Well, shape up lady. I have plenty of room and would love to have you. Here's a toast to Wellness because your problems have gone on much too long. Ruth In a message dated 8/13/2012 7:23:48 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, meredithkincaid@ymail.com writes: Ruth, I would take you up on that as I love Salt Lake City if I could stay out of the hospital longer than a week or two at a time. Meredith Sent from my iPad On Aug 12, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Utahn1@aol.com wrote: > I have a record player if you want to come to Salt Lake City <grin> > > Ruth Cherecwich > > > In a message dated 8/12/2012 8:41:51 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time, > meredithkincaid@ymail.com writes: > > I was lucky enough to find a Bradley Kincaid vinyl. Lp album on eBay a > couple of years ago. However, I do not have a record player to play it on, so > am looking for one to,play it on. Meredith Kincaid > > Sent from my iPad > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:07 PM, "Don W Kincaid" <donwkincaid@cox.net> wrote: > >> I learned more about Bradley Kincaid from this article due to the > reporter interviewing Bradleyfs son Jim so thought I would pass it on. Does > anyone know Jim? >> >> Don >> >> Kincaid shares legacy with Ellington, Carmichael >> >> The late Bradley Kincaid of Springfield has a place at the Starr-Gennett > Walk of Fame in Richmond, Ind., for being one of the pioneer performers in > the nationfs early recording industry. >> By Tom Stafford >> >> Staff Writer >> >> Bradley Kincaid was a married college student looking for cash to make > ends meet in 1924 when he stumbled into stardom. >> >> Now a bronze medallion with the Springfielderfs name on it rests on > Starr-Gennett Foundationfs Walk of Fame in Richmond, Ind., the same walk that > honors Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Tommy Dorsey, Hoagy Carmichael and > Fats Wa >> >> Son Jim Kincaidfs account describes his fatherfs rise from obscurity > in Point Leavell, Ky., to the Grand Old Opry as ga classic story where > poverty meets church, church brings light, lights brings education and > education brings success.h >> >> That same story also cuts a path through the days when the YMCA had a > college; when Sears and Roebuck called its radio station WLS for the Worldfs > Largest Store; and when Berea College was establishing itself as a route > young people of Appalachia could take from backwoods hollows to a wider > world. >> >> Most accounts of Bradley Kincaidfs musical career begin with a guitar > now on permanent display in the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. That gHounf > Dogh guitar got its name long before Elvis Presley. >> >> The guitar was named instead for the animal Kincaidfs father traded to > a fellow fox hunter to get it. >> >> The instrument proved to be a steadier companion in Kincaidfs childhood > than his father, who left his children shortly after Kincaidfs mother > died in 1909, when the boy was 14. Looked after by his older sister, he was > what son Jim calls ga typical under-educated country boyh the day he went > to a camp meeting akin to a revival at the nearby church his father had > helped to build. >> >> There, Kincaid and his constant pal Jim Ralston, later of Ralston-Purina > fame, answered the altar call and pledged to make something of themselves, > Jim Kincaid writes. >> >> Soon, young Bradley was studying music at the Berea Academy, a > preparatory school attached to Berea College. After finishing high school there, > Kincaid married one of his teachers. Eventually in search of a college > education for him, the two gboarded a train for Chicago, where he enrolled in the > YMCA college,h Jim writes. gTo help pay the bills he sang in the college > quartet.h >> >> It was with that group that Bradley Kincaid was asked to sing at the > National Barn Dance, which was broadcast at not always predictable times, but > always on Saturday evening from the station associated with the Worldfs > Largest Store. (A city with a broad ego as well as shoulders, Chicago was also > home to WGN. Associated with the Chicago Tribune, its call letters stood > for Worldfs Greatest Newspaper.) >> >> On the air, Bradley Kincaid sang gBarbara Allen,h one of the > melancholy English ballads his mother had taught him. In a Windy City home to so > many who had moved north to find factory work, the song seemed like a fresh > breeze from home. >> >> Days after he was paid $15 for going on the air, Kincaid received gtwo > huge mail bags filled with fan mail,h his son reports. gLiterally an > overnight success c he ended up singing eBarbara Allenf every Saturday night > for four years.h >> >> Fame reflected by 300,000 pieces of fan mail led to a place on Lakeshore > Drive, a Stutz Bearcat to drive, and recording sessions at Gennettfs > Chicago studios. Those earliest records were thick one-sided discs made for