Dear Duchess

Saturday kept me and Sadie busy watching the Junco birds and gray squirrel with only a patio glass door separating us., flatten your nose into the glass. Next weekend they tell me we will be "On the Road between SW Colorado and NW Oklahoma.

The Junco's and Squirrel were feeding in our Spring Snow storm that dropped over 2-inches of snow North of Bayfield. Easter Sunday turned out nice and sunny, though, melting away the Saturday snow.

This Dizzy Duchess missed the Friday evening Gray Fox that came strolling through our backyard and the buck and deer that came 15-minutes later. I was asleep in the recliner taking a well-deserved snooze.

NW Okie has been busy this week watching wildlife, snow and transferring 78rpm records to mp3 files. I have had to get nose-to-nose and eye-to-eye with her a few times this week to just remind her it was time to feed this Dizzy Duchess. My Human calls me "Dizzy" because when she is fixing my dinner my body turns in a couple of circles just before she sets the dish down in front of me. Hmmmmmm....mmmm....good!

I am including in this week's newsletter a few of NW Okie's favorite 78rpm records that she has transferred to mp3 files over at PBPartnsersllc.org. They are Here Comes Malicious 12-16-1938 @ Tanforan and Here Comes Malicious 1-14-1939 @ Santa Anita.

The story of "Malicious" concerns one of the great race horses of that era, narrated by Joe Hernandez, the "Voice of Santa Anita", that opens with the race at the Tanfaran track in northern California where "Malicious" broke the track record. The second mp3 is "Here Comes Malicious 1/14/1939" was at the Santa Anita race track.

Does anyone out there remember "Oklahoma Ed Moody," a 1940's Country music singer that recorded about 20 songs for various record labels during this period, some of which he wrote. Was he an Oklahoman? Is that why he was called "Oklahoma Ed Moody?"

The 78rpm that NW OKie has acquired is a 78rpm record with Oklahoma Hills on one side and Careless Darlin on the other side.

My Human also has a 78rpm record of the "Almanac Singers Talking Union." The following information concerning THE ALMANAC SINGERS TALKING UNION (Keynote Album 106), recorded May 1941, at an unidentified Central Park West studio; Producer: Eric Bernay; Released: July 1941; Pete Seeger, vocal/banjo; Lee Hays, vocal; Millard Lampell, vocal; Josh White, guitar/vocal; Sam Gary, Carol White, Bess Lomax Hawes, vocal was extracted from the following link - geocities.com/nashville/3448/union.html.

That website says, "Talking Union" went on sale in June 1941 and became the Almanac Singers most enduring album, remaining in the Keynote catalog until Mercury absorbed the label in 1948. Six years later Moe Asch borrowed Seeger's copy of the album for a Folkways reissue. That version -- drenched in echo and using an expurgated "Talking Union" -- is the one best known to listeners."
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78 RPM Records

Though commonly referred to as 78's, ironically, none were designed to be played back at exactly 78 rpm. Even the term "78" is misleading, as the actual rpm later agreed on with the advent of the AC motor, is actually 78.26 rpm!

So how did the standard become 78.26 rpm instead of say a nice round 78 you're probably asking? And for that matter, where did the original 78 rpm standard come from in the first place?

Emil Berliner (the inventor of the gramophone) determined by subjective listening tests, the optimum speed for recording vintage records. The resulting optimum speed is dependent on a balance between the groove width, stylus and design of the cutter & reproducer. Best results were obtained at speeds ranging from a low of 70 to a high of 90 rpm, and Berliner and his British Gramophone Company, determined the best sound was obtained at 78 rpm. Since Berliner & his Gramophone established the record format to begin with, other manufacturers followed Berliner's lead, & 78 rpm became the defacto standard.

