The Homer & Jethro Project #8

Eight.

Here's where the fun truly begins.

June 1949 - RCA 48-0075 (with June Carter) - Baby, It's Cold Outside/Country Girl




So now they're on RCA Victor. They're recording in RCA Victor studios, they've got RCA's ace session guys to back them and best of all they've got Jethro's brother in law, Chet Atkins producing and playing on pretty much every record they make from this point on.

In 1946 Jethro Burns and Chet Atkins married twin sisters. Then

According to wikipedia:

(Chet)

"... made his first RCA Victor recordings in Chicago in 1947. They did not sell, but he did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again, where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show

In 1949, he left WNOX to join June Carter with Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters on KWTO. This incarnation of the old Carter Family featured Maybelle Carter and daughters June, Helen, and Anita..."

And thus the stage was set for this record in 1949, Homer and Jethro and June Carter doing their country rendition of  the Frank Loesser tune "Baby, It's Cold Outside" of which there are umpteen versions, but the song originates in a 1949 movie "Neptune's Daughter".

This song was the first of several singles that Homer & Jethro shared with the yet to be Mrs. Johnny Cash and would eventually have them show up on Johnny Cash's 1969-71 prime time variety show.
They even have a under-rehearsed geriatric go at this in 1970.

The B side is "Country Girl" and an early appearance of a song by the fabulous team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and has our gal June in the feature spot taking the lead.

October 1949 - RCA 48-0113 - Tennessee Border No. 2/ I'm Getting Older Every Day




First you start with a pretty straight song like Red Foley's version of "Tennessee Border", rewrite all the lyrics, tack a "No. 2" at the end and sit back and enjoy such gems as

"..Her hair was long, she had a Tony
Her neck looked like a roll of bologna..."

The B side is another gem of the inevitable slide into old age and yet another Homer and Jethro original composition.

"...Well the girls just look at me and grin
Say look what a shape the old man's in
(I'm a-getting older every day)
Don't laugh at me 'cause it ain't fair
You're the one that put me there
(I'm a-getting older every day).."