Bonnie Guitar CD: Dark Moon (CD) - Bear Family Records

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1-CD with 12-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns. Here are the fabulous...more

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Bonnie Guitar: Dark Moon (CD)

1-CD with 12-page booklet, 29 tracks. Playing time approx. 63 mns.

Here are the fabulous '50s recordings by the woman who sung the original version ofDark Moon. She followed it withMr. Fire Eyes, Love By The Jukebox Light,and a complete programme of 'Moon' songs. Haunting, countrified pop that first appeared on Fabor and Dot Records.

`Bonnie Guitar' . The name alone guaranteed attention; and her calling card, Dark Moon, was all-but-impossible to ignore. It had a stilling, tranquil quality that could settle a Middle East border war; it was a classically haunt-ing performance on which any other instrument or voice would have been redundant. And although pop chart historians may give her short shrift after Dark Moon, the song heralded a long, multi-faceted career that is not yet over.

Of course, 'Bonnie Guitar' was not her real name; she was born Bonnie Buckingham in the Seattle area on March 25, 1923 (subsequent press bio's would later lop a decade off her age). And although she is primarily known as a country artist, Bonnie grew up with pop music. Her father was very fond of Irish tenors, especially Henry Burr (who popularised I' m Forever Blowing Bubbles and On The Trail of The Lonesome Pine around the time of the First World War). Bonnie's favourites included Doris Day, Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, and when she started to play guitar, her style owed more to the jazzy chording that accompanied the Ink Spots and similar groups than to country picking.

The only country artist who really moved her was Jimmie Rodgers.

Bonnie (then working under her first married name, Tutmarc), played with several bands, and fronted her own group in the Seattle area: "I played with a western swing band at the Silver Dollar two nights a week, and at a private club on other nights with a jazz keyboardist and a two-beat drummer. I had full coverage of the styles of music at the time," she recalls.

The catalyst behind Bonnie's recording career was Fabor Robison. A transplanted southerner (the common consensus is that he was from Arkan-sas), Robison was one of the exaggerated characters that populated the music business before it was run by accountants.

After the War, he moved to California, and tried for a career in motion pictures, before changing tack and trying artist management. The first artist anyone can remember him working with was the rube comedian Les 'Carrot Top' Anderson. Then, in 1950 or 1951, Robison discovered Johnny Horton and started Abbott Records in partnership with a local drugstore owner as a vehicle for Horton.

By 1953, Robison had a little stable of artists, mostly drawn from the Louisiana Hayride, but peremptorily dropped them all to concentrate on Jim Reeves after Mexican Joe broke. Two years later, Robison and Reeves fell out (just as Robison and everyone he was associated with fell out). Robison returned to Malibu and concentrated on re-building his little stable of record com-panies that included the eponymous Fabor label, as well as Abbott and Radio Records.

Article properties:Bonnie Guitar: Dark Moon (CD)

Interpret: Bonnie Guitar
Album titlle: Dark Moon (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127155313
weight in Kg 0.115

Guitar, Bonnie - Dark Moon (CD) CD 1
01	Mister Fire Eyes/Dark Moon	Bonnie Guitar
02	Open The Door	Bonnie Guitar
03	Half Your Heart	Bonnie Guitar
04	If You See My Love Dancing	Bonnie Guitar
05	Johnny Vagabond	Bonnie Guitar
06	Making Believe	Bonnie Guitar
07	Down Where The Tradewinds Blow	Bonnie Guitar
08	Letter From Jenny	Bonnie Guitar
09	There's A New Moon Over My Shoulder	Bonnie Guitar
10	Moonlight And Shadows	Bonnie Guitar
11	Carolina Moon	Bonnie Guitar
12	By The Light Of The Silvery Moon	Bonnie Guitar
13	Shine On Harvest Moon	Bonnie Guitar
14	The Moon Is Low	Bonnie Guitar
15	Get Out And Under The Moon	Bonnie Guitar
16	Moolight On The Colorado	Bonnie Guitar
17	Moolight And Roses	Bonnie Guitar
18	It's Only A Paper Moon	Bonnie Guitar
19	Prairie Moon	Bonnie Guitar
20	Roll Along Kentucky Moon	Bonnie Guitar
21	Mister Fire Eyes (2)	Bonnie Guitar
22	Love Is Over, Love Is Done	Bonnie Guitar
23	Stand There Mountain	Bonnie Guitar
24	I Found You Out	Bonnie Guitar
25	Love By The Jukebox Light	Bonnie Guitar
26	Big Mike	Bonnie Guitar
27	A Very Precious Love	Bonnie Guitar
28	If You'll Be The Teacher	Bonnie Guitar