Early Bud and Joe Billings - In The Cumberland Mountains (1931).
Channel: mrblindfreddy9999
Date: 02/05/2021

PIC Shows L - R    Frank Luther   -   Phil Crow  -  Carson Robison

(Written by Carson Robison).
 
 Issued as BUD  and JOE BILLINGS  - 
     Carson Robison Male Trio with Orchestra on  Victor  22852 A.
    Recorded on  SIX Occasions
 
  Recorded   24 September 1931  Victor Studio 44 th St.,   New York - 
Frank Luther [vcl/whistling ], Carson Robison [gt/vcl/whistling], 
Phil Crow [vcl solo/whistling], John Cali [banjo], Frank Novak [string bass],
Unknown [piano].
 
 FRANK LUTHER.
Born Francis Luther Crow near Lukin, KANSAS (1899 - 1980).
Recorded Before 1928 with Various Bands
                               1928 to 1932 with Carson Robison
                               1932 to 1938 with Zora Layman and Len Stokes
                               1939 and 1940 with Zora Layman
 SOLO                    1941 and 1942     1945 to 1959

 CARSON ROBISON
Born in Oswego  KANSAS (1890 - 1957).
 
Prolific Songwriter who wrote the Famous Country Classics
 "Life Gits Tee - Jus Don't It"    and   "Barnacle Bill The Sailor".
Recorded from 1924 to 1926 with Wendell Hall
                            1925 to 1928 with Vernon Dalhart
                            1928 to 1932 with Frank Luther
                            1932 to 1939 with The Buckaroos (aka Pioneers)
                            1941 to 1942 with New Buckaroos
                            1944 to 1953  Mainly SOLO

Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame 1971 and WMA Hall of Fame 2001