1946 Jack Guthrie Song Book K-6 Wranglers Buck Ritchey Harry Long 8 AUTOGRAPHS

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1946 Jack Guthrie Song Book K-6 Wranglers Buck Ritchey 8 AUTOGRAPHS
Western Hillbilly Oklahoma Hills Harry Long Pacific Northwest
Rare original vintage Song Book
- includes his top hit “
Oklahoma Hills
” that rose to #1 on the National Charts
Published by Western Entertainment Enterprises, Tacoma, Washington
I have included a lot of information on the musicians . . . you probably recognize the names . . .
This contains 5 songs – listed on the Title page shown above
Includes
Full Page Pictures
of:
Jack Guthrie
~
Buck Ritchey
~
Harry Long
~
Larry Huseby
~
Bonnie Tutmarc
~
Paul Tutmarc
~
The K-6 Wranglers
~
. . .
along with promotional biographies
PLUS . . .there are
autographs
for:
~
Bonnie Tutmarc
~
Paul Tutmarc
~
Buck Ritchey
~
Harry Long
and the K-6 Wranglers (see more below)
Leon Jerry "Jack" Guthrie
(1915 –1948) was a songwriter and performer whose rewritten version of the
Woody Guthrie
song "
Oklahoma Hills
" was a hit in 1945.
The two musicians were cousins
.
Guthrie's rewritten version of a Woody Guthrie song "
Oklahoma Hills
" (Capitol 201) reached No. 1 in 1945, staying on the charts for 19 weeks. The b side, "I'm A Brandin' My Darlin' With My Heart", reached No. 5 later that year.
Guthrie's style was influenced by
Jimmie Rodgers
and adapted to fit his cowboy image.  Although the labels listed 'Jack Guthrie & His Oklahomans' as the artist, in reality Guthrie had no working band. The studio brought in some of its better musicians to back Guthrie. Many of them, like
Porky Freeman
,
Red Murrell
,
Cliffie Stone
, and
Billy Hughes
were recording artists in their own right.
~~~~~~~~~
The K-6 Wranglers
. . . “recognized as the leading Western and Hillbilly musical organization of the Pacific Northwest . . .”
there is a bio of them and a group photo in the song book.
The members included:
Bonnie and Paul Tutmarc (their autographs are elsewhere in the book) ~
Julie Seguin
~
Ted Borson
~
Alvin Anderson
~
Steve Barrett . . .
(the 4 bold names have autographs in the photo . . . along with a Bill Klein?)
In about 1946 the K-6 Wranglers added a few new members including a talented couple, steel guitarist Paul Tutmarc and his wife, singer/guitarist Bonnie Tutmarc. He was one of the earliest pioneers of the electric steel guitar, and she -- under the stage name of “Bonnie Guitar” -- would go on to score many national hits (beginning in 1957 with “Dark Moon”), ultimately becoming the Northwest’s top homegrown country star.
In 1943 a former carnival entertainer from Missouri named
Buck Ritchey
arrived in Seattle, hired on as a DJ at Seattle’s KVI radio, and went on to be the most locally influential country music taste-maker around.
Condition:
Very good condition – complete and tightly bound
~
no writing with exception of the autographs.
~
nice and clean
~
normal minor handling wear- back covers have some minor spotting
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