Here we are. #16.
This puts us at approximately on quarter of the way through this exercise.
Are we having fun yet?
September 1951 - RCA 47-4290 - Too Old to Cut the Mustard/Too Young
A themed pair of songs musing about age for this go around.
Who knew comedy could be so deep?
"Too Old to Cut the Mustard" is a song written by Bill Carlisle that had a number of recordings as a duet including Ernest Tubb & Red Foley whose version came out in December 1951 and a version by the unlikely duo of Marlene Dietrich & Rosemary Clooney.
You're getting Homer and Jethro. So make do.
B side is "Too Young". You probably know this song. Nat King Cole has the most famous version.
This version is much less famous.
November 1951 - RCA 47-4397 - Cold Cold Heart No. 2/Alabama Jubilee
It's sometimes difficult to remember but there was a time when Hank Williams, sr was alive and kicking and recording music and not just some dead guy who wrote the only old school country songs that the average person knows. He was still kicking in 1951 and "Cold Cold Heart" was a brand new song on the radio. Hank looked like this when he sang it.
Homer and Jethro looked like this:
One gets the feeling that they weren't taking it quite as seriously.
B side "Alabama Jubilee" was first recorded by Red Foley with the Nashville Dixielanders.
Homer and Jethro lack the killer spoon playing of the original, but make it up with a Chet Atkins solo of immense proportions. Win some and you lose some.
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