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Wakely earlier recorded the song as "Oklahoma Blues." This one (with "City") is a little shorter, but has the same words and tune. [253] "Oklahoma City Blues" – Neal Pattman, 1999. [254] (Wakely's and Pattman's songs are two completely different compositions.)
The song was first commercially recorded on the OKeh label in 1926 as "Pistol Pete's Midnight Special" by Dave "Pistol Pete" Cutrell, a member of McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band. [6] Cutrell follows the traditional song except for semi-comedic stanzas about Billy McGinty and Otto Gray, who took over as bandleader and manager when McGinty left ...
The Midnight Band would later be featured on following Scott-Heron albums, assisting in production and back-up instrumentation. The songs on The First Minute of a New Day, which feature themes ranging from spirituality ("Offering") to revolution ("The Liberation Song") and oppression ("Winter in America"), contain jazz melodies by the Midnight ...
Ballads and folk songs of the Southwest: more than 600 titles, melodies, and texts collected in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964. Savage, William W., Jr. Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8061-2085-1
The band was formed as a result of Lyle and McEwan meeting during a co-writing workshop in 2012 in North Hollywood, CA. [2] [3] Inspired in part by the score for Drive, and the retro synth genre growing around its release, [3] the pair wrote two singles, "WeMoveForward" and "Gloria", that would be released two years later in 2014 as part of their debut EP titled Days of Thunder.
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"Billy McGinty & His Cowboy Band Take to the Air" (transcription). Oklahoma Audio Almanac. Oklahoma State University, May 9, 2001. McRill, Leslie A. "Music in Oklahoma by the Billy McGinty Cowboy Band". Chronicles of Oklahoma, (Spring, 1960) 38:1 66-74. Otto Gray's Oklahoma Cowboys. Early Cowboy Band. British Archive of Country Music, CD D 139 ...
Impressed by Bell's version of Ruth Franks' song "Roses In The Snow", Harris recorded it as the title track of her 1980 bluegrass album. [8] In 1982, Harris produced Bell's self-titled solo album on Warner Bros. Records. One of the songs, "Flame in My Heart", was a duet with John Anderson. The album reached #35 on the Billboard charts, but ...