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Steve Matlock Member Posts: 111 |
posted 18 January 2001 08:55 AM
Does anyone know who played steel on Tony Booths albums? Also, is there a web site with a complete discography for Tony? Thanks, |
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Jeff Lampert Member Posts: 2636 |
posted 18 January 2001 09:42 AM
JayDee Maness at his best (which is always). |
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Peggy Jack New Member Posts: 4 |
posted 18 January 2001 05:01 PM
Ralph Mooney Also ! |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 19 January 2001 06:04 AM
Tony Booth albums 1970 On the Right Track (MGM) |
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KEVIN OWENS Member Posts: 209 |
posted 19 January 2001 11:02 AM
There is a lp he recorded using the name "JOHNNY BOOTH" title is "COUNTRY 67". It was released on the "UNI" record label. "UNIVERSAL CITY RECORDS* A DIVISION OF MCA INC." is printed on the bottom of the cover. Sounds like Ralph Mooney on steel and James Burton on guitar. The producer was Cliffie Stone. Songs list: WISHFUL THINKIN; I'M ON YOUR SIDE; BURNING BRIDGES; IT'S SUCH A PRETTY WORLD TODAY; APARTMENT #9; I THINK I CAN; WHEN MY BLUE MOON TURN TO GOLD AGAIN; MY LONELY CAME EARLY TODAY; A LOVER'S QUESTION; THERE GOES MY EVERYTHING; WALK THROUGH THIS WORLD WITH ME; HEART WE DID ALL THAT WE COULD. Kevin |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 19 January 2001 06:19 PM
Wow, I hadn't heard of that one at all, I would assume that it's the one and the same, but then ??Johnny Booth??. Kevin, what's the number of the release,it's catalogue number? |
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KEVIN OWENS Member Posts: 209 |
posted 19 January 2001 09:32 PM
Jason The stereo # is: 73006 mono # is: 3006 UNI record label. I have heard (you hear all kind of things) that "Johnny" is his real name and he started using "Tony" after this lp because of the confusion of "Johnny Booth" and "Johnny Bush". I would like to know if this is true. It's a great lp. Kevin |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 20 January 2001 06:47 AM
Kevin, I am fascinated by all of this. At the time (1967), Uni seemed to be concentrating on psyche-pop groups like The Strawberry Alarm Clock and the like! So I was suprised to hear that they had any country artists, but there it is. I had never heard anything about the whole Johhny/Tony Booth theory, but it's interesting to consider. |
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Bobby Bowman Member Posts: 1271 |
posted 20 January 2001 09:43 AM
In answer to Kevin's post..... Tony is his real name. Buck Owens, at the time, thought that Tony sounded too Italian and would not be accepted in the country field. Buck gave him the name Johnny. Afterward, Tony said "to hell with it, Tony is my name and that's what I want to use". He does have a brother, and his name is Larry. BB ------------------ |
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KEVIN OWENS Member Posts: 209 |
posted 20 January 2001 09:53 AM
Bobby Thanks for the info. If I'm right Larry played bass for Gene Watson for awhile. That show how much things change, Tony not being country enough. I guess names don't mean anything. If Keith Urban changed his name to Keith Country, I still wouldn't like his music. But whatever you call Mr. Booth, you can count on it being good music Kevin |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 20 January 2001 04:45 PM
Hey Bobby, thanks man, you saved me trying in vain to find that out. Very cool. As I'm currently living in 2001 in a very multi-cultural area I would never have even considered that! Thanks a bunch! |
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Keith Hilton Member Posts: 1649 |
posted 20 January 2001 09:45 PM
Where is Tony Booth now? The last time I remember seeing him is playing bass in Gene Watson's band. Back when Tony had those hits, that's when Country was different than today's country. I would love to have all those old records. Can you order any of that stuff, and from where? I've been looking for Ray Price singing the, "The Other Woman" ,on a recording and can't find it. |
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Bobby Bowman Member Posts: 1271 |
posted 21 January 2001 12:52 AM
Keith, Toni, as far as I know, is living just outside the Houston area, I believe in Manville, Pearland, Alvin area. I haven't seen or spoken to him in several years, but I hear about him from time to time. I'm pretty sure he and his brother are playing a small "opry" type show in the same area. I'll try to find out for sure and post it for y'all. Tony stays pretty much to himself and kinda' out of the limelight these days. BB ------------------ |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 21 January 2001 07:43 AM
Bobby, did you know the Booth brothers before Tony moved to the Nevada and Californian scene in the 1960s? I also heard that Tony might be driving a truck (part-time), but for the life of me can't think where I heard that one. |
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Bobby Bowman Member Posts: 1271 |
posted 21 January 2001 11:07 AM
Jason, I've never really known Tony or Larry up close and personal. I've known them more from association with some of their close friends. Back in the '60's I played a couple of gigs with them and have been on a couple of shows that Tony was a part of. We never had the chance to develope a close friendship mostly due the the different directions our schedules were taking us. I sent word to Tony a couple of months ago through a close friend of his to call me, but he has not done so as of yet. I have a friend up in Iowa who was wanting any or all of Tony's recordings and I told him that I would try to get him some information. No luck so far. BB ------------------ |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 21 January 2001 02:56 PM