Later however, the standard was changed to 78.26 rpm - and is the standard that remains in effect to this day. The reason for the change is actually perfectly logical. The slight change came about with the introduction of the synchronous AC motor. All AC powered turntables in the US run off standard 60 Hz power, and use synchronous motors. A synchronous motor's speed is locked to the line frequency. This yields a constant rpm, even though line voltage may fluctuate, thus minimizing any power induced fluctuations in the playback speed. Thus a standard 60 cycle synchronous motor will run at 3600 rpm (60 rev/sec = 3600 rpm). The closest integer gear ratio to reduce the 3600 rpm down to about 78 rpm is a ratio of 46:1. Dividing 3600/46 , yields 78.26 rpm. Voila! The new standard was set.
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Hucklebuck of 1949 & Sinatra

The Hucklebuck sung by Frank Sinatra (1949) -- The Hucklebuck (aka Huckle-Buck & Huckle Buck) dance is considered a Risque, sexual type of dance which had its hey-day during the late 1940s early 1950s but goes back to the early 1900's. I haven't seen anything about it during the 1920s, though. Only that it might have originate at Savoy Records in NYC.

Other sites have said, "It is a smooth jazz instrumental and a raucous tenor sax honker. A R&B classic, a wild dance sensation, a novelty tune and amusing lyrics. It was #1 on the R&B charts for most of 1949. It was a dance; a dirty boogie, risque and raunchy. It was recorded by many. Some of those artists were Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Pearl Bailey, Kate Smith, Lucky Millinder, Earl Hooker, Ralph Kramden, Roy Milton, Jimmy Liggins, Hot Lips Page, Jimmy Preston, Tommy Dorsey, Kay Starr, Georgia Gibbs. -- Info extracted from wfmu.org/LCD/26/huck1.jtml.

In 1956, Jackie Gleason built an entire episode of the "Honeymooners" around the song where Ed Norton teaches Ralph how to dance "this hot number," as they proceed to party down.

Chubby Checker in 1961, gave the Hucklebuck a new life and giving the '60s teenagers a dance staple.

BUT ... Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams and his Hucklebuckers were the Hucklebuck in the early 1950s.

The 78rpm record NW Okie has is recorded by Frank Sinatra on the Columbia label, for radio stations, with The Ken Lane Quintet, Orchestra under the direction of Axel Stordahl, Composers: Roy Alfred, Andy Gibson. Other identifying numbers on the record located at the bottom are: 38486 (HCO 3692). On the flip side is the song, "It Happens Every Spring," composers: mack Gordon, Josef Myrow.

The lyrics as sung by Frank Sinatra are as follows:

Sinatra speaks, "Not now, Moose! I'll tell ya when!"
Here's a dance you should know
When the lights are down low.
Grab your baby, then go
Do the Hucklebuck (do the Hucklebuck)
Do the Hucklebuck (do the Hucklebuck)
If ya don't know how to do it
Boy, you're out of luck (boy, you're out of luck)
Push your partner out (push your partner out)
Then you hunch your back (then you hunch your back)
Start a little movement in your sacroillac (sacroillac)
Wiggle like a snake (wiggle like a snake)
Waddle like a duck (waddle like a duck)
That's the way you do it when you do the Hucklebuck
(Here's a dance you should know)
(When the lights are down low)
(Grab your baby, then go)
"Yeah, Dad! Right now!"
Here's a dance you should know
When the lights are down low
Grab your baby, then go
Do the Hucklebuck
Do the hucklebuck
If ya don't know how to do it
Boy, you're out of luck
Push your partner out
Then you hunch your back
Start a little movement in your sacroillac
Wiggle like a snake
Waddle like a duck
That's the way you do it when you do the hucklebuck.
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Secondhand Songs Info - Hucklebuck

Secondhand Songs had this to say about the Huckle-Buck: Artist was Floyd Cramer and written by Andy Gibson. It was first released on audio single "The Hucklebuck" November 1963.

