[Vintage-Audio] Re Anita Kerr Question

[LeeHazen at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/23/06 6:02:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
dfischer at usol.com writes:

<< It is this change to a 'true' quartet style that is responsible for the 
 group's name change?
 
 So I ask you, is this the same group with the same name with a substitution 
 of the baritone for a bass? Or? >>

I can't answer this accurately as I did not work with Anita Kerr very many 
times.
I think that she moved on to LA not long after I entered the Nashville Scene 
in
March, l968.

As far as there being different types of groups: Nashville Musicians and 
Singers
are very versitile and often people would be added or substituted to 
accomplish
the mission.  Guys like Charlie McCoy - he's known for his terrific harmonica
playing, but he's also a great guitar and bass player.  He was often hired as 
a
"utility man" and would play whatever was needed for a particular song.  
Harold
Bradley was a wonderful guitarist who had many albums on the market, but often
he played 6 string bass guitar on sessions.

Chet Atkins was known to play on sessions for others in addition to playing on
his own albums.  I worked with him on a Dan Fogelburg album in l973.  It was 
a Columbia Records project and he was a RCA artist.

The Nashville musicians and players are the most versitile on the planet.  We 
have
second generation players on the "A" team now as the tradition continues.  
Ditto
with engineers and producers.  It's like a big family here.  We had an 
"Oldtimers
Group" comprised of people involved in the production of music in Nashville 
prior to
1980.  Charlie McCoy was our chairman.  I was honored to be included.  Bobby
Thompson, guitarist and banjo player came up with the idea and we had  around
8 reunions over time.  I think that Bobby has passed on which may be why there
have been no more reunions. Bobby worked on the England Dan and John Ford
Coley albums which were produced here at Studio by the Pond.  Larrie London,
also deceased, played drums on those projects here.

I hate to say it, but we are losing members of our family fairly often.  We 
just
lost Billy Walker over the weekend.  He was a well known Country recording
artist.  I met him at NHC Nursing home in Hendersonville when he visited with
my Mother who was living there l992-94 until she died.  He was the nicest 
person
on the planet and gave his time freely in order to visit with others.  He, 
his wife,
his guitarist and his bass player were all killed when his Van crashed en 
route to
Nashville after playing a gig in Alabama last weekend.  His grandson survived
the crash but is in critical condition in a Hospital in Alabama.  Billy lived 
right
here in Hendersonville as do so many people in the music business.

Yesterday I launched my pontoon boat "Serenity NOW!" and cut the yard.
Temp is rising into the 80's today and it is "severe clear" outside.  YEAH !

So, there could have been an Anita Kerr Quartet if one was needed..  Perhaps
there was an Anita Kerr Choir as well - - -

Lee Hazen