Gid Tanner & The Skillet Lickers-Soldiers Joy-1929(w/film clip)

[mrsuperterd]

my left ear needs some too...

[preservationhall01]

@mrsuperterd Workin' in both my headphones, try pulling your jack out about 1/64 inch.

[mrsuperterd]

@preservationhall01 thanks that worked. how did you ever figure that out its genius?

[preservationhall01]

@mrsuperterd Thank you for that kind comment. Wife says it must have been stupid luck that figured it out if I did it. Its all in the electronics of that little round ball at the end of your jack, This crap comes from China now and is not precision made as in the past when it was made in Germany or Czech Republic. Thanks for stopping by to visit. PH01

[countorlock100]

Roll up that carpet girl !

[Youbic68]

Great video! Too bad I get an advertizement before it every time I click on the link.

[preservationhall01]

@Youbic68 Well, I'm not getting any money from the ads. Someone is claiming they have a copyright to this music and is selling the ads.

[sportstuber11]

Tanner is the grandfather to lead singer of Cadillac Sky Levi Lowrey. This is an awesome video!

[preservationhall01]

@sportstuber11 They just keep it runnin' in the family, don't they?

[sportstuber11]

@preservationhall01 Amen, Cadillac Sky was an excellent group. Shame they broke up.

[warrenoaksfishing]

if only they could play today on American Idol....the TVs would blow up

[tommyhunt54]

I have many LPs & CDs Tanner, Stokes, Puckett, etc... This is my fav of their recordings! I'm a Texan, but I love those legendary musicians from Nothern Georgia.

[preservationhall01]

@tommyhunt54 Well, most of our Texas musicians got here thru the deep south 100- 150 years ago . Cheers from Houston! PH01

[sarahjohn2857]

Makes me want to dance!



[FiddlinMikeRolland]

Wow, thanks for posting this. It's so cool to hear such an old recording. There's no way I could find a copy of this recording anywhere else. I teach this tune for free on my channel. I post a new lesson for fiddle, guitar, and mandolin there every single week! You can also get the full lesson and the sheet music on my website.

[gratefultiger]

This old time music can't be improved upon bloody well priceless!

[EliasCrowe]

This is my favorite song in all of the songs there is, this is my favorite one.

[erfling1]

twenty five cents for the morphine, fifteen cents for the beer

[ThePiedpiper81]

I know you won't believe this, but Gid Tanner is my great, great grand father. No joke.

[bminus238]

check out molly o'day and the clinch mountain ramblers

[colindominy]

Another fabulous rollicking tune fom Gid, Riley, Clayton and the rest of the boys .. in fact this one is probably one of their best-ever songs. Certainly it's very, very typical & representative of their glorious sound. Great post, and THANK YOU ph01 !!

[edmountainga]

The Skillet Lickers are still around, kept alive by Phil and Russ Tanner, Gid's grandson and great grandson. Both are great fiddlers.

[McGrenzer]

Good times, preservationhall! Love the way each of the soloists is identified and the film is a joy in itself. Thanks for brightening my day!

[witri9]

Another great one!

[chazlopresti]

The video is an overlay featuring Roscoe Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. Harold Lloyd looks noting like those films because he preserved his film like so many fine pickles. See Harold Lloyd's Speedy for comparative reference. I'm not sure any video of Gid, Riley, Fate and Clayton exists. If so...charge me 15 cents for my morphine.

the Skillet Lickers are amongst America's best creative offerings ever.

[JohnBean64]

or the real words:

Chicken in the bread tray scratching up dough

Granny will your dog bite? No Child no

Ladies to the center and the gents catch air

Hold her noose don't let her rare.

"Ladies to the center and the gents catch air" is a contradance move.

"Hold her noose don't let her rare" was commonly used to describe young ladies who were hot to trot but needed to be held back.

[bubbajimmy8]

is that harold lloyd in the film?

[demers47]

no sound!?