Thanks Bobby, I appreciate it. |
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Les Pierce Member Posts: 387 |
posted 21 January 2001 08:30 PM
A couple of times we have had a piano player from the Alvin, Texas, "Opry" show, by the name of Jim Black, on our Jamboree. He told me that Tony and Larry Booth have both played bass at different times, with him. It must be quite a show! Take care, Les |
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emmett d unregistered Posts: 387 |
posted 22 January 2001 12:12 AM
Jason-- One of Gene's current band members told me that Tony and the fellow who used to play rhythm guitar in Gene's band went in together and bought a truck. In fact the only original picker in Gene's line-up is Joe Eddie Gough, the piano player. ------------------ |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 22 January 2001 04:21 AM
Emmett, was it one of the Cass Brothers, Glen perhaps? |
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Jeff Ceurvorst Member Posts: 7 |
posted 22 January 2001 08:17 AM
Hello, I can fill in a couple of question marks on Jason's lists of LPs: THIS IS TONY BOOTH and WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN were 1973, and HAPPY HOUR was 1974. Tony Booth is one of my favorites, along with Joe Carson. Now who played on Carson's Liberty sessions? Jeff Ceurvorst |
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Jody Sanders Member Posts: 2889 |
posted 22 January 2001 07:35 PM
I think Mooney played on Joe Carson's cuts. I'm pretty sure it's Mooney on the tune " Double Life". Jody. |
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Herb Steiner Member Posts: 6119 |
posted 22 January 2001 08:10 PM
According to my friend Randy Carson, who is Little Joe's son, the steel player on the majority of the "In Memoriam" album is Billy Mize, including "Helpless" and "Double Life." The stuff that is Mooney-sounding is Billy. Four songs, including "The Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing," were cut in Nashville with Buddy Emmons on steel. This stuff was cut in 1963, as Joe got killed in early 1964. Tommy Allsup produced this material for Liberty Records. Tommy also allows how most of the records had Billy Mize, with Billy Armstrong on fiddle. ------------------ |
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Larry Hendrickson Member Posts: 180 |
posted 22 January 2001 09:35 PM
Glen Cass and his brother Norman? are on the Red Rhodes Palamino album. I used to see Glen Cass playing up in Green Bay and Appleton, WI area back in the early 70's. Also, someone once said that Tony Booth was married to the Cass' sister. LH |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 23 January 2001 03:10 AM
Thanks Herb! Norm Cass replaced Johnny Meeks with Red Rhodes and The Detours, played on Red's live album as mentioned, was later replaced by Meeks in the Palomino's house band. |
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Jack Smith Member Posts: 49 |
posted 23 January 2001 05:04 PM
There is one record that very few know about. I played steel with Gene Watson in the mid 80's after Tiny left. Tony Booth was one of my favorites growing up and here he was playing bass and opening the show. Out of respect to Tony, and the great carreer I took him into the studio and recorded a "Greatest Hits" for him to sell on the road. What a great guy and what a honor. |
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Peggy Jack New Member Posts: 4 |
posted 23 January 2001 07:51 PM
Howdy..Tony and Larry are both playing and singing,(alternating weekends ) at the Alvin Opry in Alvin,Texas. Jim Black used to play there also. I don't know about BillyMize playing on Toney's album but Ralph Mooney played on the Johnny Booth album. Right about the name business Bobby.Also both Tony and Larry are truckers. Both have 18 wheelers.Larry haul brick and I don't know what Tony hauls.They both live in Manvel area. I see them occasionally when I go over and sing with them.I might add that it is a bit intimidating to stand up in front singing with Tony Booth back there picking bass for you.Larry and Tony are both great singers and excellant bass men.Glen Cass is brotherinlaw to the Booth's.Glen is a fine bass player also.I had the pleasure or playing on Ralph Mooney's last CD along with Glen. Apoligize for long reply...fred jack |
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Jason Odd Member Posts: 2665 |
posted 24 January 2001 05:24 PM
Hmm yeah thanks Fred, I totally forgot about ol' Mooney's solo CD from 1996. It was cut with a few of the old Palomino crowd, Gene Davis who Ralph worked for on and off in the 1950s. There was also sidemen like Randy Davis (Gene's son), Frank Arnett who was in the number two band for Wynn Stewart at the Nashville Nevada club in Vegas, he temped for Mooney with Wynn Stewart, and for Red Rhodes with Gene Davis. In the 1970s he did a short stint with Hank Thompson and worked with Gene and Randy Davis in San Diego. He's now a label boss in Tenn. And of coure Glen Cass played on the Mooney CD, so it was a nice little reunion set. Is everyone from the West Coast in Texas ot Tennessee now?...no it just seems that way LOL. |
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gene brown Member Posts: 136 |
posted 24 January 2001 05:42 PM
A few years back Tony did a show in Mineral Wells Texas,along with Tony Douglas.Mooney was there,also Ricky Soloman played fiddle. I have all his record albums,and he signed them for me. He does have one with the title Johnny Booth. I have never opened it. I tore a little corner off the shrink,so he could sign it.Tony is first class country. Gene |
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