Here is the Richard Powell version of this song. Who, you ask, is Richard Powell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDm9iz ... rt_radio=1

I love listening to music performed by people I am not familiar with. That guitar player had a Chet Atkins flavor, right down to the Gretsch guitar. Thanks for sharing........

Linda Ronstadt did a good duet with Johnny. Better than the nasally June Carter. I have this song by Hank Snow and Anita Carter. I wasn't aware that anyone else had recorded it. Dennis, if you like country, you should come up here some Saturday and we'll jam......

I hadn't heard this song in probably at least 50 years, until I was searching for something else and it came up. This song was a staple on the "open road" truck drivers' radio shows popular in the 1970's. "Let's forget about the whyin' and the dyin, The shootin' and the cryin' And the...

I'll be surprised if the OP comes back to the forum. We don't talk about "console rape" on this forum. I made that point very clear. I don't understand why someone would post on a forum like this one about taking a nice console apart to make something he will never use. If the OP would lik...

Yessir, Bobby Darren singing country music, doing a spoof of an old Hank Thompson hit. I put a lot of quarters in the jukebox for the Thompson version. I had never heard of this guy before. I found him doing a search of who wrote this song. The guy has a pretty good band. He plays the guitar left-ha...

Bill posted post number 30,000 today. The number at the bottom of the home page doesn't include the posts by new members. The number on the individual posts is the total accumulation since post #1. Nice job, guys, and thank you!

I have a VM 1257 in a Motorola portable stereo that tracks nicely at 3 grams. None of the rest of my VM's will track very well under about 4 grams, and they like 5 grams better. You are right, the springs on the tone arm don't allow for fine tuning the weight. You get what you get. GE C-100 ceramics...

First off, welcome to the forum! We ask you to complete your registration by posting your location in your user profile. This forum is about the PRESERVATION of console stereos, not butchering them for the components. You have the right, of course, to do what you please with your possessions. Just d...

On July 9, our forum will have been going for five years. It wouldn't have been possible without your participation and support. I want to thank each of you for everything you have contributed to the forum. Thanks go to our moderators, Bill and Rex who have gone thru the nonsense we need to endure i...

This song was written in 1912 by Irving Berlin. His wife of five months had died of typhoid. This song was first recorded in 1913 and that recording is still on YouTube. Perry Como and Jim Reeves had later hits on the song. A hauntingly beautiful love song, it is presented here by Anita Carter, stil...

Okay, call me naive, but I didn't know the Lone Ranger theme was the William Tell Overture. Glen Campbell may have been one of the more underrated guitar players of his time. The first I heard of him, he played session work for Hank Thompson's first stereo album in 1966. He may be almost as good as ...

In the event you have not done any serious toe-tapping today, allow me to offer this remedy. "I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart" is an old Patsy Montana song, modernized here in stereo by Suzy Bogguss. Not much on yodeling typically, Suzy does it here without going nasally or falsetto so ...

I think it's fair to say that it's hard to pick the best country song ever recorded. I think it is also fair to point out some of the ones that stick in our minds. I offer this Patsy Cline recording. "Why Can't He Be You" was written by Hank Cochran and recorded in 1962. In the fifth or si...

So Tonawanda only built the big block engines. The 366 used in medium duty trucks had Tonawanda stickers on their valve covers as well. I owned three new 366 engines. Wonderful, quiet, smooth, torquey and dependable as the day was long. They were governed at 3500 rpm, but you could get more out of t...

I THINK I have the changer sorted. I kluged up a drive tire using friction tape to "rebuild" the drive tire long enough for test. Gary said he was taking a few days off, so I'll order the drive tire and whatever else I may need next week. I am in to the back remake project. I have some run...

Most people who listen to music on a cell phone are more familiar with Taylor Swift than they would be Rosie Clooney or Helen O'Connell. I personally wouldn't listen to Taylor Swift unless I was at gunpoint.....

Yep. The frames were built by the individual plants. I wasn't aware that the Saginaw complex cast engine blocks. I thought those were all cast by Defiance in Ohio. There is no mention in the article I linked about Tonawanda. The big Chevy engines all had "Built in Tonawanda" stickers on th...

Rex, I'm sorry to hear about your back issues. I'll keep a good thought and hope you get it all sorted soon.... We use Cox Cable for everything. Landline, TV, Internet, cellphone. They are frightfully expensive, but they give stellar service. They have a brick-and-mortar where I can go if I want to ...

Danny, I had a senior moment.....

The reason you could only find Herman Schwartz by Stonewall Jackson is that he was the one who recorded it, not Lefty Frizell. I get the two mixed up, they sound a lot alike. My apologies...