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Title: Larry Cooper, anyone?
Post by: mikedm on July 09, 2004, 06:40:37 PM

This afternoon, on the way home I stopped by the new Larry Morgan shop to see how they were adjusting to the move. While I was there I started thinking about something that had happened to me when the location belonged to some other long gone music shop.
About six or seven years ago while I was noodling around on a Danelectro, into the demo room walks an older gentleman with a gorgeous blonde hollow-bodied guitar the shop was holding for him. Well, the inevitable happened and we had ourselves a yabber and played a few bits together, just improvising and goofing off. After a bit, he wants to play a tune he says he recorded years ago, so off he goes and a few bars later he asks if I know it....well, no to be honest, not exactly. It did sound familiar in a fuzzy sorta way. He shows me the chord pattern and I muddle through it. Sounded like something my grandpa would have listened to.
Its time to get going and as we say good-bye he introduces himself as I'm Larry Cooper, I used to play for Tennesse Ernie Ford.
I haven't thought much about it since, but I can't find a single reference to a Larry Cooper and TE Ford in any search engine, and I was wondering if any of you walking, breathing musical encyclopedias might know if this guy was the real deal or putting me on.
 
Mike

Title: Larry Cooper, anyone?
Post by: valvil on July 09, 2004, 10:26:34 PM

Here's a couple  of the links I found on google. Many others as well.
This is what I entered : tennessee ernie ford
http://www.ernieford.com/SiteGuide.htm (http://www.ernieford.com/SiteGuide.htm)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Ernie_Ford
 
Valentino

Title: Larry Cooper, anyone?
Post by: David Houck on July 11, 2004, 09:53:43 AM

I'm not finding anything.  But I only had a few minutes to look.

Title: Larry Cooper, anyone?
Post by: mikedm on July 11, 2004, 11:40:22 AM

Valentino,
 
Thanks for the links. I've tried a number of TEF sites and cross-links, since Friday...still nothing.
I did a search on the first link you entered. Great site, but nothing related to the elusive Mr Cooper. I am surprised at the number of related Ernie Ford sites. I vaguely remember his show (re-runs, I'm not that old, LOL). Appears he was quite an icon during his day.
 
I'm not going to loose any sleep over this, but I think it would be pretty cool if he's legit.
 
thanks,
Mike

Title: Larry Cooper, anyone?
Post by: kmh364 on July 14, 2004, 04:29:45 PM

Now you guys got me looking over TEF's websites. I remember him as a little boy...my grandparents (Lawrence Welk FREAKS...used to suffer thru that one EVERY Sat. night as a young 'un, LOL!) used to love him and played his records. Plus countless TV cameo's in the 60's and early 70's. I couldn't find Larry Cooper either. Maybe a web search of Larry on the White Pages would turn up a contact number? It'd be interesting to see if he's for real.