The Homer & Jethro Project #11

Back again

#11 and a sixth of the way through.

And we kick it off today with another contribution by the future Mrs. Johnny Cash 

January 1950 - RCA 48-0181 - I Said My Nightshirt/Music Music Music


June Carter is back with another installment of her weird threesome romance with the boys which causes all involved some issues. It's kind of funny so long as you don't consider the implied menage a trois and focus on the humorous malapropisms of the lyric.

B Side is a Dixie fried version of a tune that was a current hit for Teresa Brewer that sounded like it should have been a much older song. It fooled me.

April 1950 - RCA 48-0308 - You Tell Her I Stutter/Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight

A Side. Finding some humor in mocking an unfortunate soul with a speech impediment.
B Side redoing another old chestnut from 1924 as recorded by Billy Jones & Ernest Hare.

The song would have another life at the other end of the decade when a version by Lonnie Donegan became a hit during the short lived UK Skiffle craze where American Blues and Roots music was watered down with a healthy dose of UK Vaudeville. But the kids dug it which the led to them picking up guitars and a later watering down of American Blues and Rock and Roll that came to be known as the British Invasion.

Dark times. Dark times indeed.

(I'd also like to add that I have multiple versions of these songs. The original 45 looks like it's been sanded. Versions on budget compilations released in the mid-60s are in fake stereo (lots of crap reverb to fill out the mono sound) and with a long intro cut off of the latter tune.
I then found a 78rpm with nice gloss, but with a chip that goes right up to the grooves on the A side and then had to find someone with a 78 player to transfer it. It's been an arduous process, but the original 78 sounds pretty damn good, actually.)

You're welcome.