The one I have a visual memory of could have been Bush, yes. It's a
pretty vague memory, however. I'll probably never know g.
But if Van was slim, the person I saw in a video dub of old TV footage was
definitely not him.
--jr.
But if Van was slim, the person I saw in a video dub of old TV footage was
definitely not him.
As someone already mentioned, Howard appeared in some of the Gannaway films
with Price; he wasn't noticeably chunkier that Ray, at least not then. Of
course, when I think of "old TV footage," my
"Ph. Barnard" wrote:
Joe:
I think it's Ray Price, doing the old (pre-multitrack) overdub technique
whereby you sing as the original master rolls and record the mixed
result onto a new master.
While I'm the last person to be differing with Joe, I honestly
think it's not just Ray
Jon, the TV footage I was thinking of was definitely either 50s, or very
early 60s at latest. They did Crazy Arms.
--jr.
http://www.pond.com/~vanallen/raynvan.html has a nice picture of Ray and Van together.
np: Dobrology, Bop to Broadway on Slide Guitar, by Stephen Miller. Nice job of some
unusual cover tunes by a Canadian resophonic guitarist.
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ph. Barnard wrote:
Ah, thank you Brad! Yeah, Van Howard is the name... And I do
believe he's the heavyset guy I've seen in old footage, etc.
--junior
I've got a picture of him and Ray on my PC right now, a clip from one of
the old Gannaway shows, I think ... I
Ah, thank you Brad! Yeah, Van Howard is the name... And I do
believe he's the heavyset guy I've seen in old footage, etc.
--junior
According to the liner notes in Hillbilly Fever, volume 3: Legends of Nashville, the
harmony vocal was sung by guitarist Van Howard on the song "Crazy Arms". He probably
did many of the other harmony vocals as well.
He's the one I saw talking about his harmony singing days with Ray on
Backstage at the Opry aways back
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