[markbrine]

can hear minstrel period-influence here, Foster period, etc. too.i t never dies.. just moves on! Yes, very Cool!!.

[9lontoonieful1]

This group are excellent musicians!

[preservationhall01]

@9lontoonieful1 They were good musicians. This was recorded 81 years ago and these musicians are all long gone into history.

[9lontoonieful1]

I don't believe anyone has ever played that song better. That video is also good, quite funny.

[Squarerig]

The sounds and sights of a long-vanished America.What a delight to be able to hear and see this clip.Thank you for the film and the tip suggesting that I visit this page.

[SpooksHill]

"dont you let'em dance on your new carpet. you make'em roll it up" LOL for some reason i got a kick out of that

[foathkent]

fuck this is absolutely beautiful folk

[djfjgfhgh]

the picture in 2:02 scares the heck out of me, but he plays good

[ELIAXTRO]

25 cents for the morphine : )

[cemmi2]

The Holy Model Rounders did a psychodelic version Of "Soldiers joy" on their Indian war whoop album on ESP and the lyrics were " Rock that cradle lucy, Rock the cradle high, Rock that cradle lucy... don't let the baby die".. are they going to BAN that too? Actually has very early roots and many variations.

[ELIAXTRO]

@cemmi2 - if you listen to the very end of the Eagles' Journey Of The Sorcerer you can hear Soldiers Joy.

[Carlinfan1]

I'm fixin to DJ a hoedown and I can't think of a better dog gun openin number to slam bang around to than this

[MrTeaparties]

My black friend loves the skillet Lickers

[TruegrassBoy]

@MrTeaparties I'm curious.... why do you feel it's necessary to mention your black friend? This old fiddle tune has nothing to do with race.

[Chambersaviator]

Yep, love the Skillet Lickers!

[ginny1862]

I'm a huge fan of the 20's fiddle music. I had an uncle that played the fiddle and knew Gid and the whole gang. He taught me several of Rileys runs that I still love to play. I also have my Uncles 78 collection.

[chazlopresti]

@ginny1862 Any time you'd like dinner in Chicago -look me up.

[RoyFive]

I love this song regardless of who does it--but the Skillet Lickers version is in a class unto itself.

[ysplse]

Great thanx. Where did you get the film?

[preservationhall01]

Its from the 1919 silent movie "The Hayseed" which is on this channel in 3 parts.

[hawkeye4771]

thank you brother , thank you all to pieces. the lords gonna bless you in the days to come!! one of the MANY CLASSICS by them fiddlin fun makin fools from Dacula, Georgia. SKILLITLICKERS RULE !!!!

[preservationhall01]

Sounds like you might have enjoyed this! Thanks for stopping by the channel.

[TheSecretmuseum]

@preservationhall01 \

no, child-

ladies to the center, gents catch air

hold her noose, don't let 'er rear!

[TorontoEd7]

Thank you so much. This is the first time i've heard the words to Soldiers Joy. I like these Skillet Lickers and appreciate your site alot!

[preservationhall01]

Soldier's Joy is several hundred years old. These words were probably composed by Tanner or Puckett. But still about a soldier's desire for drugs.

[TruegrassBoy]

@preservationhall01 Yes, I believe this tune has been found in a 14th century book. Since it was probably around long before being set down on paper, it's more likely closer to a thousand years old. A soldiers' only "joy" in life was getting rip-roaring drunk. His life was pretty rough with low pay, plenty of floggings for minor infractions and death for major ones. Wives and children followed the army (and ate free) because they would starve if left at home.

[ewd76]

@preservationhall01

Drugs make me feel good.

[pogofiddle]

my grandfather played fiddle w/his family band in kansas early I wonder if they played this fine tune tks for the post rm

[curleyQ01]

Another 5***** treasure from your museum.

[kickingmule]

Thanks Brother, this is just Great !

5 up and keep the spirit up !

[preservationhall01]

Hello Brother Urban. Hope you had some fun with this old "Gid Vid".