Summer of '69 at the Fleet Club…
I got some mail from Lew Jenkins today… The attachment included a Bob Luman Song that we played with him when he was up here in the summer of '69 to open the Fleet Club… We opened the stage with Jerry Cole and the RoadMasters then Backed Bob Luman and, with a Female Front that came up with him from Nashville… I am unable to think of who she was… Too bad… Her performance was as good if not better than his show was on that stage… I will remember her name after I post this on the Board. {[edit] I got more mail from Lew… Her name is/was Pat McKinney… She married and dropped out of the business}… I never played on a stage with as much energy as him fronting Mike Melvin Lew Jenkins John Shaw… I think we had a one-week stand with two weekends. The show opened on a Friday night and closed on the following Saturday night a week later… Just an incredible stage… To tell the story I have to post this song as it was at the top of the charts during the spring-and-summer of '69… The song was one of few songs that didn’t include any Keys… in it’s day…It was perfect for the RoadMasters Stage-and-Sound…
http://members.lycos.co.uk/woxnerw…ddy.mp3
The Vocal mix is what is known as “Out Front”… Well… It sounds like the Jordanaires singing the Backing on that song… Do you think??
Bob Luman later scummed to Drugs and Alcohol 
and… the loss of a Great Entertainer and Front of his Day)…
Bill…
That’s great, Bill, I want a whole CD of that.
I’m downloading build 2269…
It’s along process for me to get a 16+ meg. file with a modem…
However, while waiting for the file to download I had to “Google” Bob Luman… I came up with what I think is a pretty complete profile of this guy… He connected himself to some hi-profile names in the buisness… If you have some spare moments and want to waist some time reading, you’ll find this interesting…
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BobLuman.html
You’ll find some American Music History in there…
Bill…
Man, he made a lot of records. Got any of those?
My life-long friend and Steel guitar player Leonard McDonald, is not with us anymore… Now there’s a guy that had a record collection… His house was full of them… 80% of them were never opened. His collection could very well be worth a fortune… He was a more traditional music fan than I am… I’m only 23… Well… In-My-Mind… Believe-it-or-Not a good Rock-a-Billy record collection in the UK could be valued at pricless… There’s quite a large following of Swamp Music Fans over there…
I remember us getting into conversations regarding Steel-or-Dobro lines in songs and getting into debates about how lines were played and he would leave the room and come back with a record that he would have to open to play it and say NO IT was played this way… He knew who all the musicians on the project was, when it was recorded, what studio it was done in and who the tracking engineers and producers were… He had no favorite singers… Just favorite steel guitar and Dobro guitar players. We agreed that Paul Franklin may have been one of the better Steel guitar players there ever was. I don’t think he’s tracking anymore… What a shame… I got no one to argue music, anymore… 
Bill…