Yodeling Slim Clark - The Cowboy's Lament (c.1962).
Channel: mrblindfreddy9999
Date: 25/05/2019

(From English Folk Song "The Unfortunate Lad"
or "The Unfortunate Rake" aka "The Streets of Laredo")
1st. Published 1910 in John Lomax's 
"Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads"
Recorded 1924 by Francis Henry Maynard as "The Dying Cowboy"

Issued ONLY on Continental LP "Cowboy and Yodel  Songs" (1962).

Recorded Circa 1962...Poss CANADA
Slim Clark (gt/vcl solo).
Arranged by Slim Clark

 Born Raymond LeRoy Clark in Springfield MASS (1917 - 2000)
 Slim and Kenny Roberts were at one time jointly members of the Red River Ranges and used to try to out-yodel each other.......Slim won the World Yodeling Championship in 1947 and was inducted into the Yodeler's Hall of Fame, along with Jimmie Rodgers, Elton Britt, and Wilf Carter. He was a member of the Western Music Association's Hall of Fame and the  Rhode Island Country Music Hall of Fame and Received  The Pioneer Award Downeast CMA.

Also 1980 Maine CMA Hall of Fame
         1989 Massachusetts CMA Hall of Fame
         1996 Walkway of Stars Nashville, TN
         2000 Cowboy Hall of Fame (posthumous)