The hierarchy of the Hucklebuck goes something like this:
D-Natural blues by Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra (1949)
The Huckle-Buck by tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (1949)
The Hucklebuck by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (1949)
The Hucklebuck by Frank Sinatra With The Ken Lane Quintet (1949)
The Hucklebuck by Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page (1949)
The Hucklebuck by Lionel Hampton & his Orchestra (1949)
Huckle Buck by Homer & Jethro with June Carter (November 1949)
The Hucklebuck by Louis Armstrong and The All Stars (1951)
The Hucklebuck by Chubby Checker (1959)
The Hucklebuck by Georgia Gibbs - Orchestra Conducted by Glenn Osser (1959)
The Huckle-Buck by Annette Funicello (1961)
Hucklebuck by Brendan Bowyer and The Royal Showband Waterford (December 1964)
The Hucklebuck by Quincy Jones and His Orchestra (1965)
(Do) The Hucklebuck by Coast to Coast (January 1981)
The Huckle-Buck by Buck Clayton (March 15, 1954)
Hucklebuck by The Leemen (1960)
The Hucklebuck by King Curtis (1961)
Hucklebuck by Bo Diddley (1963)
The Huckle-Buck by Floyd Cramer (November 1963)
Hucklebuck by Canned Heat (1988)
The Hucklebuck by Lee Rocker's Big Blue (1994)
Hucklebuck by James Cotton (August 23, 1994)
Do the Hucklebuck by Lisa del Bo (2001)
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Otis Redding Lyrics - Huckle-buck

We found these lyrics for Otis Redding's version of the huckle-buck on lyricsmania.com.

They are as follows:
Here we come again…
We’re doing a new dance—real strong dance
Everybody—sisters, papas, mamas, papa’s boys
A stone dance—you know what they’re doing
It’s called the Huckle-Buck—real strong dance
Come on and take my hand
Come on and Huckle-Buck with…now watch me
We’re going to new places now…
Atlanta, Georgia—here we come
Royal Peacock, y’all
Miami, Florida—going to the Island Club
Step over in Memphis
Going to the Hippo Drome
Everybody’s swinging
The Mar-keys going down under
Going to the…California
Going to the Five-Four Ballroom
Step over in Detroit city
Going to the Twenty-Grand Club
Move over to Washington, D.C.
We’re going to the Holland Theater
Huckle-Buck, y’all
Everybody Huckle Bucking
If you don’t know, you’re sure out of luck
I tell you what we do…
We’re going to Chicago
We’re going to the Windy City, they call it
Going to do the Huckle-Buck now
Everybody’s Bucking now
Mamas, brothers, sisters, fathers—they Huckle Bucking all night
We got a thing going
You jump back, you jump forward, you jump back-back-back-back
Let me show you how to do it
Jump back, jump up, jump back, jump up-up-up-up
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Looking Back ... To The Future!

Looking back at the OkieLegacy beginnings ten years has has been somewhat interesting to see where we started from and where we are now. The archives shows the 1st Issue we published as a multiple feature format. Before then, it was basically a weekly personal journal entry.

We have come along way in those ten years! From "Oakie's Heart To Heart" (a weekly personal journal entry) to "The OkieLegacy" Tabloid & eZine.

Michael Wagner has been busy coding our NEW formats for the eZine and Tabloid and have them up and running. I do not know what we would do without his expertise! let us know what you think of each.

The OkieLegacy Tabloid is now a three-column newspaper style front page with summaries where visitors can choose to read more or not. The ezine was developed for those that like to print the newsletter and read away from the computer (all content except comments are on the front page). Have you noticed what is in the new navigation bar at the top of the page?

Up in the upper right corner of the Tabloid page is a place to "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" your email address from our "mailing list." Just click on the "Subscribe" or "Unsubscribe" Links and insert your email address.

