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1-CD-Album Digipak with 52-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 85 mns. The...more

Bonnie Guitar: Only The Moon Man Knows

1-CD-Album Digipak with 52-page booklet, 34 tracks. Playing time approx. 85 mns.

The rarest-ever recordings from lounge music legend Bonnie Guitar!
All the hyper-rare Morrison records as Bonnie Tutmarc from 1951/1952, her Rainier recordings from 1953, plus very rare Fabor and Radio and Dot recordings
13 recordings originally not issued!

By the time she became a national sensation with her Dot Records hit Dark Moon, Bonnie Guitar was a veteran of many years, performing and recording for small labels in Los Angeles and her home state of Washington. She'd started early, in clubs and concerts often with a band led by her husband, Paul Tutmarc. She recorded for local companies, and those recordings haven't been heard since then until now. Bonnie Guitar eventually joined maverick label owner Fabor Robison as a studio musician and even recording engineer, and then as an artist. Here for the first time are many of Bonnie Guitar's earliest recordings before Dark Moon. The elements were all in place: a mellow, inviting voice that lent itself equally well to country and pop material; a selection of material that crossed back and forth over those lines; and the ability to play the instrument from which she took her name. Todd Everett's liner notes include quotes from three recent interviews with the artist. Explore an under-regarded legend!

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Guitar, Bonnie - Only The Moon Man Knows CD 1
01Hello, Hello, Please Answer The PhoneBonnie Guitar
02If You See My Love DancingBonnie Guitar
03Two Loves Have IBonnie Guitar
04Clinging VineBonnie Guitar
05Dream DreamersBonnie Guitar
06Lover Oh LoverBonnie Guitar
07Open The Door To Your HeartBonnie Guitar
08My Heart Turned GypsyBonnie Guitar
09In The Heart Of A SongBonnie Guitar
10If You Don't CareBonnie Guitar
11Only The Moon Man KnowsBonnie Guitar
12I Feel A Heartache Comin' OnBonnie Guitar
13Fool AroundBonnie Guitar
14Lover Oh LoverBonnie Guitar
15Heart's DesireBonnie Guitar
16Shanty BoatBonnie Guitar
17Please, My LoveBonnie Guitar
18Frantic PartyBonnie Guitar
19You Gave Her Your KissesBonnie Guitar
20Where Are The WordsBonnie Guitar
21Heart's DesireBonnie Guitar
22Innocent LiesBonnie Guitar
23Everybody Knew But MeBonnie Guitar
24Don't Keep Me WaitinBonnie Guitar
25Don't Bring Me Roses RedBonnie Guitar
26I Couldn't Believe It Was TrueBonnie Guitar
27Ain't You 'ShamedBonnie Guitar
28Midget Auto BluesBonnie Guitar
29Robin In The PineBonnie Guitar
30The Cherry TreeBonnie Guitar
31Cowboy SerenadeBonnie Guitar
32Sailing Thru The Sunny San Juan IslesBonnie Guitar
33I Lost My Turkey (In The Depot In AlbuquerqueBonnie Guitar
34Bronco Buster's Rag (instrumental)Bonnie Guitar
 Bonnie Guitar Bonnie was born on March 25, 1923 in Auburn, Washington. Hers was a... more
"Bonnie Guitar"

 Bonnie Guitar

Bonnie was born on March 25, 1923 in Auburn, Washington. Hers was a musical family: father, John Buckingham, was a farmer; and, like his brother, Bert, an amateur fiddler. Her two elder brothers shared a flat-top Gibson guitar. From early on, Bonnie was a jazz fan. "When I was five," she remembers, "we lived behind a big dance hall where all the bands came through. I'd creep out of the house and would sit on a bench listening to bands led by people like Bumps Blackwell [whose later credits included producing Sam Cooke, and discovering, producing and managing Little Richard]. My mother worked in the dance hall, and they had a band come through every Saturday – it was incredible.

"That's when I fell in love with the clarinet and tenor sax players like Ben Webster; later alto, and Johnny Hodges. The only kind of music in our house, though, was pop singers like Nick Lucas and Gene Austin; and my father liked Irish tenors. I, on the other hand, could listen to Ella [Fitzgerald] and [Mel] Tormé all day, and Anita O'Day."

