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Tuesday, 6 July 2010

WHITE SQUIRREL


Olney. Illinois


WHITE SQUIRREL 100
LES SMITHHART AND HIS SUPER X COWBOYS
You’re Only Making Fun Of Me (Vocal – Jim Gatlin) (E3KB 3723)
(Jim Gatlin) (No Publisher Noted)
I Can’t Live My Life Alone (Vocal – Les Smithhart) (E3KB 3724)
(Les Smithhart) (No Publisher Noted)

Note: WHITE SQUIRREL 100 is a RCA Custom pressing from 1953. WHITE SQUIRREL 100 was also issued as a 45rpm single.

Hear "You’re Only Making Fun Of Me"



Hear "I Can’t Live My Life Alone"

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6 comments:

  1. Steve Hathaway7 July 2010 at 02:20

    Can you post the Jim Gatlin side? He had 2 great sides with the Super X band on the Rykodisc Mar-Vel CD collection. There they say the band was from Kentucky. Olney is in southern part of state close to Indiana (Mar-Vel's home) and Kentucky.

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  2. mrb394ever7 July 2010 at 14:16

    Wonderful tune. Thanks. And the great label will go on my "squirrel artifacts" shelf.

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  3. sherman hanks20 July 2011 at 04:27

    My dad played with Les Smithheart in the 1950s his name was Clarence Hanks he played the steele guitar.If you have any info. on any record he may have played on i would appreciate knowing. My E-mail address is shermanhanks@att.net thx. for your time

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  4. Anonymous8 August 2011 at 17:32

    Just wanted to let you know that the Henderson Depot Community Room is working on an exhibit featuring the local hillbilly/country music scene and including Les Smithhart and the Super X Cowboys, as well as James "Spider" Rich, Louis Marshall "Grandpa" Jones and Jim Owen! You can find the Community Room at www.hendersondepot.org (click on links then blog) or 270-830-9707

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  5. Unknown24 July 2012 at 19:05

    Boy, oh boy, I searched for this song by Les Smithart for a long, long time. I am now 78 years old and can remember living in Henderson, KY on Collier road a couple of houses down from Les's home and converted chicken house which he make into a fiddle shop. He made wonderful music and wonderful fiddles. Some sold for thousands.
    I could hear Les and the Super X Cowboys practicing and would sneak down there and listen to them. At the time they had a radio show on WSON at noon and I listened to Les, his brothers Johnny and Wally, Doug Oldham,and "Rusty Neck" Pendergrast.

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  6. Unknown6 August 2012 at 00:10

    Thanks for this blog. I once lived in Henderson Ky just two doors down Collier road from Les and his fiddle shop. I knew most of the guys in the band. Doug Oldham, Johnny Smithart, Wally Smithart and Ken "Rusty Neck" Pendegraft.

    Al Sandefur

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