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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | Dang, I've been sayin' my 68 Deluxe Balladeer is #A-975, its A-970.
Probably somebody sittin' around with #975 goin' "Yeah that lyin' sumbitch!" |
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Location: NJ | "dang" |
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Location: Seymour, Tennessee | What?
"Dang" is a good word. :D |
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Location: NJ | "HOT dang"!! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Oh Michael - I think you got ripped off. Didn't they tell you that serial numbers ending in even numbers are all second quality rejects? Please say you don't really have 970. Dang it - That would be aweful!
Actually, any Deluxe Balladeer would be music to my heart, no matter what the serial number was. Truely one of the finest early guitars Ovation ever built in my opinion.
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Location: Scotland | Just came back from visiting the Country Music Hall Of Fame in Nashville, and they have a shiney bowl Deluxe Balladeer in there which may or may not be one of Glen Campbell's personal guitars. Either way it was good to see an Ovation among the plethora of Martins & Gibsons. Right beside the Deluxe Balladeer was Roger Miller's Baldwin classical with Prismatone pickup |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Predating Willie??? |
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Location: Scotland | This guitar was a stock prismatone-eqipped Baldwin from the late 60's. Quite a few people used the Baldwin including Jerry Reed, Roger Miller & Willie. As I understand it Willie's Baldwin got damaged so he ripped out the pickup & installed the Prismatone into a Martin N20 classical sometime in the early 70's. Probably just as well, the Baldwins were pretty nasty guitars. |
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Location: SoCal | And Jerry Reed has always loved them and gotten great sounds out of them (he could get great sounds out of a Yamaha that he bought at Costco if he loved it!). I've got video from the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour from about 1970 or 71 that shows Willie playing a pristine looking Martine N 20 which he must have just got. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Dang, dang, hot dang. |
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Location: Central Florida | Paul T and all,
That shiny bowl Deluxe Balladeer you saw at the Hall Of Fame did belong to Glen Campbell. He used it in filming his all-but-forgotten 1970 movie "Norwood". He donated it to the Hall in about 1971/72.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Were any of us kids around then? |
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Location: UK | Originally posted by Bailey:
Were any of us kids around then?
When Norwood came out? I was 18!! And just discovering guitars more fun than violins! |
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Location: Texas | Was anybody a kid back then?
I was three. Touched my first balladeer 4 years later. An old man 15 years my senior had it and still does. Still looking and sounding good 25 years after he bought it.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Love you all
I was in my 30's and raising hell, but Glen was a hero just like Johnny Cash, Chris, Jerry Reed. We were playing a gig at the Organ Mountain Cafe when Jerry Reed's bus stopped outside and the guy who was driving came in and played banjo with us, he had done the "West Bound and Down" work which we were happy to do. Turned out he had commondeered the bus over some argument with Jerry and was trying to keep from being arrested. But we had a really good jam before he left with jerry's bus.
Organ NM is the end of the world, and a refuge for many not ready for prime time people.
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