When she turned thirteen, Bonnie took up her brothers' guitar. "I wanted to be a clarinetist, but the school's band director played clarinet, and we only had one. He wouldn't let me play guitar, because to him it was a hillbilly instrument. I tried other instruments, but I only wanted to play guitar. My brothers had a nice little Gibson; and when they got tired of it, they passed it on to me.

"As a guitar player," she continues, "I loved Nick Lucas's records." Lucas was the singer and instrumentalist who, in 1922, is said to have played the first guitar solo ever recorded, and whose hit records (mostly in the 1920s) included Always, Bye Bye Blackbird, My Blue Heaven, I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover, and Tip Toe Through The Tulips.

Bonnie told Linda Ray for a 2007 'No Depression' feature, "I'd try to copy off those instrumentals. I also listened to a lot of folk, like Woody Guthrie, or Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France. One of the things I used to like to do was to take a song and put as many chords to it as I could, and running bass lines. I studied all those things. I took lessons as often as I could."

She took up singing, and before long was appearing before audiences; first in amateur shows (her first 'win' was at the Rialto Theater, with a version of Jimmie Rodgers' Mississippi Moon) and talent contests, and then professionally – though for Depression-era wages.

She also took lessons from a number of teachers; oddly never learning in the process to learn to read music. One of those teachers was Paul Tutmarc.

He made a strong impression, and no wonder. First, he was a divorcé 27 years older than his pupil. Second, he was an experienced entertainer; having experience with a vaudeville troupe based in his native Minneapolis, though he'd relocated to Seattle in the early '20s to work in the shipyards. Before long, he'd become a celebrity throughout Washington state; first on Tacoma's radio station KMO, and with Sam Wineland's Orchestra at the Broadway Theater. Moving to Seattle, he performed on radio station KJR, and in various vaudeville houses. Like many of the singers Bonnie heard while she was growing up, he was a tenor.

But for bad luck – and maybe a bad partner – Tutmarc might have become even better known; and much richer. In the early '30s, he and Art Stimson developed what appears to be the first pickup to electrify acoustic instruments. The pair was discouraged from patenting the device, Tutmarc's son has written, because "after investing $300 with attorneys who initiated a patent search with the government, Tutmarc was ultimately advised that their pickup design was non-patentable because the telephone companies had already patented similar devices.

"One can imagine the shock then when Tutmarc…eventually took notice after a Los Angeles-based firm began selling their 'Electro String Instruments' in August 1932. Then, in the spring of 1933, the Dobro firm began marketing their All-Electric model of electrified Spanish-style guitar." The device was patented; not in the form Tutmarc had been advised was unpatentable, but - and this made all the difference - as part of the overall guitar design. Art Stimson, by then living in Southern California, was listed as assignor on Dobro's patent application; he had evidently sold the invention for just $600, forgetting to send half the proceeds back to his former partner in Seattle. In the meantime, Tutmarc, who had also been working in bands exploiting the current Hawaiian music craze, had been manufacturing lap steel guitars under the Audiovox brand.

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Die Aufnahmen sind superrar! Gibt's nur auf Bear Family, wie immer!

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Tracklist
Guitar, Bonnie - Only The Moon Man Knows CD 1
01 Hello, Hello, Please Answer The Phone
02 If You See My Love Dancing
03 Two Loves Have I
04 Clinging Vine
05 Dream Dreamers
06 Lover Oh Lover
07 Open The Door To Your Heart
08 My Heart Turned Gypsy
09 In The Heart Of A Song
10 If You Don't Care
11 Only The Moon Man Knows
12 I Feel A Heartache Comin' On
13 Fool Around
14 Lover Oh Lover
15 Heart's Desire
16 Shanty Boat
17 Please, My Love
18 Frantic Party
19 You Gave Her Your Kisses
20 Where Are The Words
21 Heart's Desire
22 Innocent Lies
23 Everybody Knew But Me
24 Don't Keep Me Waitin
25 Don't Bring Me Roses Red
26 I Couldn't Believe It Was True
27 Ain't You 'Shamed
28 Midget Auto Blues
29 Robin In The Pine
30 The Cherry Tree
31 Cowboy Serenade
32 Sailing Thru The Sunny San Juan Isles
33 I Lost My Turkey (In The Depot In Albuquerque
34 Bronco Buster's Rag (instrumental)