Any of you old pullets or roosters get up before 5:45am to pick them up on their morning 15 min radio show? If you have listened to their Carnegie Hall album or CD, Lester does not quite understand how they came to hear it way up north. Well WSM radio 650 kc or KHz was a 50,000 watt clear channel station and the nighttime skywave was changing to regular daytime at that time period and especially on cold winter mornings WSM came in strong up north. I lived up in Ohio and listened to it.
I had the Carnegie Hall Live album and the audience yelled out for them to sing the Martha White theme. Don't believe this is it, but sounds a lot like that performance.
Thanks for posting this...a friend gave me a box of vhs tapes of country concerts from the 70s and david allan coe opened a show to this song and i could only make out martha white...now i got it...goodness gracious good and light martha white!
Does anybody remember the "Its the Grand ol Opry, letter go boys" on the opry intro? If anybody has it or knows where I can get it please let me know.
This is the version they played on the Opry before Marha White quit sponsoring the Sat nite segment-it was one made after Earl left-Josh is still on it so it is either Vic Jordan or Haskell McCormick playing banjo.
@pegcage You know Haskell could sound just like Earl. But the reason I know that it was one of the two, they did not use a recording until after Lester died-it was played live until then. That's when they started using the recording from one of Lester's band. It still is great whomever though isn't it? It was the same one that Grant Turner played on the 5:45 morning show after Lester passed also.
I like the version they did at the classic Carnegie Hall concert in 1963 when some fans in the audience kept yelling out "Martha White!" and Flatt said "I didn't know you people up North had heard that one" and then the band did a great rendition of it.
Martha White still makes the best corn meal mix. So easy to make great cornbread with it. Every time I make some I think about Lester and Earl. The greatest association of a musical group with a product ever! And a great theme!
I well remember my first actual experience with Martha White. Had been a Flatt & Scruggs fan for years so knew about the flour, but one night I was driving off the interstate to meet friends for dinner in a town in Tennessee - maybe Carthage or "Cathrage" as it is pronounced there - and there, lo and behold, was a huge Martha White on a flour mill. What a kick! There never was and never will be again anybody quite Flatt & Scruggs and their aggregation.
do you know what year this was? I have an old flour bag or dish towel with Flatt and Scruggs and the lyrics on it, and was just wanting to get a date on it. Thanks
This video was made with a digital audio recording I got off the internet seven or eight years ago. I don't know how old it is. The images were also obtained from various internet sites. I just stuck them together to make this video.
There is older version of this song I actually like better. I wish I had it.
Any of you old pullets or roosters get up before 5:45am to pick them up on their morning 15 min radio show? If you have listened to their Carnegie Hall album or CD, Lester does not quite understand how they came to hear it way up north. Well WSM radio 650 kc or KHz was a 50,000 watt clear channel station and the nighttime skywave was changing to regular daytime at that time period and especially on cold winter mornings WSM came in strong up north. I lived up in Ohio and listened to it.
stanleybadams 5 months ago
Does anyone out there know who wrote this jingle? I heard it was Harold Lane, but I may be wrong.
judyhaynes1954 7 months ago
banjo makrs e
daphandrog 1 year ago
I had the Carnegie Hall Live album and the audience yelled out for them to sing the Martha White theme. Don't believe this is it, but sounds a lot like that performance.
pegcage 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this...a friend gave me a box of vhs tapes of country concerts from the 70s and david allan coe opened a show to this song and i could only make out martha white...now i got it...goodness gracious good and light martha white!
cephus995 1 year ago
*8:00 PM Central Time - Every Saturday Night - WSM Radio AM 650 - Like clockwork, boy.
mtnroads 1 year ago
played on the opry every week even nowadays
nittany1973 1 year ago
Does anybody remember the "Its the Grand ol Opry, letter go boys" on the opry intro? If anybody has it or knows where I can get it please let me know.
slam95 2 years ago
Wasn't it in "Coal Miner's Daughter" where Doo came to ask permission of Loretta's parents for marriage?
ronaldt491 2 years ago
This is the version they played on the Opry before Marha White quit sponsoring the Sat nite segment-it was one made after Earl left-Josh is still on it so it is either Vic Jordan or Haskell McCormick playing banjo.
olehoundog1 2 years ago 6
@olehoundog1 Disagree. Sounds like Earl to me.
pegcage 1 year ago
@pegcage You know Haskell could sound just like Earl. But the reason I know that it was one of the two, they did not use a recording until after Lester died-it was played live until then. That's when they started using the recording from one of Lester's band. It still is great whomever though isn't it? It was the same one that Grant Turner played on the 5:45 morning show after Lester passed also.
olehoundog1 1 year ago 5
Hadn't heard this version before - where did you come up with it?
TruegrassBoy 2 years ago
It is a digital audio recording I got off the internet seven or eight years ago. I don't remember where.
lawrencethelizard 2 years ago
I like the version they did at the classic Carnegie Hall concert in 1963 when some fans in the audience kept yelling out "Martha White!" and Flatt said "I didn't know you people up North had heard that one" and then the band did a great rendition of it.
geohab 2 years ago
Martha White still makes the best corn meal mix. So easy to make great cornbread with it. Every time I make some I think about Lester and Earl. The greatest association of a musical group with a product ever! And a great theme!
pegcage 2 years ago 2
I well remember my first actual experience with Martha White. Had been a Flatt & Scruggs fan for years so knew about the flour, but one night I was driving off the interstate to meet friends for dinner in a town in Tennessee - maybe Carthage or "Cathrage" as it is pronounced there - and there, lo and behold, was a huge Martha White on a flour mill. What a kick! There never was and never will be again anybody quite Flatt & Scruggs and their aggregation.
bobther1 2 years ago 2
Thanks for this. Nobody does this like Flatt and Scruggs!
pegcage 2 years ago
do you know what year this was? I have an old flour bag or dish towel with Flatt and Scruggs and the lyrics on it, and was just wanting to get a date on it. Thanks
lunchlady6 2 years ago
This video was made with a digital audio recording I got off the internet seven or eight years ago. I don't know how old it is. The images were also obtained from various internet sites. I just stuck them together to make this video.
There is older version of this song I actually like better. I wish I had it.
lawrencethelizard 2 years ago