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Flatt & Scruggs: Folk Songs Of Our Land - Hard Travellin'

(2010/T-BIRD) 24 tracks 1962/63

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Interpret: Flatt & Scruggs
Album titlle: Folk Songs Of Our Land - Hard Travellin'
Genre Country
Label TBIRD
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5013929883567
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Flatt & Scruggs - Folk Songs Of Our Land - Hard Travellin' CD 1
01	The Legend Of The Johnson Boys	Flatt & Scruggs
02	Hear The Wind Blow	Flatt & Scruggs
03	George Alley's F.F.V.	Flatt & Scruggs
04	Good Times Are Past And Gone	Flatt & Scruggs
05	Ellen Smith	Flatt & Scruggs
06	Sun's Gonna Shine In My Back Door Some Day	Flatt & Scruggs
07	This Land Is Your Land	Flatt & Scruggs
08	Philadelphia Lawyer	Flatt & Scruggs
09	Life Of Trouble	Flatt & Scruggs
10	Nine Pound Hammer	Flatt & Scruggs
11	I'll Be No Man's Wife	Flatt & Scruggs
12	McKinley's Home	Flatt & Scruggs
13	Hard Travelin'	Flatt & Scruggs
14	Dixie Home	Flatt & Scruggs
15	The Wreck Of The Old 97	Flatt & Scruggs
16	Over The Hill To The Poor House	Flatt & Scruggs
17	Drowned In The Deep Blue Sea	Flatt & Scruggs
18	Coal Miner's Blues	Flatt & Scruggs
19	Pastures Of Plenty	Flatt & Scruggs
20	The Ballad Of Jed Clampett	Flatt & Scruggs
21	My Native Home	Flatt & Scruggs
22	When I Left East Virginia	Flatt & Scruggs
23	99 Years Is Almost For Life	Flatt & Scruggs
24	I'm Bound to Ride	Flatt & Scruggs

Flatt & Scruggs So thisis what it took to bring bluegrass to prime time. Between... more

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Flatt & Scruggs

So thisis what it took to bring bluegrass to prime time. Between 1962 and 1971, 'The Beverly Hillbillies'were just about unavoidable. In the top-rated sitcom, family patriarch Jed Clampett discovers oil on his land somewhere in the South, sells up, and moves to Beverly Hills with his ragtag clan. Series creator Paul Henning used a lot of place names from the Ozarks, because that's where he was from. He also wrote the theme song, and, after going to see Flatt & Scruggs at Ash Grove in Hollywood, decided that they'd be the guys to sing it. Music supervisor Perry Botkin approached Flatt & Scruggs' business manager, Louise Scruggs, but she was leery, thinking that it made fun of their audience (or part of their audience, anyway...

Flatt & Scruggs were starting to play campuses and spots like the Ash Grove). Botkin and Henning showed Louise a pilot and assured her that the hillbillies outsmarted the city slickers every time. Earl Scruggs was still leery, saying later, "We'd worked so hard to get away from what you might call the hillbilly image." Introducing the song later, Flatt would say, "Here's one we weren't all that crazy about when we recorded, but after it sold a hundred thousand copies, why, we just learned to love it." Before the series aired, the theme song was re-recorded with a more mainstream vocal by Jerry Scoggins, formerly of the Cass County Boys who'd backed Gene Autry on his 'Melody Ranch'shows in the 1940s. By 1962, Scoggins was working as a stockbroker and only sang on weekends.

Flatt & Scruggs backed Scoggins and played on commercials for two of the sponsors, Kellogg's and Winston cigarettes. Later on, they made a few guest shots on the show. Henning's melody was generic and probably owed more of a debt to Woody Guthrie's talking blues than to anything in the bluegrass canon. The show began airing on September 26, 1962 and Louise Scruggs pressured Don Law to release The Ballad Of Jed Clampett when it was clear that the show was a hit. It charted on December 8, the day that Flatt & Scruggs played Carnegie Hall, and in January 1963, it became the first bluegrass song to ever top the country charts. For all the great music they recorded, Flatt & Scruggs' two biggest hits were The Ballad Of Jed Clampett and a spinoff song, Pearl, Pearl, Pearl.

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