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THE MUSIC FOR
"INDIAN LOVE CALL"
WAS WRITTEN IN 1924 BY RUDOLF FRIML.
OTTO HARBACH AND OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN WROTE THE LYRICS.
NELSON EDDY AND JEANNETTE MCDONALD PERFORMED THE SONG FOR THE 1938 FILM
"ROSE MARIE."
THE LYRICS FOR "INDIAN LOVE CALL" WILL NOT BE POSTED ON THIS WEB PAGE. THIS MUSIC PIECE WAS SELECTED BECAUSE IT IS SOLELY INSTRUMENTAL. IT IS PLAYED
ON A TWELVE STRING GUITAR, AND IS
PERFORMED BY SONNY JAMES.
JAMES LODEN WAS BORN AT HACKLEBURG, ALABAMA IN 1929.
HIS FAMILY "THE LODENS" HAD A RADIO PROGRAM AND DANCE BAND.
JAMES WAS THREE YEARS OLD WHEN HE STOOD ON STAGE AND SANG WITH
HIS FAMILY. HE PLAYED
A GUITAR HIS DAD MADE FOR HIM.
SONNY JAMES CMA AWARDS-2001
AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, JAMES JOINED THE MILITARY AND WENT TO KOREA. A FEW YEARS LATER AND BACK HOME,
HE PICKED UP HIS GUITAR AND HEADED FOR NASHVILLE.
CHET ATKINS LISTENED TO JAMES AND HELPED HIM GET
A CONTRACT WITH CAPITOL RECORDS.
HIS FIRST BIG RECORDING WAS "YOUNG LOVE" IN 1953, FOLLOWED BY TWENTY CONSECUTIVE #1 HITS! HE WAS KNOWN AS SONNY JAMES ON RECORDS. HE HELD THE
TITLE OF MOST CONSECUTIVE HITS FOR 35 YEARS. THE SINGING GROUP ALABAMA SURPRASSED IT IN 1988.
.IN THE 1970s, SONNY JAMES WENT INTO THE PRODUCTION AND MUSIC PUBLISHING BUSINESS.
HE RETIRED IN 1983,
WENT HOME TO
ALABAMA AND BECAME
A CATTLE RANCHER.
"THE SOUTHERN GENTLEMAN" WAS ONE
OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL COUNTRY MUSIC ARTIST
IN HISTORY.