RCA > Victorfs Victrola. The studios were rudimentary. >> >> gDad told me he remembered recording (in Richmond) in a big barn-like > building, totally empty except for one mic hanging down in the center,h Jim > Kincaid said. >> >> Starting in that building with its organic brand of reverberation, he > went on to record with Champion, Silvertone and Supertone, the latter two > associated with catalog giants Sears and Montgomery Ward. He also recorded > with Brunswick, RCA Victor, Decca and Capital. >> >> gHe accounted for more than 2 million records during the 1920s and > f30s,h Jim Kincaid said. >> >> His fatherfs multiple labels may be evidence of ruckuses over > royalties; that may, in turn, explain why Bradley Kincaid ended up moving from radio > station to radio station. >> >> First at WLS, then at Cincinnatifs WLW, KDKA in Pittsburgh, WBZ in > Boston, NBC New York and WHAM Rochester, N.Y., Kincaid followed a similar > strategy: He used the popularity of the air waves both to land musical bookings > and to sell his song books, which produced their own incontestable > royalties. (The rights eventually were donated to Berea College.) >> >> The books included sheet music for mountain ballads Kincaid collected on > visits to hamlets and hollows in Kentucky and West Virginia \ songs his > music teacher wife transcribed for publication. The books contained the > heart of his work. >> >> Biographer Loyal Jones said Kincaid gbecame an instant success just by > singing the songs he had learned in his native Kentucky from ordinary > people.h >> >> And ghis success was due mainly to his modest and pleasing personality > and his feel for a knowledge of a rare treasure of folk music.h >> >> His trek took his family through the 1930s and f40s as he sang > favorites including gLiza up in the eSimmon Tree,h gGive My Love to Nell,h > gWhen the Workfs All Done This Fall,h gPretty Little Pinkh and gIfll be > All Smiles Tonight.h >> >> In 1945, the Kincaids landed in Nashville with WSM radio and the Grand > Ole Opry. But the world was changing. >> >> Just as fans were using fewer battery powered Atwater-Kent radios in a > more fully electrified America, guitars were making room for electric > guitars, pianos and drums on the set of the Opry. >> >> Bill Knowlton, who wrote notes for the dedication of Kincaidfs marker, > said Kincaid gleft in 1950 feeling that his authentic mountain ballads and > pure Appalachian singing style were no longer being accepted by > contemporary audiences.h >> >> With those days behind him, the man whose family had lived a nomadic > life for 25 years wanted to settle down. Having invested in a string of radio > stations, Kincaid came to Springfield to turn around or spin off an > unprofitable one and ended up staying. He then returned from a trip to a music > store in the cityfs Arcade one day owning not just a guitar but the store > itself, a forerunner of the Kincaidfs music store now on First Street in > Springfield. >> >> Having settled into retirement, Bradley Kincaid played his last game of > golf at age 92, two years before being taken by a heart attack on Sept. 23, > 1989. >> >> Jim Kincaid said after news of his fatherfs death went out on the > Associated Press wire service, a fan whose favorite Bradley Kincaid song was > gBarbara Allenh mailed $5 and a request. >> >> The song tells the sad story of young William, whose love Barbara Allen > ignores and takes for granted until he dies of a broken heart. Realizing > her mistake, Barbara has herself buried next to William. >> >> gOn Williamfs grave there grew a red rose; On Barbarafs grew a green > briar.h >> >> gThey grew to the top of the old church wall; till they could not grow > higher.h >> >> gThere they entwined in a true loversf knot and the rose grew round > the briar.h >> >> Jim Kincaid honored the writerfs request and placed a rose on his > fatherfs grave \ a symbol not only of the love described in the song, but the > enduring love his fans had for Bradley Kincaid. >> >> For complete information about the Kincaid of all spellings DNA project, > including a chart, lineages, and how to participate, go to: >> >> www.kincaiddna.org >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message > > > For complete information about the Kincaid of all spellings DNA project, > including a chart, lineages, and how to participate, go to: > > www.kincaiddna.org > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > > For complete information about the Kincaid of all spellings DNA project, including a chart, lineages, and how to participate, go to: > > www.kincaiddna.org > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message For complete information about the Kincaid of all spellings DNA project, including a chart, lineages, and how to participate, go to: www.kincaiddna.org ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KINCAID-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message