BUDDY THORNTON - Ole Santa Is Coming To Town b/w Lonely Christmas Eve (Thornton Records OP -186)
Milton "Buddy" Thornton passed away in Abilene, Texas in 2001. At the very least Buddy left behind three records. There was this mid-50s Christmas 78, pressed by 4 Star Records as a part of its "Other People" series. In 1958 he had a second single on the Abilene based Ebony label which was also home to a couple of great Don Feger releases which are high on the Westex want list. And lastly Buddy held a record in the mid-80s for the "most instruments played at one time" or somesuch.
"Ole Santa Is Coming To Town" opens with a rinky dink sounding piano before Buddy jumps in, showing himself to be a fine vocalist in the style of Webb Pierce. The band is decent enough on the recording while following the lead sheet arrangements real close. Not a bad little Christmas number. On the flip, "Lonely Christmas Eve", Thornton veers off into Lefty Frizzell territory with just a hint of Ray Price.
All in all not too shabby for what probably amounted to a give away for Thornton to his friends, fans, and family.
Merry Christmas from West Texas and the Westex Family....___________________________
Christmas Tree, Photograph, n.d.; digital image, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth55581 : accessed December 11, 2010), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library , Abilene, Texas.
2 comments:
Nice one.....so far the divshare file won't download for me. Could be that you just posted it, thus the problem. I'll check back later.
Merry Christmas to you and your's, thanks for all the great tunes.
ana...
Fixed... and thanks for reading Ana... and thanks for your blog as well!
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