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Skeets McDonald: One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD)

(Real Gone Music) 104 tracks 1951- 1962

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  • Interpret: Skeets McDonald

  • Albumtitel: One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Real Gone Music

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 5036408158628

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McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 1
01Goin' Steady With The BluesSkeets McDonald
02Gone And Left Me BluesSkeets McDonald
03Yard And A Half Of BluesSkeets McDonald
04You're ThereSkeets McDonald
05Hawaiian Sea BreezeSkeets McDonald
06Tomorrow Never ComesSkeets McDonald
07Blues In My MindSkeets McDonald
08My Room Is CrowdedSkeets McDonald
09I'll Sail My Ship AloneSkeets McDonald
10Lost HighwaySkeets McDonald
11I'm Sorry NowSkeets McDonald
12Fort Worth JailSkeets McDonald
13When The Roses Bloom Around Our Cabin DoorSkeets McDonald
14The Southland BoogieSkeets McDonald
15The Tattooed LadySkeets McDonald
16Mean And Evil BluesSkeets McDonald
17You Can't Come Back PolkaSkeets McDonald
18My Home In TennesseeSkeets McDonald
19I Can't Take No MoreSkeets McDonald
20Please Daddy, Don't Go To WarSkeets McDonald
21So I Cried Myself To SleepSkeets McDonald
22Make My Dreams Come TrueSkeets McDonald
23The Things You Used To SaySkeets McDonald
24Sentimental FoolSkeets McDonald
25Baby When You're AroundSkeets McDonald
26Goodbye BluesSkeets McDonald
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 2
01Only One Love In Each HeartSkeets McDonald
02Blues Is Bad NewsSkeets McDonald
03Scott, Git And BegoneSkeets McDonald
04Today I'm Moving OutSkeets McDonald
05Bless Your Little Ol' HeartSkeets McDonald
06I'm Hurtin'Skeets McDonald
07Ridin' With BluesSkeets McDonald
08Fuss And FightSkeets McDonald
09Baby Brown EyesSkeets McDonald
10Birthday Cake BoogieSkeets McDonald
11Tell Me WhySkeets McDonald
12Be My Life's CompanionSkeets McDonald
13The Love That Hurt Me SoSkeets McDonald
14Wheel Of FortuneSkeets McDonald
15Please Come BackSkeets McDonald
16Curtain Of TearsSkeets McDonald
17Don't Let The Stars Get In Your EyesSkeets McDonald
18Big Family TroubleSkeets McDonald
19I'm Sorry To Say I'm SorrySkeets McDonald
20Let Me KnowSkeets McDonald
21I've Gotto Win Your Love AgainSkeets McDonald
22I Can't Last LongSkeets McDonald
23It's Your LifeSkeets McDonald
24Baby, I'm Countin'Skeets McDonald
25Worried MindSkeets McDonald
26Hi Diddle DeeSkeets McDonald
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 3
01I Need Your LoveSkeets McDonald
02Looking At The Moon And Wishing On A StarSkeets McDonald
03Walking On TeardropsSkeets McDonald
04Look Who's Crying NowSkeets McDonald
05Remember You're MineSkeets McDonald
06I Love You, Mama MiaSkeets McDonald
07Your Love Is Like A FaucetSkeets McDonald
08But I DoSkeets McDonald
09The Smoke Gets Out My Chimney Just The SameSkeets McDonald
10Each Time A New Love DiesSkeets McDonald
11Number One In Your HeartSkeets McDonald
12I Can't Stand It Any LongerSkeets McDonald
13A Losing HandSkeets McDonald
14You're Too LateSkeets McDonald
15Strollin'Skeets McDonald
16You Turned Me DownSkeets McDonald
17Baby, I'm Lost Without YouSkeets McDonald
18I Got A New Field To PlowSkeets McDonald
19Fallen AngelSkeets McDonald
20It'll Take Me A Long, Long TimeSkeets McDonald
21You Oughta See Grandma RockSkeets McDonald
22Heart Breakin' MamaSkeets McDonald
23SomebodySkeets McDonald
24You Gotta Be My BabySkeets McDonald
25Don't Push Me Too FarSkeets McDonald
26You Better Not GoSkeets McDonald
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 4
01I Am MusicSkeets McDonald
02Keep Her Off Your MindSkeets McDonald
03Your Sweet Love Is GoneSkeets McDonald
04Welcome HomeSkeets McDonald
05FingertipsSkeets McDonald
06Bless Your Little Ol' HeartSkeets McDonald
07Love WindSkeets McDonald
08I'm Hurtin'Skeets McDonald
09What Am I Doin' HereSkeets McDonald
10What I Know About HerSkeets McDonald
11What A Lonesome Life It's BeenSkeets McDonald
12Baby WaitSkeets McDonald
13Where You Go (I'll Follow)Skeets McDonald
14Cheek To Cheek - Mcdonalds, Skeets / Blues, TheSkeets McDonald
15Gotta Get You From That GroundSkeets McDonald
16EvergladesSkeets McDonald
17Make Room For The BluesSkeets McDonald
18This Old HeartSkeets McDonald
19You're Not Wicked, You're Just WeakSkeets McDonald
20He'll Let You Live A LittleSkeets McDonald
21Same Old TownSkeets McDonald
22I Write You LettersSkeets McDonald
23What A Fool I WasSkeets McDonald
24You Warned MeSkeets McDonald
25I've Got Show YouSkeets McDonald
26Dear John (I've Sent Your Saddle Home)Skeets McDonald
SKEETS McDONALD DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES Entire volumes are still being... mehr
"Skeets McDonald"