Below that is a place to enter your email and a password to subscribe and login to our "Communities" and "Families" sections that you see in the menu-links in the black Menu headings at the top. You can click the following headings: Page One, Communities, Families, Recipes, Blogs, Webcam, Classifieds & Crossword, Other Formats to manuever to different parts of the newsletter and other webpages we manage.

Underneath that black, top-menu is a listing of "The OkieLegacy" Volumes from Vol. 6 thru Vol. 11 and our Archives page.

Notice the "Register @ FamilyNet (Group = Surnames, FAmily, Assoc.)" in the box in the third column, top-right of the page? This is a place that you can register your surname in the "Group" field; add your "Name" in the field below; and either enter your "email," "address," or "phone" in the "Contact" field.

Before you hit the submit button, be sure to let us know which item you put in the "Contact" field by clicking either the "email, addr or phone" button below the "Contact" field. If you want to subscribe for the newsletter and are not already subscribed, click the little square box "subscribe to news" next to the "submit" button. Then click "submit."

If you scroll down in the Tabloid pages, on the left you will see an area we have set aside for Business Card Ads that can be submitted by emailing NW Okie (mcwagner.lk@gmail.com) a copy of your business card to scan and add to our weekly newsletter. So far that service is FREE. The Ad you see now is our Techie's business card for "Michael Wagner."

Interspersed throughout the Tabloid & eZine pages you will see random images that change every time you open the browser page. So ... Have I rambled on making sense of the NEW formats for the eZine and Tabloid newsletter? What do you think of the NEW Formats?
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Jones & Stone Township of WDS County OK

Jim Bradley says, "Sandie, I looked at the Standard Atlas of Woods County in 1906. Jones Township is on the western edge (next to Woodward County) T22N, RXVIW-RXVW --- Glass Mountains are in east edge of Jones. Stone Township is about 15 miles to the east at the Cimarron River (Orienta and Cleo Springs near) T22N, RXIIW-XIW. I hope this helps you find these townships." View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (2 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Easter Weekend Beginnings

Easter Weekend began in SW Colorado on Friday, April 10th, in the evening with the wildlife parading down from the high elevations. First with the Gray Fox and following 15 minutes later with a huge herd of deer and a 3-point Buck. In Colorado they only count the points on one side of the antlers.

Saturday morning shortly after we were moving around and our eyes were opened, The Pugs were watching the birds scampering for snow-covered bird feed. Most of the birds were the "Slated-colored Junco" and one bird I haven't identified as of yet. I think it was either Warbler or a Sparrow. some of the Junko's tried to to fly into window panes to get at the yellow silk flowers I had in a container.

Friday at dusk, 7:33pm, MDT, SW Colorado, North of Bayfield. This 3-point Buck strolled through our backyard with a herd of deer. NW Okie caught this nosy little buck fiddling with the wildbird feeder.


Friday at dusk, 7:09pm - 7:13pm, MDT, SW Colorado, North of Bayfield. This bushy-tailed, gray fox came exploring in our backyard looking for something ... to eat while Duchess & Sadie the Pugs were asleep inside. WHEW! Close Call!


That movie above was done in two parts. Here is the second part of the Gray Fox before Sadie Sadie awoke and noticed it in the backyard: Gray Fox & Sadie Awakes

That brings us to Saturday, April 11, 2009, in SW Colorado, North of Bayfield, April 11, 2009, we received over 2 inches of spring snow. The Heavy, Wet type. The Gray Squirrel, Slate-colored Junco and another lone bird were spotted pecking for bird feed on the snow-covered patio and bird feeder up the hill. More Junco's than anything.



