Ranch Radio Song of the Day

YouTube ^ | 11/11/2018 | myself

[cowpoke]

Our gospel tune today is Everybody's Gonna Have A Wonderful Time Up There by Red Foley & His Log Cabin Boys. The tune was recorded in Nashville on December 24, 1947.

[QBFimi]

At last - good news!

Thanks for posting.

[Fiji Hill]

"A Wonderful Time Up There" was written by Lee Roy Abernathy who founded the Modern Mountaineers. The tune below was inspired by a 1937 dance craze.

Everybody's Truckin'--The Modern Mountaineers (1937)

[Robert DeLong]

It says in the write up at YouTube:

Rumor has it that Smokey liked to smoke a lot of pot and his band like to drink. Apparently this song was banned on a lot of jute boxes.

[MisterArtery]

Red Foley was Pat Boone’s father-in-law.

[cowpoke]

I think you will find that in the 20s and 30s the word truck was used instead of the f word.

[Fiji Hill]

I think you will find that in the 20s and 30s the word truck was used instead of the f word.

A number of songs made reference to the dance called the Truck--and, seemingly, to a word with which it rhymed:

• Truckin'--Ina Rae Hutton & Her Orchestra (1936)

• Truckin' My Blues Away--Blind Boy Fuller (1936)

• Bojangles of Harlem--Fred Astaire (1936)

• A-Tisket, A-Tasket--Chick Webb & His Orchestra (with Ella Fitzgerald) (1938)

• The Walkin' Blues--Jesse Powell & His Orchestra (1951)

[Fiji Hill]

Rumor has it that Smokey liked to smoke a lot of pot and his band like to drink,

I've also heard this--but they still could swing like a gate.

Wood Chip Blues--Smokey Wood & His Wood Chips (1937)

[Robert DeLong]

Yes I really enjoyed the Everone's Truckin'. Found out that Commander Cody & His Planet Airmen did a remake of the song.

Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen - "Everybody's Doin' It On Hollywood Boulevard for the movie of the same name: Hollywood Boulevard produced by Jon Davison that was made as a result of a bet between Jon Davison and Roger Corman to make the cheapest ever film for New World Pictures. This was accomplished by extensive use of footage from other New World films.

I liked the Wood Chip Blues too, thanks. 8>)

[Fiji Hill]

Commander Cody & his Lost Planet Airmen - "Everybody's Doin' It On Hollywood Boulevard for the movie of the same name: Hollywood Boulevard

Although more profane--and more politically correct--than the Modern Mountaineers' version, it faithfully retains the western swing tradition. Incidentally, the reference to singing "hidey hidey ho" refers to Cab Calloway's 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher.

[cowpoke]

First, many thanks for the education. I was totally uaware of the dance craze trucking . Its hard to believe, though, for instance, that Leon Selph & His Blue Ridge Playboys 'Can't Nobody Truck Like Me' is abouy a dance.

[Fiji Hill]

Leon Selph & His Blue Ridge Playboys 'Can't Nobody Truck Like Me'

Thanks for posting that. I was unaware of that song or that group. The tune is from the late spring of 1937, the height of the "truckin'" craze.