SKEETS McDONALD

DON'T LET THE STARS GET IN YOUR EYES

Entire volumes are still being written about poets, dramatists, philosophers, and political figures who died centuries ago, yet very little is known about Skeets McDonald, a country singer of renown who died just thirty years ago. In its way, that says much about what was considered worthy of documentation in the very recent past. It's true that Skeets was not one of the major stars of the Fifties and Sixties, but he scored two big hits, Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes in 1952, and Call Me Mr. Brown in 1963. He was on television in Los Angeles every week for years, worked as a sessionman, and played clubs all across the West and Southwest--and points beyond. When he went into the studio, he recorded some of the very best beerhall country music ever to find its way onto disc. He even cut a rock 'n' roll record that earned him a posthumous, if not particularly well-deserved, reputation as a rockabilly singer.

If he were alive, Skeets might well have welcomed any attention from any quarter, even rockabilly fans. He fell into the void between the total nonentities and the stars who seemed to hog what coverage there was. There were a few short pieces in the country fanzines in the early Fifties, and then little or nothing until brief death notices fifteen years later. For some reason, EMI's British budget label, Music For Pleasure, reissued his sole Capitol album, 'Goin' Steady With The Blues', in the mid-Sixties, thinking it was a blues album. Nick Tosches made Skeets one of his 'Unsung Heroes Of Rock 'n' Roll';there were two Bear Family LPs in 1986; and one of Skeets' songs was used as a recurring motif in a bizarre British television series. Besides that, nothing.

 

THE SOUTHLAND

Family history has it that the McDonalds originally settled in South Carolina, and went from there to Alabama and on to Arkansas. What we know of Skeets' early life derives almost entirely from Charles Wolfe's interviews with Skeets' younger brother, Lynn, who has since died. Wolfe's text, published in the liner notes to Bear Family's 'Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes' LP, recaps what little is known of Skeets' earliest years.

Greenway, Arkansas is a small town nestled into the extreme northeastern corner of the state, next to the Missouri bootheel. Eighty miles to the west is West Plains, Missouri, birthplace of Porter Wagoner; eighty miles to the southeast is Memphis, birthplace of the blues. It is an interesting musical climate and it was the home turf of Skeets McDonald. Born October 1, 1915 as Enos William McDonald, into a cotton picking family of three brothers and three sisters, Skeets grew up on his father's farm in a little hamlet called Rector. Early on, he acquired the nickname that would stick with throughout his life. “We raised cotton down there,” brother Lynn McDonald recalled, “and he was the baby in the family, but he always wanted to go out with us. There was one day when we were out hoeing twenty acres of cotton, and he wanted to come and help. We said that it was too hot and that the cotton was too tall--it was about as tall as he was. But he insisted, so we took him. Well, the mosquitoes were really bad that day, and they started getting after him. After a bit of this, he shouted, 'I go home. Skeets bite.' My brother-in-law was with us. He got a kick out of this, and he started calling him 'Skeets.' Skeets didn't like the name at all, didn't like to be called that, but it stuck, and after a while he couldn't do much about it. It was Skeets McDonald."