How was your Easter weekend in your neck of the woods? See you "On the Road" next weekend -- somewhere between Colorado & NW Oklahoma.
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Our Gray Colorado Fox

This is some information we picked up about the gray fox that strolled into your backyard Friday evening: The Gray Fox is smaller in size than the Coyote -- usually 32 to 45 inches long, and weighs 7 to 11 pounds. Its coloration is grizzled gray on top, with a white throat extending underneath; it is rusty-red along the sides. The tail usually has a black mane along the top, with a dark-gray or black tip. Gray Foxes have elongated muzzles and forward-pointing ears. -- deserusa.com
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Staplers & George W. McGill

James says, "I received my April/May 2009 issue of History Magazine today. On page six was a story about Stapler history. In the story they mentioned the McGill Single Stroke Staple Press. So I Googled that title and this is one of the links that came up. I extracted the story from that link. My question is, Is this one of your McGill relatives? Just thought of you when I saw that name."

McGill Single Stroke Staple Press -- "George W. McGill of Washington, DC, and subsequently New York, NY, was a prolific inventor of brass paper fasteners and paper fastening devices from the mid-1860s through the early 1890s. On July 24, 1866, he was awarded US Patent No. 56,587 for a small bendable brass paper fastener, and on Aug. 13, 1867, he was awarded Patent No. 67,665 for a press designed to insert these fasteners into papers.

"He exhibited his paper fasteners at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, where he was awarded a first prize medal, and continued to patent variations and improvements on these products through the 1880s.

"On February 18, 1879, McGill was awarded Patent No. 212,316 for the McGill's Single-Stroke Staple Press. Like all McGill paper fastening products, the press was manufactured and distributed by Holmes, Booth and Haydens of New York. To use the device, a single preformed bent wire staple one-half inch wide is inserted into a slit under the plunger.

"After the device is used to insert the staple, the device is ready to be reloaded with another individual staple.

"The patent states that 'The principal object of my invention is to effect the insertion and clinching of a staple in sheets of paper, pamphlets, or other articles. My invention is arranged as a hand-press, and consists of a bedplate, furnished at its front end with a clinching anvil, and at its rear with a pillar, in which is pivoted one end of a lever-arm, the other end of which is provided with the mechanism for inserting the staple in the articles to be bound, and which, in connection with the anvil, clinches the staple in said articles'.

"This cast iron press is 4.5 inches high by 6.25 inches long and weighs 2 lb. 9 oz. It is painted black with gold and red details. The gold lettering on the base reads "McGill's Patent Single Stroke Staple Press Patented Feb. 18, 1879.

"Similar machines produced during this period include Brown's Single Blow Staple Binder, produced by W. J. Brown, Jr., of Philadelphia, PA.

"Two other types of stapling machines were invented at virtually the same time as these hinged single staple devices. One other type included a variety of devices with two separate pieces, a clincher and a driver, which was also loaded with staples one at a time. Examples are the small Novelty and Victor paper fasteners, as well as the larger McGill Staple Press No. 2. The latter was covered by Patent No. 252,841, which was issued to McGill on Jan. 24, 1882.

"Like McGill's Single-Stroke Staple Press, these two-piece devices were heavily marketed from around 1880 to the mid-1890s. The second other type of stapling machines had a magazine that could hold a row of staples. While such devices were patented as early as the late 1870s, I have not seen an advertisement or example that pre-dates the late 1880s."
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Them Louthans

Al writes, "Dear Duchess: I'm up here at our house in Rutherford County, NC, relaxing for a week. I was out in my shop and found a box of photographs of my mother's family. She and dad adopted me as a infant, and I absorbed some of the family history and folklore.

Mom's maiden name was Louthan. She grew up in the Short Springs community between Ashley and Ingersol, or north of Ingersol on the highway to Alva. The school house and cemetary were still there, the last time I was through there.

The schoolhouse is now a community center.

Her dad's name was Jessie, and her grandfather was James. He was in the Civil war, though family legend has it that he struck an officer before he was discharged, split for Missouri, and that branch of the family has had sympathies for the Confederate cause ever since.

Mom was the oldest child. Her siblings were Edith, Opal, Reba, Melba, Milton, Lewis and another sister whose name escapes me. Her son was Lynn Austin, and she and her son died in a railroad crossing accident when I was five or six years old.

