Jerry, Buddy & Zoomer
Jerry Boyer: vocal
Buddy Winston: vocal & guitar
Zoomer Roberts: vocal & mandolin
recorded 26 March 1983
Written by Irving Berlin, this song was a hit in 1937 for Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra. The vocalist on the record was the band's "boy singer" (yes, there really was such a term), Jack Leonard. When Frank Sinatra replaced Leonard, he inherited the song. A broadcast recording of Sinatra singing "Marie" with Dorsey's band has been in my collection for many years. However, it was an Original Texas Playboys record -- with a vocal by Joe Frank Ferguson -- that inspired Jerry, Buddy and me to try our luck with it. We threw in four bars of Charleston during the second instrumental break, and the ending is from the theme to the old Paramount newsreels. Eternally unable to devise a "hot" solo, I pretty much stick to the melody. I don't know what Irving Berlin -- or Dorsey, or Sinatra -- would have thought of this, but we loved it.
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El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
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What it is...
I've been playing music in the El Paso area for nearly fifty years, and I've accumulated hundreds of tapes along the way. Here they are. Most of these performances were captured with inexpensive portable equipment in living rooms, taverns, houses of worship, festival tents and theatres. Some were recorded off the radio, some directly from public address systems. A few were actually recorded in professional recording studios. Some of these hands are folded now, and some of these voices are stilled. This is what I've done, where I've been and who I've known. This is my scrapbook.
Art by Pat Olchefski-Winston
El Paso artist Pat Olchefski-Winston (Buddy's wife) did this vibrant water color of Buddy and me in 2001. For more information about Pat and her work, go to: www.olchefski.com and www.artistsofthesouthwest.com
With Ernest Tubb ~ 1980
Back in 1983 with Mickey Cochran (guitar) and Bobby Napier (fiddle). Bobby went on to bigger things, including a stint with Tammy Wynette.
1980s Bidness Card
