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So between the two you have a good idea of what was heard on WCKY for 18 years. The only other difference I can tell is the up front steel string flat-top rhythm guitar which comes in and out. It is also included here and it is note for note the same as the WCKY theme but with a lot less instrumentation and no musicians credit listed. Strangely enough, "the powers that be" King and others had a stripped down version of "Steel Guitar Rag" recorded and inserted in one the earliest packages, if not the first package. in the country, Big 4 Hits Records was formed by Carl Burckhardt in Cincinnati to sell, via mail order, EP's of sound alike country singers doing big country hits over the air. In 1952, after the WCKY Jamboree was a national hit radio program and Nelson King was THE number one country D.J. Maybe, he thought, it was an "alternate take" to the 1946 release. He had a dub in a cart of the original WCKY theme and he played it on his show infrequently, but he had no clue where it originated from. I had a chance to discuss this with Dale Sommers, the "Truckin' Bozo" on WLW, who was on the air overnight out of Cincinnati for many years. There is no harp and as best as I could tell only one accordion. The WCKY version played from 1946 into 1964 when the program left the air is note for note the same arrangement but with two differences.
BUDDY EMMONS STEEL GUITAR RAG FULL
This version here has a full orchestra including a concert sized harp and two accordions, and was obviously played by certain members of the band from written charts. Later that year, Nelson King started the "WCKY Jamboree" over 50,000 watt WCKY AM in Cincinnati, Ohio. Spade Cooley & his band recorded their version of "Steel Guitar Rag" on 05-03-1946 as Columbia 38054.