I have listened to The Stanley Brothers all my life, but there was a song about Christmas I had never heard. Thank you for posting this so I could go back to yesterday and relive my life once again.
A1 Holiday Pickin' A2 Gonna Paint The Town A3 That Happy Night A4 Christmas Is Near A5 Choo Choo Comin' A6 Carolina Mountain Home Carolina Mountain Home A7 Trust Each Other B1 Maple On The Hill B2 Highway Of Regret B3 A Little At A Time B4 Another Night B5 Ridin' That Midnight Train B6 A Few More Seasons B7 Where We'll Never Die C1 In Heaven We'll Never Grow Old C2 Mother No Longer Awaits Me At Home C3 If I Lose C4 Little Maggie C5 God Gave You To Me C6 Don't Go Out Tonight C7 The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn D1 Rank Stranger D2 Let The Church Roll On D3 Rock Of Ages D4 I Saw The Light D5 What A Friend
There's no radio (broadcast) recordings here as such - just their material that was recorded for the Starday label. They just used the radio studios that they were working in at the time to do the recordings. All of the material was released on their Sacred Songs From The Hills / Mountain Song Favorites and Mountain Music Sound of... albums & relevant singles/EPs.
BluegrassBuzzbomb Thank you for your comment. I was just going off of what it says on the back of the album cover. I don’t know if it’s because it was recorded from a tape onto the record or what but it doesn’t sound as clear and even as the original singles. In some songs on the album, Ralph’s banjo doesn’t sound as loud as it should during solos. That’s also why I thought some recordings were from radio broadcasts.
Carter Stanley must have been 6 ft. 3" tall, he towered over small Ralph. His personality was just as big. We really did lose an important figure that day in 1966. A truly sad day in the Appalachian country. December 1, 1966 -- Sad Christmas. It would be nice to know which other instrumentalists and vocalists were part of these recordings, if possible? What people don't realize about Carter is that although he had a drinking problem, it was very common for people to have alcohol sitting out morning noon and night in their houses and while people were visiting , people that had an addiction would be drinking hard liquor in front of their friends and family....very common deep in the hills and actually pretty common everywhere else too. Some people gravitated TOWARD it, some were neutral about it (had a drink now and again), and some didn't like it because their bodies didn't take to it. So you have all types back then. But, long story short, it was very common and it was everywhere in the household, unlike today.
Thyat was an informative read about the drinking back in the days of yore!! Thank you for that! One musician Id give just about anything to have been able to have seen was the late great bluegrass forefather Carter Stanley. His voice in my ears is Angelic..
@@tapertom1351 You are certainly welcome!!! Saw only the brother Ralph at Bill Monroe's Beanblossom Festival, them boys could play. Jimmy Martin was a legend too, he would tip a few clear liquid mason jars as well 😜😉