I'd be happy to share the photos I have here, but don't know exactly how. I'm attaching one of Jessie that I've resampled and resized to a Gif file so you can discuss it with your assistant editor. I'll be back in Florida next week for Easter (first granddaughter's first Easter), so I'll be able to email larger files on my broadband (I'm using an aircard to send this).

As a request, could you tell me which issue/number had the Louthan data? I didn't bookmark it, and have a bunch of references archived. Thanks."
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OkieLegacy Louthan Info (Vol. 10, Iss. 46)

Louthan Info, Vol. 10, Iss. 46 -- This is what I found through my Ancestry.com account. We found lots of LOUTHAN connections and information on Gilbert Shirley LOUTHAN.

John Cope LOUTHAN was the grandfather of Gilbert Shirley LOUTHAN through John's 2nd wife Mary Ann HALE.

Florence T. (LOUTHAN) PARIS' father was Robert Hiram & Belle Claircy (COKERHAM) LOUTHAN.

My Grandmother, Mary Barbara (HURT) PARIS had a sister Emma Jennie HURT who married Samuel Oscar LOUTHAN.

Mary Barbara (HURT) PARIS had a son, Leslie Martin PARIS that married Florence T. Louthan.

Samuel Oscar and Robert Hiram Louthan were brothers through John Cope LOUTHAN's 1st wife, Jane HADDOW.

As for Samuel Oscar Louthan, he was born 20 Aug. 1872, in Missouri and died 21 Dec. 1951, in Chester, Major, OK, and married Emma Jennie Hurt, born 28 Nov. 1890, Omaha, NE and died Sep. 1974, Chester, OK. Emma Hurt was a daughter of Joseph & Anna (Wallman) Hurt.

Anna Wallman, born 1869 in Czecoslovakia, died 1906 in Orion, Major County, OK. Joseph and Anna (Wallman) Hurt had the following children: Emma Jennie (b. 28 Nov. 1890, NE), Edward "Joe" (b. 1884, NE), Carrie (b. 9 Apr. 1886, NE), Christine Tillie (b. 1889, NE), Mary Barbara (b. 6 Sep. 1893, NE), Eddie J. (b. 1894, NE), Anna (b. 1895, NE), Lucille Marie (b. 28 May 1899, Orion, OK).

Samuel Oscar & Emma Jennie (Hurt) Louthan had the following children: Annabelle Maude, Howard Raymond, Arthur, Lester Leroy, Floy Edwin, Lucille.
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Insight Into Grandma

This week's letter from John C. McClure to Miss Constance Warwick of Alva, O.T. takes us back to April 30, 1904, Quincy, Ill.

Quincy, Ill., Apri. 30, Miss Constance Warwick, Alva, O.T.

Dear Friend Connie: I received your long looked for letter today. I certainly believe you have lost track of me. So you are back in school again. How many times do you walk around the square each evening after school?

I have been walking around some this evening. Did you ever see anything of my hat. I supposed you had forgotten about that. I have not forgotten what happened the Sunday Eve after we came home. Have you? I have changed rooming places. you never put the street address on my letters so I got it at the college.

I have been studying pretty hard of late. I am now in the 90 word class. Have 8 classes yet to make, then I am coming to O.T. to see you. What do you think about that.

Does Walter Rose go to school? He thought Bessie was all right when I was in Okla. Where is Blanche now? There are 8 boys rooming here and 5 girls. 7 of them is a fright.

We have some good times but I am sick of the whole shootin match. It will soon be warm enough to go boating. There is going to be an excursion up to Keokurk tomorrow.

do they teach short hand in the Normal? I remember hearing Dr. Amotte when I was in Okla. They had the Lecture in the Assembly room. is WIlkson still teaching in the Normal and where is Ament?

Well! I will have to close for want of something. Your friend, John c. McClure, address 435 North 7th St., Quincy, Ill.
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