Day Seven.
It seems more official if you write out the number.
January 1949 - King 749 - I Feel That Old Age Creeping On/ Goodbye Old Booze
Here it is again, another Homer and Jethro original on the A side. When I was younger than now, I thought it was a funny song. Now as my middle age marches inexorably towards the decrepitude and the grave it seems more real than humorous. (sigh)
The flip is yet another old chestnut updated and given that special Homer and Jethro touch. A nice early version was committed to shellac by the great Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers back in the year 1926. Homer and Jethro seem somewhat less enthused to become teetotalers. I tend to agree with them.
"I'll quit my drinkin' when I have found
Another way, to get it down"
Hard to argue with that.
April 1949 - King 773 - The Girl on the Police Gazette/Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl
The A side is actually an Irving Berlin tune which apparently didn't quite enter the canon like some of his other efforts, but was a record of some status for Dick Powell in 1937.
B side. Old folk song. There's a pattern. This one may date back to an old sea shanty, but who listens to that shit, lets rock out to the Tenneva Ramblers kicking out the jams in 1927 with "Miss Liza, Poor Girl"
September 1949 - King 809 - Always/Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl
So at some point here in 1949 Homer and Jethro jumped ship from King Records and got signed to RCA Victor. With still a few strays in the can King threw to the winds yet another Homer and Jethro stab at an Irving Berlin tune and backed it with the previously released "Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl".
The song "Always" dates back to the year 1925 and is reported to have been written by Berlin as a wedding present for his wife. In 1926 Henry Burr committed this version to wax which sounds rather quaint compared to the simple country sincerity of Homer and Jethro.
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