78 RPM - Carter Family - Engine One-Forty-Three / I'm Thinking To-Night Of My Blue Eyes - Victor - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Carter Family
Label:	Victor
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	V-40089
Date:	19 Jul 1929
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own, 4 Want
Price Guide:	$104
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PRICE GUIDE

$104

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Carter Family	Engine One-Forty-Three	A. P. Carter	Rate
B	Carter Family	I'm Thinking To-Night Of My Blue Eyes	A. P. Carter	Rate

Notes

Recorded 14 & 15 February 1929 Victor Studio, Trinity Baptist Church, 114N. 5th St., Camden, NJ
Sara Carter (vocal, autoharp), A. P. Carter (vocal), Maybelle Carter (vocal, guitar)

Images

Number: 445106

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Description: A Side Label

Number: 445108

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Description: B Side Label

Comments and Reviews


BigBadBluesMan 9th Feb 2015



BigBadBluesMan 9th Feb 2015



fixbutte 11th Jun 2014		I haven't found the Carter Family version on YouTube, but here is something interesting by June Carter Cash, daughter of Maybelle, showing the same melody relations (sadly cut as it seems):



fixbutte 11th Jun 2014		"I'm Thinking To-Night Of My Blue Eyes", the B-side, is the much better known song. Its strong melody, found somewhere but definitely not composed by A. P. Carter, was used again for Roy Acuff's best-selling "Great Speckled Bird" (recorded 1936 and a hit in 1938), Hank Thompson's #1 country hit of 1952, "The Wild Side of Life", and Kitty Wells' equally successful answer song, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels." (You can easily mix the lyrics of these four C&W cornerstones in one song, like David Allan Coe had done in his "If That Ain't Country", ending with the lines "I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes/ And finding the great speckled bird/ I didn't know God made honky tonk angels/ And went back to the wild side of life.")