Jody Carver, yourself and any number of other
Forumites that are/were in the know, have really made this Forum of b0b's so valuable to those of use that have spent our lives out in the boonies, away from the main stream music that each of us have loved and chased most of our lives.

THANKS once again!

How about another?

And now Jerry tells us that it was Buddy Emmons' favorite.

Wow, NOW folks I gotta tell ya, for this dude it truly does NOT get any better than that.

My only two hereos in the entire musical genre' And one thrills me to pieces for over 50 yrs doing my favorite song and now I learn 54 yrs later that my other hero loved it just like I did.

I never cease to wonder about the many blessings My precious Savior gives me. Never a day goes by. Learning this at this late date (and age) makes an old man cry.

May HE richly bless JB, BE, Jack and all of you,

------------------
Jim Vogan
Carter D10, 8&5 with BCT
G.D. Walker Stereo Steel Combo
Bakelite Ric
Hilton volume pedal

She wears my ring
To show the world that she belongs to me
She wears my ring
To show the world she's mine, eternally
With loving care, I placed it on her finger
To show my love
For all the world to see.

1. LaPaloma--The Dove

2. LaGolendrina--The Swan

Any Spanish speaking players out there that can straighten this out for us?

After blowing the dust off it, Carl and Paul are both correct...Golondrina translates to "Swallow", and La Paloma is "the Dove."

THIS TINY RING IS A TOKEN OF TENDER EMOTION
AN ENDLESS POOL OF LOVE, THAT'S AS DEEP AS THE OCEAN
SHE SWEARS TO WEAR IT WITH ETERNAL DEVOTION
THAT'S WHY I SING, BECAUSE SHE WEARS MY RING

THIS TINY RING IS A TOKEN OF TENDER EMOTION
AN ENDLESS POOL OF LOVE, THAT'S AS DEEP AS THE OCEAN
SHE SWEARS TO WEAR IT WITH ETERNAL DEVOTION
THAT'S WHY I SING, BECAUSE SHE WEARS MY RING

------------------
Jim Vogan
Carter D10, 8&5 with BCT
G.D. Walker Stereo Steel Combo
Bakelite Ric
Hilton volume pedal

[This message was edited by Jim Vogan on 25 July 2003 at 08:30 PM.]

About the spanish lyrics, only I know the lyrics to the Serradell song:

Aben Hamed al partir de Granada
Su corazón destrozado sintió
Y allá en la Vega al perderla de vista
Con débil voz su lamento expresó.

Ay! cual te envidio al mirar
Que te alejas
Ave felíz de dicha y de placer
Mis ecos lleva a la pátria
A donde nunca jamás yo volveré.

A donde irá veloz y fatigada
La golondrina que de aquí se va
O si en el viento se hallará extraviada
Buscando abrigo y no lo encontrará.

Junto a mi lecho le formaré su nido
En donde pueda la estación pasar
Tambien yo estoy en la región perdido
Oh cielo santo y sin poder volar.

Dejé tambien mi patria idolatrada
Esa mansión que me miró nacer
Mi vida es hoy amante y angustiada
Y ya no puedo a mi mansión volver.

Ave querida, amada peregrina
Mi corazón al tuyo estrecharé
Oiré tu canto tierna golondrina
Recordaré mi patria y lloraré.

The first two verses are more unusuals and are eliminated in most part of the versions.Somebody said that it's a bolero or serenata, but I think it's more an habanera ( due to the lyrics).

------------------
Peter den Hartogh-Emmons 1978 S10 - Fender Artist S10-Remington U12-Hilton Volume Pedal-Gibson BR4 lapsteel-Guya "Stringmaster" Copy-MusicMan112RP-Peavy Rage158- - My Animation College in South Africa

[This message was edited by Peter on 02 February 2004 at 08:20 AM.]

------------------
Peter den Hartogh-Emmons 1978 S10 - Fender Artist S10-Remington U12-Hilton Volume Pedal-Gibson BR4 lapsteel-Guya "Stringmaster" Copy-MusicMan112RP-Peavy Rage158- - My Animation College in South Africa

La Golondrina was recorded by Felix also. Sammy Mitchell on H.G. September 20th 1950 ..Columbia DB-2822.. NOT available since (But plans are afoot)

Does this Pre-date Jerry Byrd's version ? or was it copied from his ? or vice versa ?

Howard White also recorded both tunes BUT, called them "Steel Guitar Swallow" and "Steel Guitar Dove" respectively.. available on Bear Family Records..BCD-15575.
Howard White was a J.B. Inspired player and lived in Charlotte N.C.

Solomon King and Elvis Presley also recorded vocal versions of La Golendrina (as She Wears My Ring)
Basil Henriques www.waikiki-islanders.com

------------------

quote:

---

Steel players do it without fretting

---

http://www.waikiki-islanders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

[This message was edited by basilh on 04 February 2004 at 11:21 AM.]

------------------
Gerald Ross
'Northwest Ann Arbor, Michigan's King Of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar'

Gerald's Fingerstyle Guitar Website

[This message was edited by Gerald Ross on 03 February 2004 at 05:52 AM.]

Paul....those barn rafters you mention in the above post..... was your barn located in Cerano? or.....Capistrano? Or, somewhere in between? Please tell us the rest of the story. THanx. (Jack Benny once made those two places famous!)

[This message was edited by Ray Montee on 04 February 2004 at 10:09 AM.]

------------------

  ~ ~
  ©¿©  It don't mean a thang,   
  mm   if it ain't got that twang.
       www.ntsga.com

The recording of "La Golendrina" that I love the most is on "HI FI Guitar"; that came out in the 50's. To me this is THE most beautiful recording Jerry EVER made. Every time I listen to it, I am in awe at his incredible tone on this specific recording.

I have seen him do it in person and heard other recordings of him doing it. But to me that recording has NO equal in my memory. Whatever Jerry ate that morning for breakfast I sure would like to know cause I would never eat anything esle!)

His harmonics the second go around, is incredibly awesome and perfect. I have a tape of him playing in Hawaii where he mentioned that he had stumbled on something just before recording that tune and he implemented it doing those harmonics.

I had always believed he over dubbed them. But now I wonder. I KNOW their is some overdubbing on that recording, but now I am thinking maybe what he was talking about in that video may not have been overdubbed when it came to the harmonic part.

All I know for sure is, I love that song more than any steel rendition I have EVER heard. And as I said in my original post, "to think it is also Buddy's favorite"

Wow, it does not get any better than that folks.

May Jesus richly bless them both, and all of you,

From JB:

Most of the time, although I can do three string strums occasionally, where it fits, mostly I do either single or two string harmony. Now there is one way I do it that the leader of the two strings, like playing the first and second string, the second string would be harmonic and the first string would be open. So you get a different sound then, but the way I do it with my hand when I want both strings to be a harmonic I just tilt my right hand (picking hand) down a little bit to where I use the thumb pick on those two strings, as the second string is picked first and the top string last. So by moving my hand over a little bit I can get both strings as harmonic if I wish.

Where will she go, fast and tired,
The swallow that leaves this place.
She has no heaven, but flies around
Searching for shelter she doesn't find.

Where will she go, fast and tired,
The swallow that leaves this place.
In the winds that will blow her around
Searching for shelter she doesn't find.
Next to my breast she will find her nest
and where she will be able to pass the season.
I too am lost
And, oh heaven, am unable to fly!

I, too, left my beloved homeland,
That mansion in which I was born.
Now I wander and I worry
And I am unable to return to my mansion.

Beloved bird, beloved pilgrim,
I'll reach my heart out to yours,
I'll hear your songs, beautiful swallow,
I'll remember my homeland and will cry.