https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/ernest-v-stoneman-the-unsung-father-of-country-music-1925-1934-mr0000998475
"Stoneman's first release, a two-sided original epic narrative called "The Titanic," was an immediate and huge hit, selling thousands of copies in 1925. It was, alas, to be Stoneman's first and last trip to the charts, making him, as well as arguably country music's first true songwriter, also one of the genre's first one-hit wonders."
and the B-side
Four decades later, here's E.V. Stoneman on TV with some of his children, From the lick they keep repeating here right from the start, one that you don't really hear much of anywhere else, The Enterprising Folklorist might surmise that the band liked "The Kingston Trio At Large", (particularly considering the B-side above!)
And the repeated "Oley-Oley-Ann" phrase they sing here is totally out of context with the song, and suggests an affinity for KT "Here We Go Again"
That song itself could have been learned off of the NBJ, but on the other hand " Big Ball's In (Boston or Brooklyn or somewhere)" goes back to Mainer's Mountaineers in the mid 1930s and then Bill Monroe, and certainly Pop Stoneman would have been aware of those.
Roni Stoneman is the youngest of E.V. and Hattie Frost Stoneman's 23 children, becoming,subsequent to the band's LPs and TV shows from the mid-1960s, a mainstay on HeeHaw
and here'a Roni in 2015
{WHAT IS A 'FOLK LEGACY' ANYHOW???!}
TBC
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Larry .........
I think you're absolutely right.
I'd still like to hear what Jim has to say about this.
Meanwhile...here are the hits from 1953 to 1967... the year the 2nd Trio called it quits and the year I graduated from college. I'll add my comments in a few days... I've got work I've got to do.
Enjoy.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_year-end_top_50_singles_of_1956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_year-end_top_50_singles_of_1957
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_year-end_top_50_singles_of_1958
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1961
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1962
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1967
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