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Phil Marx, however, I am unfamiliar with.

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To get serious,,,I have heard this name before. There were numerous steel players on the West Coast years ago. Many were middle of the road players. Eddie Busch is another
who comes to mind.

Marx was a semi pop -hawaiian style player I had heard his name mentioned at Fender years ago. Boggs,,Murphey,Les Anderson,Speedy, were
primarily most popular and did most of the recording work.

I beleive (not sure) that Marx did a session
with Johnny Mercer on Capitol records ,,,the tune was "The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along"..Also he did sessions with Red Engle
& Jo Stafford when they both were doing a "parody" of pop tunes with a "hillbilly mock" type thing.

Jo Stafford used the name Cinderella G. Stump
and Marx's name was somehow connected as the steel player.

Freddy Tavares mentioned many players to me that I never heard of,,,most of them were doing studio work in and around LA.

It was told to me that most of the players mentioned in the posts on this thread were "better readers" than the more popular
players such as Joaquin,,,Boggs etc and they
had more work connected with recordings that required reading.

I dont know of a steel player that at one time or another was not in some way shape of form a Fender player. Leo would drop names on me like....did ya ever hear so & so play?
My focus was on the players I mentioned...and I didnt pay too much attention to the others.

Miss Molly recorded by Tex Williams on Capitol had a steel player,,,and it may have been Marx.

Man if Jason dont know,,,,who does??

The night I went with Leo to hear Noel play
there were a number of pro steel players in the club,,I met a few that I have never heard of and according to Noel,,,they were fine players. But the known players got most
of the work with the Western groups ,,Texas Jim Lewis,,,Cooley,,Foy Willing,,etc.

Tavares was really the "chairman of the board
of steel players. If Freddy didnt know them
well,,,,,they didnt exist,,I have heard every name mentioned here by Freddy. Funny how I know people who have never heard of Freddy being a fine steel player. You ought to check out his fine playing with Foy Willing Riders od The Purple Sage on Capitol.

One of my favorites is "Anytime: and you ought to hear the licks played by Freddy as he called them "Hot Hawaiian" check that out.

[This message was edited by Jody Carver on 15 January 2002 at 05:41 PM.]

Phil Marx....... I dunno?

One LP comes to mind with a "popular western" singer years ago, Jimmy Dale,,he was on Continental records,,I did 2 sides with him,,,,on that LP and the credits were given to me and not the other 2 steel players
who played a heck of a lot better than I.

I called Continental and asked them to correct
this,,,they didnt care,,like "so what" who knows the difference.

The steel player who did most of the recording back here for years and years was a man by the name of Vaughn Horton writer of "Mockingbird Hill"....he did all of then
Gov.Jimmy Davis recordings as well.

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Nick since you liked my poem so much here is another.

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Noel Boggs:
- Three Times Seven
- Steel Guitar Rag
- Lawdy What A Gal

Joaquin Murphy:
- Fat Gal
- I Like My Chicken...

The rest of the tracks are Travis solo.

The "Boggs" and "Murphy" tracks are all indicated as being done in 1947.

Cincinnati Lou..3/18/46...Joaquin Murphy
No Vacancy......3/18/46...Joaquin Murphy
Divorce Me COD..7/9/46....Pete Martinez
So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed..10/19/46
Pete Martinez.
Steel Guitar Rag (vocal)1/12/47..Noel Boggs
T for Texas..12/23/47..Joaquin Murphy
Any Old Time..11/21/47.. Phil Marx
Three Times Seven..10/19/46..Pete Martinez
Kentucky Means Paradise.11/21/47..Phil Marx
Sweet Temptation..10/15/46..Phil Marx
Fat Gal...7/1/47...Noel Boggs
Dry Bread...11/14/50...Speedy West
Lawdy, What a Gal..1/23/47..Noel Boggs
Guitar Rag..4/21/50...Noel Boggs
Kinfolks in Carolina..2/13/52..Speedy West

All tracks recorded in Hollywood and produced by Lee Gillette except Dry Bread and Kinfolks in Carolina which were produced by Ken Nelson.

There were 5 cuts which didn't feature a steel player including:
I'll See You in my Dreams
Re-enlistment Blues
Cannonball Rag
Deep South
Sixteen Tons

As stated before, this should be the final word as it's from the company who originally made the recordings..........

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[This message was edited by John Floyd on 03 February 2002 at 02:59 PM.]