Though none of his immediate family was a notable musician, Skeets learned traditional Ozark music at the local music parties that still characterize grass roots Ozark music. The older generation of pickers that Skeets listened to included mandolin player Charlie Dodd, and guitarists Carol Hasty and Scott Bradford. By the time he was five, Skeets had a home-made cigarbox fiddle, and was trying to saw out the fiddle tunes he heard from the area's pre-eminent fiddler, Elvin Burns. In later life, Skeets would often call a set of square dancing on a stage show in California or Texas, drawing on the skills honed with Burns and other fiddlers.

The family also had a Victrola, and through this Skeets heard his first singing influence, Jimmie Rodgers, whose popularity peaked when Skeets was thirteen. A well-worn family story recounts Skeets at age twelve getting his first guitar. “He traded a red hound dog for a guitar and six dollars,” recalled Lynn. “And a farm boy became a musician. In the evenings, he would sit for hours, picking guitar and singing.” In between, there were hard chores to do, especially when the Depression hit and money in rural Arkansas was almost non-existent. Still, there were music parties, coon dogs and hunting trips, good fishing, and good friends. “It was a great and happy life,” Skeets reflected in later years.

Like many young Southerners during the Depression, Skeets' older brother, Steve, went north to Michigan to work in the auto factories, and in 1933, when Skeets was eighteen, Steve returned for a visit. He brought news of an entire transplanted 'cracker' culture in Michigan, where so many southerners had moved up that the bars and roadhouses and radio stations around Detroit were filled with the sounds of stringband music. Though Steve was not a musician himself, he had contacts in a band led by the Buffington Brothers called the Lonesome Cowboys. When he heard how good his little brother had gotten on the guitar and how well he could sing the old songs, he invited Skeets to return with him, promising to get him a job. Skeets went and had no trouble fitting into the band, [thus] beginning a career that would last until his death in 1968.

 

 

THE LONESOME COWBOY

Skeets left Greenway High School in 1932, and went first to St. Louis, working on KMOX with an artist remembered only as Pappy Chasire (or possibly Cheshire). He probably arrived in Detroit in 1935 or 1936. After leaving Ive and Clayton Buffington, he led several of his own bands, and by 1936, he was on WEXL in Royal Oak, about half-way between Pontiac and Detroit. Skeets couldn't yet make a full-time living from music, so he held down a day job, played the radio station early in the morning, and worked the beerjoints on weekends.

The Treeces were from Missouri, and one Sunday afternoon Mr. Treece took his daughter, Opal, to hear some music from back home. Skeets began flirting with Opal, and bought her a chicken dinner. Opal was going to high school at the time, and Skeets was working in the press room at the Fisher body plant (the same place Johnny Cash worked some 15 years later). Skeets got off work around the time that Opal got out of high school, so he'd walk her home. In the morning, he'd dedicate songs to her over the radio.

Skeets and Opal were married soon after she graduated from high school in 1936. Their son, Robert Lee, was born in 1938. Then, when Robert was eleven months old, Opal left. “I kept forgiving him and forgiving him,”she said. “I couldn't endure him living that life. He was a very likeable guy, and he was idolized by a lot of women, and you can only take so much. It was just his weaknesses and his way of life.” Skeets was ordered to pay five dollars a week in alimony, but the payments soon dried up, and he never publicly acknowledged that he had a son or first wife. In 1942, Opal married a real estate broker. Robert went on to graduate from the U.S Naval Academy in 1962 and was in the Army until 1968. Since then he has worked as an engineer. Skeets went on doing the only thing he knew to do.

Skeets' parents, Sam and Ethel, divorced in Arkansas and moved separately to Pontiac in the late years of the Depression to join Skeets, Steve, and their younger brother, Lynn. One of Skeets' sisters, Gertie, taught school in Arkansas for 40 years; another, Ida, was a practical nurse in Arkansas; the third, Lela, married a man named Floyd Harber and moved to St. Louis (which might have provided Skeets with the impetus to move there before venturing on to Detroit). Ethel had a steady job for years at the state hospital in Pontiac; Sam was a caretaker in an apartment building. They both retired separately back to Arkansas after the war. Skeets' two older brothers remained in the Detroit area. Steve ran his own car repair shop in Pontiac until his death in 1944. Lynn worked as a ward supervisor at a psychiatric hospital.

