 80th birthday. It's a strange feeling listening to the lyrics for her song carrying her own name. The baddest bad girl in town chares a few biographical notes. That Edward G. Robinson's kisses tasted cigar smoke may come as no surprise to anyone. But you shall remember that he died 38 years ago at the age of 80.
She dated Howard Hughes in 1940s. Well, she has dated them all!
Mamie Van Doren has been around - and she has been around for a loooong time.
Of course she is no teenager. And perhaps she is no exceptional country singer. And maybe, just maybe, Mamie wasn't as good actress as Marilyn.
Who cares! 79 years old she's out with a new country album, she has her own wine label and she's a serial blogger and facebook-heroine. And she's as platinum blonde as ever. Mamie is an icon, lives her life like she was 22. And her boobs just gets bigger and bigger ... She's a winner!


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Mamie Van Doren - Still a Troublemaker

Jimmy Walker / Swamp Country

The Baker Knight penned classic performed by Jimmy Walker... on Swamper Records no less!

If you get a chance, you should check out the movie Swamp Country starring country muusic legend Baker Knight and Lyle Waggoner. Some good information about the film at this blog. Jimmy Walker & The Swampers appear as Baker's back-up band in the movie. I LOVE THIS MOVIE! Lots of great songs and swampy locals!

Mule Skinner Blues

The answer to the eternal question, what is suitable attire at a mule skinnery? And don't forget the orangejuice can rollers for the hair the night before.

Satan's Call to Khrushchev

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Yodelling Overtures

Yodeling is much like other music genres. We have lo-fi yodel and symphonic yodel and the whole spectre in-between.
Look what may have happened if you had taken, say Caroline, of the DeZurik Sisters, and married her to a filthy rich Australian gold mining entrepeneur. She get to live in a castle full of flowers and maids. She would have EVERYTHING a girl would dream of; hundreds of dresses, diamonds, chocolate in silvery shrines in every which one of the 59 rooms, not having to work for a living. Luxury.
Her yodeling would slowly start to change. And here is the final result:

Mary Schneider - Yodelling Overtures

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The DeZurik Sisters - Hillbilly Bill

We have blogged about The DeZurik Sisters and their patented yodeling style before here. But I dont think we have published any tv footage of them before. So. Here is a clip from the Old American Barn Dance with them. Cackle away girls!

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Johnny Bond - Here Come The Elephants

"I graduated from college... Magna Cum Loaded!"

• Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma. He got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. He also acted on occasion in films including Wilson and Duel in the Sun; and was later a regular on the 1950s Los Angeles country music television series Town Hall Party.
• He is best known for his 1947 hit "Divorce Me C.O.D.", one of his seven top ten hits on the Billboard country charts. In 1965 at age 50 he scored the biggest hit of his career with the comic "Ten Little Bottles", which spent four weeks at number two.
• Bond's other hits include "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" (1947), "Oklahoma Waltz" (1948), "Love Song in 32 Bars" (1950), "Sick Sober and Sorry" (1951) and "Hot Rod Lincoln" (1960).
• He died of a heart attack in 1978, at the age of 63. Bond was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999, and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. (source: Wiki)
• This LP also has a GREAT duet called Day Drinkin' with Red Sovine.
  
  
  
  
  

Chubby

 Who wants good ol' fashioned country cornpone? Well, who cares what YOU want, the rest of us want to hear it, and better yet it comes from a blog named after a talking mule.

Keep The Good Love Comin'

Let's all learn from Bobby Mackey.

Thanks Pappy

Pick That Bale of Cotton, Baby!

Cool Country from Alan Copeland Singers

Jump Down, Spin Around

Goofus - Cumberland Ridge Runners (circa 1932-35)

Who knew there was a cult of GOOFUS out there! People playing it on ukuleles, foxtrot versions, a band named after Goofus and of course -- hillbillies galore! There was a "Goofus Bird" the official insignia of GOOFUS CLUBS OF AMERICA. There's a reference to Goofus in the movie The Road To Singapore starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. When they arrived at their hut, Bing bounces on a creaky old bed, hits the mattress and proclaims... "Soft as goofus feathers"!


Also check out Red Nichols and His Five Pennies with their great version of Goofus.