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Ethno-Illogical Psycho-Radiographies: 320:
Battle of the CCs: Carolina Cotton vs Cliff Carlisle

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9 Januari 2006 / 17.00-19.00

"I love to yodel / all the songs of romance in the spring / I
serenade a pony / but it won't mean matrimony /
Cuz he can't buy a golden wedding ringŠ"
o Carolina Cotton

"She said I could sow my seed any time inside her ashcan"
o Cliff Carlisle

OOOoooOOOO

Yodel Mountain > Carolina Cotton [1]
Why Did I Fall For Abner > Carolina Cotton [1]
Three Miles South of Cash (In Arkansas) > Carolina Cotton [2]
I Love to Yodel > Carolina Cotton [2]
What's The Matter With You > Carolina Cotton [2]
I'd Love to Be A Cowgirl (But I'm A-Scared of Cows) > Carolina Cotton [1]
Cause I'm in Love > Carolina Cotton [1]
Lovin' Ducky Daddy > Carolina Cotton [1]
Mockingbird Yodel > Carolina Cotton [2]
Mama Yo Quiero > Carolina Cotton [2]
Betcha I Getcha > Carolina Cotton [1]
You Got Me Wrapped Around Your Finger > Carolina Cotton [1]
A Wild Cat Woman and a Tom Cat Man > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Memphis Yodel > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Cowboy Johnny's Last Ride > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Get Her By The Tail on a Downhill Grade > Cliff Carlisle [3]
My Travellin' Night > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Seven Years with the Wrong Woman > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Gamblin' Man > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Hobo Blues > Cliff Carlisle [3]
I Want a Good Woman > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Tennessee Saturday Night > Carolina Cotton [2]
Cattle Call > Carolina Cotton [2]
You Always Keep Me in Hot Water > Carolina Cotton [2]
You're Getting a Good Girl > Carolina Cotton [2]
Rancho Grande > Carolina Cotton [2]
Yodel, Yodel, Yodel > Carolina Cotton [1]
I'm Gonna Round Up My Blues > Carolina Cotton [2]
Boo Hoo Blues > Carolina Cotton [1]
Nola > Carolina Cotton [2]
Crime Will Never Pay > Carolina Cotton [1]
Sal's Got a Meatskin > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Gonna Raise a Ruckus Tonight > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Onion Eating Mama > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Memories That Haunt Me > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Shanghai Rooster Yodel > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Carolina Cotton Calls > Carolina Cotton [2]
Wigglin' Mama > Cliff Carlisle [3]
Tater Pie > Carolina Cotton [2]

[1] "Yodel, Yodel, Yodel" <www.dagmar-anita-binge.de>. Dagmar Binge
and her Cattle and Binge labels have done a great service to yodeling
and obscure roots music that has been forgotten or over-shadowed by
too much attention being paid to the already-too-well-known. She digs
up material where people did not even know music existed. What could
be better than an entire CD of yodeling by one of the greats? They
love it so much they had to name this CD 3 times. Binge actually met
Cotton a number of times before she died in 1997. Nice liner notes
with information as well as personal insight. Cotton wrote a lot
about her humble beginnings on a farm in Cash, Arkansas but the
non-woe-is-me humor of her upbeat songs and yodels is what really
affects me. She has depth without all the wallowing gloom. Cotton
really made me see the value in happy songs, songs that can
rejuvenate and even heal. Cotton was born Helen Hägström, daughter of
an American mom and a Swedish farmer father in 1925. Her family moved
around a lot in search of well-being. Eventually settling outside San
Francisco. Carolina became a dancer at age 12 and by 1940 when she
was only 15 she began yodeling with Dude Martin's Swing Band on radio
KYA. She caught the eyes and ears of troubled genius Spade Cooley who
hired her as his vocalist. In 1944, she debuted in a Hollywood movie
via her friendship with Johnny Murvin, friend of silver screen
yodeler, Gene Autry. She appeared in Sing, Neighbor, Sing with legend
Roy Acuff. More film appearances in films that are only interesting
for their musical interludes and their kitschy wooden b-movie
qualities [that exude a charm all their own]. Many of these 'oaters'
were enhanced only by her on-screen or soundtrack yodeling. She wrote
some very catchy yodel songs which were used countless times in many
filmsŠ she began her recording career after she entered the film
world, sang with the great Hank Penny, cut a record in 1946 with very
short-term husband Deuce Spriggens. She released 2 solo singles in
1946 under her new name Carolina Cotton. In 1949, she toured with the
incredible Sons of the Pioneers, famous for their mellifluous 3-part
harmony yodels. She was the only daughter of the Pioneers. She sadly
stopped recording in 1952 and did USO tours to serenade troops in
Korea and elsewhere with her yodels. Carolina had 2 kids by a second
marriage and later tired entirely of show biz and became a school
teacher.