The personnel of Skeets' early groups is hard to establish, probably because it changed constantly, and sixty years on, it's almost impossible to pin down his itinerary. Apparently, he brought up several buddies from Rector, including a blind accordionist, Junior Waddington, with whom he worked at the Parkview Lounge. Two brothers from Rector, lead guitarist Shug Daugherty and steel guitarist Durwood Daugherty, backed him at Larson's Night Club. Another of Skeets' friends from Rector, pianist Les Thomas, worked with him at the Scenic Inn. He held down regular spots on WFDF in Flint, Michigan, and on WCAR in Pontiac at various points before the Second World War. One of Skeets' longtime fans, Cloyce Montgomery, remembered that he had a policy of going from table to table between sets to greet the fans; then, when he moved on to another location, his fan base would follow him. According to Fred Lagg's unpublished remembrance of Skeets lodged with the Country Music Foundation, “Old-timers around Detroit will tell you about the time he worked a job on Seven Mile Road, and was such a success that the owner had to enlarge the building to make room for more customers.”

The United States entered the Second World War in 1941, and Skeets joined the Medical 69th General Hospital on April 4, 1943, operating in North Africa, India, and Okinawa. He came home on January 21, 1946 with a Bronze Star.

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Tracklist
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 1
01 Goin' Steady With The Blues
02 Gone And Left Me Blues
03 Yard And A Half Of Blues
04 You're There
05 Hawaiian Sea Breeze
06 Tomorrow Never Comes
07 Blues In My Mind
08 My Room Is Crowded
09 I'll Sail My Ship Alone
10 Lost Highway
11 I'm Sorry Now
12 Fort Worth Jail
13 When The Roses Bloom Around Our Cabin Door
14 The Southland Boogie
15 The Tattooed Lady
16 Mean And Evil Blues
17 You Can't Come Back Polka
18 My Home In Tennessee
19 I Can't Take No More
20 Please Daddy, Don't Go To War
21 So I Cried Myself To Sleep
22 Make My Dreams Come True
23 The Things You Used To Say
24 Sentimental Fool
25 Baby When You're Around
26 Goodbye Blues
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 2
01 Only One Love In Each Heart
02 Blues Is Bad News
03 Scott, Git And Begone
04 Today I'm Moving Out
05 Bless Your Little Ol' Heart
06 I'm Hurtin'
07 Ridin' With Blues
08 Fuss And Fight
09 Baby Brown Eyes
10 Birthday Cake Boogie
11 Tell Me Why
12 Be My Life's Companion
13 The Love That Hurt Me So
14 Wheel Of Fortune
15 Please Come Back
16 Curtain Of Tears
17 Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
18 Big Family Trouble
19 I'm Sorry To Say I'm Sorry
20 Let Me Know
21 I've Gotto Win Your Love Again
22 I Can't Last Long
23 It's Your Life
24 Baby, I'm Countin'
25 Worried Mind
26 Hi Diddle Dee
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 3
01 I Need Your Love
02 Looking At The Moon And Wishing On A Star
03 Walking On Teardrops
04 Look Who's Crying Now
05 Remember You're Mine
06 I Love You, Mama Mia
07 Your Love Is Like A Faucet
08 But I Do
09 The Smoke Gets Out My Chimney Just The Same
10 Each Time A New Love Dies
11 Number One In Your Heart
12 I Can't Stand It Any Longer
13 A Losing Hand
14 You're Too Late
15 Strollin'
16 You Turned Me Down
17 Baby, I'm Lost Without You
18 I Got A New Field To Plow
19 Fallen Angel
20 It'll Take Me A Long, Long Time
21 You Oughta See Grandma Rock
22 Heart Breakin' Mama
23 Somebody
24 You Gotta Be My Baby
25 Don't Push Me Too Far
26 You Better Not Go
McDonald, Skeets - One Classic Album & Singles Collection (4-CD) CD 4
01 I Am Music
02 Keep Her Off Your Mind
03 Your Sweet Love Is Gone
04 Welcome Home
05 Fingertips
06 Bless Your Little Ol' Heart
07 Love Wind
08 I'm Hurtin'
09 What Am I Doin' Here
10 What I Know About Her
11 What A Lonesome Life It's Been
12 Baby Wait
13 Where You Go (I'll Follow)
14 Cheek To Cheek - Mcdonalds, Skeets / Blues, The
15 Gotta Get You From That Ground
16 Everglades
17 Make Room For The Blues
18 This Old Heart
19 You're Not Wicked, You're Just Weak
20 He'll Let You Live A Little
21 Same Old Town
22 I Write You Letters
23 What A Fool I Was
24 You Warned Me
25 I've Got Show You
26 Dear John (I've Sent Your Saddle Home)