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Posted by Martin Rolls
on July 11, 2008, 11:48 am, in reply to "Re: It's arrived !........"
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Thanks for this Larry. Fascinating to hear about Al Courtney's songs. I look forward to your book.
Once again the latest CD is terrific!
Best regards
Martin
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:
: Al "Rusty" Courtney was a friend
: of Jim's from KGRI days, and wrote some
: songs with Jim then. In Jim's later career
: Rusty also penned some tunes, which he sold
: to Jim, conveying all rights. Jim wanted to
: help his friend out because he'd gotten into
: some trouble. Jim went into Nugget studio in
: June 1964 to record some of Mr. Courtney's
: songs, including "He Will."
:
: Rusty was quite a talented songwriter, who
: also composed "Deep Dark Water,"
: "Before You Came Along" and
: "Crying Is My Favorite Mood,"
: (even though Jim has his name on them).
:
: Thus Jim recorded his friend's songs at the
: beginning and end of his professional
: career. I'll have more about this in my
: book.
:
: Glad you liked the CD. I was listening to it
: myself this afternoon in the car, and I have
: to admit one of my favorites is
: "Lonesome Waltz." I'm proud of the
: job we did restoring Jim's vocal on that. If
: you compare it with the RCA release years
: ago, you'll find that theirs sounded muddy
: (tape hiss). We got rid of all that and then
: put on new instrumentation. It's a night and
: day difference, and one of my favorites...
:
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