[2] "Yodeling Blonde Bombshell" on Kit Fox<www.carolinacotton.org>.
This was my second favorite CD in 2005. One track from this record
will appear on my forthcoming ROUGH GUIDE TO THE YODEL. There are
many reasons why. She had a true gift of yodeling, not just
performing it as an ornament but as part of an infectious joy and
humor that overwhelms you. She is undeniable, mixing effortless
yodeling with smart and snappy lyrics that deal with the old
male-female relational conflicts in a clever way. She was not above
glibly claiming to be a true find in "You're Getting a Good Girl",
brave enough to admit she's scared of cows "I'd Love to be a Cowgirl
(But I'm a Scared of Cows)", the difficulties of relationships sung
in a film with 3-month husband Deuce Spriggens "What' the Matter with
You", and her love of yodeling "I Love to Yodel", which was used in
four B-Westerns. These liner notes, as written by daughter Sharon
Marie, are wonderful and give personal insights into the life of CC,
especially the fact that she was such a natural performer and
infectious yodeler and personality that she managed to coax yodels
out of singing partners who were well known but not for their
yodeling. The amazing thing was that by the age of 27 she already
done enough to satisfy most. She had already had an entire career in
15 years and then she stopped. She also recorded some [yodel] songs
with Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. When you hear her yodeling on
her virtuoso show-off number "Nola" you instantly realize you are
listening to someone special. Better songwriter and yodeler than both
Rosalie Allen and Patsy MontanaŠ CC died of ovarian cancer in 1997.

[3] "Cliff Carlisle: A Country Legacy 1930-1939" on JSP Records is an
excellent 4-CD Box Set that appeared in my Top of 2005. What I have
always been interested is the ascendancy of chosen genius at the
expense of others. Jimmie Rodgers at the expense of others like
Carlisle. It is as if there is a snowball effect. One calls JR a
genius and that leads to people showing why and others writing about
it and soon you have a masters course in JR and CC is all but
forgotten. Excellent liner notes by Pat Harrison by the way. Carlisle
is profiled in my YODEL-AY-EE-OOOO [as is Cotton]. Both JR and CC
were known as 'blue yodelers' but while JR wrote about glorifying
mythifying yodel numbers, Carlisle could be considered JR heavy or JR
was CC-Lite. CC's stuff/sound/lyrics were harder, cooler, heavier,
more sinister, and insinuatingly sexier than JR's. His singing and
yodeling career began in 1930 and early on he even recorded a number
or 2 with JR. He often performed in a duo, eventually quite
successfully with his brother Bill. His pedal steel work is pure
blues and was inspired by the exotic invasion of Hawaiian music in
the early 20th c. He inspired the use of the pedal steel in hillbilly
and country. Born in Kentucky in the 1910s, he made quite a career
out of combining excellent singing, acutely interesting lyrics, great
pedal steel and very accomplished yodeling. He was a real connoisseur
and bought every 78 with pedal steel on it. Like so many other
musicians in America, he got his first guitar from the Sear-Roebuck
Co. mail order catalog. He converted this ordinary guitar into a
Hawaiian sounding one by adding a nut under the guitar strings that
raised them. He debuted in 1924 as part of the shady tent show scene.
His bluer period is perhaps his most interesting because it combined
the blue yodeler format with double entendre sexy lyrics, barnyard
imagery and double-sided humor. "Mouse Ear's Blues" is about
defloration and the 'ears' are labia. His only rival in these 'dirty'
lyrics was Jimmie Davis, later 2-time governor of Louisiana. The
first stanza of sexual prowess standard "Shanghai Rooster" was
written by JR and finished off by CC. Carlisle was both influenced by
blues players and singers and in turn ended up influencing them. "Put
that needle in the hole" he sing in his yodel standard "Nasty Swing,"
one that has not lost its noir charm after all these years. He gave
up the seedy for the religious when he stopped recording in the 1950s
and turned to the life of a preacher.

It is certainly gratifying to discover material like this based on
lots of searching and waiting: my local blues shop ordered a similar
Carlisle collection from, I think, Document Records, another
excellent archeo-musicological [Austrian] label devoted to mostly
North American roots music. But the record just never came in, I just
kept seeing the shop-owner, a real blues aficionado, when I ran into
him in the fruit aisle at the super market but for 5 months I waited
and finally ran across this 4-CD set in the best record store in
Amsterdam, Concerto. The next day in January, I saw the proprietor
who told me the record had finally come inŠ The "Yodeling blonde
Bombshell" comes courtesy of grand dame of western yodeling, Janet
McBride who helped hook me up with Sharon Marie.

I have struck up a bit of communication with Carolina Cotton daughter
Sharon Marie who has done an excellent service for listeners by
issuing this excellent collection: nice artwork, insightful liner
notes, good soundŠ none of that feeling that it is an unloved quickie
pressed out for profit's sake only. All 3 of the records featured
were made with respect and love.
~~~
Notes on other Patapoe audionauts & nuts:
o Jonges v/d Vlakte [Boys from the Plains]: "De cottonpickin' Jongens
van de cottonpickin' Vlakte" play a piquant, illuminating, and
playfully irritating mix of faulty music, of near-misses, of obscure
failures, of world music that is not from this world 19.00-20.30
[Dutch time, subtract 1 hr for UK, subtract 6 hrs for US East Coast]
Mondays @ PTP

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